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Since the inception of women's Olympic football, UEFA has designated the World Cup as its qualifying tournament for the succeeding Olympic tournament. Because the Netherlands failed to qualify to the World Cup until 2015, the Netherlands women automatically failed to qualify for the Olympics up to 2012.
As in 1991, UEFA designated the UEFA Women's Euro 1995 the qualifying tournament for that year's World Cup. The Netherlands failed to qualify in the group stage of qualification. This time Iceland, against which both games were lost, and Greece, against which both games were won, were the group opponents. As second in the group, they failed to ...
This is a list of the Netherlands women's association footballers who have played for the Netherlands women's national football team, since the first women's match recognised by FIFA worldwide in 1971 against France. [1]
Netherlands used all 23 players during the 2014 World Cup, making it the first team in World Cup history to ever use all of its squad players. [7] The team avenged their 2010 loss to Spain by defeating the defending champions with a stunning 5–1 victory in their opening game. They went on to achieve their first third place in any World Cup.
In 2019, she led the Netherlands to a second-place finish at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in France. Miedema won the BBC Women's Footballer of the Year award in November 2021. In 2020, she was named Women's Player of the Year at the London Football Awards and by England's Football Writers' Association .
Football tournament FIFA Women's World Cup final The 2023 final was played at Stadium Australia in Sydney, Australia. Organising body FIFA Founded 1991 ; 34 years ago (1991) Region International Current champions Spain (1st title) Most successful team(s) United States (4 titles) The FIFA Women's World Cup is the international association football championship for women's national teams who ...
The Netherlands did not have a strong track record in women's international football until the 2010s. They did not qualify for the UEFA Women's Championship until 2009 [12] and did not qualify for their first Women's World Cup until 2015, when the tournament expanded from 16 to 24 teams. [13]
Since the 1970s, amateur women's football competitions have been played in the Netherlands, with the Hoofdklasse being the highest level. During the 1990s, the popularity of women's football rose, with the sport becoming an Olympic event in 1996 and selling hundreds of thousands of tickets for the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup.