Netherlands at the UEFA European Championship

The Netherlands national football team has appeared in nine UEFA European Football Championship tournaments. It first participated in 1976, and won the title in 1988. With Belgium, the Netherlands co-hosted the 2000 tournament. The team did not enter the first tournament in 1960, and did not qualify in 1964, 1968, 1972, 1984, 2016.

UEFA European Championship record

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA
1960	Did Not Enter
1964	Did Not Qualify
1968
1972
1976	Semi Final	3rd	2	1	0	1	4	5
1980	Group Stage	5th	3	1	1	1	4	4
1984	Did Not Qualify
1988	Champions	1st	5	4	0	1	8	3
1992	Semi Final	3rd	4	2	2	0	6	3
1996	Quarter-Finals	8th	4	1	2	1	3	4
\| 2000	Semi Final	3rd	5	4	1	0	13	3
2004	Semi Final	4th	5	1	2	2	7	6
2008	Quarter-Finals	6th	4	3	0	1	10	4
2012	Group Stage	15th	3	0	0	3	2	5
2016	Did Not Qualify
Total	1 Titles	9/15	35	17	8	10	57	37

List of matches

Year	Round	Opponent	Score	Result	Venue	Scorers
1976	Semi-final	Czechoslovakia	1–3 (aet)	L	Zagreb	Ondruš (o.g.)
1976	Third place match	Yugoslavia	3–2	W	Zagreb	Geels (2), Van de Kerkhof
1980	Group stage	Greece	1–0	W	Naples	Kist
		West Germany	2–3	L	Naples	Rep, Van de Kerkhof
		Czechoslovakia	1–1	D	Milan	Kist
1988	Group stage	Soviet Union	0–1	L	Cologne	& —
		England	3–1	W	Düsseldorf	Van Basten (3)
		Republic of Ireland	1–0	W	Gelsenkirchen	Kieft
	Semi-final	West Germany	2–1	W	Hamburg	Koeman, Van Basten
	Final	Soviet Union	2–0	W	Munich	Gullit, Van Basten
1992	Group stage	Scotland	1–0	W	Gothenburg	Bergkamp
		CIS	0–0	D	Gothenburg	& —
		Germany	3–1	W	Gothenburg	Rijkaard, Witschge, Bergkamp
	Semi-final	Denmark	2–2 (4–5 p)	D	Gothenburg	Bergkamp, Rijkaard
1996	Group stage	Scotland	0–0	D	Birmingham
		Switzerland	2–0	W	Birmingham	Cruyff, Bergkamp
		England	1–4	L	London	Kluivert
	Quarter-final	France	0–0 (4–5 p)	D	Liverpool	& —
2000	Group stage	Czech Republic	1–0	W	Amsterdam	F. De Boer
		Denmark	3–0	W	Rotterdam	Kluivert, R. De Boer, Zenden
		France	3–2	W	Amsterdam	Kluivert, F. De Boer, Zenden
	Quarter-final	Yugoslavia	6–1	W	Rotterdam	Kluivert (3), Govedarica (o.g.), Overmars
	Semi-final	Italy	0–0 (1–3 p)	D	Amsterdam	& —
2004	Group stage	Germany	1–1	D	Porto	Van Nistelrooy
		Czech Republic	2–3	L	Aveiro	Bouma, Van Nistelrooy
		Latvia	3–0	W	Braga	Van Nistelrooy (2), Makaay
	Quarter-final	Sweden	0–0 (5–4 p)	D	Faro	& —
	Semi-final	Portugal	1–2	L	Lisbon	Andrade(o.g.)
2008	Group stage	Italy	3–0	W	Bern	Van Nistelrooy, Sneijder, Van Bronckhorst
		France	4–1	W	Bern	Kuyt, Van Persie, Robben, Sneijder
		Romania	2–0	W	Bern	Huntelaar, Van Persie
	Quarter-final	Russia	1–3 (aet)	L	Basel	Van Nistelrooy
2012	Group stage	Denmark	0–1	L	Kharkiv	& —
		Germany	1–2	L	Kharkiv	Van Persie
		Portugal	1–2	L	Kharkiv	Van der Vaart

