Netherlands women's national football team

The **Netherlands women's national football team** (Dutch: **Nederlands vrouwenvoetbalelftal**) is the women's association football team that represents the European country of the Netherlands. They are managed by the Royal Dutch Football Association and are part of UEFA and FIFA. In 1971, they played their first official match recognized by FIFA against France. The team has taken part in the UEFA Women's Championship three times and became champions in 2017 when they hosted the tournament. They also played in the World Cup twice they qualified for their first FIFA Women's World Cup in 2015 and in 2019, they reached the final but lost 2–0 against the United States. This also meant they could play in the 2020 Olympics, but they were defeated in the quarter-finals. Women's football was not allowed in many countries for a long time, and even when it was allowed, it faced doubts and criticism. However, the Netherlands team gained more fans after their surprising victory in the 2017 European Championship held in their own country. As of 27 March 2015, their FIFA ranking is 12.

### World Cup

|style="color: black; background: orange;" colspan=9|FIFA Women's World Cup record||||||||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=14|||||||||||||||
||1991|colspan="9" rowspan="6"|_Did not qualify_|colspan=6|_UEFA Euro 1991_||||||||||
||1995|colspan=6|_UEFA Euro 1995_||||||||||||
||1999|6|2|1|3|5|10||||||||
||2003|6|1|1|4|6|16||||||||
||2007|8|5|0|3|15|7||||||||
||2011|8|5|2|1|30|7||||||||
|2015|Round of 16|13th|4|1|1|2|3|4|14|11|2|1|50|9|
|2019|**Runners-up**|**2nd**|**7**|**6**|**0**|**1**|**11**|**5**|12|9|2|1|30|4|
|2023|Quarter-finals|7th|5|3|1|1|12|3|8|6|2|0|30|3|
|2027|_To be determined_|_To be determined_|||||||||||||

### European Championship

|style="color: black; background: orange;" colspan=9|UEFA European Women's Championship record||||||||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=17|||||||||||||||
|1984**|_Did not qualify_|6|2|2|2|12|9||||||||
|1987|6|5|0|1|14|6|||||||||
|1989|6|3|1|2|5|5|||||||||
|1991|6|3|2|1|17|1|||||||||
|1993|6|2|2|2|6|7|||||||||
|1995|4|2|0|2|7|3|||||||||
|1997|8|3|2|3|7|9|||||||||
|2001|8|2|3|3|10|10|||||||||
|2005|8|2|1|5|7|13|||||||||
|2009|**Semi-finals**|**3rd**|**5**|**2**|**1**|**2**|**6**|**5**|10|5|3|2|16|12|
|2013|Group stage|12th|3|0|1|2|0|2|8|6|1|1|20|2|
|2017|**Champions**|**1st**|**6**|**6**|**0**|**0**|**13**|**3**|colspan=6|_Qualified as Host_|||||
|2022|Quarter-finals|5th|4|2|1|1|8|5|10|10|0|0|48|3|
|2025|_To be determined_|colspan=6|_To be determined_||||||||||||

## Infobox (national football team)

- **type**: Women
- **name**: Netherlands
- **nickname**: _Oranje_ (Orange)
_Leeuwinnen_ (Lionesses)
- **badge size**: 140px
- **association**: Royal Dutch Football Association
(_Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbalbond_)
- **confederation**: UEFA (Europe)
- **coach**: Andries Jonker
- **captain**: Sherida Spitse
- **most caps**: Sherida Spitse (221)
- **top scorer**: Vivianne Miedema (List of international goals scored by Vivianne Miedema, 95)
- **fifa trigramme**: NED
- **fifa max**: 3
- **fifa max date**: July – December 2019; April 2021
- **fifa min**: 20
- **fifa min date**: June – September 2008
- **pattern la1**: _ned23wh
- **pattern b1**: _ned23wh
- **pattern ra1**: _ned23wh
- **pattern sh1**: _ned23wh
- **leftarm1**: F59059
- **body1**: F59059
- **rightarm1**: F59059
- **shorts1**: F59059
- **socks1**: F59059
- **pattern la2**: _ned23wa
- **pattern b2**: _ned23wa
- **pattern ra2**: _ned23wa
- **pattern sh2**: _ned23wa
- **pattern so2**: _ned23wal
- **leftarm2**: 081A38
- **body2**: 081A38
- **rightarm2**: 081A38
- **shorts2**: 081A38
- **socks2**: 081A38
- **first game**: _(unofficial)_
 2–1
(Essen, Germany; 23 September 1956)
_(FIFA recognised)_
 4–0
(Hazebrouck, France; 17 April 1971)
- **largest win**: 12–0
(Zaandam, Netherlands; 22 August 1977)
 13–1
(Zwolle, Netherlands; 29 October 2009)
 12–0
(Groningen, Netherlands; 8 April 2022)
- **largest loss**: 7–0
(Borås, Sweden; 26 September 1981)
- **world cup apps**: 3
- **world cup first**: 2015
- **world cup best**: Runners-up (2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, 2019)
- **regional name**: Football at the Summer Olympics, Olympic Games
- **regional cup apps**: 1
- **regional cup first**: Football at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, 2020
- **regional cup best**: Quarter-finals (Football at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, 2020)
- **2ndregional name**: UEFA Women's Championship, European Championship
- **2ndregional cup apps**: 4
- **2ndregional cup first**: UEFA Women's Euro 2009, 2009
- **2ndregional cup best**: Winners (UEFA Women's Euro 2017, 2017)