Euro Hockey League

Euro Hockey LeagueCurrent season, competition or edition:
2023–24 Men's Euro Hockey League

Formerly| EuroHockey Club Champions Cup
Sport| Field hockey
Founded| 2007; 17 years ago (2007)
First season| 2007–08
No. of teams| 20
Confederation| EHF (Europe)
Most recent
champion(s)|  Bloemendaal (6th title)
(2022–23)
Most titles|  Bloemendaal (6 titles)
TV partner(s)| List of broadcasters
Related
competitions| EuroHockey Club Trophy
Official website| ehlhockey.tv

The Euro Hockey League is an annual men's field hockey cup competition organized by the EHF for the very top field hockey clubs in Europe. The competition was launched at the start of the 2007-08 field hockey season when it merged and replaced the men's EuroHockey Club Champions Cup (the champions competition) and the EuroHockey Cup Winners Cup (the Cup Winners' competition). Featuring many of the world's best players, the EHL is now seen as the pinnacle of club hockey in Europe (hockey's equivalent of the UEFA Champions League) with top clubs from across the continent playing what many consider to be the most exciting and dynamic club hockey in the world.

The competition has been won by eight clubs, two of which have won it more than once.[1] Bloemendaal is the most successful club in the tournament's history; having won it six times. The Waterloo Ducks became the first Belgian club to win the tournament.[2][3] Dutch clubs have the highest number of victories (9 wins), followed by Germany (5 wins).

## Format[edit]

From the 2019–20 season onwards the tournament features 20 clubs from the 11 highest-ranked EHF member countries. Although the competition is called the Euro Hockey League, after round 1 the competition was a knock-out, rather than league format (similar to the UEFA Champions League in football). From the 2019–20 season onwards round one is also a knock-out format.

### Qualification[edit]

From the 2019–20 season onwards each year the 20 available league places are allocated between 11 EHF member countries' National Associations, depending on those National Associations' EHF Club Ranking. National Associations ranked 1–3 in the EHL Ranking Table may enter three teams each in the Euro Hockey League, while National Associations ranked 4-6 may enter two teams each, and National Associations ranked 7-11 one team.

National Associations rankings are derived from each country's results in the Euro Hockey League and EuroHockey Club Trophy over the previous 3 years, with the points in the earlier years discounted by 50% (year 2) and 75% (year 1). This ranking of National Associations is based on the performance of all their clubs in the Euro Hockey League and EuroHockey Club Trophy. The total number of points won by clubs from each country is divided by the number of clubs to which the National Association was entitled in that year's competitions.

Each qualifying National Association is required to enter their national champion club but is otherwise free to decide the system of qualification for their own clubs for any remaining places to which they are entitled that year.

To be eligible to play in the Euro Hockey League a country must enter 2 clubs in the EHF club competitions.

### Tournament[edit]

For the 2019–20 season the EHL moves to a new format with the removal of the round-robin tournament in round one.[4] Instead, a knock-out format will be used from the start of the tournament.[4] Round one will be replaced by the knockout 16 with four sides advancing to the quarter-finals, or Final 8 as it's called, on Easter.[4] The Final8 will consist of the champions from the top four nations on the EHL rankings table alongside the four sides that qualified from the knockout 16.[4] This means that instead of a total of 24 teams from 12 associations there will be 20 teams from 11 associations.[4]

## Sponsorship[edit]

The much-improved presentation and packaging of the Euro Hockey League have attracted a number of high-profile sponsors, most notably Dutch bank ABN-AMRO, who are the presenting sponsor of the tournament. Volvo and Intersport are also named sponsors of the Euro Hockey League, while partnerships have been formed with McGregor, ErmaSport, ATP - The Advanced Travel Partner and Dutch advertising agency Ideas for Brands.

