Netherlands national under-21 football team
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| Nickname(s) | Jong Oranje (Young Orange) | ||
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| Association | Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbalbond | ||
| Head coach | Art Langeler | ||
| Captain | Karim Rekik | ||
| Most caps | Arnold Bruggink & Leroy Fer (31) | ||
| Top scorer | Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (18) | ||
| Home stadium |
Sparta Stadion Het Kasteel (11,000) AFAS Stadion (17.023) | ||
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| UEFA U-21 Championship | |||
| Appearances | 6 (first in 1988) | ||
| Best result | Winner (2006, 2007) | ||
The Netherlands national under-21 football team is the national under-21 team of the Netherlands and is controlled by the Royal Dutch Football Association. The team competes in the European Under-21 Championship, held every two years.
Following the realignment of UEFA's youth competitions in 1976, the Dutch Under-21 team was formed. The team did not have a very good record, failing to qualify for nine of the fifteen tournaments. The team did not enter for the 1978 competition, but since then has reached the semi-finals twice, and qualified for the last eight on three other occasions.
Since the under-21 competition rules insist that players must be 21 or under at the start of a two-year competition, technically it is an U-23 competition. For this reason, the Netherlands' record in the preceding U-23 competitions is also shown. The first competitive match was in the "Under-23 Challenge", a match which they lost. The team qualified for the last eight of each of the three U-23 tournaments.
In 2006 the Netherlands national under-21 football team of coach Foppe de Haan won the 2006 European Under-21 Championship. Klaas-Jan Huntelaar became top scorer and player of the tournament with four goals, and also broke the all-time goalscoring record of 15 goals previously held by Roy Makaay and Arnold Jan Bruggink, in his last match with the team as he pushed this record to 18 goals. The following year, Netherlands national under-21 football team successfully defended their title by winning the 2007 European Under-21 Championship in the final against Serbia with 4–1. Maceo Rigters was the top scorer of the competition with four goals and Royston Drenthe was the Player of the Tournament. The win meant that the Netherlands qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. The team failed to qualify for the 2009 European Under-21 Championship, after losing out to Switzerland in their final qualifying match.
UEFA U-23 Championship record
The Netherlands were randomly chosen to play cards Bulgaria for the title in a one-off match in Sofia, which the Netherlands lost.
- 17 April 1968: Bulgaria 3–1 Netherlands.
- 1972: Losing quarter-finalists.
- 1974: Losing quarter-finalists.
- 1976: Losing semi-finalists.
UEFA U-21 Championship Record
- 1978: Did not enter.
- 1980: Did not qualify. Finished 3rd of 3 in qualification group.
- 1982: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 3 in qualification group.
- 1984: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 3 in qualification group.
- 1986: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 4 in qualification group.
- 1988: Losing semi-finalists.
- 1990: Did not qualify. Finished 3rd of 4 in qualification group.
- 1992: Losing quarter-finalists.
- 1994: Did not qualify. Finished 5th of 6 in qualification group.
- 1996: Did not qualify. Finished 3rd of 6 in qualification group.
- 1998: Fourth.
- 2000: Finished 3rd of 4 in finals group. Joint fifth.
- 2002: Did not qualify. Lost in playoff against England..
- 2004: Did not qualify. Finished 4th of 5 in qualification group.
- 2006: Winners
- 2007: Winners
- 2009: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 5 in qualification group.
- 2011: Did not qualify. Lost in playoff against Ukraine.
- 2013: Semi Finals
- 2015: Did not qualify.
- 2017: Did not qualify. Finished 2nd of 5 in qualification group.
Notable players
Olympic Games
| Summer Olympic record | ||||||||||
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| Year | Round | Position | GP | W | D* | L | GS | GA | ||
 1992 | Did Not Qualify | |||||||||
 1996 | ||||||||||
 2000 | ||||||||||
 2004 | ||||||||||
 2008 |
Quarter Finals | 7th | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | ||
 2012 | Did Not Qualify | |||||||||
 2016 | ||||||||||
| Total | 1/6 | 0 Medals | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | ||
Results and fixtures 2017–2019
2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship
Qualification
Group stage
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 |  Latvia |
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Final tournament |
| 2 |  Andorra |
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Play-offs if among four best runners-up |
| 3 |  England |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 |  Netherlands |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 5 |  Ukraine |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 6 |  Scotland |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rules for classification: Qualification tiebreakers
Current squad
The following players were called up for the matches against Finland and Austria on the 24th and 27th of March 2017. Names in italics denote players who have been capped for the Senior team.
Caps and goals updated as 05 June 2017.
| # | Pos. | Player | Date of birth (age) | Caps | Goals | Club |
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| GK | Yanick van Osch | 24 March 1997 | 1 | 0 | PSV
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| GK | Joël Drommel | 16 November 1996 | 1 | 0 | Twente | |
| DF | Hidde ter Avest | 20 May 1997 | 1 | 0 | Twente
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| DF | Jaïro Riedewald | 9 September 1996 | 4 | 0 | Crystal Palace
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| DF | Kevin Diks | 6 October 1996 | 3 | 0 | Feyenoord
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| DF | Jerry St. Juste | 19 October 1996 | 4 | 1 | Heerenveen
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| DF | Damian van Bruggen | 18 March 1996 | 2 | 0 | PSV
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| DF | Calvin Verdonk | 26 April 1997 | 1 | 0 | Feyenoord
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| DF | Timothy Fosu-Mensah | 2 January 1998 | 2 | 0 | Manchester United | |
| MF | Donny van de Beek | 18 April 1997 | 3 | 1 | Ajax
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| MF | Jeremy Helmer | 3 July 1997 | 1 | 0 | AZ
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| MF | Abdelhak Nouri | 2 April 1997 | 1 | 0 | Ajax
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| MF | Pablo Rosario | 7 January 1997 | 1 | 0 | PSV
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| MF | Bart Ramselaar | 29 June 1996 | 5 | 0 | PSV
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| MF | Thomas Ouwejan | 24 June 1996 | 2 | 0 | AZ
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| MF | Guus Til | 22 December 1997 | 1 | 0 | AZ
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| MF | Frenkie de Jong | 12 May 1997 | 1 | 0 | Ajax | |
| FW | Pelle van Amersfoort | 1 April 1996 | 1 | 1 | Heerenveen
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| FW | Richairo Živković | 5 September 1996 | 2 | 1 | Ajax
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| FW | Steven Bergwijn | 8 October 1997 | 4 | 2 | PSV
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| FW | Oussama Idrissi | 26 February 1996 | 2 | 0 | Groningen
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| FW | Sam Lammers | 30 April 1997 | 2 | 0 | PSV | |
Individual all-time records
Most capped players Arnold Bruggink is the most capped player for Jong Orange.
Last updated: 29 May 2014 Most goals scored Huntelaar was the Golden Player and Top Scorer at the 2006 UEFA U-21 Championship and he is the all-time top scorer for Jong Orange.
Last updated: 17 November 2015 See also
Sources/External links
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