Tournament: | 2023–24 Men's Euro Hockey League |
Country: | Spain |
Country2: | Netherlands |
Dates: | 6 October 2023 – 1 April 2024 |
Venues: | 2 |
Cities: | 2 |
Teams: | 20 |
Associations: | 11 |
Champions: | Pinoké |
Second: | Kampong |
Third: | Old Georgians |
Count: | 1 |
Matches: | 26 |
Goals: | 144 |
Top Scorer: | Duco Telgenkamp (Kampong) |
Top Scorer Goals: | 6 |
Previous Year: | 2022–23 |
Previous Tournament: | 2022–23 Men's Euro Hockey League |
Next Year: | 2024–25 |
Next Tournament: | 2024–25 Men's Euro Hockey League |
The 2023–24 Men's Euro Hockey League was 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 in Barcelona, Spain and the Final8 took place from 28 March to 1 April 2024 in Amstelveen, Netherlands.[1]
Bloemendaal were the defending champions, having won the last three editions.[2] They were eliminated in the first round by Kampong.[3] The hosts Pinoké won their first title by defeating Kampong 1–0 in the final.[4] Old Georgians won their first medal by defeating Rot-Weiss Köln 3–2 in the bronze medal match.[5]
A total of 20 teams from 11 of the 45 EHF member associations participated 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:
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.[6]
The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round:
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) |
The preliminary round was hosted by Real Club de Polo de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain from 7 to 9 October 2023.[7] The draw took place on 26 July 2023.[8] [9] The winners of the second round advanced to the quarter-finals during Easter 2024.
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The Final8 was 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 2024.[10] [11] [12] The draw was held on 13 December 2023.[13] The schedule was announced on 15 December 2023.[14]
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Rank | Player[15] [16] | Team | Goals | |||
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1 | Duco Telgenkamp | Kampong | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
2 | Tom Boon | Léopold | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
Tom Grambusch | Rot-Weiss Köln | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
Jip Janssen | Kampong | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||
5 | Thierry Brinkman | Bloemendaal | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
James Carson | Old Georgians | 3 | 1 | 0 | ||
José Basterra | Club de Campo | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||
Alan Forsyth | Old Georgians | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||
Victor Charlet | Waterloo Ducks | 4 | 0 | 0 |