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This article lists various team and individual Netherlands-Pakistan field hockey records between the national field hockey teams of both countries. Netherlands and Pakistan are one of the most successful teams in international field hockey, between the two teams is a record seven Hockey World Cup titles and five Olympic gold medals won. The sport enjoys popular sport in both the countries.

Both countries have regularly competed since their first meeting at the 1948 Olympics in London. Both teams have produced world best players of their times, likes of Hassan Sardar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Kaleemullah Khan and Sohail Abbas for Pakistan and Ties Kruze, Paul Litjens, Bram Lomans and Tuen de Nooijer for Netherlands. Both teams are considered as the most excellent exports of different styles of hockey the European and Asian style.

History

Further information: Field hockey in the Netherlands and Field hockey in Pakistan

The game was first introduced in Netherlands around the late 1800s and in 1892 the first game of field hockey was played in the country. The game gained quick popularity and soon Netherlands started to compete in international events including the Summer Olympics. The sport around the same time was brought by British servicemen in the subcontinent during the era of British India. The game also gained mass popularity there and after the independence of Pakistan from British rule in 1947 the sport was carried on by players who formerly played for the Indian team. The first international match between the two was played at the pool stage of the 1948 Olympics where Pakistan won with a margin of 6–1. Tanvir Dar of Pakistan scored four goals including the first goal of the match. The teams again met in the match for third place where it ended in a 1–1 draw so a replay was scheduled the next day, Netherlands won 4–1 to clinch bronze medal at the event. Two weeks later after the Olympics Pakistan trave

A pacy moustached centre forward by the name of Hassan Sardar dribbling with a hockey stick in between hapless defenders and at times just being in the right position at the perfect time for a cross helped on its way so effortlessly into the back of the net, is still fresh in my fading memory from our golden days of Hockey in the 80s. The excitement at winning Penalty corners when we knew we had more likelihood of scoring than not with Sohail Abbas; still the highest ever scorer in the history of the game, watching the pace and fluidity of the movement of arguably one of the best forwards of the game, the pencil thin Shahbaz, true to his name who helped Pakistan win our last World Cup in 1994 was indeed a delight to watch. Gone are the days when Hockey was followed by enthusiastic schoolchildren, still coming a close second to Cricket in popularity and at times at par in many areas, when I was growing up. An ardent sports fan from an early age, I followed most of the sports closely, but as everywhere in our household Cricket reigned supreme, being the more artistic and charismatic one amongst the two, in which Pakistan used to excel in those days. Squash being another one, not being a team sports and with hardly any facilities, just played in a cross section of the society and hence its sad fate later on, when the two Khans retired from the game, after dominating it for decades. Hockey was still very popular in early 80s when I was growing up, though I never played it on a frequent basis, most of my friends and schoolmates naturally preferring Cricket, being a Professional sports, had more coverage in media and was a highly paid one too. Most of the public in my times, unless diehard Hockey fans would consider famous cricketers like Imran, Javed, Zaheer, Wasim, Waqar or Inzi as their heroes rather than the likes of Hassan Sardar, Kaleemullah, Shahid Ali Khan, Samiullah, Hanif Khan, Mansur, Wasim Feroze and later Shahbaz.