Five games, five wins, twice over. The women’s Hoofdklasse has two perfect records, and Sunday is about which one blinks first. Den Bosch and SCHC both sit on 15 points. Den Bosch got there louder, winning 2-0 at champions Amsterdam in the last round, with Frédérique Matla the league’s top scorer on nine goals. SCHC…
No waiting for the weekend this time. Round 5 of the Hoofdklasse men is a Thursday-night round, all of it under lights on 22 October, and the fixture list has thrown up the one game everybody in Dutch hockey will be watching first. Kampong v Rotterdam: champions, meet the form team Rotterdam finally won a…
The champions lost at home, and the team that beat them still hasn’t dropped a point. Sunday’s Round 4 in the Women’s Hoofdklasse belonged to Den Bosch, again. Amsterdam 0-2 Den Bosch: five from five Amsterdam are the defending champions. Den Bosch went to the Wagener, won 2-0, and walked off with a perfect record:…
Amsterdam are four from four, and they won this one 8-0. Round 4 of the Hoofdklasse on Sunday was a day of statements at the top and relief at the bottom, where the champions finally got off zero. Schaerweijde 0-8 Amsterdam: the leaders aren’t slowing down Eight goals away from home. Amsterdam went to Zeist,…
Three rounds into the Dutch season, the champions have played three and lost three. Rotterdam, who lifted the men’s title last season, sit on zero points with seven scored and eleven conceded. On Sunday they host promoted SCHC at Hazelaarweg, and a fourth straight defeat turns a bad start into a proper crisis. Their losses…
Rotterdam are the team to beat in Dutch men’s hockey this season. In the Netherlands, that’s a heavy title to carry. The Hoofdklasse is back for its long autumn-to-spring run, and for our money it’s the strongest domestic league on the planet. Twelve men’s teams, twelve women’s teams, and a queue of internationals in just…
