India-Netherlands Win-Loss Record

Last Updated: 21st February, 2024

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	8	1	3	4	17	19
	Total	45	11	24	10	93	119
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)	14	4	8	2	20	38
	International Tests	7	4	3	-	26	11
	Olympic Qualifiers	2	1	1	-	6	5
	Total	38	13	17	8	82	79
	GRAND TOTAL	117	35	53	29	237	265

*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.
India has never beaten the Netherlands in the World Cup (over the course of 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