The traditional matches between the Dutch and Belgian provinces of Limburg, played for the Coupe Coenegracht, were also often labelled semi-interlands.
Note that these district representations also played each other in domestic events.
After Luxembourg had played the Netherlands at
the 1920 Olympic tournament,
the F.S.L.S.A. (Fédération des Sociétés Luxembourgeoises de Sports
Athlétiques, renamed F.L.F. in 1930), approached the N.V.B. with the
request to meet annually for an international match;
instead, the N.V.B. suggested to set up a series with
the district Zuid, covering the provinces of Noord-Brabant,
Limburg and Zeeland.
Starting with the 15th meeting in 1935, the winners obtained the
Mulier-Wisselbeker.
The series was stopped by the K.N.V.B. in 1957; instead, since 1958 matches
between Luxembourg and the Netherlands B
were played at irregular intervals.
Game Date Venue Result
1 20-11-1921 Esch/Alzette Luxembourg 1-4 South Netherlands
2 5-11-1922 Maastricht South Netherlands 2-3 Luxembourg
3 28-10-1923 Esch/Alzette Luxembourg 1-3 South Netherlands
4 9-11-1924 Eindhoven South Netherlands 4-0 Luxembourg
5 8-11-1925 Luxembourg Luxembourg 1-2 South Netherlands
6 10-10-1926 Den Bosch South Netherlands 2-3 Luxembourg
7 9-10-1927 Differdange Luxembourg 4-5 South Netherlands
8 21-10-1928 Venlo South Netherlands 4-3 Luxembourg
9 13-10-1929 Esch/Alzette Luxembourg 1-3 South Netherlands
10 19-10-1930 Maastricht South Netherlands 1-2 Luxembourg
[on the same day East Netherlands and West Germany met in Deventer]
11 25-10-1931 Luxembourg Luxembourg 0-0 South Netherlands
[on the same day West Germany and East Netherlands met in Düsseldorf]
12 16-10-1932 Breda South Netherlands 2-2 Luxembourg
[on the same day East Netherlands and West Germany met in Apeldoorn]
13 15-10-1933 Esch/Alzette Luxembourg 3-6 South Netherlands
14 21-10-1934 Helmond South Netherlands 3-1 Luxembourg
15 13-10-1935 Luxembourg Luxembourg 3-2 South Netherlands
16 18-10-1936 Heerlen South Netherlands 4-4 Luxembourg
17 19-12-1937 Dudelange Luxembourg 0-5 South Netherlands
18 6-11-1938 Tilburg South Netherlands 2-2 Luxembourg
[on the same day North Netherlands and North Germany met in Groningen
and West Germany and East Netherlands in München-Gladbach;
the F.L.F. incorrectly lists the match date as 30-10-1938]
19 10-11-1946 Luxembourg Luxembourg 2-2 South Netherlands
20 26-10-1947 Eindhoven South Netherlands 2-3 Luxembourg
21 24-10-1948 Luxembourg Luxembourg 1-2 South Netherlands
22 23-10-1949 Geleen South Netherlands 2-1 Luxembourg
23 15-10-1950 Luxembourg Luxembourg 0-0 South Netherlands
24 11-11-1951 Den Bosch South Netherlands 0-3 Luxembourg
25 29- 3-1953 Luxembourg Luxembourg 2-3 South Netherlands
26 15-11-1953 Spekholzerheide South Netherlands 0-3 Luxembourg
27 21-11-1954 Luxembourg Luxembourg 3-2 South Netherlands
28 18- 4-1956 Den Bosch South Netherlands 3-1 Luxembourg
NB: the series was stopped by the K.N.V.B. in 1957; the F.L.F. lists one more match
against la Hollande-Sud, but in fact the hosts were Netherlands B:
- 26-10-1960 Den Bosch Netherlands B 7-4 Luxembourg
Overall record:
Luxembourg 28 8 6 14 53- 70 22
South Netherlands 28 14 6 8 70- 53 34
In Luxembourg:
Luxembourg 14 2 3 9 22- 39 7
South Netherlands 14 9 3 2 39- 22 21
In the Netherlands:
South Netherlands 14 5 3 6 31- 31 13
Luxembourg 14 6 3 5 31- 31 15
Two weeks before the start of the 1924 Olympic football tournament, France invited the South Netherlands team for a friendly in which they wanted to test some of their Algerian players (Chesneau, Clément, Liminana and Salvano).
