The joint European Indoor Hockey Championship for men and women will take place in Hamburg from January 12 to 16, 2022. These are two premieres that will be celebrated with this event: Never before in the 45-year history of the European Championships has an event been...

The European Hockey Federation is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Ernie Wall OBE and our thoughts are with his family and friends. Ernie’s contribution to hockey was huge and spanned for more than 70 years. A former player at Inverleith Ernie became an...

Antonio Antonov, EHF and FIH Educator and EHF Coaches Committee member travelled to Albania last week to deliver an EHF Coaches Development Seminar was held at the request of the National Olympic Committee of Albania and the newly established Albanian Hockey...

The 2021 EHF Youth Leadership Festival in collaboration with the KNHB is going to be a week full of interesting workshops, contacts and friendships with some amazing guest speakers, including international hockey stars and inspirational and...

October 15, 2020 The EHL Men’s Cup is set to make its debut next Easter as part of the Euro Hockey League festival of events in 2021.  The competition has been put in place this season following the postponement of the 2020 EHL...

The EHF is delighted to support the DHB's bid to have ParaHockey ID as a demonstration sport for Berlin 2023, we wish them well in their bid and we know that if successful this would be a perfect opportunity for our European ParaHockey ID players to shine on a world...

Before we spoke about his own Presidency and plans for that, Otto-Petteri (or OP as he is affectionally known in Finnish Hockey) wished to pay tribute to Mika “Mika was President of Finnish Hockey for the past 8 years. In that time, he has led a fantastic rejuvenation...

Announcing the selection for C4E and TCP, Chair of the Coaching Committee, Inez Cooper said: Following the selection process by the EHF Coaching Committee, we are delighted to announce that a total of 58 participants have been chosen to take part in the two...

Inez Cooper, Chair Officials Committee said " We are delighted to see such a high quality of applications from National Associations and to see such a high number of applications following the recent changes. This has resulted in being over-subscribed again this year....

October 13, 2020 The entry list for the 2021 ABN AMRO Euro Hockey League next Easter has been finalised following nominations by the national federations. This season will take in changes to account for the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic which led to the postponement of...

Hockey Ireland is delighted with the news that Sport Ireland, through the Dormant Accounts Funding, is investing in our Hockey4All disability and inclusion programme (ParaHockey ID) Our Hockey4All programme aims to offer young people with disabilities an opportunity...

As hockey players, fans, umpires, parents return to the hockey fields all over Europe, we are taking some time to take a snapshot of what’s happening around Europe and who are the drivers to make hockey happen in a safe...

As hockey players, fans, umpires, parents return to the hockey fields all over Europe, we are taking some time to take a snapshot of what’s happening around Europe and who are the drivers to make hockey happen in a safe environment for players, club members and fans....

As hockey players, fans, umpires, parents return to the hockey fields all over Europe, we are taking some time to take a snapshot of what’s happening around Europe and who are the drivers to make hockey happen in a safe environment for players, club members and fans....

As hockey players, fans, umpires, parents return to the hockey fields all over Europe, we are taking some time this week to take a snapshot of what’s happening around Europe and who are the drivers to make hockey happen in a safe environment for players, club members...

As hockey players, fans, umpires, parents return to the hockey fields all over Europe, we are taking some time to take a snapshot of what's happening around Europe and who are the drivers to make hockey happen in a safe environment for players, club members and fans....

The EHF Executive Board will meet today and tomorrow (18th / 19th September) via Webinar and will discuss the following agenda: Finance and Office Bearers meeting updateDirector-General update FIH update The Board will receive reports from the following:...

The Board of Czech Hockey is happy to announce that Filip Neusser, ex goalkeeper of the national men's team and current trainer of the national Czech women’s team, will run for the position of President of the Czech Olympic Committee.  Filip has been a member of the...

At the end of last week, both the EHF Competitions Committees Indoor and Outdoor met to consider the outcome of 2020 and to plan for 2021 and 2022.  The Indoor Committee discussed the following:  The EuroHockey Indoor Junior Championships...

The EHF Coaching Programme nominations ARE OPEN for new participants. Only the responsible person from the National Association must complete the nomination/s. We maintain the coaches who are already on the programmes this is for nominations for new coaches....

The EHF Umpiring Programme nominations ARE OPEN for new participants. Only the responsible person from the National Association must complete the nomination/s. Umpiring Nominations for either EHF Umpires for NationsEHF Umpires for Europe The programmes run...

