India-Netherlands Win-Loss Record

Last Updated: 19th June, 2022

Category	Tournament	Matches	India (W)	Netherlands (W)	Draw	India (G)	Netherlands (G)
FIH Premier Tournaments	Olympics	12	7	4	1	30	19
	World Cup	7	-	6	1*	12	28
	Champions Trophy	14	3	8	3	27	40
	Hockey World League	4	-	3	1*	7	13
	Hockey Pro League	4	1	1	2	11	9
	Total	41	11	22	8	87	109
India - Netherlands Series	Bilateral Series	34	11	12	11	62	67
	Total	34	11	12	11	62	67
All Other Tournaments	Sultan Azlan Shah Cup	3	1	2	-	4	4
	Esanda Cup	2	1	1	-	5	7
	Invitation Tournaments (Asia)	10	2	2	6	21	14
	Invitation Tournaments (Europe)	12	3	8	1	17	36
	International Tests	6	4	2	-	25	6
	Olympic Qualifiers	2	1	1	-	6	5
	Total	35	12	16	7	78	72
	GRAND TOTAL	110	34	50	26	227	248

*In the 1973 World Cup final, the score at the end of regulation was 2-2 (Surjit Singh and Ties Kruize scored a brace each, all goals coming from penalty corners). With only 31 seconds of the second period of extra time remaining, India were awarded a penalty stroke. B. P. Govinda came up to take the stroke that would win India the World Cup, but Dutch goalkeeper Martin Sikking made an easy save. In the tie-breaker India lost 2-4 to Netherlands, with B. P. Govinda again failing to score off the first stroke. A total of 10 goals were scored in the 1973 World Cup final, all of them either penalty corners or penalty strokes.
*In the 2020 Hockey World League, the score at the end of regulation was 3-3. India won the shootout 3-1
As of 2018, India has never beaten the Netherlands in the World Cup in 7 attempts.
In the 2003 Champions Trophy, India was leading Netherlands 3-0 till the 63rd minute. Netherlands scored 4 goals in 7 minutes to win the match 4-3.
Biggest Win for India: 9-0 in the Ahmedabad Invitational Tournament in 1962
Biggest Win for Netherlands: 8-0 in the Amstelveen Invitational Tournament in 1985
The milestone matches in the India - Netherlands rivalry are:

Match No.	Year	Venue	Tournament	Stage	Result	Goal Scorers (India)
1	1928	Amsterdam	Olympics	Gold Medal Match	India 3 - Netherands 0	Dhyan Chand (2) George Eric Marthins
25	1972	Munich	Olympics	Pool	India 1 - Netherlands 1	Ashok Kumar
50	1987	Delhi	Indira Gandhi Gold Cup	League	Netherlands 2 - India 0
75	2003	Amstelveen	Champions Trophy	League	Netherlands 4 - India 3	Jugraj Singh Deepak Thakur Gagan Ajeet Singh
100	2015	Raipur	Hockey World League	Bronze Medal Match	India 5 - Netherlands 5 (3-2 SO)	Ramandeep Singh (2) Rupinderpal Singh (2) Akashdeep Singh

Statistics originally provided by late B. G. Joshi