Official Holland Shirt Numbers World Cup 2026 | Netherlands Squad Jersey Nos for WC 26 man

Here are the official Netherlands jersey numbers for the 2026 Football World Cup, starting from Bart Verbruggen in the No 1 jersey to Quinten Timber in the No.26 shirt.

The Oranje are in Group F for WC 2026 alongside Japan, Sweden and Tunisia.

Holland Jersey Numbers World Cup 2026

Who wears

Jersey No 1 for Holland- Bart Verbruggen (Goalkeeper Brighton)
Shirt Number 2 for Netherlands- Jurrien Timber Lutsharel Geertruida (Sunderland)

Arsenal’s Jurrien Timber was replaced due to injury on June 8 by Sunderland’s Geertruida

Jersey No.3 for Netherlands- Marten de Roon (Atalanta)
Shirt Number 4 for Holland- Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool- also Dutch WC captain)
Jersey No.5 for Netherlands- Nathan Ake (Man City)
Shirt Number 6 for Netherlands- Jan Paul van Hecke (Brighton)

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Mexico El Tri vs South Africa Bafana 2026 Newspaper Player Ratings CDS AS L’Equipe- World Cup opening game

Here is a look at the Mexico vs South Africa World Cup 2026 player ratings from the big European sports newspapers. El Tri comfortably beat South Africa 2-0.

Diario AS player ratings Mexico vs South Africa 2-0 World Cup 2026

Diario AS thought some of the South African players- Bafana jersey number 13 Sithole in particular, didn’t deserve a rating here.

Mexico didn’t really have to exert themselves too much for the win- as evinced by loads of El Tri players getting two stars (but no 3 star performance)

Mexico vs Bafana Player Ratings 2026 AS

L’Equipe player ratings MEX 2-0 RSA FWC 2026

Not surprisingly, poor Sithole got a brutal 2/10 rating here from French paper L’Equipe, with the rest of the Bafana players also not really impressing. Sithole was partly responsible for Mexico’s 9th minute opener, which saw Julian Quinones join 22 other players in history as one of the opening World Cup goal scorers. Cesar Montes’ red card spoilt the party a bit for Mexico at the end.

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Can Maresca fill the void left by Pep at City?

There are few more thankless tasks in football than succeeding a manager who has defined an era. David Moyes found that out the hard way at Manchester United in 2013 when he replaced the legendary Sir Alex Ferguson. Whoever steps into Pep Guardiola’s shoes at the Etihad Stadium- now that it’s confirmed that he is leaving the club, will face a version of the same challenge, and one magnified by the scale of what the Spaniard has achieved during his tenure with the Citizens.

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