The EHF has today announced its 2021 officials for the EuroHockey Championship (men and women) events. We are delighted that the team for the EuroHockey Championships will be led by the equally amazing Sonja-Annabell Schwede (GER) and Steve Catton (ENG) as our...

The Coaches 4 Europe (C4E) and Top Coaches Programme (TCP) programme have been successful pioneering initiatives which have been running in Europe for three years, but when COVID19 struck in 2020, it was time to go online and use the 'pause in play' to get our coaches...

Join our final guests of the second series on Monday 31st August at 09.00 CET: two hockey magicians Tomislav Jamičić and Lisa Jacob. Lisa Jacob is an ex-international Irish hockey player (2006-2014) who now plays her club hockey for Old Alex HC. She became the first...

Monday 24th August 2020 09:00 CET Jack Rolfe will be in conversation with Amber Luzar, performance analyst, England and Great Britain As we are in a strange time without any hockey matches, let's try to learn some specific things about video analysis from Amber Luzar....

The Euro Hockey League (EHL) and European Hockey Federation (EHF), in conjunction with all our stakeholders, have taken the difficult decision to formally cancel the EHL FINAL8 which was due to take place from October 14 to 18, 2020 at the Wagener...

Join the discussion on Monday 17th August at 09.00 CET and take a unique chance to ask Janne how to combine Business & Sport. Janne Müller-Wieland is the Co-chair of the EHF Athletes Committee. The Athletes Committee serves as a link between the EHF and our...

The Germany Special Hockey team has won an incredible prize of €25,000 in a competition sponsored by GENERALI Deutschland We spoke to Linda van Overmeire-Sandkaulen and Sonja Ricken who are the leaders of Special Hockey (ParaHockey ID) in Germany. Sonia explained...

Do you know who in 2015 received the Athletes in Excellence Award from The Foundation for Global Sports Development, in recognition of his community service efforts and work with youth? Yes, his name Santiago "Santi" Freixa.... Join the discussion on Monday 10th...

Something to think about and start planning for - loads more information to follow soon...... The 2021 EHF Youth Leadership Festival is going to be a week full of interesting workshops, contacts, friendship with some amazing guest speakers such as the best hockey...

Join the conversation and take the unique chance to ask Darren Cheesman and Kate Richardson-Walsh the secrets of how to become a High-Performance coach after your playing career. Presented by Jack Rolfe from the Coaching Lab and powered by our partner Coach Logic, we...

The EHF Development Committee met (via Webinar) earlier in July with a full agenda. Attendees: EHF Vice President - Carola Meyer (GER)EHF Executive Board Member - Peter Elders (Chair) (NED)EHF Development Manager - Tom Pedersen-Smith (EHF)EHF...

Following the success of our first EHF Webinar Series, which delivered quality content online discussions and deep-dive learning experiences into all things hockey, we are delighted that the free series is back! Over the coming weeks the EHF has lined up top-class...

The EHF has been successfully running its well renowned Umpire Development Programme for the past 13 years. Subsequently the same strategy was then applied into Umpires for Europe (U4E) and our Supporting National Growth programmes to ensure that umpires at all levels...

A huge congratulations to the Italian Hockey Federation and Marco Carboni (responsible for ParaHockey in Italy) on their new initiative to focus on athletes with Down Syndrome, and especially women athletes. After establishing the work with the category T20 where the...

Even though we are only restarting hockey around Europe, our many Committees are working hard on our many areas of work. On 1st July our Coaches Committee made up Chair: Inez Cooper (IRL), Lead: Michel Kinnen (BEL), Herman Kruis (ENG), Norbert Nederlof (NED), Aristi...

We were so excited as this week we should have been in Kazan with our EuroHockey U18 Championships (boys and girls) but due to the Coronavirus, it and the other divisions are postponed to 2021. Fear not though as thanks to our partner DAKA we are able to bring the...

Pawel Linkowski, not a familiar household hockey name perhaps, but that's because the man behind the whistle went about his business in his own quiet way. Yesterday Pawel umpired his final game at the Terravita Polish Cup. He was, without doubt, one of the best indoor...

It might be a cliché that not all heroes wear capes, but reading about Polish International Bartosz Żywiczka's bravery, we think we can certainly hail him a hero! On Friday (June 19) in a house in Toruń, Poland a fire broke out. The fire appeared in the apartment on...

