2018 Rink Hockey European Championship

2018 Rink Hockey European ChampionshipTournament details

Host country| Spain
City| A Coruña
Dates| 14–22 July 2018
Teams| 11
Venue(s)| 1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions|  Spain (17th title)
Runners-up|  Portugal
Third place|  Italy
Fourth place|  France

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The 2018 Rink Hockey European Championship, also named as EuroHockey 2018, was the 53rd edition of the Rink Hockey European Championship, a biennial tournament for men's national roller hockey teams of Europe organised by World Skate Europe - Rink Hockey, which took place between 14 and 22 July in A Coruña, Spain.[1]

Spain won the tournament and took its seventeenth title overall.

## Teams[edit]

Eleven teams joined the tournament. Andorra, Belgium and Netherlands joined the other eight teams from the previous edition.[2]

This had the highest number of participants since 1994.

Team  | Appearance  | Last appearance  | Previous best performance

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Andorra | 4th | 2006 | Eighth place (1992, 2006)
Austria | 8th | 2016 | Eighth place (2010, 2016)
Belgium | 39th | 1996 | Runners-up (1947)
England | 52nd | 2016 | Champions (1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939)
France | 52nd | 2016 | Runners-up (1926, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1931)
Germany | 49th | 2016 | Runners-up (1932, 1934)
Italy | 51st | 2016 | Champions (1953, 1990, 2014)
Netherlands | 33rd | 2008 | Third place (1963, 1967, 1969)
Portugal | 48th | 2016 | Champions (1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1956, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1987, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2016)
Spain | 40th | 2016 | Champions (1951, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1969, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012)
Switzerland | 53rd | 2016 | Runners-up (1937, 2006)

## Venue[edit]

All the games of the tournament took place at Pazo dos Deportes de Riazor, in A Coruña, Spain.

## Group stage[edit]

### Group A[edit]

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1  |  Portugal | 4  | 4  | 0  | 0  | 38  | 6  | +32  | 12  | Advance to play-off stage |  | -- | 5–4  | —  | 7–1  | —
2  |  France | 4  | 3  | 0  | 1  | 29  | 10  | +19  | 9  |  | —  | -- | 6–0  | 5–2  | —
3  |  Andorra | 4  | 2  | 0  | 2  | 9  | 19  | −10  | 6  |  | 0–11  | —  | -- | —  | 6–0
4  |  Switzerland | 4  | 1  | 0  | 3  | 10  | 16  | −6  | 3  |  | —  | —  | 2–3  | -- | 5–1
5  |  Austria | 4  | 0  | 0  | 4  | 5  | 40  | −35  | 0  | Advance to classification group |  | 1–15  | 3–14  | —  | —  | --

Source: EuroHockey 2018

### Group B[edit]

Pos | Team  | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts | Qualification  |  |  |  |  |  |  |

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1  |  Spain (H) | 5  | 5  | 0  | 0  | 55  | 4  | +51  | 15  | Advance to play-off stage |  | -- | 2–0  | 7–1  | 10–1  | —  | —
2  |  Italy | 5  | 4  | 0  | 1  | 59  | 15  | +44  | 12  |  | —  | -- | 11–5  | 9–4  | —  | —
3  |  Germany | 5  | 3  | 0  | 2  | 34  | 23  | +11  | 9  |  | —  | —  | -- | 8–4  | 5–1  | —
4  |  England | 5  | 2  | 0  | 3  | 29  | 33  | −4  | 6  |  | —  | —  | —  | -- | 6–4  | 14–2
5  |  Netherlands | 5  | 1  | 0  | 4  | 21  | 45  | −24  | 3  | Advance to classification group |  | 2–14  | 4–15  | —  | —  | -- | 10–5
6  |  Belgium | 5  | 0  | 0  | 5  | 7  | 85  | −78  | 0  |  | 0–22  | 0–24  | 0–15  | —  | —  | --

Source: EuroHockey 2018
(H) Hosts

## Classification group[edit]

Pos | Team  | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |  |  |  |

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1  |  Austria | 2  | 1  | 1  | 0  | 9  | 8  | +1  | 4  |  | -- | —  | 4–4
2  |  Netherlands | 2  | 1  | 0  | 1  | 19  | 8  | +11  | 3  |  | 4–5  | -- | —
3  |  Belgium | 2  | 0  | 1  | 1  | 7  | 19  | −12  | 1  |  | —  | 3–15  | --

Source: zerozero.pt

## Play-off stage[edit]

| Quarterfinals| | Semifinals| | Finals

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| 20 July| | | | |

|  Germany| 2

| 21 July

|  France| 5 |

|  France| 2

| 20 July

| |  Spain| 8 |

|  Switzerland| 2

| | 22 July

|  Spain| 10 |

|  Spain| 6

| 20 July

| |  Portugal| 3

|  Andorra| 2

| 21 July|

|  Italy| 6 |

|  Italy| 2

| 20 July

| |  Portugal| 4 | | Third place game

|  England| 2

| | 22 July

|  Portugal| 14 |

|  France| 2

|  Italy| 5

### 5th to 8th place[edit]

| Semifinals| | Fifth place game

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| 21 July| |

|  England| 2

| 22 July

|  Andorra| 8 |

|  Andorra| 3

| 21 July

| |  Switzerland| 5

|  Switzerland| 7

|  Germany| 6 |

| Seventh place game

| 22 July

|  England| 6

|  Germany| 12

## Final standings[edit]

Pos | Grp | Team  | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Final result

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1  | B |  Spain (H) | 8  | 8  | 0  | 0  | 79  | 11  | +68  | 24  | Champions
2  | A |  Portugal | 7  | 6  | 0  | 1  | 59  | 16  | +43  | 18  | Runners-up
3  | B |  Italy | 8  | 6  | 0  | 2  | 72  | 23  | +49  | 18  | Third place
4  | A |  France | 7  | 4  | 0  | 3  | 38  | 25  | +13  | 12  |
5  | A |  Switzerland | 7  | 3  | 0  | 4  | 24  | 35  | −11  | 9
6  | A |  Andorra | 7  | 3  | 0  | 4  | 22  | 32  | −10  | 9
7  | B |  Germany | 8  | 4  | 0  | 4  | 54  | 41  | +13  | 12
8  | B |  England | 8  | 2  | 0  | 6  | 39  | 67  | −28  | 6
9  | A |  Austria | 6  | 1  | 1  | 4  | 14  | 48  | −34  | 4
10  | B |  Netherlands | 7  | 2  | 0  | 5  | 40  | 53  | −13  | 6
11  | B |  Belgium | 7  | 0  | 1  | 6  | 14  | 104  | −90  | 1

Source: WSE
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## References[edit]

1. ^ "La Coruña will host the 2018 Senior Male European Championship". CERS-rinkhockey.eu. Comité Européen de Rink Hockey (CERH). 27 February 2018. Archived from the original on 12 March 2018. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
2. ^ "53rd European Championship 2018 with 11 participating teams". CERS Rink Hockey. 24 May 2018. Retrieved 26 May 2018.[permanent dead link]

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* Official website
* EuroHockey 2018 at CERS website

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