## Summaries[edit]

Season  | Host  |  | Final  |  | Bronze medal match  |  | Number of teams

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Winner  | Score  | Runner-up  | Third place  | Score  | Fourth place
2007–08
Details | Rotterdam, Netherlands  |
UHC Hamburg | 1–0 (a.e.t.)  |
HGC |
Rotterdam | 2–2 (a.e.t.)
(2–1 p.s.)  |
Club Egara | 24
2008–09
Details |
Bloemendaal | 5–4 |
UHC Hamburg |
Rotterdam | 8–1 |
Leuven | 24
2009–10
Details | Amstelveen, Netherlands  |
UHC Hamburg | 3–1 |
Rotterdam |
Amsterdam | 4–3 (a.e.t.)  |
Real Club de Polo | 24
2010–11
Details | Wassenaar, Netherlands  |
HGC | 1–0 |
Club de Campo |
Reading | 3–2 |
Oranje Zwart | 24
2011–12
Details | Amstelveen, Netherlands  |
UHC Hamburg | 2–2 (a.e.t.)
(2–1 s.o.)  |
Amsterdam |
Dragons | 4–3 (a.e.t.)  |
Rotterdam | 24
2012–13
Details | Bloemendaal, Netherlands  |
Bloemendaal | 2–0 |
Dragons |
Amsterdam | 5–3 |
Rot-Weiss Köln | 24
2013–14
Details | Eindhoven, Netherlands  |
Harvestehuder THC | 2–2
(3–1 s.o.)  |
Oranje Zwart |
Dragons | 2–1 |
Racing | 24
2014–15
Details | Bloemendaal, Netherlands  |
Oranje Zwart | 1–1
(6–5 s.o.)  |
UHC Hamburg |
Bloemendaal | 1–0 |
Daring | 24
2015–16
Details | Barcelona, Spain  |
Kampong | 2–0 |
Amsterdam |
Harvestehuder THC | 3–2 |
Atlètic Terrassa | 24
2016–17
Details | Brasschaat, Belgium  |
Rot-Weiss Köln | 3–2 |
Oranje-Rood |
Dragons | 3–1 |
Wimbledon | 24
2017–18
Details | Bloemendaal, Netherlands  |
Bloemendaal | 8–2 |
Kampong |
Rotterdam | 5–4 |
Herakles | 24
2018–19
Details | Eindhoven, Netherlands  |
Waterloo Ducks | 4–0 |
Rot-Weiss Köln |
Mannheimer HC | 3–1 |
Real Club de Polo | 24
2019–20
Details | Amstelveen, Netherlands  | Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[5] | 20
2021
Details |
Bloemendaal | 5–2 |
Atlètic Terrassa |  |
Léopold | 4–2 |
Uhlenhorst Mülheim | 4
2022
Details |
Bloemendaal | 4–0 |
Rot-Weiss Köln |
Surbiton | 2–1 |
Club de Campo | 10
2022–23
Details |
Bloemendaal | 1–0 |
Rot-Weiss Köln |
Racing | 3–0 |
Atlètic Terrassa | 20
2023–24
Details |
Pinoké | 1–0 |
Kampong |
Old Georgians | 3–2 |
Rot-Weiss Köln | 20

## Records and statistics[edit]

### Performances by club[edit]

Rank| Club| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Bloemendaal| 6| 0| 1| 7
2|  UHC Hamburg| 3| 2| 0| 5
3|  Rot-Weiss Köln| 1| 3| 0| 4
4|  Kampong| 1| 2| 0| 3
5|  HGC| 1| 1| 0| 2
Oranje Zwart| 1| 1| 0| 2
7|  Harvestehuder THC| 1| 0| 1| 2
8|  Pinoké| 1| 0| 0| 1
Waterloo Ducks| 1| 0| 0| 1
10|  Amsterdam| 0| 2| 2| 4
11|  Dragons| 0| 1| 3| 4
Rotterdam| 0| 1| 3| 4
13|  Atlètic Terrassa| 0| 1| 0| 1
Club de Campo| 0| 1| 0| 1
Oranje-Rood| 0| 1| 0| 1
16|  Léopold| 0| 0| 1| 1
Mannheimer HC| 0| 0| 1| 1
Old Georgians| 0| 0| 1| 1
Racing| 0| 0| 1| 1
Reading| 0| 0| 1| 1
21–21| Remaining| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (21 entries)| 16| 16| 16| 48

