2020 Men's EuroHockey Indoor Championship explained

Tournament:2020 Men's EuroHockey Indoor Championship
Country:Germany
City:Berlin
Dates:17–19 January
Venues:Horst-Korber-Sportzentrum
Teams:8
Confederations:1
Count:16
Matches:20
Goals:183
Top Scorer: Boris Burkhardt
Michael Körper
Top Scorer Goals:11
Previous Year:2018
Previous Tournament:2018 Men's EuroHockey Indoor Championship
Next Year:2022
Next Tournament:2022 Men's EuroHockey Indoor Championship

The 2020 Men's EuroHockey Indoor Championship was the nineteenth edition of the Men's EuroHockey Indoor Championship, the biennial international men's indoor hockey championship of Europe organized by the European Hockey Federation. It took place from 17 to 19 January 2020 in Berlin, Germany.[1]

The hosts Germany won their sixteenth title by defeating the defending champions Austria 6–3 in the final. The Netherlands won the bronze medal by defeating Russia 11–3.

Qualified teams

DatesEventLocationQuotasQualifiers
12–14 January 20182018 EuroHockey Indoor ChampionshipAntwerp, Belgium6 (1)
(7)
(3)
(2)
(5)
(6)
12–14 January 20182018 EuroHockey Indoor Championship IIAlanya, Turkey2 (9)
(19)
Total8

Format

The eight teams will be split into two groups of four teams. The top two teams advance to the semifinals to determine the winner in a knockout system. The bottom two teams play in a new group with the teams they did not play against in the group stage. The last two teams will be relegated to the EuroHockey Indoor Nations Championship II.

Results

All times are local (UTC+1).

Preliminary round

The Pools were decided in summer 2019 following the FIH Indoor World Ranking.[1]

Pool A

----

Pool B

----

Fifth to eighth place classification

Pool C

The points obtained in the preliminary round against the other team are taken over.

----

First to fourth place classification

Semifinals

----

Final

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2020 EuroHockey Indoor Championships . eurohockey.org . EHF . 13 June 2018 . 13 June 2018 . 13 June 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180613235049/https://eurohockey.org/2020-eurohockey-indoor-championships/ . dead .