Men's EuroHockey Championship explained

Men's EuroHockey Championship
Last Season:2023 Men's EuroHockey Championship
Upcoming Season:2025 Men's EuroHockey Championship
Inaugural:1970
Sport:Field hockey
Teams:8
Level:1
Continent:EHF (Europe)
Champion: (7th title)
Champ Season:2023
Most Champs: (8 titles)
Pyramid:EuroHockey Nations Challenge

The Men's EuroHockey Championship is an international men's field hockey competition organised by the European Hockey Federation (EHF) for the top eight European national teams. It is the top division of the EuroHockey Championships. The tournament started in 1970. When the tournament is held close to the Summer Olympic games or the Men's FIH Hockey World Cup, the winner of the tournament is awarded a place in those competitions.

The tournament has been won by five different national teams: Germany has the most titles with eight, the Netherlands follow with seven, Spain has two wins and England and Belgium have one title each.

The most recent edition, held in Mönchengladbach, Germany, was won by the Netherlands who won their seventh title by defeating England 2–1 in the final.[1]

Format

Since 2005 the tournament is played in Divisions, normally consisting of 8 teams. The top division, containing the eight best national teams, is called the EuroHockey Championship, below which there is the Men's EuroHockey Championship II, then the Men's EuroHockey Championship III, then the EuroHockey Championship IV.

Qualification

National teams qualify for a division based on their performance in the previous competition. Each time the competition is held, it is with each division's previous top two teams promoted (assuming there is a higher division), and its previous bottom two teams demoted (assuming there is a lower division).

  1. 1970–1974: No Qualification
  2. 1978–2003 and 2023–present: Qualification tournament
  3. 2005–2021: Via Men's EuroHockey Championship II and Men's EuroHockey Championship III and EuroHockey Championship IV

Summary

Assuming divisions consisting of the standard 8 teams, the teams are separated into two pools of four teams. In each pool (pool A and B) the teams play one match against each of the other teams in their pool (three in total). The teams then go on to play classification matches based on their relative ranking from these pool matches to determine their final tournament position.

Details

In each pool, A, and B, all the teams play each other once, with points awarded as follows:

Upon completion of these matches, each team in the pool is ranked according to the number of points each has accumulated. If any teams in the pool have the same rank, then these teams are ranked:

Once the relative ranking of the teams in pools A and B is settled, the semi-finals proceed with two games as follows:

The winners of these matches then play a match against each other for 1st and 2nd places (the final) and the losing teams play a match against each other for 3rd and 4th places (Bronze medal match).

The third and fourth placed teams in each pool are placed in Pool C (the Relegation Pool) in order to determine fifth to eighth places. Each team plays one match against the two teams that they did not previously play. The results from those games and from the game that was previously played against the other team in their original pool are used to rank each team according to the ranking procedure used in Pool A and B.

Dates

The senior (men's and women's) Nations tournaments are held over seven to eight consecutive days (including rest days) some time during the last two weeks of July and the first four weeks of August every odd numbered year (2009, 2011, etc.).

Results

Summaries

YearHostwidth=1% rowspan=23Finalwidth=1% rowspan=23Third place matchwidth=1% rowspan=23width=6% rowspan=2Number of teams
width=14%Winnerwidth=10%Scorewidth=14%Runner-upwidth=14%Third placewidth=10%Scorewidth=14%Fourth place
1970
Details
Brussels, Belgium3–12–119
1974
Details
Madrid, Spain1–04–118
1978
Details
Hanover, West Germany3–22–012
1983
Details
Amsterdam, Netherlands2–2 (a.e.t.)
(8–6 p.s.)
3–112
1987
Details
Moscow, Soviet Union1–1 (a.e.t.)
(3–0 p.s.)
3–2 (a.e.t.)12
1991
Details
Paris, France3–11–1 (a.e.t.)
(2–1 p.s.)
12
1995
Details
Dublin, Ireland2–2 (a.e.t.)
(9–8 p.s.)
2–112
1999
Details
Padua, Italy3–3 (a.e.t.)
(8–7 p.s.)
7–212
2003
Details
Barcelona, Spain1–1 (a.e.t.)
(5–4 p.s.)
1–1 (a.e.t.)
(6–5 p.s.)
12
2005
Details
Leipzig, Germany4–29–18
2007
Details
Manchester, England3–24–38
2009
Details
Amstelveen, Netherlands5–36–18
2011
Details
Mönchengladbach, Germany4–22–18
2013
Details
Boom, Belgium3–13–28
2015
Details
London, England6–14–28
2017
Details
Amstelveen, Netherlands4–24–28
2019
Details
Antwerp, Belgium5–04–08
2021
Details
Amstelveen, Netherlands2–2
(4–1 p.s.o.)
3–28
2023
Details
Mönchengladbach, Germany2–12–08
2025
Details
Mönchengladbach, Germany8
2027
Details
TBD12

