2025–26 Men's Euro Hockey League
Field hockey tournament
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The 2025–26 Men's Euro Hockey League was the 19th edition of the Men's Euro Hockey League, Europe's men's premier club field hockey tournament organized by the European Hockey Federation.
Netherlands
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| Host countries | Spain Netherlands | ||
| Dates | 9 October 2025 – 6 April 2026 | ||
| Teams | 20 (from 11 associations) | ||
| Venue | 2 (in 2 host cities) | ||
| Final positions | |||
| Champions |  Kampong (2nd title) | ||
| Runner-up |  Gantoise | ||
| Third place | Amsterdam | ||
| Tournament statistics | |||
| Matches played | 26 | ||
| Goals scored | 153 (5.88 per match) | ||
| Top scorer | Kane Russell (Hamburger Polo Club) (7 goals) | ||
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The first round was held from 9 to 12 October 2025 in Barcelona, Spain and the final 8 was held from 2 to 6 April 2026 in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.[1][2]
Gantoise were the defending champions, having won their first title in the previous season.[3][4] They did not defend their title as they were beaten 3–2 by Kampong in the final, it was Kampong their second title.[5] Amsterdam won the bronze medal by defeating Club de Campo 4–3 in a shoot-out after the match finished 2–2.[6]
Association team allocation
A total of 20 teams from 40 of the 42 EHF member associations participated in the 2025–26 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 2025–26 Euro Hockey League according to their 2024–25 EHL country coefficients, considering their performance in European competitions from 2022–23 to 2024–25.[7]
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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
- CW: Cup winners
| Entry round | Teams | |
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| Quarter-finals | Amsterdam (1st) |
Gantoise (1st) |
 Surbiton (1st) |
 Crefelder HTC (1st) | |
| Preliminary round | Kampong (2nd) |
Bloemendaal (RS) |
| Léopold (2nd) |
Braxgata (3rd) | |
| Old Georgians (2nd) |
Wimbledon (3rd) | |
| Hamburger Polo Club (RS) |
 Real Club de Polo (1st) | |
| Club de Campo (CW) |
 CAM 92 (1st) | |
| Saint Germain (2nd) |
 HC Wien (1st) | |
 Banbridge (1st) |
 Western Wildcats (1st) | |
 Slavia Prague (1st) |
 Olten (1st) | |
Preliminary round
The preliminary round was hosted by Real Club de Polo de Barcelona at the Camp Eduardo Dualde in Barcelona, Spain from 9 to 12 October 2025.[9] The draw took place on 15 July 2025 and the schedule was announced on 17 July 2025.[10][11] The winners of the second round advanced to the quarter-finals during Easter 2026.
Bracket
| First round | Second round | |||||
| 9 October | ||||||
| Saint Germain | 3 | |||||
| 10 October | ||||||
| Slavia Prague | 1 | |||||
| Saint Germain | 2 | |||||
| 9 October | ||||||
| Hamburger Polo Club | 7 | |||||
| Wimbledon | 2 | |||||
| Hamburger Polo Club | 4 | |||||
| 9 October | ||||||
| Club de Campo | 2 | |||||
| 10 October | ||||||
| CAM 92 | 0 | |||||
| Club de Campo (s.o.) | 1 (4) | |||||
| 9 October | ||||||
| Léopold | 1 (3) | |||||
| HC Wien | 1 | |||||
| Léopold | 13 | |||||
| 11 October | ||||||
| Kampong | 4 | |||||
| 12 October | ||||||
| Real Club de Polo | 2 | |||||
| Kampong | 5 | |||||
| 11 October | ||||||
| Braxgata | 0 | |||||
| Western Wildcats | 0 | |||||
| Braxgata | 7 | |||||
| 11 October | ||||||
| Old Georgians | 11 | |||||
| 12 October | ||||||
| Olten | 0 | |||||
| Old Georgians (s.o.) | 2 (3) | |||||
| 11 October | ||||||
| Bloemendaal | 2 (1) | |||||
| Banbridge | 0 | |||||
| Bloemendaal | 7 | |||||
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 Sportpark Oosterplas in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands from 2 to 6 April 2026.[2][12] The draw was held on 12 October and the schedule was announced on 17 October 2025.[13][14]
Bracket
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| 2 April | ||||||||||
| Surbiton | 1 | |||||||||
| 5 April | ||||||||||
| Club de Campo | 3 | |||||||||
| Club de Campo | 2 | |||||||||
| 2 April | ||||||||||
| Gantoise | 3 | |||||||||
| Old Georgians | 1 | |||||||||
| 6 April | ||||||||||
| Gantoise | 3 | |||||||||
| Gantoise | 2 | |||||||||
| 3 April | ||||||||||
| Kampong | 3 | |||||||||
| Amsterdam | 4 | |||||||||
| 5 April | ||||||||||
| Hamburger Polo Club | 1 | |||||||||
| Amsterdam | 2 | |||||||||
| 3 April | ||||||||||
| Kampong | 3 | Bronze medal match | ||||||||
| Kampong (s.o.) | 4 (5) | |||||||||
| 6 April | ||||||||||
| Crefelder HTC | 4 (4) | |||||||||
| Club de Campo | 2 (3) | |||||||||
| Amsterdam (s.o.) | 2 (4) | |||||||||
Quarter-finals
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Ranking matches
Semi-finals
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Bronze medal match
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Final
Top goalscorers
| Rank | Player[15][16] | Team | FG | PC | PS | Goals |
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| 1 |  Kane Russell |
Hamburger Polo Club |
0 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 2 | Duco Telgenkamp |
Kampong |
5 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Alan Forsyth |
Old Georgians |
3 | 0 | 3 | ||
| Tom Boon |
Léopold |
2 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 5 | Alexander Hendrickx |
Gantoise |
0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Jip Janssen |
Kampong |
0 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Sam Hooper |
Wimbledon |
0 | 1 | 3 |