Game Date Venue Result
1 10- 5-1924 Paris France B 0-0 South Netherlands
Overall record:
France B 1 0 1 0 0- 0 1
South Netherlands 1 0 1 0 0- 0 1
In France:
France B 1 0 1 0 0- 0 1
South Netherlands 1 0 1 0 0- 0 1
Match details:
France B: Pierre Chayriguès (Red Star de Paris);
Edouard Baumann (CASG), Marcel Clément (FC Blidéen);
René Fejean (Club Français), Pierre Roëls (Jeunesse Athlétique de Saint-Ouen),
Philippe Bonnardel (Red Star de Paris);
André Liminana (SC Bel-Abbès), Pierre Chesneau (FC Blidéen), Henri Salvano (FC Blidéen),
Henri "Bébé Cadum" Bard (Racing Club de France) [46' Paul Nicolas (Red Star de Paris)],
Robert Ernest Dufour (Olympique de Paris);
South Netherlands: Henk van Tilburg (N.O.A.D.);
Tonny van Haeren (Wilhelmina) [75' Huub Seegers (M.V.V.)], Toon Heijnen (Bredania);
Evert Tebak (Eindhoven), Harry Mommers (Willem II), Thijs Dorenbosch (Wilhelmina);
Jan Gielens (Willem II), Willem "'t Ventje" Fleuren (B.V.V.), Piet Ramakers (P.S.V.),
Sjo Soons (M.V.V.), Th. Engel (Willem II);
referee: Marcel Slawik (France).
NB: at stade Bergeyre; attendance reported as 8,000 in French newspapers and as 6,000 in Dutch ones;
Clément, Fejean, Liminana, Roëls and Salvano were eventually dropped from the French Olympic
squad; Baumann, Bonnardel, Chayriguès and Nicolas all played at the tournament while Bard,
Chesneau and Dufour were part of the squad but did not play in either of France's two matches;
Van Tilburg stopped penalty Salvano (41').
After their surprise success at the 1928 Olympics, where they reached the semi-finals thanks to wins over Turkey (7-1) and Portugal (2-1), the Egyptian football team played a number of friendly matches before returning home, defeating the full Dutch team (2-1) in the process; ten days after that win, they met a South Netherlands selection at the Boschpoort stadium, on their way to Luxembourg (where they held the national side to a 1-1 draw in Esch-sur-Alzette four days later).
Game Date Venue Result
1 24- 6-1928 Maastricht South Netherlands 1-5 Egypt
Overall record:
Egypt 1 1 0 0 5- 1 2
South Netherlands 1 0 0 1 1- 5 0
In the Netherlands:
South Netherlands 1 0 0 1 1- 5 0
Egypt 1 1 0 0 5- 1 2
Match details:
Goals: 22' Riad 0-1, 45' Ezz El-Din Gamal 0-2, 64' Riad 0-3, ~70' Remmers 1-3,
75' Riad 1-4, 88' Saqr 1-5.
