2024 Men's EuroHockey Indoor Championship
Indoor hockey championship in Belgium
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The 2024 Men's EuroHockey Indoor Championship was the 21st edition of the Men's EuroHockey Indoor Championship, the biennial international indoor hockey championship of Europe for men organized by the European Hockey Federation.
| Tournament details | |||
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| Host country | Belgium | ||
| City | Leuven | ||
| Dates | 1–4 February | ||
| Teams | 10 (from 1 confederation) | ||
| Venue | Sportoase | ||
| Final positions | |||
| Champions |  Germany (17th title) | ||
| Runner-up |  Poland | ||
| Third place |  Belgium | ||
| Tournament statistics | |||
| Matches played | 29 | ||
| Goals scored | 271 (9.34 per match) | ||
| Top scorer(s) |  Fülöp Losonci Ignacio Abajo (12 goals) | ||
| Best player |  Anže Fujs | ||
| Best goalkeeper | Matteo Gryspeerdt | ||
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The tournament was held from 1 to 4 February 2024 at the Sportoase in Leuven, Belgium.[1][2] This was the first edition with ten teams. The top four teams qualified for the 2025 Men's FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup.[3]
Germany won a record-extending 17th title by defeating Poland 5–2 in the final.[4] The hosts Belgium won the bronze medal by defeating the defending champions Austria 7–6.[5]
Qualified teams
Participating nations qualified based on their final ranking from the 2022 competition.
| Dates | Event | Location | Quotas | Qualifiers |
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| 8–11 December 2023 | 2022 EuroHockey Indoor Championship | Hamburg, Germany | 5 | Austria Belgium Czech Republic Germany Netherlands Switzerland |
| 14–16 January 2022 | 2022 EuroHockey Indoor Championship II | Paredes, Portugal | 5 | Croatia Poland Portugal Spain Ukraine |
| Total | 10 | |||
Preliminary round
All times are local (UTC+1).
Pool A
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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| 1 | Austria |
4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 17 | +6 | 10 | Qualification for the semi-finals and the 2025 Indoor World Cup |
| 2 | Germany |
4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 19 | +4 | 7 | |
| 3 | Spain |
4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 23 | −1 | 6 | |
| 4 | Switzerland |
4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 22 | −3 | 6 | |
| 5 | Croatia (R) |
4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 23 | 29 | −6 | 0 | Relegation to the Indoor Championship II |
Source: FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result; 6) field goals for.[8]
(R) Relegated
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result; 6) field goals for.[8]
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Pool B
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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| 1 | Belgium (H) |
4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 11 | +11 | 9 | Qualification for the semi-finals and the 2025 Indoor World Cup |
| 2 | Poland |
4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 16 | +1 | 6 | |
| 3 | Portugal |
4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 20 | −6 | 6 | |
| 4 | Czech Republic |
4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 18 | +1 | 4 | |
| 5 | Ukraine (R) |
4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 20 | −7 | 4 | Relegation to the Indoor Championship II |
Source: FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result; 6) field goals for.[8]
(H) Hosts; (R) Relegated
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result; 6) field goals for.[8]
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Ninth to tenth place classification
Ninth and tenth place
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Fifth to eighth place classification
Bracket
| Semi-finals | Fifth place | |||||
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| Spain (s.o.) | 3 (2) | |||||
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| Czech Republic | 3 (0) | |||||
| Spain | 3 | |||||
| 3 February | ||||||
| Switzerland | 1 | |||||
| Portugal | 5 (2) | |||||
| Switzerland (s.o.) | 5 (3) | |||||
| Seventh place | ||||||
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| Czech Republic | 5 | |||||
| Portugal | 10 | |||||
Semi-finals
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Seventh and eighth place
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Fifth and sixth place
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First to fourth place classification
Bracket
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||
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| Austria | 1 (2) | |||||
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| Poland (s.o.) | 1 (3) | |||||
| Poland | 2 | |||||
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| Germany | 5 | |||||
| Belgium | 4 | |||||
| Germany | 5 | |||||
| Third place | ||||||
| 4 February | ||||||
| Austria | 6 | |||||
| Belgium | 7 | |||||
Semi-finals
Third and fourth place
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Final
Statistics
Final standings
| Pos | Team | Qualification or relegation |
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Germany |
Qualification for the 2025 Indoor World Cup |
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Poland | |
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Belgium (H) | |
| 4 | Austria | |
| 5 | Spain |
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| 6 | Switzerland | |
| 7 | Portugal | |
| 8 | Czech Republic | |
| 9 | Croatia (R) |
Relegation to the Indoor Championship II |
| 10 | Ukraine (R) |
Goalscorers
There were 271 goals scored in 29 matches, for an average of 9.34 goals per match.
12 goals
Fülöp Losonci
Ignacio Abajo
11 goals
Lucas Maximilian Bachmann
10 goals
- Fabian Unterkircher
Philippe Simar
9 goals
Gracjan Jarzyński
Boris Stomps
Vitalii Kalinchuk
8 goals
Henrik Mertgens
7 goals
- Maximilian Langer
- Mario Mucić
Lukas Plochý- Elian Mazkour
- Constantin Staib
- Loris Grandchamp
6 goals
- Gaetan Dykmans
- Vít Soukup
Rodrigo Castro- Laurens Halfmann
5 goals
- Benjamin Stanzl
- Mallory Magnant
- Martin Seemann
- Josef Toms
- David Franco
- Vasco Ribeiro
4 goals
- Anže Fujs
- Paul Dösch
- Mateusz Hulboj
- José Santos
- Juan Muñoz
3 goals
- Josip Jazbec
- Erik Kleinlein
- Patryk Pawlak
- Quentin Halfmann
- Ignacio Cobos
- Manuel Prol
- Michel Morard
- Fabio Reinhard
- Bohdan Kovalenko
2 goals
- Guerlain Hawaux
- Cyril Hermans
- Gregor Fujs
- Adam Uhlíř
- Paul-Philipp Kaufmann
- Adrian Lehmann-Richter
- Mikolaj Gumny
- Manuel Rodriguez
- Enrique Zorita
- Lukas Hengartner
- Andrii Koshelenko
- Dmytro Luppa
1 goal
- Sebastian Eitenberger
- Daniel Fröhlich
- Maximilian Kelner
- Nicolas Bogaerts
- Josip Krleža
- Filip Žlimen
- Vojtech Kolar
- Denis Tomeš
- Jacek Kurowski
- Marcin Lewartowski
- Cesar Curiel
- Antonio Sanz
- Fabio Landtwing
- Volodymyr Zhmereniuk
Source: FIH