Current FIFA Ranking: 82
Highest FIFA Ranking: 68 (July 2017)
Lowest FIFA Ranking: 188 (December 2003)
Football Team Nickname: The Blue Family
Honours: None
Head coach: Dick Advocaat (Jan 2024)
Top scorer in qualifying: Gervane Kastaneer (5)
Star players: Leandro Bacuna (Bandimarspor), Juninho Bacuna (Gaziantep), Gervane Kastaneer (Persis Solo)
The Caribbean Island with a population of just over 150,000 have become the smallest nation to reach the World Cup finals and its historical Dutch influence has continued to play its part on and off the pitch – several players were born in the Netherlands as was a famous face in the dugout.
Led by Dick Advocaat, who managed Netherlands at the 1994 World Cup and Korea Republic in 2006, he is set to become the oldest ever coach at the finals – he will be 78 in 2006, surpassing the record of 71-year-old Otto Rehhagel who was 71 when with Greece in 2010.
Curacao only gained country status in 2010 when it received autonomy from the Netherlands Antilles.
Previous World Cup appearances (0)