Top four statistics

TeamChampionsRunners-upThird-placeFourth-place
style=background:#FFF68Fstyle=background:#FFF68F8 (1970, 1978, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2011*, 2013)4 (1974, 2009, 2015, 2021)3 (1983, 1987, 2005)4 (2007, 2017, 2019, 2023*)
style=background:#FFF68Fstyle=background:#FFF68F7 (1983, 1987, 2007, 2015, 2017*, 2021*, 2023)7 (1970, 1978, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2005, 2011)4 (1974, 2009, 2013, 2019)1 (2003)
style=background:#FFF68Fstyle=background:#FFF68F2 (1974, 2005)3 (2003, 2007, 2019)1 (1970)3 (1978, 1983, 2009)
style=background:#FFF68Fstyle=background:#FFF68F1 (2009)2 (1987, 2023)7 (1978, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2011, 2017)4 (1974, 2013, 2015*, 2021)
style=background:#FFF68Fstyle=background:#FFF68F1 (2019*)2 (2013*, 2017)3 (2007, 2021, 2023)4 (1995, 1999, 2005, 2011)
1 (1983)2 (1987*, 1991)
1 (2015)
1 (1970)

* = host

Team appearances

Team
1970

1974

1978

1983

1987

1991

1995

1999

2003

2005

2007

2009

2011

2013

2015

2017

2019

2021

2023

2025

2027
Total
11th15th11th7th7th7th6
Part of the Soviet Union9th1
5th10th8th10th9th4th4th6th4th3rd5th4thbgcolor=silver2nd5thbgcolor=silver2ndbgcolor=gold1st3rd3rdQQ20
Part of Czechoslovakia8th8th2
10th9th10thDefunct3
18th14th2
6th4th3rd5thbgcolor=silver2nd3rd3rd3rd3rd6th5thbgcolor=gold1st3rd4th4th3rd5th4thbgcolor=silver2ndQQ21
16th18th2
4th6th7th6th11th6th12th7th5th5th6th6th8th7th6th5thQQ18
bgcolor=gold1stbgcolor=silver2ndbgcolor=gold1st3rd3rdbgcolor=gold1stbgcolor=gold1stbgcolor=gold1stbgcolor=gold1st3rd4thbgcolor=silver2ndbgcolor=gold1stbgcolor=gold1stbgcolor=silver2nd4th4thbgcolor=silver2nd4thQQ21
12th1
17th1
9th11th8th10th6th7th5th11th9th7th5th6th3rd6th8th15
13th12th9th12th12th10th6
19th1
bgcolor=silver2nd3rdbgcolor=silver2ndbgcolor=gold1stbgcolor=gold1stbgcolor=silver2ndbgcolor=silver2ndbgcolor=silver2nd4thbgcolor=silver2ndbgcolor=gold1st3rdbgcolor=silver2nd3rdbgcolor=gold1stbgcolor=gold1st3rdbgcolor=gold1stbgcolor=gold1stQQ21
7th5th5th9th5th8th6th9th7th7th8th7th8th13
16th1
Part of the Soviet Union8th12th7th8th8th5
15th7th11th7th8th10th8th8th7th9
14th9thbgcolor=silver2nd4th4thDefunct5
3rdbgcolor=gold1st4th4th7th5th8th5thbgcolor=silver2ndbgcolor=gold1stbgcolor=silver2nd4th6th5th6th5thbgcolor=silver2nd5th6thQQ21
8th17th11th11th10th11th6
12th8th6th12th12th10th7th6th6th7th8th11
13thDefunct1
Total 1918121212121212128888888888812[2]

See also

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Nederlandse hockeyers weer Europees kampioen na zege op Engeland . rtlnieuws.nl . . 28 September 2023 . nl . 27 August 2023.
  2. Web site: Competitions Archive . 25 August 2018 . 19.