Netherlands women's national football team

The Dutch national women's football team represents the Netherlands in international women's football. The national team is subordinated to the amateur section of the Dutch Football Association. It has been coached since January 2017 by former international Sarina Wiegman, who will become England's national coach after the Olympics and will then be replaced by Mark Parsons. The team's biggest success is winning the 2017 European Championship on home soil.

The Dutch association applied to host the 2009 European Championship in the hope of promoting women's football in the Netherlands. However, Finland was defeated in the vote. The Dutch team qualified for the 2009 European Championship and took part in a major tournament for the first time. After defeating France 0-0 on penalties in the quarter-finals, the Dutch reached the semi-finals, where they lost 2-1 to England in extra time.

In the qualifiers for the 2011 World Cup, the team met Norway, Belarus, Slovakia and Macedonia. The 13:1 win against Macedonia was one of the two highest international victories. In the end, second place was not enough to qualify for the play-off round.

In the bid to host the 2013 European Championship, the Netherlands lost to Sweden. In the qualification for the European Championship 2013 the team met England, Serbia, Slovenia and Croatia. It was only on the last matchday that the matchless Dutch were knocked out of first place by the English, but they managed to qualify for the finals for the second time as the best group runners-up, where they were eliminated after the preliminary round.

Many Dutch internationals play or played in the German Bundesliga, for a long time preferentially for the former Bundesliga team FFC Heike Rheine. The best-known players during this period were goalkeeper and former record international Marleen Wissink, who played for 1. FFC Frankfurt until 2007, and midfielder and her successor as record international Annemieke Kiesel, who last played for FCR 2001 Duisburg.

In the FIFA World Ranking, the Dutch improved to their best ranking to date, 11th, in December 2014 by qualifying for the World Cup for the first time. Victory at the 2017 European Championship, which included five wins against teams they had a negative record against (2× Denmark, England, Norway and Sweden), helped them climb into the top-10 for the first time, to seventh. By finishing second at the 2019 World Cup, the Dutch improved to third in the FIFA World Ranking and qualified for the Olympic Football Tournament for the first time.

They qualified for Euro 2022 on October 23, 2020, as the third team after hosts England and record European champions Germany.

Tournament Record

World Cup

European Championship

Olympics

Algarve Cup

The national team participated in the Algarve Cup six times.

Cyprus Cup

The national team participated in all editions of the Cyprus Cup from 2008 to 2015, which was co-organised by the Dutch FA.

• 2008: 4th place
• 2009: 5th place
• 2010: 6th place
• 2011: 2nd place
• 2012: 7th place
• 2013: 6th place
• 2014: 9th place
• 2015: 8th place
• 2016: not registered, because the qualification for the Olympic Games 2016 took place at the same time.
• 2017 to 2020: did not participate, instead participated in the Algarve Cup or Tournoi de France.

Tournoi de France

The Dutch women finished second in the 2020 Tournoi de France after three draws.

Current squad

The following players are in the squad for the matches against Italy and Norway in June 2021.

1. ↑ Numbers in the games against Italy and Norway
2. ↑ Status: June 2021
3. ↑ ^{a b} Status: 15 June 2021

The following players have also been nominated in 2019 and 2020 (players in italics are currently injured):