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Host countries | Spain Netherlands | ||
Dates | 6 October 2023 – 1 April 2024 | ||
Teams | 20 (from 11 associations) | ||
Venue(s) | 2 (in 2 host cities) | ||
Tournament statistics | |||
Matches played | 16 | ||
Goals scored | 97 (6.06 per match) | ||
Top scorer(s) | Thierry Brinkman (Bloemendaal) Duco Telgenkamp (Kampong) Victor Charlet (Waterloo Ducks) (4 goals) | ||
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The 2023–24 Men's Euro Hockey League is the 17th season of the Men's Euro Hockey League, Europe's men's premier club field hockey tournament, organized by the European Hockey Federation.
The first round was held from 6 to 8 October 2023 and the Final8 will take place during Easter 2024.[1]
Bloemendaal were the defending champions, having won the last three editions.[2] They were eliminated in the first round by Kampong.[3]
Association team allocation
A total of 20 teams from 11 of the 45 EHF member associations participate in the 2023–24 Men's Euro Hockey League. The association ranking based on the EHL country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:
- Associations 1–3 each had three teams qualify.
- Associations 4–6 each had two teams qualify.
- Associations 7–11 each had one team qualify.
Association ranking
For the 2023–24 Euro Hockey League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2022–23 EHL country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2020–21 to 2022–23.[4]
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Teams
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
- 1st, 2nd, 3rd: League positions of the previous season
- RS: Regular season winners
Entry round | Teams | |
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Quarter-finals | Pinoké (1st) | Rot-Weiss Köln (1st) |
Gantoise (1st) | Club de Campo (1st) | |
Preliminary round | Bloemendaal (2nd) | Kampong (RS) |
Mannheimer HC (2nd) | Harvestehuder THC (3rd) | |
Léopold (RS) | Waterloo Ducks (2nd) | |
Real Club de Polo (2nd) | Old Georgians (1st) | |
Holcombe (2nd) | CAM 92 (1st) | |
Racing Club de France (2nd) | Post SV (1st) | |
Western Wildcats (1st) | Banbridge (1st) | |
Rotweiss Wettingen (1st) | Plzeň-Litice (1st) |
Preliminary round
The preliminary round was hosted by Real Club de Polo de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain from 7 to 9 October 2023.[5] The draw took place on 26 July 2023.[6][7] The winners of the second round advanced to the quarter-finals during Easter 2024.
Bracket
First round | Second round | |||||
6 October | ||||||
Waterloo Ducks | 5 | |||||
8 October | ||||||
Banbridge | 3 | |||||
Waterloo Ducks | 2 | |||||
6 October | ||||||
Old Georgians | 3 | |||||
Old Georgians | 5 | |||||
Mannheimer HC | 1 | |||||
6 October | ||||||
Racing Club de France | 2 | |||||
8 October | ||||||
Holcombe | 4 | |||||
Holcombe | 0 | |||||
6 October | ||||||
Real Club de Polo | 1 | |||||
CAM 92 | 1 | |||||
Real Club de Polo | 4 | |||||
7 October | ||||||
Léopold | 1 | |||||
8 October | ||||||
Harvestehuder THC | 0 | |||||
Léopold | 3 | |||||
7 October | ||||||
Post SV | 1 | |||||
Post SV (s.o.) | 1 (2) | |||||
Rotweiss Wettingen | 1 (1) | |||||
7 October | ||||||
Bloemendaal | 1 | |||||
8 October | ||||||
Kampong | 2 | |||||
Kampong | 11 | |||||
7 October | ||||||
Western Wildcats | 0 | |||||
Western Wildcats | 3 | |||||
Plzeň-Litice | 1 | |||||
First round
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Ranking matches
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Second round
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Final8
The Final8 will be hosted by Pinoké and Amsterdam and held alongside the women's tournament at the Wagener Stadium in Amstelveen, Netherlands from 28 March to 1 April 2023.[8][9][10] The draw was held on 13 December 2023.[11] The schedule was announced on 15 December 2023.[12]
Bracket
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Bronze medal match | ||||||||||
Léopold | ||||||||||
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Rot-Weiss Köln | ||||||||||
Quarter-finals
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Ranking matches
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Semi-finals
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Bronze medal match
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Final
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See also
References
- ↑ "Real Club de Polo to host EHL Men's KO16 in October". 21 July 2023.
- ↑ "Bloemendaal wint voor derde keer op rij Euro Hockey League na krappe zege". nos.nl (in Dutch). NOS. 10 April 2023. Retrieved 12 April 2023.
- ↑ "Kampong schakelt titelhouder Bloemendaal uit in voorronde Euro Hockey League". rtvutrecht.nl (in Dutch). RTV Utrecht. 7 October 2023. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
- ↑ "Outdoor Clubs Ranking Points Men" (PDF).
- ↑ "Real Club de Polo to host EHL Men's KO16 in October". 21 July 2023.
- ↑ "Euro Hockey League - Le Watducks et le Léopold connaissent leurs adversaires sur la route du Final 8". lalibre.be (in French). La Libre. 28 July 2023. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
- ↑ "Ehl Men's KO16 Draw Confirmed With Real Club De Polo to Host". 26 July 2023.
- ↑ Demaret, Philippe (1 December 2023). "Le final 8 de l'EHL à Amsterdam". okey.lalibre.be (in French). Okey. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
- ↑ "Euro Hockey League 2024 finals set for Amsterdam once again". thehockeypaper.co.uk. The Hockey Paper. 1 December 2023. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
- ↑ Toussaint, Laurent (1 December 2023). "L'EHL de retour au Wagener Stadium". hockeybelgium.lesoir.be (in French). Retrieved 3 December 2023.
- ↑ Scheire, Robben (13 December 2023). "België-Nederland in de Euro Hockey League: Gantoise neemt het in kwartfinales op tegen het Nederlandse Kampong, Léopold treft Keulen". nieuwsblad.be (in Dutch). Het Nieuwsblad. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
- ↑ Klanke, Peter (15 December 2023). "Speelschema EHL: Pinoké als eerste Nederlandse club in actie". hockey.nl (in Dutch). Hockey.nl. Retrieved 16 December 2023.