Overview
- A 0-0 in Kingston clinched group victory after VAR overturned a stoppage-time Jamaica penalty and the hosts finished with ten men.
- Assistants Cor Pot and Dean Gorré directed the match as Dick Advocaat returned to the Netherlands for family reasons.
- Curaçao becomes the smallest nation ever to qualify for a World Cup, and the 78-year-old Advocaat is poised to set the coaching age record.
- Celebrations broke out on the island and across the Dutch diaspora, including sold-out viewing parties in Rotterdam’s Villa Thalia.
- Suriname lost 3-1 in Guatemala and heads to the CONCACAF play-offs, while Curaçao now looks to the Dec. 5 draw in Washington, D.C.