South Netherlands: Krit van Haaren (M.V.V.);
J. van Pelt (N.O.A.D.), Bèr Felix (M.V.V.);
Ad van Eerd (P.S.V.), Jacq van Pelt (N.A.C.), Frans de Kuijer (N.O.A.D.);
Charles van Erp (Wilhelmina), C. Remmers (N.O.A.D.), Leo Ghering (L.O.N.G.A.),
Sjo Soons (M.V.V.), Willeke Franken (N.O.A.D.);
Egypt: Mohamed Ali Rostom (Al-Mokhtalat);
El-Sayed Fahmi Abaza (Al-Mokhtalat), Ahmed Mohamed Salem (Al-Mokhtalat);
Gaber Yaqout El-Souri (Al-Ittihad), Moussa Sayed Ahmed (Tersana), Ahmed Mahmoud Soliman (Al-Ahly);
El-Sayed Ismail Hooda (Al-Ittihad), Aly Mohammed Riad (Tersana), Mohammed Ezz El-Din Gamal (Olympic),
Mamdouh Mokhtar Saqr (Al-Ahly), Mohammed Gamil El-Zobeir (Al-Ahly);
referee: Janus van den Dungen (Netherlands).
NB: the eventual team of the hosts differed in five places from that originally announced, after
the withdrawals of Sjef van Run (P.S.V.; replaced by J. van Pelt), Cor Kools (N.A.C.; replaced
by Van Eerd), Pierry Massy (Roermond; replaced by Jacq van Pelt), Harry Schreurs (Roermond;
replaced by De Kuijer) and Utje Lommen (Roermond; replaced by Van Erp); note that apart from
Lommen, all these players had been part of the Dutch Olympic squad.
The series was initiated by Ch.J. Engelberts, a notary in Arnhem, who contacted a notary in Bochum, Jersch, to arrange the matches, which were initially played as a home-and-away series each season; various cups (a "Revue der Sporten" cup offered by Leo Lauer and a cup offered by Dr. Marks, the then mayor of Düsseldorf) were contested over the years.
Game Date Venue Result
1 9- 4-1911 Arnhem East Netherlands 1-0 West Germany
2 14- 5-1911 Düsseldorf West Germany 3-1 East Netherlands
3 21- 4-1912 Nijmegen East Netherlands 0-0 West Germany
4 16- 5-1912 Düsseldorf West Germany 1-1 East Netherlands
5 3-11-1912 München-Gladbach West Germany 0-5 East Netherlands
6 6- 4-1913 Deventer East Netherlands 2-1 West Germany
7 5-10-1913 Düsseldorf West Germany 4-1 East Netherlands
8 19- 4-1914 Enschede East Netherlands 1-4 West Germany
[on the same day North Germany and North Netherlands met in Hamburg]
9 13- 3-1921 Essen West Germany 2-1 East Netherlands
10 29- 5-1921 Arnhem East Netherlands 1-0 West Germany
11 14- 5-1922 Düsseldorf West Germany 4-2 East Netherlands
12 22-10-1922 Enschede East Netherlands 0-3 West Germany
13 28- 6-1925 Köln West Germany 5-2 East Netherlands
14 20- 6-1926 Deventer East Netherlands 4-6 West Germany
15 14-11-1926 Essen West Germany 3-0 East Netherlands
16 30-10-1927 Düsseldorf West Germany 2-3 East Netherlands
17 30- 6-1929 Arnhem East Netherlands 5-2 West Germany
18 25- 5-1930 Recklinghausen West Germany 1-1 East Netherlands
19 19-10-1930 Deventer East Netherlands 1-3 West Germany
[on the same day South Netherlands and Luxembourg met in Maastricht]
20 31- 5-1931 Arnhem East Netherlands 0-3 West Germany
21 25-10-1931 Düsseldorf West Germany 5-0 East Netherlands
[on the same day Luxembourg and South Netherlands met in Luxembourg]
22 16-10-1932 Apeldoorn East Netherlands 1-4 West Germany
[on the same day South Netherlands and Luxembourg met in Breda]
23 28- 5-1933 Osnabrück West Germany 5-0 East Netherlands
24 27- 5-1934 Nijmegen East Netherlands 0-7 West Germany
25 2- 6-1934 Emmerich West Germany 1-0 East Netherlands
26 3- 3-1935 Düsseldorf West Germany 1-1 East Netherlands
27 25-10-1936 Enschede East Netherlands 2-1 West Germany
28 6-11-1938 München-Gladbach West Germany 4-1 East Netherlands
[on the same day South Netherlands and Luxembourg met in Tilburg
and North Netherlands and North Germany in Groningen]
NB: the series was replaced by one against North-East France after World War II
before being resumed in the fifties.
