Curaçao national football team
national association football team
The Curaçao national football team (Dutch: Curaçaos voetbalelftal; Papiamento: selekshon di futbòl Kòrsou) represents Curaçao in men's international football. The team is governed by the Federashon Futbòl Kòrsou.
Following a constitutional change that allowed its predecessor, the Colony of Curaçao and Dependencies, to become a unified constituent country consisting of several island territories as the Netherlands Antilles and its dissolution in 2010, Curaçao has played under a new constitutional status as a separate constituent country since 2011.
Both FIFA and CONCACAF recognize the Curaçao national team as the direct successor of the dependant Territory of Curaçao (1921–1958) and the Netherlands Antilles (1958–2010).
In November 2025, they topped their qualifying group and qualified for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, becoming the smallest nation by both population and area to qualify for the tournament. They faced Germany in their debut match in 2026 FIFA World Cup. Curaçao became the first non-sovereign national team from the Americas to qualify for the FIFA World Cup, and the seventh overall, after England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland (which are constituent countries of the United Kingdom and not independent countries), the Netherlands (a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands), and the Dutch East Indies, a Dutch colony that competed in the 1938 tournament.
History
The first national football team to bear the name Curaçao was the Territory of Curaçao national football team, which made its debut in 1924 in an away match against neighboring Aruba, a match which the Territory of Curaçao won four to nil.
In December 1954, the territory of Curaçao became the Netherlands Antilles, and following a constitutional change the Netherlands Antilles were designated a country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which included the islands of Aruba, Bonaire, Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten. The name of the Curaçao team changed to Netherlands Antilles national team, representing all six islands.
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