### Performances by nation[edit]

Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Netherlands (NED)| 10| 8| 6| 24
2|  Germany (GER)| 5| 5| 2| 12
3|  Belgium (BEL)| 1| 1| 5| 7
4|  Spain (ESP)| 0| 2| 0| 2
5|  England (ENG)| 0| 0| 3| 3
Totals (5 entries)| 16| 16| 16| 48

## Lower tournaments[edit]

The Euro Hockey League is the top men's club competition in Europe. Below the Euro Hockey League is the EuroHockey Club Trophy, then below that the EuroHockey Club Challenge 1, the EuroHockey Club Challenge 2, and so on. This structure is designed to give every EHF member nation the opportunity to enter their best clubs into European competition at an appropriate level, and through that exposure to improve the level of their domestic hockey.

## See also[edit]

* EuroHockey Club Champions Cup
* EuroHockey Club Trophy
* Men's EuroHockey Indoor Club Cup
* Women's Euro Hockey League

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Competitions Archive". eurohockey.org. European Hockey Federation. pp. 28–40. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
2. ^ "Waterloo Ducks winnen Euro Hockey League na 4-0-winst tegen Köln". www.hln.be (in Dutch). Het Laatste Nieuws. 23 April 2019. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
3. ^ "Waterloo Ducks in EHL heaven with remarkable 4-0 grand final success in Eindhoven". ehlhockey.tv. Euro Hockey League. 22 April 2019. Archived from the original on 22 April 2019. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
4. ^ a b c d e "Ehl Men Set for New Knock-out Format in 2019/20 Season". ehlhockey.tv. Euro Hockey League. Archived from the original on 8 May 2019. Retrieved 11 June 2019.
5. ^ "Uitgestelde Euro Hockey League in Amstelveen alsnog afgelast". nos.nl (in Dutch). 14 August 2020. Retrieved 14 August 2020.

## External links[edit]

* Official website

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Euro Hockey League

* 2007–08
* 2008–09
* 2009–10
* 2010–11
* 2011–12
* 2012–13
* 2013–14
* 2014–15
* 2015–16
* 2016–17
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* Women's Euro Hockey League
* EuroHockey Club Champions Cup (1974–2007)

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EuroHockey Club Champions Cup and Euro Hockey League winners

EuroHockey Club Champions Cup|

| 1970s|

* 1974: 1880 Frankfurt
* 1975: 1880 Frankfurt
* 1976: Southgate
* 1977: Southgate
* 1978: Southgate
* 1979: Klein Zwitserland

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1980s|

* 1980: Slough
* 1981: Klein Zwitserland
* 1982: Dynamo Alma-Ata
* 1983: Dynamo Alma-Ata
* 1984: Frankenthal
* 1985: Atlètic Terrassa
* 1986: Kampong
* 1987: Bloemendaal
* 1988: Uhlenhorst Mülheim
* 1989: Uhlenhorst Mülheim

1990s|

* 1990: Uhlenhorst Mülheim
* 1991: Uhlenhorst Mülheim
* 1992: Uhlenhorst Mülheim
* 1993: Uhlenhorst Mülheim
* 1994: Uhlenhorst Mülheim
* 1995: Uhlenhorst Mülheim
* 1996: Uhlenhorst Mülheim
* 1997: HGC
* 1998: Atlètic Terrassa
* 1999: Den Bosch

2000s|

* 2000: Club an der Alster
* 2001: Bloemendaal
* 2002: Club an der Alster
* 2003: Reading
* 2004: Real Club de Polo
* 2005: Amsterdam
* 2006: Stuttgarter Kickers
* 2007: Crefelder HTC

Euro Hockey League|

| 2000s|

* 2007–08: UHC Hamburg
* 2008–09: Bloemendaal

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2010s|

* 2009–10: UHC Hamburg
* 2010–11: HGC
* 2011–12: UHC Hamburg
* 2012–13: Bloemendaal
* 2013–14: Harvestehuder THC
* 2014–15: Oranje Zwart
* 2015–16: Kampong
* 2016–17: Rot-Weiss Köln
* 2017–18: Bloemendaal
* 2018–19: Waterloo Ducks

2020s|

* 2021: Bloemendaal
* 2022: Bloemendaal
* 2022–23: Bloemendaal

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