2024–25 Men's Euro Hockey League
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The 2024–25 Men's Euro Hockey League was the 18th season of the Men's Euro Hockey League, Europe's premier men's club field hockey tournament organized by the European Hockey Federation.
Netherlands
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| Host countries | England Netherlands | ||
| Dates | 3 October 2024 – 21 April 2025 | ||
| Teams | 20 (from 11 associations) | ||
| Venue | 2 (in 2 host cities) | ||
| Final positions | |||
| Champions |  Gantoise (1st title) | ||
| Runner-up |  Bloemendaal | ||
| Third place | Rotterdam | ||
| Tournament statistics | |||
| Matches played | 26 | ||
| Goals scored | 125 (4.81 per match) | ||
| Top scorer | Jeroen Hertzberger (Rotterdam) (10 goals) | ||
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The first round was held from 3 to 6 October 2024 in Thames Ditton, England and the final 8 took place from 17 to 21 April 2025 in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.[1][2] Pinoké were the defending champions, having won their first title in the previous season.[3] They were not able to defend their title as they did not qualify for this season's edition as they finished fifth in the Dutch Hoofdklasse.[4]
Gantoise won their first title and the became the second Belgian club to win the tournament by defeating record-champions HC Bloemendaal 5–2 in the final.[5][6] Rotterdam won their fourth bronze Euro Hockey League medal by defeating Kampong 2–0.[7]
Association team allocation
A total of 20 teams from 40 of the 42 EHF member associations participated in the 2024–25 Men's Euro Hockey League (the exceptions being Belarus and Russia which are currently suspended). The association ranking based on the EHL men's ranking table was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association:
- Associations 1–3 each had three teams qualify.
- Associations 4–6 each had two teams qualify.
- Associations 7–11 each had one team qualify.
Association ranking
The associations were allocated places for the 2024–25 Euro Hockey League according to their 2022–23 EHL country coefficients, considering their performance in European competitions from 2021–22 to 2023–24.[8]
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Teams
The labels in the parentheses show how each teams qualified for the place of its starting round:
- 1st, 2nd, 3rd: League positions of the previous season
- RS: Regular season winners
| Entry round | Teams | |
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| Quarter-finals | Kampong (1st) |
Gantoise (1st) |
 Old Georgians (1st) |
 Club de Campo (1st) | |
| Preliminary round | Bloemendaal (RS) |
Rotterdam (2nd) |
| Léopold (RS) |
Waterloo Ducks (2nd) | |
| Surbiton (2nd) |
Wimbledon (3rd) | |
| Real Club de Polo (2nd) |
 Mannheimer HC (1st) | |
| Hamburger Polo Club (2nd) |
 AHTC Wien (1st) | |
| SV Arminen (RS) |
 Lille MHC (1st) | |
 Banbridge (1st) |
 Western Wildcats (1st) | |
 Grasshopper Club (1st) |
 Plzeň-Litice (1st) | |
Preliminary round
The preliminary round was hosted by Surbiton Hockey Club at Sugden Road in Thames Ditton, England from 3 to 6 October 2024.[10] The draw took place on 15 July 2024.[2][11] The schedule was announced on 22 July 2024.[12] The winners of the second round advance to the quarter-finals during Easter 2025.
Bracket
| First round | Second round | |||||
| 5 October | ||||||
| Rotterdam | 9 | |||||
| 6 October | ||||||
| Plzeň-Litice | 0 | |||||
| Rotterdam (s.o.) | 3 (4) | |||||
| 5 October | ||||||
| Hamburger Polo Club | 3 (3) | |||||
| Hamburger Polo Club | 11 | |||||
| SV Arminen | 1 | |||||
| 3 October | ||||||
| Mannheimer HC | 8 | |||||
| 4 October | ||||||
| AHTC Wien | 0 | |||||
| Mannheimer HC | 0 | |||||
| 3 October | ||||||
| Bloemendaal | 3 | |||||
| Bloemendaal | 2 | |||||
| Real Club de Polo | 1 | |||||
| 5 October | ||||||
| Surbiton | 4 | |||||
| 6 October | ||||||
| Waterloo Ducks | 2 | |||||
| Surbiton | 3 | |||||
| 5 October | ||||||
| Wimbledon | 2 | |||||
| Wimbledon | 3 | |||||
| Western Wildcats | 1 | |||||
| 3 October | ||||||
| Lille MHC (s.o.) | 1 (4) | |||||
| 4 October | ||||||
| Grasshopper Club | 1 (3) | |||||
| Lille MHC | 0 | |||||
| 3 October | ||||||
| Léopold | 4 | |||||
| Banbridge | 2 | |||||
| Léopold | 4 | |||||
First round
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Ranking matches
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Second round
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Final8
The Final8 was hosted by HC 's-Hertogenbosch and held alongside the women's tournament at the Oosterplas Sportpark in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands from 17 to 21 April 2025.[1][13][14] The draw was held on 4 December 2024 and the schedule was announced on 6 December 2024.[15][16][17][18]
Bracket
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| 17 April | ||||||||||
| Kampong | 3 | |||||||||
| 19 April | ||||||||||
| Surbiton | 1 | |||||||||
| Kampong | 0 | |||||||||
| 17 April | ||||||||||
| Bloemendaal | 3 | |||||||||
| Bloemendaal | 2 | |||||||||
| 21 April | ||||||||||
| Club de Campo | 1 | |||||||||
| Bloemendaal | 2 | |||||||||
| 18 April | ||||||||||
| Gantoise | 5 | |||||||||
| Old Georgians | 3 | |||||||||
| 19 April | ||||||||||
| Rotterdam | 6 | |||||||||
| Rotterdam | 2 (3) | |||||||||
| 18 April | ||||||||||
| Gantoise (s.o.) | 2 (4) | Bronze medal match | ||||||||
| Léopold | 0 | |||||||||
| 21 April | ||||||||||
| Gantoise | 4 | |||||||||
| Kampong | 0 | |||||||||
| Rotterdam | 2 | |||||||||
Quarter-finals
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Ranking matches
Semi-finals
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Bronze medal match
Final
Top goalscorers
| Rank | Player[19][20] | Team | FG | PC | PS | Goals |
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| 1 | Jeroen Hertzberger |
Rotterdam |
4 | 6 | 0 | 10 |
| 2 | Tom Boon |
Léopold |
1 | 5 | 0 | 6 |
| Alexander Hendrickx |
Gantoise |
0 | 6 | 0 | ||
| 4 | Gonzalo Peillat |
Mannheimer HC |
1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
 Kane Russell |
Hamburger Polo Club |
0 | 4 | 0 | ||
| Luke Taylor |
Surbiton |
0 | 3 | 1 | ||
| 7 | Thijs van Dam |
Rotterdam |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Struan Walker |
Surbiton |
2 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Dennis Warmerdam |
Bloemendaal |
2 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Sam Ward |
Old Georgians |
1 | 2 | 0 | ||
| Philip Brown |
Banbridge |
0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Benedikt Schwarzhaupt |
Real Club de Polo |
0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Samuel Hooper |
Wimbledon |
0 | 2 | 1 |