{"id":26835,"date":"2026-06-27T15:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T15:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/26835\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T15:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T15:54:10","slug":"netherlands-vs-morocco-head-to-head-record-and-past-meetings-ahead-of-2026-world-cup-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/26835\/","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands vs. Morocco: Head-to-head record and past meetings ahead of 2026 World Cup clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/netherlands\/\" title=\"Netherlands\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netherlands<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/morocco\/\" title=\"Morocco\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Morocco<\/a> will face off on Tuesday, with a position in the last-16 stage of the 2026 World Cup on the line.<\/p>\n<p>Holland finished top of Group F with seven points to sail into the round of 32, while Morocco were the runners-up to Brazil in Group C.<\/p>\n<p>Here, Sports Mole takes an in-depth look at the head-to-head record and previous meetings between Netherlands and Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>Head-to-head record<\/p>\n<p>Previous meetings:\u00a03<\/p>\n<p>Netherlands wins:\u00a02<\/p>\n<p>Draws:\u00a00<\/p>\n<p>Morocco wins:\u00a01<\/p>\n<p>Netherlands and Morocco have only faced off on three previous occasions, and it is the former that leads the head-to-head record two victories to one.<\/p>\n<p>The first-ever clash between the two sides came in the group stage of the 1994 World Cup, with Netherlands running out 2-1 winners courtesy of goals from Dennis Bergkamp and Bryan Roy.<\/p>\n<p>Netherlands made the quarter-finals of the 1994 World Cup before losing to Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>The other two contests between the two teams have been friendlies, with Morocco recording a 2-1 victory in April 1999, before Netherlands ran out 2-1 winners in May 2017.<\/p>\n<p>No player has scored more than once in this fixture, with Bergkamp and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/people\/ruud-van-nistelrooy\/\" title=\"Ruud van Nistelrooy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ruud van Nistelrooy<\/a> among the nine goalscorers in games between Netherlands and Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>Previous meetings<\/p>\n<p>May 31, 2017: Morocco 1-2 Netherlands (international friendly)<\/p>\n<p>Apr 28, 1999: Netherlands 1-2 Morocco (international friendly)<\/p>\n<p>Jun 29, 1994: Morocco 1-2 Netherlands (World Cup)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netherlands and Morocco will face off on Tuesday, with a position in the last-16 stage of the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[254,257,247,249,252,6,256,253,255,250,248,259,258,251],"class_list":["post-26835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-netherlands","tag-cycling","tag-epl","tag-football","tag-formula-1","tag-golf","tag-netherlands","tag-nfl","tag-olympics","tag-premier-league","tag-rugby","tag-sport","tag-sports-mole","tag-teams","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}