Hungary-Netherlands matches 1908-2013


Introduction
Official Matches
Overviews

Introduction

Hungary and the Netherlands have one particular trauma in common: losing a World Cup final to West Germany in spite of being almost universally considered to have been the best team of the relevant tournament.
The Netherlands did not play Hungary very often during the heyday of Magyar football – no matches at all against the Aranycsapat of the fifties and only four competitive matches in the sixties, in which the Hungarians easily dominated the Dutch in 1962 World Cup and 1968 European Nations Cup qualifying, in groups also including East Germany.

Then there was a sudden flurry of matches in the mid-eighties, in qualifying campaigns for the 1986 World Cup and 1988 European Championship. Hungarian football had by then declined considerably but the national side still managed to secure a surprise 2-1 away win in Rotterdam which paved the way for Hungary's last qualification for an international tournament for thirty years (until the 2016 European Championship). Since that win, the two countries have met on nine occasions, with the Netherlands winning each and every encounter. Only against Cyprus, Luxembourg and Wales Oranje managed similar series of successive wins (9, 10 and 10 respectively, all three series running). In the last six meetings alone, the Dutch ran up a 34-7 goal record against the none too mighty Magyars.


Official Matches

All matches listed are friendlies unless otherwise stated.

Game Date        Venue         Result                      Remark

  -. 19-10-1908  London        Netherlands w/o Hungary     [Olympic Games]
  1.  8- 6-1930  Budapest      Hungary     6-2 Netherlands  
  2.  5- 3-1933  Amsterdam     Netherlands 1-2 Hungary  
  3. 26- 2-1939  Rotterdam     Netherlands 3-2 Hungary  
  4. 30- 4-1961  Rotterdam     Netherlands 0-3 Hungary     [World Cup Qualifier]
  5. 22-10-1961  Budapest      Hungary     3-3 Netherlands [World Cup Qualifier]
  6.  7- 9-1966  Rotterdam     Netherlands 2-2 Hungary     [European Champ. Qual.]
  7. 10- 5-1967  Budapest      Hungary     2-1 Netherlands [European Champ. Qual.]
  8. 17-10-1984  Rotterdam     Netherlands 1-2 Hungary     [World Cup Qualifier]
  9. 14- 5-1985  Budapest      Hungary     0-1 Netherlands [World Cup Qualifier]
 10. 15-10-1986  Budapest      Hungary     0-1 Netherlands [European Champ. Qual.]
 11. 29- 4-1987  Rotterdam     Netherlands 2-0 Hungary     [European Champ. Qual.]
 12.  1- 6-1994  Eindhoven     Netherlands 7-1 Hungary  
 13.  5- 6-2010  Amsterdam     Netherlands 6-1 Hungary 
 14. 25- 3-2011  Budapest      Hungary     0-4 Netherlands [European Champ. Qual.]
 15. 29- 3-2011  Amsterdam     Netherlands 5-3 Hungary     [European Champ. Qual.]
 16. 11- 9-2012  Budapest      Hungary     1-4 Netherlands [World Cup Qualifier]
 17. 11-10-2013  Amsterdam     Netherlands 8-1 Hungary     [World Cup Qualifier]

Overviews

NB: do not include Dutch walkover win at the 1908 Olympic Games.

Total record:

Hungary              17  5  2 10  29- 51  15
Netherlands          17 10  2  5  51- 29  25

Some more stats:

                     Pd  H  D  N  HG- NG

In Hungary:           7  2  1  4  12- 16
In the Netherlands:  10  3  1  6  17- 35


Hungary - List of International Matches
Netherlands - List of International Matches


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Author: Karel Stokkermans
Last updated: 15 Jun 2022

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