Eight games into the women’s Bundesliga, one side has a grip on it. Mannheimer HC have 21 points, three clear of Rot-Weiss Köln, and they’ve done it while everyone else took points off each other. The return round gives the chasers their shot, and Sunday’s game is the one that matters most. Köln v Düsseldorf:…
The Bundesliga’s return round doesn’t ease anybody in. It starts with a derby, in the city that took everything last weekend. UHC Hamburg host Harvestehuder THC on Thursday night, 8:30 pm. Both sides walk in off the Sunday when Hamburg hockey swept the board: UHC hammered Berliner HC 7-1, Harvestehuder blanked Münchner SC 5-0, and…
Two goals all weekend was enough for Harvestehuder. Six points, two clean sheets, and a team that started the season badly is suddenly out of the basement. That’s the charm of a double weekend when your defence holds. Harvestehuder 1-0 Munich: one corner, job done Saturday’s 1-0 win over Berliner HC got a repeat on…
All twelve points on offer in Hamburg stayed in Hamburg. That’s the short version of Bundesliga Sunday. All four of the city’s top-flight men’s teams won at home, and the biggest of the four wins came in the game that mattered most. Polo 2-1 Mannheim: the top match goes to the leaders Hamburger Polo beat…
Double weekend Saturdays don’t come much better than this. Thirty goals in five men’s games, a shootout in the top match, a hat-trick on Friday night, and by the end of it the top two are level on points with a head-to-head waiting on Sunday. German club hockey is showing off. Club an der Alster…
German hockey’s double weekend saves its best for last. On Sunday in Hamburg, Hamburger Polo Club play Mannheimer HC. First against second. Both on 17 points, split only by goal difference, after a Saturday that set this game up perfectly. How Saturday built this Polo were ruthless. They beat TSV Mannheim, the other Mannheim club,…
German hockey doesn’t do quiet weekends, and this one is louder than most. It’s a double round in the men’s Bundesliga, which means every club plays twice between Friday night and Sunday afternoon, and the fixture computer has produced a strange little gift: eight of the twelve games are in Hamburg. UHC Hamburg, Harvestehuder THC,…
Germany’s men are world champions, and world No. 1 after the 2026 World Cup. This is the league that built them. The Bundesliga’s 2026-27 season is already under way, run by the Deutscher Hockey-Bund, with 12 men’s teams and 12 women’s teams in the top flight. The names on the fixture list The men’s competition…
