Most teams go home after a Champions Trophy. Malaysia are going to Perth. Head coach Sarjit Singh told the New Straits Times on Wednesday that the Speedy Tigers will stay on the road after the Asian Champions Trophy in Punjab and hold a 10-day training camp in Perth from 16 to 26 November. The point…
A draw, then a shoot-out, then the visitors took it. Pakistan Army will feel they let this one go. The second match of the Hockey Test Matches Series finished 1-1 at the Naseer Bunda Hockey Stadium in Islamabad on Wednesday, and Guangdong won the shoot-out 4-2 to take the day. One honesty note before anything…
Australia aren’t sending a development side to India. They’re sending the Kookaburras. Hockey Australia named an 18-man squad on Wednesday for November’s India Centenary Tour, and the names at the top of the list tell you how seriously they’re taking it. Blake Govers is in. Tim Brand is in. Jeremy Hayward, Nathan Ephraums, Tom Craig…
Chile don’t come to Glasgow for the weather. They come because games like this are gold dust in a building year. Scotland’s senior women host Chile for two internationals at the Glasgow National Hockey Centre, on Sunday 25 and Monday 26 October. Back-to-back tests, same opponent, twenty-four hours apart. Coaches love that format because there’s…
The suits did their bit first. Now Doha belongs to the voters. The FIH Executive Board met in the Qatari capital on Wednesday, three days before the 50th Statutory Congress, and the headline out of the room is simple enough: the board has backed the new strategic framework that will now go in front of…
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…
Fourteen minutes into the final, Madhya Pradesh were ahead and dreaming. Mohammad Zaid Khan’s field goal put them 1-0 up in Jhansi, and for a few minutes the 16th Hockey India Senior Men National Championship looked like it was going their way. It didn’t last. Haryana levelled before half-time, sat in, waited, and then nicked…
Some milestones arrive in tight games. Julie Ryan’s 300th win arrived in a rout. No. 17 Babson beat Springfield 6-0 on Tuesday night at MacDowell Field, and the scoreline flatters nobody. Junior Penny Baroni scored a career-high four goals, senior Helen DiGiovanni added two, and Springfield’s two-game winning run ended with a thud. The win…
A small piece of history slipped out of Vienna last week. France are getting an EHL Women’s team for the first time. EuroHockey’s updated allocation picture for the 2026/27 women’s competition has France in the top tier after Saint Germain finished third and Lille fifth at the EuroHockey Club Trophy I in Vienna. That was…
San Fernando won’t be the only new face in Primera A next year. Vélez Sarsfield are going up with them. Vélez’s men beat AACF Quilmes 3-0 on Sunday at the Parque Olímpico in a rearranged fixture, and that was the result that locked it. Emanuel Baquero scored twice, Nahuel Gómez got the other, and second…