29 20- 5-1953 Duisburg West Germany 4-0 East Netherlands
30 27- 5-1954 Nijmegen East Netherlands 4-4 West Germany
31 19- 5-1955 Hagen West Germany 6-2 East Netherlands
32 9- 5-1956 Nijmegen East Netherlands 0-6 West Germany
33 26- 6-1957 Münster West Germany 2-2 East Netherlands
34 13- 5-1959 Nijmegen East Netherlands 1-3 West Germany
35 17- 5-1960 Rheydt West Germany 4-1 East Netherlands
36 14- 6-1961 Enschede East Netherlands 3-4 West Germany
Overall record:
West Germany 36 23 6 7 108- 50 52
East Netherlands 36 7 6 23 50-108 20
In Germany:
West Germany 19 13 4 2 57- 24 30
East Netherlands 19 2 4 13 24- 57 8
In the Netherlands:
East Netherlands 17 5 2 10 26- 51 12
West Germany 17 10 2 5 51- 26 22
This series replaced that between East Netherlands and West Germany after World War II; after that was resumed in 1953, only two more matches were played.
Game Date Venue Result 1 19-10-1947 Reims North-East France 5-1 East Netherlands 2 3- 4-1949 Nijmegen East Netherlands 3-4 North-East France 3 2- 4-1950 Charleville North-East France 1-1 East Netherlands 4 27- 5-1951 Arnhem East Netherlands 3-0 North-East France 5 25- 5-1952 Reims North-East France 2-1 East Netherlands 6 29- 3-1953 Enschede East Netherlands 3-1 North-East France 7 4- 4-1954 Compiègne North-East France 1-4 East Netherlands 8 8- 4-1956 Nijmegen East Netherlands 5-1 North-East France - 4- 5-1958 Reims North-East France n/p East Netherlands Overall record: North-East France 8 3 1 4 15- 21 7 East Netherlands 8 4 1 3 21- 15 9 In France: North-East France 4 2 1 1 9- 7 5 East Netherlands 4 1 1 2 7- 9 3 In the Netherlands: East Netherlands 4 3 0 1 14- 6 6 North-East France 4 1 0 3 6- 14 2
The series was initiated by the Groninger Voetbal Bond; since 1931 all arrangements on the Dutch side were made by the K.N.V.B.
Game Date Venue Result
1 4- 5-1913 Groningen North Netherlands 2-7 North Germany
2 19- 4-1914 Hamburg North Germany 5-0 North Netherlands
[on the same day East Netherlands and West Germany met in Enschede]
- 8- 6-1919 Groningen North Netherlands n/p North Germany
[not played because N.V.B. did not approve international matches
except against neutral countries (during World War I)]
3 2- 1-1921 Altona North Germany 1-2 North Netherlands
4 16- 5-1921 Groningen North Netherlands 2-3 North Germany
5 11-12-1921 Hamburg North Germany 5-1 North Netherlands
6 27- 8-1922 Groningen North Netherlands 1-6 North Germany
[this match was part of the festivities of the 250th anniversary
of the Gronings Ontzet in 1672; with their win, North Germany
won the Zilveren Bal offered by R. Hazewinkel Jzn., director
of Het Nieuwsblad van het Noorden, for the first team to win
five matches in the series; to replace it, Wempe, a jewellers
company from Hamburg, offered a new silver cup]
7 14- 9-1922 Hamburg North Germany 5-0 North Netherlands
8 2- 9-1923 Groningen North Netherlands 1-3 North Germany
9 14- 9-1924 Bremen North Germany 2-0 North Netherlands
[thanks to the third win in succession, North Germany obtained
permament possession of the Wempe-Pokal; match date wrongly
given as 24- 9-1924 in the annual K.N.V.B. Voetbal Jaarboekje
published in the late thirties]
