Netherlands: 150 Years of Football 🇳🇱
Netherlands: the whole story of its national team in one minute - strength, matches, wins, goals and World Cups.
What is an Elo rating? A strength score for national teams, calculated from every match ever played: win and you gain points, lose and you drop - more for beating a strong team. Higher = stronger; about 1500 is an average team.
Netherlands: men: 1,936 (1905) → best 2,104 (2010) → 1,974 (2026) · women: 1,550 (1983) → best 2,229 (2021) → 2,113 (2026)
What the number means: 2000+ = world top, 1800 = a strong team, 1500 = an average team, below 1200 = a weak team. A gap of 100 points means the stronger team wins about 64% of the time.
Unlike the FIFA ranking, the Elo rating goes back to the very first international match in 1872 (Scotland 0-0 England).
Elo rating = a strength score for a national team, calculated from every international match it played. After each match the winner takes points from the loser - more for a surprise win, a big win or an important match (World Cup more than a friendly).
Terms used:
- Elo rating: a strength score from all results; more points = stronger team
- World Cup: FIFA's world championship, every 4 years
Data: World Football Elo Ratings (eloratings.net), rating after every international match since 1872, up to October 2026. World Cup results: martj42 international results.
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