For the 2023 World Men's Handball Championship The Netherlands received a wildcard and reached the Main Round finishing 14th overall.

The team improved this result in the 2025 event to a 12th place in the final ranking.

The current squad lead by starplayers Luc Steins and Kay Smits is steadily closing the gap with the leading European teams by qualifying three consecutive times for the European Championships (2020, 2022 and 2024).

In only their second ever appearance at EHF EURO 2022 the Dutch men's team won three matches and drew one.

The Dutch did qualify for the Main Round as well and finished as 10th overall.