10 24- 5-1925 Groningen North Netherlands 3-1 North Germany
11 9- 5-1926 Braunschweig North Germany 3-2 North Netherlands
12 15- 5-1927 Leeuwarden North Netherlands 3-3 North Germany
13 20- 5-1928 Hannover North Germany 3-0 North Netherlands
14 23- 6-1929 Groningen North Netherlands 2-3 North Germany
15 15- 6-1930 Hamburg North Germany 5-1 North Netherlands
16 3- 5-1931 Assen North Netherlands 0-2 North Germany
17 8- 5-1932 Hannover North Germany 2-0 North Netherlands
18 14- 5-1933 Leeuwarden North Netherlands 2-1 North Germany
19 3- 6-1934 Hamburg North Germany 4-2 North Netherlands
20 26- 5-1935 Groningen North Netherlands 3-1 North Germany
21 24- 5-1936 Bremen North Germany 10-1 North Netherlands
22 22-11-1936 Leeuwarden North Netherlands 4-2 North Germany
[with their win, North Netherlands won the Zilveren Oldenhove,
offered in 1933 by P. Bokma for the first to win the fixture
three times on Dutch soil]
23 14-11-1937 Hannover North Germany 3-0 North Netherlands
24 6-11-1938 Groningen North Netherlands 4-2 North Germany
[on the same day South Netherlands and Luxembourg met in Tilburg
and West Germany and East Netherlands in München-Gladbach]
NB: the series was replaced by one against Denmark B after World War II
before being resumed in the fifties.
25 26- 5-1954 Osnabrück North Germany 3-1 North Netherlands
26 13- 6-1956 Groningen North Netherlands 4-2 North Germany
27 9- 4-1958 Hamburg North Germany 4-1 North Netherlands
28 20- 4-1960 Groningen North Netherlands 3-3 North Germany
- 15- 4-1964 Hannover North Germany n/p North Netherlands
[originally fixtured for 20-11-1963 in Wilhelmshaven; postponed to
15- 4-1964 and moved to Hannover but eventually cancelled due to
a European Cup match between Borussia Dortmund and Internazionale
which was fixtured (and played) for the same day and broadcasted
on television]
Overall record:
North Germany 28 19 2 7 94- 45 40
North Netherlands 28 7 2 19 45- 94 16
In Germany:
North Germany 14 13 0 1 55- 11 26
North Netherlands 14 1 0 13 11- 55 2
In the Netherlands:
North Netherlands 14 6 2 6 34- 39 14
North Germany 14 6 2 6 39- 34 14
NB: at the initiative of Harry Walstra, another match was played nearly six
decades after the 28th edition; players could only be chosen from the
fourth Dutch and the fifth German level downwards:
- 15- 6-2019 Emmen North Netherlands 3-3 North Germany [3-4 pen]
This series replaced that between North Netherlands and North Germany after
World War II; after that was resumed in 1954, only one more match was played.
The Danish B team did not include any players from Copenhagen.
Game Date Venue Result 1 17- 5-1948 Groningen North Netherlands 3-5 Denmark B 2 7-11-1948 Odense Denmark B 5-0 North Netherlands 3 9-12-1951 Leeuwarden North Netherlands 3-2 Denmark B 4 7- 6-1954 Kolding Denmark B 3-6 North Netherlands Overall record: Denmark B 4 2 0 2 15- 12 4 North Netherlands 4 2 0 2 12- 15 4 In Denmark: Denmark B 2 1 0 1 8- 6 2 North Netherlands 2 1 0 1 6- 8 2 In the Netherlands: North Netherlands 2 1 0 1 6- 7 2 Denmark B 2 1 0 1 7- 6 2
Thanks to Mark Sensen for additional information
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