Tourney Name: | Rink Hockey European Championship |
Year: | 2018 |
City: | A Coruña |
Country: | Spain |
Dates: | 14–22 July 2018 |
Num Teams: | 11 |
Venues: | 1 |
Cities: | 1 |
Champion Other: | |
Count: | 17 |
Prevseason: | 2016 |
Nextseason: | 2021 |
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.
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.
width=15% | Team | Appearance | Last appearance | Previous best performance |
---|---|---|---|---|
4th | Eighth place (1992, 2006) | |||
8th | Eighth place (2010, 2016) | |||
39th | Runners-up (1947) | |||
52nd | Champions (1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939) | |||
52nd | Runners-up (1926, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1931) | |||
49th | Runners-up (1932, 1934) | |||
51st | Champions (1953, 1990, 2014) | |||
33rd | Third place (1963, 1967, 1969) | |||
48th | Champions (1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1956, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1987, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2016) | |||
40th | Champions (1951, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1969, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012) | |||
53rd | Runners-up (1937, 2006) |
All the games of the tournament took place at Pazo dos Deportes de Riazor, in A Coruña, Spain.