With because of EuroHockey:
The ABN AMRO Euro Hockey League lands on the Wagener Stadium tomorrow, the place 16 of the continent’s finest membership groups – from six totally different international locations – will compete to turn into the most recent European champions.
The knockout motion kicks off on Thursday afternoon with 4 FINAL8 encounters, kicking off a 20-match sequence over 5 days of knockout motion.
An extra 4 FINAL8 battles happen on March 29 earlier than the semi-finals take heart stage on Saturday, March 30 and Sunday, March 31 earlier than all medals are selected Easter Monday, April 1.
It guarantees to be one other great showcase of the fervour, velocity and ability that characterizes European membership hockey at its finest.
Wherever you’re on the planet, you’ll be able to take pleasure in each minute of the motion with broadcast choices for each area.
EuroHockeyTV – www.eurohockeytv.org – will broadcast each minute of the competitors stay (worldwide besides Belgium and Latin America) and additional broadcast info is offered right here: https://ehlhockey.television/broadcast/
The motion kicks off with Irish and Spanish champions Loreto and Junior FC assembly at 12.30pm (CET). The previous have already secured two titles this season, successful the EY Hockey League and regional Jacqui Potter Cup crowns to showcase their red-hot kind.
Junior, in the meantime, will play in EHL Girls for the second time following their run to the Spanish title final season. At their final efficiency they took bronze within the Wagener Stadium in 2022.
Subsequent up is the showdown between England’s Outdated Georgians and Membership de Campo within the males’s competitors (2.45pm CET).
OGs produced among the performances from the EHL KO16 weekend in Barcelona final October to achieve the FINAL8 and went on to prime the English common season rankings and are inside touching distance of a spot within the last play-off levels.
Spanish champions Membership de Campo de Madrid are competing within the EHL for the seventh season, with their most memorable run coming in 2011 after they reached the GRAND FINAL. They’re ranked second within the MSG league.
Recreation three options Campo’s girls who’ve gained silver medals in each 2021 and 2023 and are the one ever-present membership in EHL Girls. Their opponents (at 5:00 PM CET) are newcomer Mannheimer HC who’re making their debut.
After various close to misses, Mannheimer HC lastly will get their likelihood within the EHL Girls’s competitors after they gained the German title by way of a shoot-out final season. They’re as soon as once more on a roll with the second-best report within the Bundesliga this season.
The primary day concludes with males’s hosts Pinoké seeking to shock the house crowd after they tackle Spanish leaders Actual Membership de Polo (7.15pm CET).
It is going to be the Dutch membership’s second EHL marketing campaign, following their first-ever nationwide championship victory final yr. They’re going for a primary EHL medal after ending fifth final season.
One other particular program is on the agenda on Friday, beginning with Rot-Weiss Köln towards Royal Léopold (1:15 PM CET). Rot-Weiss Köln is in search of a second EHL Males’s title after silver medals on this stage the previous two years, each occasions denied by Bloemendaal. They’ve one of the best report within the German league up to now, regardless of accidents to key strikers Christopher Rühr and Elian Mazkour.
Léo is the chief within the Belgian league and returned to the EHL final October after a two-year break after successful the common season of the Belgian Eredivisie. Small wins over Harvestehuder THC and Publish SV within the KO16 secured their passage to this stage they usually even have a formidable competitors within the Ion Hockey League.
Dutch quantity two SCHC is again for a second EHL season towards Belgian chief Gantoise (3:30 PM CET).
SCHC hopes that they will attempt for victory for the primary time on this competitors. They create a star-studded line-up with worldwide stars resembling Yibbi Jansen and Xan de Waard and are flying excessive after a current cup win over Den Bosch.
Gantoise, in the meantime, is only one win away from confirming that they prime the Belgian common season desk with 4 rounds to go, with their very own firepower by means of Ambre Ballenghien, Alix Gerniers and Milou Sinia.
Gantoise’s G-Drive followers will you should definitely keep in attendance for the second a part of their double-header as their males tackle SV Kampong at 5.45pm (CET).
The Belgian membership ended a 101-year anticipate the Belgian males’s nationwide title final season after they defeated Waterloo Geese within the championship last.
SV Kampong, winners of the 2023/23 common season of the Dutch huge league, can be hoping they will seize the environment of 2016 after they gained their first EHL title.
The primary part of the weekend concludes underneath the Friday night lights at 8pm (CET) when AH&BC Amsterdam tackle debutants East Grinstead.
Amsterdam can be hoping they will emulate their final look within the EHL Girls’s competitors in 2022, after they achieved final glory with the gold medal on the Wagener Stadium, including to 14 successes within the EuroHockey Membership Cup.
EG will make their EHL Girls’s debut following their first English Girls’s title final April after they ended Surbiton’s lengthy reign within the last.
It units the tone for an amazing action-packed weekend. Keep updated with the competitors all weekend lengthy by way of the EHL web site – www.ehlhockey.television – and uncover the environment of the occasion on the EHL social channels.