Soccer fans celebrated at Curaçao International Airport in Willemstad on Wednesday as the men's soccer team arrived home after making World Cup history as the smallest nation by population ever to qualify.

The team danced and celebrated as they were surrounded by a large crowd who had gathered at the airport to see and photograph them.

Curaçao, a tiny Caribbean island, is an autonomous territory of about 156,000 people within the Netherlands kingdom.

It takes the record previously held by Iceland, with a population of just over 350,000, which was the previous smallest country to reach the World Cup when it qualified for Russia 2018.

The team, heavily made up of players born and raised in the Netherlands, drew 0-0 in Jamaica finishing top of a four-team group.

AP video shot by: Steven Gratten, produced by Annika Wolters