Men's EuroHockey Championship

Men's EuroHockey Championship
Most recent season or competition:; 2023 Men's EuroHockey Championship
Sport	Field hockey
Gegründet	1970; 54 years ago
First season	1970
No. of teams	8
Continent	EHF (Europe)
Most recent; champion(s)	Niederlande (7th title) ; (2023)
Most titles	Deutschland (8 titles)
Level on pyramid	1

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).

1970–1974: No Qualification
1978–2003 and 2023–present: Qualification tournament
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:

3 points for a win
1 point for a draw
0 points for a loss

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:

According to the number of matches they won, or else, if equal
According to respective goal difference ('goals for' less 'goals against'), or else
According to 'goals for', or else
If only two teams are involved, according to the result of the match played between those teams, or else
According to the results of a penalty stroke competition between those teams, or else
This procedure is repeated using the penalty stroke result until the teams can be ranked

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

Second Pool A v first Pool B
First Pool A v Second Pool B

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

Year	Host	Final			Third place match			Number of teams
Year	Host	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place	Number of teams
1970 Details	Brussels, Belgium	West Germany	3–1	Niederlande	Spanien	2–1	Frankreich	19
1974 Details	Madrid, Spain	Spanien	1–0	West Germany	Niederlande	4–1	England	18
1978 Details	Hanover, West Germany	West Germany	3–2	Niederlande	England	2–0	Spanien	12
1983 Details	Amsterdam, Netherlands	Niederlande	2–2 (a.e.t.) (8–6 p.s.)	Soviet Union	West Germany	3–1	Spanien	12
1987 Details	Moscow, Soviet Union	Niederlande	1–1 (a.e.t.) (3–0 p.s.)	England	West Germany	3–2 (a.e.t.)	Soviet Union	12
1991 Details	Paris, France	Deutschland	3–1	Niederlande	England	1–1 (a.e.t.) (2–1 p.s.)	Soviet Union	12
1995 Details	Dublin, Ireland	Deutschland	2–2 (a.e.t.) (9–8 p.s.)	Niederlande	England	2–1	Belgien	12
1999 Details	Padua, Italy	Deutschland	3–3 (a.e.t.) (8–7 p.s.)	Niederlande	England	7–2	Belgien	12
2003 Details	Barcelona, Spain	Deutschland	1–1 (a.e.t.) (5–4 p.s.)	Spanien	England	1–1 (a.e.t.) (6–5 p.s.)	Niederlande	12
2005 Details	Leipzig, Germany	Spanien	4–2	Niederlande	Deutschland	9–1	Belgien	8
2007 Details	Manchester, England	Niederlande	3–2	Spanien	Belgien	4–3	Deutschland	8
2009 Details	Amstelveen, Netherlands	England	5–3	Deutschland	Niederlande	6–1	Spanien	8
2011 Details	Mönchengladbach, Germany	Deutschland	4–2	Niederlande	England	2–1	Belgien	8
2013 Details	Boom, Belgium	Deutschland	3–1	Belgien	Niederlande	3–2	England	8
2015 Details	London, England	Niederlande	6–1	Deutschland	Irland	4–2	England	8
2017 Details	Amstelveen, Netherlands	Niederlande	4–2	Belgien	England	4–2	Deutschland	8
2019 Details	Antwerp, Belgium	Belgien	5–0	Spanien	Niederlande	4–0	Deutschland	8
2021 Details	Amstelveen, Netherlands	Niederlande	2–2 (4–1 p.s.o.)	Deutschland	Belgien	3–2	England	8
2023 Details	Mönchengladbach, Germany	Niederlande	2–1	England	Belgien	2–0	Deutschland	8
2025 Details	Mönchengladbach, Germany							8
2027 Details	TBD							12

