Four games in four days. That’s how you find out what a junior squad is actually made of. Spain’s junior women open a four-match series against Czechia in Getxo, in Bizkaia, on Wednesday, with the games running through to Saturday. The Spanish federation, the RFEH, is billing it as an exhibition series, which is technically…
Manpreet Singh made his India debut in 2011. Since then he’s played 430 matches, won two Olympic medals and become a three-time Asian Games gold medallist. He’s never played an international in Punjab. That changes on Tuesday. And it isn’t just him. The academy that built half a team Six of India’s Asian Champions Trophy…
Pakistan led Malaysia with five minutes left. They lost That’s the story of Day 4, really. Pakistan were 2-1 up in Johor on Wednesday night, Adeel had scored twice, and the final was sitting right there. Then Malaysia scored in the 55th and again in the 57th and took it 3-2. Hosts top on nine…
One of the biggest jobs in women’s hockey is being advertised, and the clock on it is short. Great Britain and England Hockey’s recruitment pack for a Senior Women Head Coach is live. The role is based at Bisham Abbey and leads the programme for the Los Angeles Olympic cycle and beyond, working with the…
We knew London 2027 was going bigger. Now we know exactly how the bigger bit works. EuroHockey has confirmed the format for the first 12-team European Championships, up from eight, for both the men and the women in England next summer. Four pools of three to start. The top six nations on the FIH rankings…
London 2027 is nearly full. Two chairs are still empty, and eight teams are in Rome this week fighting over them. The men’s EuroHockey Championship Qualifier I runs Thursday to Sunday in the Italian capital, a straight knockout. Win your quarter-final and your semi-final and you’re at the top table next summer, in the first…
China’s tournament is over. Japan made sure of it on Wednesday afternoon, and they did it almost entirely from the penalty corner circle. Japan won 4-1 at Taman Daya, all four of their goals coming from penalty corners, three of them scored by the same man. Shogo Sasaki converted in the 27th, 50th and 55th…
Polls in October are usually just arguments waiting for a match to settle them. This week the match actually exists. The Penn Monto/NFHCA Division I coaches poll, out on Tuesday 20 October, has Maryland at No. 1 with a 14-0 record, 219 points and 10 of the 11 first-place votes. Northwestern are No. 2 at…
A story doing the rounds this week says Paul Revington has been confirmed as England and Great Britain men’s head coach through to the LA 2028 Olympics. It’s a tidy story. It’s also not true, and the check takes about ninety seconds. England Hockey’s own site carries the opposite headline, and it isn’t new. Revington…
Most fans will never watch a congress. Fair enough. But the week hockey’s bosses are having in Doha right now decides an odd amount of what the sport looks like for the next four years, and it ends with the one night the players actually care about. The FIH published the full programme today, Wednesday….
