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…
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…
Five wins from five gets you a target on your back. On Saturday it gets CD Terrassa a visit from the most entertaining side in Spain. Junior FC scored seven at Carpesa in Jornada 5, five of them before half-time. Terrassa’s perfect 15 points were built the other way, on control and a penalty stroke…
First against second. One point between them. Belgium didn’t need to manufacture a headline this Sunday, the table did it. Léopold are top of the Belgian Hockey League, unbeaten after six games, 14 points, and the tightest defence in the division. Gantoise sit a point behind with the league’s best goal difference. On Sunday they…
Nine goals. In one game. Surbiton aren’t just winning the Women’s Premier Division, they’re turning it into a scoring contest nobody else entered. East Grinstead were the visitors on Saturday and they left with a 9-0 defeat, Amy Costello helping herself to a hat-trick. England Hockey’s numbers tell the wider story: 27 goals in four…
Belgium hands out its Golden Stick on Sunday 29 November, and the shortlists landed this week. The men’s player prize is a proper fight. Arthur Van Doren, Tommy Willems and Tomi Domene. That’s the list for the Stick d’Or, and here’s the bit that tells you where Belgian hockey’s power sits right now: all three…
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…
One round is still left in the women’s Torneo Metropolitano, and the promotion picture is already basically done. Twenty-three clubs have secured a move up for 2027, from the top of the Buenos Aires pyramid all the way down to the G divisions. Here’s the shape of it. Quilmes take the big one The promotion…
Buenos Aires hockey doesn’t do quiet finishes. The last playoff place in the men’s Torneo Metropolitano came down to the final seconds of a game in Berazategui, and the team that took it had never strung three playoff runs together in its history. Until now. Ducilo took the last seat, 26 seconds from time Ducilo…
Scotland’s top flight isn’t waiting for anyone. Six men’s games on Saturday, goals at both ends of the table, and by the end of it Western Wildcats had opened a gap at the top while the champions were left arguing with a penalty corner that never went in. Uddingston 1-1 Edinburgh University: the champions came…