The European Hockey Federation is deeply saddened to hear of the sudden death of Martin Campbell on 25th June 2020. Martin was Secretary of the EHF Indoor Committee in the years pre-internet where he managed the EHF's Indoor events, spending many volunteer hours...

One year on… 19th June 2020 Promoting fairness and justice within the sport, the Equally Amazing Charter seeks to ensure that everyone at every level gets access to the same opportunities   On 19th June 2019 the European Hockey Federation launched...

The EHF Executive Board met via video conference on 13th June. The Board was joined by the co-chair of the EHF Athletes Committee, Janne Müller-Wieland Before starting the meeting, the President Marijke Fleuren wished to congratulate David Harte (co-chair of the...

The Euro Hockey League (EHL) and European Hockey Federation have today announced their plans for the rest of the current season and a temporary new format for the 2020/21 season to adjust to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the hockey calendar. “It...

Monday 11th May 2020 Following the announcement from the IOC of the rescheduled dates for Tokyo 2020 to 2021, it was clear that the EHF and our hosts for the EuroHockey Championships and Championships II would be compelled to change the dates. ...

Following on the success of the RELIVE series of the 2019 Belfius EuroHockey Championship, we are delighted to announce that in partnership with our partner Scorrd we are going RELIVE with the 2017 Rabo EuroHockey Championship, Women and Men. From tonight at midnight...

The EHF Webinar Series continues on 11th May. Jack's next guest hardly needs an introduction in the hockey world! Maddie Hinch will share her personal journey and her perceptions of the hockey world. She will delve into the world of goalkeeping coaching and in...

Many thanks to Hockey.nl for highlighting this great twinning partnership! We are delighted to end the week with a message of hope and friednship as DHC Hudito outlines the start of their twinning programme with the Portuguese Hockey Federation. The Twinning Project...

In this series of articles we meet, recognise and celebrate some of the many members of the hockey community – administrators, officials, players – who are at the frontline in the fight to contain and stop Corona Virus. Our ‘Excellent Eight’ featured in this series...

Following the cancellation of the 2020 EuroHockey Club events, the EHF Executive Board, in consultation with the Competitions Committee Outdoor has discussed the qualification for the 2021 EuroHockey Club events. The EHF acknowledges that many national leagues in...

In this series of articles we meet, recognise and celebrate some of the many members of the hockey community – administrators, officials, players – who are at the frontline in the fight to contain and stop Corona Virus. Our ‘Excellent Eight’ featured in this series...

Join coaches from across Europe with the unique chance to listen to Sofie Gierts’ opinion on the values that should be embedded in hockey. Interact with Sofie Gierts and Joy Jouret learning about how value-driven leadership can inspire behaviours within a team Sofie...

In this series of articles we meet, recognise and celebrate some of the many members of the hockey community – administrators, officials, players – who are at the frontline in the fight to contain and stop Corona Virus. Our ‘Excellent Eight’ featured in this series...

On Saturday 4th April the Executive Board held its second Executive board meeting by video conference due to the ongoing travel restrictions regarding health safety surrounding COVID 19. All Board members were present, and the President welcomed everyone. The...

The EHF in collaboration with our partners The Coaching Lab and Coach Logic is presenting a series of Webinars every Monday for the next 12 weeks. We welcome coaches from across Europe with the unique chance to ask Bobby Crutchley his views on hockey, sport, coaching...

The EHF and Grays International are delighted to announce that from midnight on Friday 3rd April we are re-releasing the Belfius EuroHockey Championships 2019 on www.eurohockeytv.org. So that everyone worldwide can enjoy what was the hockey highlight of 2019, we are...

March 21st 2020 Executive Board Meeting Bulletin Introduction On Saturday 21st March the Executive Board held its first-ever Executive board meeting by video conference due to the ongoing travel restrictions regarding health safety surrounding COVID 19. All...

During the EHF Board meeting that took place (via video conference) on Saturday 21st March, the Board discussed all competition matters at length led by Walter Kapounek (Competitions Chair) and David Voskamp (Competitions Manager)The Board agreed that...

10th March 2020, Brussels: The EHF Competitions Committee Outdoor met last weekend at Royal Leopold Club in Brussels for its first meeting of 2020. Ahead of the meeting, the Regulations Working Group met and its suggestions and recommendations were presented to the...