One town. Several top-flight teams. Terrassa doesn’t just like hockey, it practically manufactures the stuff, and that tells you most of what you need to know about the Spanish game. Two names, one top flight Spain’s best play in the División de Honor, and it comes under two names: the men’s competition is the Liga…
Twenty-four teams. Two defending champions. And a whole season, September to May, for somebody to knock them off. That’s the Belgian Hockey League in 2026-27, and here’s the thing about Belgium: this little country keeps embarrassing the giants. The men sit second in the world rankings. The women sit third. And none of it’s an…
Kampong are champions of Europe. Twenty clubs have until March to do something about it. The Euro Hockey League is club hockey’s biggest prize in Europe, and the men’s 2026-27 edition has been rebuilt. Twenty teams from 11 associations entered this season’s competition, run by EuroHockey, and the old knockout layout has gone. A pool…
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…
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…
Most leagues hand you a season. Hockey One hands you a sprint. Australia’s franchise league is back, and it doesn’t hang around. The whole thing runs from 8 October to 6 December, nine weeks of spring hockey where a bad weekend can wreck your finals chances. The 2026 edition, the biggest yet, got under way…