Euro 1976

Netherlands squad – UEFA Euro 1976 Third Place
1 Schrijvers 2 Suurbier 3 Rijsbergen 4 Van Kraay 5 Krol 6 Neeskens 7 Jansen 8 Rep 9 Cruijff (c) 10 W. van de Kerkhof 11 Rensenbrink 12 Van Hanegem 13 Geels 14 Peters 15 R. van de Kerkhof 16 Arntz 17 Ruiter 18 Jongbloed 19 Kist 20 Meutstege Coach: Knobel

Euro 1980

Netherlands squad – UEFA Euro 1980
1 Schrijvers 2 Wijnstekers 3 Van de Korput 4 Hovenkamp 5 Krol (c) 6 Poortvliet 7 R. van de Kerkhof 8 W. van de Kerkhof 9 Kist 10 Haan 11 Otto 12 Rep 13 Nanninga 14 Koster 15 Stevens 16 Doesburg 17 Vreijsen 18 Thijssen 19 Zondervan 20 Van Breukelen 21 Brandts 22 Metgod Coach: Zwartkruis

Euro 1988

Netherlands squad – UEFA Euro 1988 winners (1st title)
1 Van Breukelen 2 Van Tiggelen 3 Troost 4 R. Koeman 5 Winter 6 Van Aerle 7 Vanenburg 8 Mühren 9 Bosman 10 Gullit (c) 11 Van 't Schip 12 Van Basten 13 E. Koeman 14 Kieft 15 Koevermans 16 Hiele 17 Rijkaard 18 Suvrijn 19 Krüzen 20 Wouters Coach: Michels

Group stage

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Soviet Union	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	5
Netherlands	3	2	0	1	4	2	+2	4
Republic of Ireland	3	1	1	1	2	2	0	3
England	3	0	0	3	2	7	−5	0

Netherlands v Soviet Union

12 June 1988
20:15

Netherlands	0–1	Soviet Union
	Report	Rats 52'

Müngersdorfer Stadion, Cologne
Attendance: 54,336
Referee: Dieter Pauly (West Germany)

England v Netherlands

15 June 1988
17:15

England	1–3	Netherlands
Robson 53'	Report	Van Basten 44', 71', 75'

Rheinstadion, Düsseldorf
Attendance: 63,940
Referee: Paolo Casarin (Italy)

Republic of Ireland v Netherlands

18 June 1988
15:30

Republic of Ireland	0–1	Netherlands
	Report	Kieft 82'

Parkstadion, Gelsenkirchen
Attendance: 64,731
Referee: Horst Brummeier (Austria)

Knockout stage

West Germany v Netherlands

21 June 1988
20:15

West Germany	1–2	Netherlands
Matthäus 55' (pen.)	Report	R. Koeman 74' (pen.) Van Basten 88'

Volksparkstadion, Hamburg
Attendance: 56,115
Referee: Ioan Igna (Romania)

Soviet Union v Netherlands

25 June 1988
15:30 CEST

Soviet Union	0–2	Netherlands
	Report	Gullit 32' Van Basten 54'

Olympiastadion, Munich
Attendance: 72,308
Referee: Michel Vautrot (France)

Soviet Union

Netherlands


GK	1	Rinat Dasayev (c)
RB	5	Anatoliy Demyanenko	31'
CB	7	Sergei Aleinikov
CB	3	Vagiz Khidiyatullin	42'
LB	6	Vasyl Rats
RM	8	Hennadiy Lytovchenko	33'
CM	9	Oleksandr Zavarov
CM	15	Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko
LM	18	Sergey Gotsmanov		68'
CF	11	Igor Belanov
CF	10	Oleh Protasov		71'
Substitutions:
DF	19	Sergei Pavlovich Baltacha		68'
MF	20	Viktor Pasulko		71'
Manager:
Valeriy Lobanovskyi


