| Netherlands | |
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| Nickname: | Oranje |
| Association: | Royal Dutch Hockey Federation (Koninklijke Nederlandse Hockey Bond) |
| Confederation: | EHF (Europe) |
| Coach: | Jeroen Delmee |
| Assistant: | Eric Verboom |
| Manager: | Ernst Boekhorst |
| Captain: | Thierry Brinkman |
| Most Caps: | Teun de Nooijer (453) |
| Top Scorer: | Paul Litjens (267) |
| Olympic Apps: | 20 |
| Olympic First: | 1928 |
| Olympic Best: | 1st (1996, 2000, 2024) |
| World Cup Apps: | 15 |
| World Cup First: | 1971 |
| World Cup Best: | 1st (1973, 1990, 1998) |
| Regional Name: | EuroHockey Championship |
| Regional Cup Apps: | 21 |
| Regional Cup First: | 1970 |
| Regional Cup Best: | 1st (1983, 1987, 2007, 2015, 2017, 2021, 2023) |
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The Netherlands national men's field hockey team represents the Netherlands in international men's field hockey and is controlled by the Koninklijke Nederlandse Hockey Bond, the governing body for field hockey in the Netherlands.
The Netherlands are one of the most successful teams in the world, having won the Summer Olympics thrice, the Hockey World Cup three times, the Champions Trophy eight times, the EuroHockey Nations Championship seven times, Pro League twice and the Hockey World League once.[1] At the 2020 Summer Olympics they gave their worst Olympics performance in 37 years when they failed to qualify for the semi-finals.[2]
| Summer Olympics record | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Position | Squad | |||||||
| 1908 | did not participate | |||||||||
 1920 | ||||||||||
 1928 | Final | 2nd | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5 | Squad | |
 1932 | did not participate | |||||||||
| 1936 | 3rd place game | 3rd | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 10 | Squad | |
| 1948 | 3rd place game | 3rd | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 12 | Squad | |
 1952 | Final | 2nd | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | Squad | |
 1956 | Withdrew | |||||||||
 1960 | 9th–12th place pool | 9th | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 10 | Squad | |
 1964 | 5th–8th play-off | 7th | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 7 | Squad | |
 1968 | 5th place game | 5th | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 13 | Squad | |
| 1972 | 3rd place game | 4th | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 14 | Squad | |
 1976 | 3rd place game | 4th | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 8 | Squad | |
| 1980 | Withdrew | |||||||||
| 1984 | 5th place game | 6th | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 14 | Squad | |
| 1988 | 3rd place game | 3rd | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 9 | Squad | |
 1992 | 3rd place game | 4th | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 25 | 17 | Squad | |
| 1996 | Final | 1st | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 8 | Squad | |
| 2000 | Final | 1st | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 14 | 11 | Squad | |
 2004 | Final | 2nd | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 13 | Squad | |
 2008 | 3rd place game | 4th | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 13 | Squad | |
| 2012 | Final | 2nd | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 28 | 11 | Squad | |
 2016 | 3rd place game | 4th | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 10 | Squad | |
| 2020 | Quarter-finals | 6th | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 15 | Squad | |
 2024 | Final | 1st | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 10 | Squad | |
| Total | 20/25 | 3 titles | 136 | 79 | 22 | 35 | 345 | 216 | – | |
| FIH World Cup record | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Position | Squad | |||||||
| 1971 | 5th place game | 6th | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 6 | N/A | |
| 1973 | Final | 1st | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 6 | ||
 1975 | 9th place game | 9th | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 10 | ||
 1978 | Final | 2nd | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 26 | 14 | ||
 1982 | 3rd place game | 4th | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 19 | ||
| 1986 | 7th place game | 7th | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 8 | ||
 1990 | Final | 1st | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 13 | ||
| 1994 | Final | 2nd | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 6 | ||
| 1998 | Final | 1st | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 14 | Squad | |
| 2002 | 3rd place game | 3rd | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 10 | Squad | |
 2006 | 7th place game | 7th | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 12 | Squad | |
| 2010 | 3rd place game | 3rd | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 10 | Squad | |
| 2014 | Final | 2nd | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 10 | Squad | |
| 2018 | Final | 2nd | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 8 | Squad | |
| 2023 | 3rd place game | 3rd | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 4 | Squad | |
| / 2026 | Qualified | |||||||||
| Total | 16/16 | 3 titles | 106 | 66 | 15 | 25 | 299 | 150 | – | |
| EuroHockey Championship record | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Host | Position | Squad | |||||||
| 1970 | Brussels, Belgium | 2nd | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 5 | rowspan=9 | |
| 1974 | Madrid, Spain | 3rd | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 4 | ||
| 1978 | Hanover, West Germany | 2nd | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 26 | 11 | ||
| 1983 | Amstelveen, Netherlands | 1st | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 31 | 8 | ||
| 1987 | Moscow, Soviet Union | 1st | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 5 | ||
| 1991 | Paris, France | 2nd | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 41 | 5 | ||
| 1995 |  Dublin, Ireland | 2nd | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 7 | ||
| 1999 | Padua, Italy | 2nd | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 32 | 9 | ||
| 2003 | Barcelona, Spain | 4th | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 28 | 15 | ||
| 2005 | Leipzig, Germany | 2nd | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 11 | Squad | |
| 2007 | Manchester, England | 1st | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 9 | Squad | |
| 2009 | Amstelveen, Netherlands | 3rd | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 6 | Squad | |
| 2011 | Mönchengladbach, Germany | 2nd | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 14 | Squad | |
