2008 Rink Hockey European Championship
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| Campeonato de Europa de Hockey sobre Patines, Oviedo 2008 | |
|---|---|
| Tournament details | |
| Host country | Spain |
| Dates | July 21–26, 2008 |
| Teams | 8 |
| Venue(s) | 1 (in 1 host city) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Spain (14th title) |
| Runners-up |  Portugal |
| Third place |  Italy |
| Fourth place |  France |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 24 |
| Goals scored | 138 (5.75 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Ricardo Barreiros (10) |
The 2008 Rink Hockey European Championship was the 48th edition of the Rink Hockey European Championship—the biennial rink hockey competition for European national teams, supervised by CERH—that took place in the Spanish city of Oviedo, at the local arena Palacio de los Deportes (English: Sports Palace), on July 21–26, 2008. In a final against long-time rivals, Portugal, the hosts and holders Spain won their fifth consecutive European title.
The tournament consists of two distinct phases: a single round-robin group phase and a knockout phase. In the first phase, the eight finalist teams are divided into two groups of four teams. Within each group, every team plays one match against all the other teams, to decide the group classification. Unlike previous editions, all participating teams advance to the quarterfinals phase, whatever their final placing in the group phase. In the quarterfinals, each group winner and the runner-up teams will play the third and fourth placed teams of the other group, respectively, for a place in the semifinals. The four losing teams will play one last game to decide their final ranking in the tournament. The quarterfinal winning sides progress to the semifinals and the two winners meet in the title-awarding final. A game deciding the third and fourth place will be held between the semifinal losing sides.
Group phase
The group phase was contested on July 21–23, with two matches per group, each day. Group A was composed by France, Italy, Netherlands and hosts Spain; Group B included Germany, England, Portugal and Switzerland.
Group A
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spain | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 9 |
| Italy | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 6 |
| France | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 3 |
 Netherlands | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 0 |
| July 21, 2008 16:30 CET | |||
| Italy |
2–0 | France |
Palacio de los Deportes, Oviedo |
| Juan Travasino Mattia Cocco |
Report | ||
| Umpires: Jordi Vidal (ESP) & Joaquim Carpelho (POR) | |||
| July 21, 2008 20:50 CET | |||
| Spain |
7–1 | Netherlands |
Palacio de los Deportes, Oviedo |
| Jordi Bargallo (2) Sergi Panadero Josep Ordeig Marc Torra Marc Gual Pedro Gil |
Report | Arjan van Gerven | |
| Umpires: Mark Lewis (SUI) & Thomas Ullrich (GER) | |||
| July 22, 2008 16:30 CET | |||
| Netherlands |
0–3 | Italy |
Palacio de los Deportes, Oviedo |
| Report | Juan Travasino Mattia Cocco Leonardo Squeo | ||
| Umpires: Oscar Valverde (ESP) & Xavier Jacquart (FRA) | |||
| July 22, 2008 20:11 CET | |||
| France |
1–6 | Spain |
Palacio de los Deportes, Oviedo |
| Rémi Lasnier | Report | Josep Ordeig (3) Sergi Panadero Marc Gual Pedro Gil | |
| Umpires: Massimiliano Carmazzi (ITA) & Thomas Ullrich (GER) | |||
| July 23, 2008 14:51 CET | |||
| Netherlands |
0–10 | France |
Palacio de los Deportes, Oviedo |
| Report | Sébastien Landrin (5) Frédéric Hamon (2) Rémi Lasnier Olivier Lesca Nicolas Guilbert | ||
| Umpires: Mark Lewis (SUI) & Thomas Ullrich (GER) | |||
| July 23, 2008 20:12 CET | |||
| Spain |
4–1 | Italy |
Palacio de los Deportes, Oviedo |
| Lluis Teixido (2) Marc Gual (2) |
Report | Juan Travasino | |
| Umpires: Joaquim Carpelho (POR) & Xavier Jacquart (FRA) | |||
Group B
Knockout phase
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| July 24 — 17:30 CET (Match 16) | ||||||||||
 England
| 0 | |||||||||
| July 25 — 18:30 CET (Match 19) | ||||||||||
| Italy
| 5 | |||||||||
| Italy
| 0 | |||||||||
| July 24 — 19:00 CET (Match 17) | ||||||||||
| Portugal
| 5 | |||||||||
| Netherlands
| 1 | |||||||||
| July 26 — 21:00 CET (Match 22) | ||||||||||
| Portugal
| 10 | |||||||||
| Portugal
| 0 | |||||||||
| July 24 — 21:00 CET (Match 18) | ||||||||||
| Spain
| 1 | |||||||||
| Spain
| 9 | |||||||||
| July 25 — 21:00 CET (Match 20) | ||||||||||
 Germany
| 1 | |||||||||
| Spain
| 3 | |||||||||
| July 24 — 15:45 CET (Match 15) | ||||||||||
| France
| 0 | Third place | ||||||||
 Switzerland
| 2 | |||||||||
| July 26 — 18:30 CET (Match 21) | ||||||||||
| France
| 3 | |||||||||
| Italy
| 4 | |||||||||
| France
| 3 | |||||||||
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Final
Classification
5th–8th
Third place
Final ranking
| Plc | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spain | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 4 | +26 |
| 2 | Portugal | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 32 | 6 | +26 |
| 3 | Italy | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 12 | +3 |
| 4 | France | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 17 | 17 | 0 |
| 5 | Switzerland | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 16 | −1 |
| 6 | England | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 16 | −7 |
| 7 | Germany | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 21 | −5 |
| 8 | Netherlands | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 46 | −42 |