2006 Rink Hockey European Championship Explained

2006 Rink Hockey European Championship
Teams	9
Host	Monza, Italy
Champions	Spain (13th title)
Matches played	25
Goals scored	179  (average 7.16 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Francesco Dolce - 12

The 2006 Rink Hockey European Championship was the 47th edition of the Rink Hockey European Championship, the biennial European rink hockey competition. The competition took place in Monza, Italy in the Pallazo dello Sport, also known as Pala Candy, from July 16 to July 22. Spain won the competition for the 13th time, beating Switzerland 2–0 in the final. Portugal took the 3rd place after beating 5-4 the hosts, Italy. This competition was part of the Euro Roller Games 2006, that also featured the European Championships of roller skating and artistic roller skating.

Format

There are 3 groups of 3 teams in Phase I. Each team plays each other within the group and all teams but the worse 3rd place of all groups will go into the quarter-finals.

Then, the losers and the team who didn't go to the quarter-finals will play a Poule for the 5th to 9th position. If any team played each other before this Poule, they won't be playing again: the results from Phase I will count.

The winners in the quarter-finals keep playing each other in a knockout system until the winner is found. There is also a game for 3rd and 4th place for the losers at the Semi-finals.

Every game lasts for 40 minutes, divided into 2 parts of 20, instead of the usual 50 minutes in some leagues.

Phase I

Group A

Team	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	Dif	Pts
20pxSpain	2	2	0	0	12	2	+10|6 |- style="background:#ccffcc;" |20pxFrance|2|1|0|1|7|4|+3	3
20pxEngland	2	0	0	2	0	13	-13|0|} ------------ Group B Team G W D L GF GA Dif Pts 20pxItaly 2 2 0 0 11 1 +10|6 |- style="background:#ccffcc;"|20pxGermany|2|1|0|1|6|10|-4 3 20pxAustria 2 0 0 2 3 9 -6|0|} ------------ Group C