Tournament: | 2024–25 Men's Euro Hockey League |
Country: | England |
Country2: | TBC |
Dates: | 3 October 2024 – 21 April 2025 |
Venues: | 2 |
Cities: | 2 |
Teams: | 20 |
Associations: | 11 |
Previous Year: | 2023–24 |
Previous Tournament: | 2023–24 Men's Euro Hockey League |
Next Year: | 2025–26 |
Next Tournament: | 2025–26 Men's Euro Hockey League |
The 2024–25 Men's Euro Hockey League will be the 18th season of the Men's Euro Hockey League, Europe's premier men's club field hockey tournament organized by the European Hockey Federation.
The first round will be held from 3 to 6 October 2024 in Thames Ditton, England and the final 8 will take place during Easter 2025.
Pinoké were the defending champions, having won their first title in the previous season.[1] They were not able to defend their title as they did not qualify for this season's edition as they finished fifth in the Dutch Hoofdklasse.[2]
A total of 20 teams from 40 of the 42 EHF member associations are set to participate in the 2024–25 Men's Euro Hockey League (the exceptions being Belarus and Russia which are currently suspended). The association ranking based on the EHL men's ranking table is used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:
The associations were allocated places for the 2024–25 Euro Hockey League according to their 2022–23 EHL country coefficients, considering their performance in European competitions from 2021–22 to 2023–24.[3]
The labels in the parentheses show how each teams qualified for the place of its starting round:
Entry round | Teams | |
---|---|---|
Quarter-finals | Kampong (1st) | Gantoise (1st) |
Old Georgians (1st) | Club de Campo (1st) | |
Preliminary round | Bloemendaal (RS) | Rotterdam (2nd) |
Léopold (RS) | Waterloo Ducks (2nd) | |
Surbiton (2nd) | Wimbledon (3rd) | |
Real Club de Polo (2nd) | Mannheimer HC (1st) | |
Hamburger Polo Club (2nd) | AHTC Wien (1st) | |
Arminen (RS) | Lille (1st) | |
Banbridge (1st) | Western Wildcats (1st) | |
Grashopper Zürich (1st) | Plzeň-Litice (1st) |
The preliminary round will be hosted by Surbiton Hockey Club at Sugden Road in Thames Ditton, England.[5] The draw took place on 15 July 2024.[6] [7] The winners of the second round advance to the quarter-finals during Easter 2025.