His national team career is the longest in the history of the Dutch national team.
All matches are friendlies unless stated otherwise.
Kick Smit, Faas Wilkes and Abe Lenstra gave rise to the perfect cartoon football player Kick Wilstra.
Together with Kees Rijvers and Faas Wilkes, Abe Lenstra formed the gouden binnentrio, three inside forwards of international class during a time Dutch football was mired in mediocrity due to the refusal of the authorities to admit professionalism.
Born: 27-11-1920 in Heerenveen Died: 2- 9-1985 Country: Netherlands Caps: 47 (W18-D11-L18 - GF124-GA109 - %50.00) Goals: 33 (% 0.70 per match) Age First Cap: 19 yr 125 d 31- 3-1940 vs. Luxembourg 4-5 Age Last Cap: 38 yr 143 d 19- 4-1959 vs. Belgium 2-2 National Team Career: 19 yr 19 d
Cap Goals Date Venue Opponent Score Competition
1 1 1 31- 3-40 Rotterdam Luxembourg 4-5
2 1 21- 4-40 Amsterdam Belgium 4-2
3 1 10- 3-46 Luxembourg Luxembourg 6-2
4 1 2 21- 9-47 Amsterdam Switzerland 6-2
5 1 3 14- 3-48 Antwerpen Belgium 1-1
6 1 4 18- 4-48 Rotterdam Belgium 2-2
7 4 9- 6-48 Amsterdam Sweden 1-0
8 4 26- 7-48 Portsmouth Ireland 3-1 Olympic Games
9 4 31- 7-48 London Great Britain 3-4 aet Olympic Games
10 4 21-11-48 Antwerpen Belgium 1-1
11 1 5 13- 3-49 Amsterdam Belgium 3-3
12 5 23- 4-49 Rotterdam France 4-1
13 1 6 12- 6-49 København Denmark 2-1
14 6 6-11-49 Rotterdam Belgium 0-1
15 6 11-12-49 Amsterdam Denmark 0-1
16 6 8- 6-50 Stockholm Sweden 1-4
17 1 7 11- 6-50 Helsinki Finland 1-4
18 7 15-10-50 Basel Switzerland 5-7
19 7 12-11-50 Antwerpen Belgium 2-7
20 2 9 15- 4-51 Amsterdam Belgium 5-4
21 1 10 6- 6-51 Rotterdam Norway 2-3
22 1 11 27-10-51 Rotterdam Finland 4-4
23 3 14 25-11-51 Rotterdam Belgium 6-7
24 14 6- 4-52 Antwerpen Belgium 2-4
25 14 14- 5-52 Amsterdam Sweden 0-0
26 1 15 21- 9-52 København Denmark 2-3
27 1 16 19-10-52 Antwerpen Belgium 1-2
28 1 17 7- 3-53 Rotterdam Denmark 1-2
29 1 18 22- 3-53 Amsterdam Switzerland 1-2
30 18 19- 4-53 Amsterdam Belgium 0-2
31 1 19 13- 3-55 Amsterdam Denmark 1-1
32 2 21 14- 3-56 Düsseldorf West Germany 2-1
33 21 10- 5-56 Rotterdam Ireland 1-4
34 1 22 6- 6-56 Amsterdam Saar 3-2
35 1 23 15- 9-56 Lausanne Switzerland 3-2
36 23 14-10-56 Antwerpen Belgium 3-2
37 23 4-11-56 København Denmark 2-2
38 2 25 11- 9-57 Rotterdam Luxembourg 5-2 World Cup Qualifier
39 1 26 25- 9-57 Amsterdam Austria 1-1 World Cup Qualifier
40 26 17-11-57 Rotterdam Belgium 5-2
41 2 28 13- 4-58 Antwerpen Belgium 7-2
42 2 30 23- 4-58 Amsterdam Curaçao 8-1
43 30 4- 5-58 Amsterdam Turkey 1-2
44 30 28- 5-58 Oslo Norway 0-0
45 2 32 15-10-58 Rotterdam Denmark 5-1
46 32 2-11-58 Rotterdam Switzerland 2-0
47 1 33 19- 4-59 Amsterdam Belgium 2-2
Total Record
GP GW GD GL GF GA Pts Percentage
47 18 11 18 124-109 47 50.00
33 Goals in 47 Matches (0.70 per match)
Records by Opponent Gls Pd W D L GF-GA Pts
Austria 1 1 0 1 0 1- 1 1
Belgium 12 16 5 5 6 44-44 15
Curaçao 2 1 1 0 0 8- 1 2
Denmark 6 7 2 2 3 13-11 6
Finland 2 2 0 1 1 5- 8 1
France 1 1 0 0 4- 1 2
Great Britain 1 0 0 1 3- 4 0
Ireland 2 1 0 1 4- 5 2
Luxembourg 3 3 2 0 1 15- 9 4
Norway 1 2 0 1 1 2- 3 1
Saar 1 1 1 0 0 3- 2 2
Sweden 3 1 1 1 2- 4 3
Switzerland 3 5 3 0 2 17-13 6
Turkey 1 0 0 1 1- 2 0
West Germany 2 1 1 0 0 2- 1 2
Types of Matches and Goals
Goals Matches
Friendlies 30 43
vs Belgium 12 16
World Cup Qualifier 3 2
Olympic Games 0 2
Total 33 47
Prepared and maintained by Karel Stokkermans for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
Author: Karel Stokkermans
(karel.rsssf@gmail.com)
Last updated: 6 Jan 2022
(C) Copyright Karel Stokkermans and RSSSF 2002/22
You are free to copy this document in whole or part provided that proper
acknowledgement is given to the author. All rights reserved.