Top four statistics

Team	Champions	Runners-up	Third-place	Fourth-place
Deutschland^[a]	8 (1970, 1978, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2011*, 2013)	4 (1974, 2009, 2015, 2021)	3 (1983, 1987, 2005)	4 (2007, 2017, 2019, 2023*)
Niederlande	7 (1983, 1987, 2007, 2015, 2017, 2021, 2023)	7 (1970, 1978, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2005, 2011)	4 (1974, 2009, 2013, 2019)	1 (2003)
Spanien	2 (1974, 2005)	3 (2003, 2007, 2019)	1 (1970)	3 (1978, 1983, 2009)
England	1 (2009)	2 (1987, 2023)	7 (1978, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2011, 2017)	4 (1974, 2013, 2015*, 2021)
Belgien	1 (2019*)	2 (2013*, 2017)	3 (2007, 2021, 2023)	4 (1995, 1999, 2005, 2011)
Soviet Union		1 (1983)		2 (1987*, 1991)
Irland			1 (2015)
Frankreich				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
Österreich	11th	15th	-	11th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7th	-	-	-	7th	-	-	7th	Q	Q	8
Weißrussland	Part of the Soviet Union						9th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		1
Belgien	5th	10th	-	8th	10th	9th	4th	4th	6th	4th	3rd	5th	4th	2nd	5th	2nd	1st	3rd	3rd	Q	Q	20
Tschechische Republik	Part of Czechoslovakia						-	-	-	-	8th	-	-	8th	-	-	-	-	-	-		2
Czechoslovakia	10th	9th	10th	-	-	-	Defunct															3
Dänemark	18th	14th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		2
England	6th	4th	3rd	5th	2nd	3rd	3rd	3rd	3rd	6th	5th	1st	3rd	4th	4th	3rd	5th	4th	2nd	Q	Q	21
Finnland	16th	18th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		2
Frankreich	4th	6th	7th	6th	11th	6th	12th	7th	5th	5th	6th	6th	8th	-	7th	-	-	6th	5th	Q	Q	18
Deutschland^[a]	1st	2nd	1st	3rd	3rd	1st	1st	1st	1st	3rd	4th	2nd	1st	1st	2nd	4th	4th	2nd	4th	Q	Q	21
Gibraltar	-	-	12th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		1
Ungarn	17th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		1
Irland	9th	11th	8th	10th	6th	7th	5th	11th	9th	-	7th	-	5th	6th	3rd	6th	8th	-	-	-		15
Italien	13th	12th	-	-	9th	12th	-	12th	10th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		6
Malta	19th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		1
Niederlande	2nd	3rd	2nd	1st	1st	2nd	2nd	2nd	4th	2nd	1st	3rd	2nd	3rd	1st	1st	3rd	1st	1st	Q	Q	21
Polen	7th	5th	5th	9th	5th	8th	6th	9th	7th	7th	-	8th	-	7th	-	8th	-	-	-	Q	Q	15
Portugal	-	16th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		1
Russland	Part of the Soviet Union						-	8th	12th	-	-	-	7th	-	8th	-	-	8th	-	-		5
Scotland	15th	7th	11th	7th	8th	-	10th	-	8th	8th	-	-	-	-	-	-	7th	-	-	-		9
Soviet Union	14th	-	9th	2nd	4th	4th	Defunct															5
Spanien	3rd	1st	4th	4th	7th	5th	8th	5th	2nd	1st	2nd	4th	6th	5th	6th	5th	2nd	5th	6th	Q	Q	21
Schweiz	8th	17th	-	-	-	11th	11th	10th	11th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		6
Wales	12th	8th	6th	12th	12th	10th	7th	6th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6th	7th	8th	-		11
Yugoslavia	-	13th	-	-	-	-	Defunct															1
Total	19	18	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	12	^[2]

Notes

^ ^a ^b Includes results representing West Germany between 1970 and 1990

References

^ "Nederlandse hockeyers weer Europees kampioen na zege op Engeland". rtlnieuws.nl (in Dutch). RTL Nieuws. 27 August 2023. Retrieved 28 September 2023.
^ "Competitions Archive". p. 19. Retrieved 25 August 2018.

v t e Men's EuroHockey Championship
Tournaments	Brussels 1970 Madrid 1974 Hanover 1978 Amstelveen 1983 Moscow 1987 Paris 1991 Dublin 1995 Padua 1999 Barcelona 2003 Leipzig 2005 Manchester 2007 Amstelveen 2009 Mönchengladbach 2011 Boom 2013 London 2015 Amstelveen 2017 Antwerp 2019 Amstelveen 2021 Mönchengladbach 2023 Mönchengladbach 2025
Qualification	1970 1974 1978 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2023 2025
Squads	2005 2007 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021 2023
Championship II	Rome 2005 Lisbon 2007 Wrexham 2009 Vinnytsia 2011 Vienna 2013 Prague 2015 Glasgow 2017 Cambrai 2019 Gniezno 2021 Dublin 2023
Championship III	Vinnytsia 2005 Kazan 2007 Zagreb 2009 Catania 2011 Lausanne 2013 Lisbon 2015 Sveti Ivan Zelina 2017 Gibraltar 2019 Lousada 2021 Skierniewice 2023
Championship IV	Kordin 2005 Predanovci 2007 Bratislava 2009 Athens 2011 Athens 2013 Vilnius 2015 Lipovci 2017 Helsinki 2019 ~~Kordin 2021~~

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