GK	1	Hans van Breukelen
RB	6	Berry van Aerle	50'
CB	17	Frank Rijkaard
CB	4	Ronald Koeman
LB	2	Adri van Tiggelen
RM	7	Gerald Vanenburg
CM	20	Jan Wouters	37'
CM	8	Arnold Mühren
LM	13	Erwin Koeman
CF	12	Marco van Basten
CF	10	Ruud Gullit (c)
Manager:
Rinus Michels

Assistant referees:
Gérard Biguet (France)
Rémi Harrel (France)

Match rules

90 minutes.
30 minutes of extra time if necessary.
Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.
Maximum of two substitutions.

Euro 1992

Netherlands squad – UEFA Euro 1992 semi-finalists
1 Van Breukelen 2 Van Aerle 3 Van Tiggelen 4 Koeman 5 Blind 6 Wouters 7 Bergkamp 8 Rijkaard 9 Van Basten 10 Gullit (c) 11 Van 't Schip 12 Kieft 13 Menzo 14 Witschge 15 Winter 16 Bosz 17 De Boer 18 Jonk 19 Viscaal 20 Roy Coach: Michels

Euro 1996

Netherlands squad – UEFA Euro 1996
1 Van der Sar 2 Reiziger 3 Blind (c) 4 Seedorf 5 Stam 6 De Boer 7 Taument 8 Davids 9 Kluivert 10 Bergkamp 11 Hoekstra 12 Winter 13 Numan 14 Witschge 15 Bogarde 16 De Goey 17 Cruyff 18 De Kock 19 Mulder 20 Cocu 21 Hesp 22 Veldman Coach: Hiddink

Euro 2000

Netherlands squad – UEFA Euro 2000 semi-finalists
1 Van der Sar 2 Reiziger 3 Stam 4 F. de Boer (c) 5 Zenden 6 Seedorf 7 Cocu 8 Davids 9 Kluivert 10 Bergkamp 11 Overmars 12 Van Bronckhorst 13 Konterman 14 Van Vossen 15 Bosvelt 16 R. de Boer 17 Van Hooijdonk 18 De Goey 19 Numan 20 Winter 21 Makaay 22 Westerveld Coach: Rijkaard

Euro 2004

Netherlands squad – UEFA Euro 2004 semi-finalists
1 Van der Sar 2 Reiziger 3 Stam 4 Bouma 5 Van Bronckhorst 6 Cocu 7 Van der Meyde 8 Davids 9 Kluivert 10 Van Nistelrooy 11 Van der Vaart 12 Makaay 13 Westerveld 14 Sneijder 15 De Boer (c) 16 Overmars 17 Van Hooijdonk 18 Heitinga 19 Robben 20 Seedorf 21 Bosvelt 22 Zenden 23 Waterreus Coach: Advocaat

Euro 2008

Netherlands squad – UEFA Euro 2008
1 Van der Sar (c) 2 Ooijer 3 Heitinga 4 Mathijsen 5 Van Bronckhorst 6 De Zeeuw 7 Van Persie 8 Engelaar 9 Van Nistelrooy 10 Sneijder 11 Robben 12 Melchiot 13 Timmer 14 Bouma 15 De Cler 16 Stekelenburg 17 De Jong 18 Kuyt 19 Huntelaar 20 Afellay 21 Boulahrouz 22 Vennegoor of Hesselink 23 Van der Vaart Coach: Van Basten

Euro 2012

Netherlands squad – UEFA Euro 2012
1 Stekelenburg 2 Van der Wiel 3 Heitinga 4 Mathijsen 5 Bouma 6 Van Bommel (c) 7 Kuyt 8 N. de Jong 9 Huntelaar 10 Sneijder 11 Robben 12 Vorm 13 Vlaar 14 Schaars 15 Willems 16 Van Persie 17 Strootman 18 L. de Jong 19 Narsingh 20 Afellay 21 Boulahrouz 22 Krul 23 Van der Vaart Coach: Van Marwijk

References

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