Curaçao Neptunus Unveils 2026 Roster and Home Schedule for Hoofdklasse Season

Curaçao Neptunus has posted its 2026 registered roster and early-season home fixture schedule on the KNBSB Stats portal, with home games at the Neptunus Familiestadion set to open on April 16. The Rotterdam club enters the campaign as back-to-back Holland Series champions, having claimed the title in both 2024 and 2025, now chasing a third consecutive crown.

The roster page lists player names, positions, batting and throwing hands, and year-of-birth data alongside the coaching staff, giving an early read on how the club is balancing veteran presence with younger talent. If the club retains its core from last season, the pitching rotation would again anchor around Tom de Blok, who dominated the 2025 Hoofdklasse with an 11-0 record and a 0.78 ERA. Starting pitchers Ryan Huntington and Shairon Martis rounded out a rotation that carried Neptunus through the regular season and into a second straight Holland Series.

The 2026 campaign marks the debut of a new competition format approved by the KNBSB Board on 29 September 2025. Instead of the previous primarily weekend-based schedule, clubs will now play three games per week: a Thursday evening nine-inning contest and a Saturday double-header featuring one seven-inning game and one nine-inning game. The shift increases the weekly workload on pitching staffs considerably, a factor that could favour organisations with greater rotation depth, precisely where Neptunus has historically held an edge.

Neptunus' home fixtures will be played at the Familiestadion on Abraham van Stolkweg 31, a ground that opened in 1999 with a fixed capacity of approximately 2,500 seats and 26 covered sky boxes for sponsors, bringing the seated total to 2,760. The venue can be expanded to around 6,000 seats for marquee events, as it was for the 2005 Baseball World Cup; most recently it hosted the final phase of EuroBaseball 2025 from 20 to 27 September.

The backdrop to all of this is a record book that Neptunus has been steadily rewriting for decades. The club's 21 Holland Series titles are the most in Dutch baseball history, a tally that surpassed long-time rival Haarlem Nicols when Neptunus claimed their 13th title in 2009. Seven of those championships arrived consecutively between 1999 and 2005, still the longest streak in Hoofdklasse history. On the continent, Neptunus has won the European Baseball Cup, now known as the Champions Cup, ten times, including five straight titles from 2000 to 2004.

The Hoofdklasse runs from April through September across a 42-game regular season; the top four clubs advance to the playoffs culminating in the Holland Series, while the top two finishers earn European Cup berths. With a pitching staff capable of posting sub-1.00 ERAs and a home ground that doubles as Europe's premier baseball venue, Neptunus enters 2026 as the standard every other club in the eight-team league is trying to meet.