| 2013 | Boom, Belgium | 3rd | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 9 | Squad | |
| 2015 | London, England | 1st | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 1 | Squad | |
| 2017 | Amstelveen, Netherlands | 1st | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 9 | Squad | |
| 2019 | Antwerp, Belgium | 3rd | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 7 | Squad | |
| 2021 | Amstelveen, Netherlands | 1st | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 6 | Squad | |
| 2023 | Mönchengladbach, Germany | 1st | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 7 | Squad | |
| 2025 | Mönchengladbach, Germany | qualified | ||||||||
| 2027 | London, England | |||||||||
| Total | 112 | 84 | 13 | 15 | 436 | 148 | – | |||
| Champions Trophy record | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Position | |||||||
| 1978 | did not participate | |||||||
| 1980 | 4th | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 23 | 19 | |
| 1981 | 1st | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 16 | |
| 1982 | 1st | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 10 | |
| 1982 | 5th | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 13 | |
| 1984 | 4th | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | |
| 1985 | 5th | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 11 | |
| 1986 | 6th | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | |
| 1987 | 2nd | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 5 | |
| 1988 | did not participate | |||||||
| 1989 | 2nd | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 6 | |
| 1990 | 2nd | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 8 | |
| 1991 | 3rd | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 10 | |
| 1992 | 4th | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 11 | |
| 1993 | 3rd | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 9 | |
| 1994 | 3rd | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 14 | |
| 1995 | 4th | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 8 | |
| 1996 | 1st | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 5 | |
| 1997 | 4th | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 15 | |
| 1998 | 1st | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 11 | |
| 1999 | 3rd | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 9 | |
| 2000 | 1st | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 5 | |
| 2001 | 3rd | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 13 | |
| 2002 | 1st | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 9 | |
| 2003 | 1st | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 13 | |
| 2004 | 2nd | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 25 | |
| 2005 | 2nd | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 12 | |
| 2006 | 1st | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 12 | |
| 2007 | 3rd | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 25 | 19 | |
| 2008 | 4th | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 14 | |
| 2009 | 4th | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 20 | |
| 2010 | 3rd | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 19 | |
 2011 | 3rd | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 18 | |
| 2012 | 2nd | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 9 | |
| 2014 | 5th | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 11 | |
 2016 | Withdrew | |||||||
| 2018 | 3rd | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 7 | |
| Total | 8 titles | 199 | 109 | 32 | 58 | 534 | 404 | |
| Sultan Azlan Shah Cup record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Position | |
| 1996 | 6th | |
| 2006 | 1st | |
| Best result: 1st place | ||
| FIH Hockey World League record | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Position | Round | |||||||
| 2012–13 | 1st | Semifinal | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 12 | |
| Final | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 12 | |||
| 2014–15 | 4th | Semifinal | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 7 | |
| Final | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 11 | |||
| 2016–17 | 7th | Semifinal | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 3 | |
| Final | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 12 | |||
| Total | 1 title | Final | 37 | 24 | 7 | 6 | 119 | 57 | |
| FIH Pro League record | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Position | Squad | |||||||
| 2019 | 3rd | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 43 | 38 | Squad | |
| 2020–21 | 5th | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 32 | 29 | Squad | |
| 2021–22 | 1st | 16 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 61 | 28 | Squad | |
| 2022–23 | 1st | 16 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 46 | 31 | Squad | |
| 2023–24 | 2nd | 16 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 45 | 32 | Squad | |
| Total | Best: 1st | 76 | 41 | 21 | 14 | 227 | 178 | ||
The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.
On 25 November 2024, the following 24 players were called up for the Pro League matches against Germany and Belgium in Amstelveen, Netherlands from 30 November to 8 December 2024.[3]
Caps updated as of 9 August 2024, after the match against Germany.
The following players have also been called up for the national team in the last 12 months.
Players in bold are still active with the national team.
| Rank | Name | Caps | Goals | Career | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teun de Nooijer | 453 | 217 | 1994–2012 | |
| 2 | Jeroen Delmee | 401 | 10 | 1994–2008 | |
| 3 | Jacques Brinkman | 339 | 80 | 1987–2000 | |
| 4 | Erik Jazet | 310 | 9 | 1990–2004 | |
| 5 | Cees Jan Diepeveen | 286 | 16 | 1978–1992 | |
| 6 | Stephan Veen | 277 | 113 | 1989–2000 | |
| 7 | Robert van der Horst | 272 | 14 | 2004–2016 | |
| 8 | Sander van der Weide | 271 | 8 | 1996–2008 | |
| 9 | Jeroen Hertzberger | 267 | 127 | 2007–present | |
| 10 | Guus Vogels | 264 | 0 | 1996–2010 |
| Rank | Name | Goals | Caps | Ratio | Career | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paul Litjens | 267 | 177 | 1970–1982 | ||
| 2 | Taeke Taekema | 221 | 243 | 2000–2012 | ||
| 3 | Teun de Nooijer | 217 | 453 | 1994–2012 | ||
| 4 | Floris Jan Bovelander | 212 | 241 | 1985–1996 | ||
| 5 | Ties Kruize | 166 | 202 | 1971–1986 | ||
| 6 | Bram Lomans | 140 | 206 | 1995–2007 | ||
| 7 | Jeroen Hertzberger | 127 | 267 | 2007–present | ||
| 8 | Mink van der Weerden | 115 | 191 | 2010–2021 | ||
| 9 | Taco van den Honert | 114 | 215 | 1987–1996 | ||
| 10 | Stephan Veen | 113 | 277 | 1989–2000 |