Ruud van Nistelrooy

PlayerHead coachCaretakerNationality Kingdom of the NetherlandsAge 50 (born 1 Jul 1976)Position forward

Sources Wikidata, WikipediaUpdated 15 Oct 2026, 17:31 BSTItem Q45626

What is held

Caps and goals per national team as Wikidata records them on each spell. Match-by-match international caps are not held. openfootball's tournament files hold results and scorers' names but no team sheets, so a player's tournament matches cannot be tied to this profile without matching on names, which the archive does not do.

Senior national team

Senior national team spells
Team	Dates	Caps	Goals
Netherlands national association football team	1998 – 2011	70	35

Source: Wikidata (CC0), member of sports team (P54) with matches (P1350) and goals (P1351). A dash means not held, not zero.

Caps by year

Senior caps and goals per year, according to the player's English Wikipedia article.
Team	Year	Caps	Goals
Netherlands	1998	1	0
Netherlands	1999	8	1
Netherlands	2000	1	0
Netherlands	2001	7	7
Netherlands	2002	4	1
Netherlands	2003	8	5
Netherlands	2004	11	6
Netherlands	2005	9	5
Netherlands	2006	5	3
Netherlands	2007	5	2
Netherlands	2008	5	3
Netherlands	2009	0	0
Netherlands	2010	3	1
Netherlands	2011	3	1
Total		70	35

Includes data from Wikipedia (“Ruud van Nistelrooy”, revision 1379368705, read 16 Oct 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikipedia is edited by volunteers; the archive treats it as a secondary source and checks it against its own records where it can.