Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship

The Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship is an international women's field hockey competition organized by the European Hockey Federation (EHF) for the top eight European national teams. It is the top division of the EuroHockey Championships. The inaugural tournament took place in 1984. When the tournament is held close to the Summer Olympic games or the Women's Hockey World Cup, the winner of the tournament is awarded a place in those competitions.

Women's EuroHockey Championship
Most recent season or competition:
2019 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship
SportField hockey
Founded1984 (1984)
Inaugural season1984
No. of teams8
ContinentEHF (Europe)
Most recent
champion(s)
 Netherlands (10th title)
(2019)
Most titles Netherlands (10 titles)
Level on pyramid1
Relegation toEuroHockey Championship II

Format

The tournament is played in Divisions normally consisting of eight teams. The top division, containing the eight best national teams, is called the EuroHockey Nations Championship, below which there is the EuroHockey Championship II, then the EuroHockey Championship III, then the EuroHockey Championship IV, and so on.

Qualification

National teams qualify for a division based on their performance in the previous competition. Each time the competition is held, it is with each division's previous top two teams promoted (assuming there is a higher division), and its previous bottom two teams demoted (assuming there is a lower division).

Summary

Assuming divisions consisting of the standard 8 teams, the teams are separated into two pools of four teams. In each pool (pool A and B) the teams play one match against each of the other teams in their pool (three in total). The teams then go on to play classification matches based on their relative ranking from these pool matches to determine their final tournament position.

Details

In each pool, A and B, all the teams play each other once, with points awarded as follows:

  • 3 points for a win
  • 1 point for a draw
  • 0 points for a loss

Upon completion of these matches, each team in the pool is ranked according to the number of points each has accumulated. If any teams in the pool have the same rank, then these teams are ranked:

  • According to the number of matches they won, or else, if equal
  • According to respective goal difference ('goals for' less 'goals against'), or else
  • According to 'goals for', or else
  • If only two teams are involved, according to the result of the match played between those teams, or else
  • According to the results of a penalty stroke competition between those teams, or else
  • This procedure is repeated using the penalty stroke result until the teams can be ranked

Once the relative ranking of the teams in pools A and B is settled, the semi-finals proceed with two games as follows:

  • Second Pool A v First Pool B
  • First Pool A v Second Pool B

The winners of these matches then play a match against each other for 1st and 2nd places (the final) and the losing teams play a match against each other for 3rd and 4th places (Bronze medal match).

The third and fourth placed teams in each pool are placed in Pool C (the Relegation Pool) in order to determine fifth to eighth places. Each team plays one match against the two teams that they did not previously play. The results from those games and from the game that was previously played against the other team in their original pool are used to rank each team according to the ranking procedure used in Pool A and B.

Dates

The senior (men's and women's) Nations tournaments are held over seven to eight consecutive days (including rest days) some time during the last two weeks of July and the first four weeks of August every odd numbered year (2009, 2011, etc.).

Summaries

Year Host Final Third place game
Winner Score Runner-up Third Place Score Fourth Place
1984
Details
Lille, France
Netherlands
2–0
Soviet Union

West Germany
1–0
England
1987
Details
London, England
Netherlands
2–2
(3–1)
Penalty strokes

England

Soviet Union
2–1
West Germany
1991
Details
Brussels, Belgium
England
2–1
Germany

Soviet Union
3–2
Netherlands
1995
Details
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Netherlands
2–2
(4–1)
Penalty strokes

Spain

Germany
1–0
England
1999
Details
Cologne, Germany
Netherlands
2–1
Germany

England
5–0
Russia
2003
Details
Barcelona, Spain
Netherlands
5–0
Spain

Germany
3–1
England
2005
Details
Dublin, Ireland
Netherlands
2–1
Germany

England
4–0
Spain
2007
Details
Manchester, England
Germany
2–0
Netherlands

England
3–2
Spain
2009
Details
Amstelveen, Netherlands
Netherlands
3–2
Germany

England
2–1
Spain
2011
Details
Mönchengladbach, Germany
Netherlands
3–0
Germany

England
2–1
Spain
2013
Details
Boom, Belgium
Germany
4–4
(2–0)
Penalty shootout

England

Netherlands
3–1
Belgium
2015
Details
London, England
England
2–2
(3–1)
Penalty shootout

Netherlands

Germany
5–1
Spain
2017
Details
Amstelveen, Netherlands
Netherlands
3–0
Belgium

England
2–0
Germany
2019
Details
Antwerp, Belgium
Netherlands
2–0
Germany

Spain
1–1
(3–2)
Penalty shootout

England
2021
Details
Amstelveen, Netherlands
2023
Details
Mönchengladbach, Germany

Top four statistics

Team Champions Runners-up Third-place Fourth-place
 Netherlands 10 (1984, 1987, 1995*, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2009*, 2011, 2017*, 2019) 2 (2007, 2015) 1 (2013) 1 (1991)
 Germany[lower-alpha 1] 2 (2007, 2013) 6 (1991, 1999*, 2005, 2009, 2011*, 2019) 4 (1984, 1995, 2003, 2015) 2 (1987, 2017)
 England 2 (1991, 2015*) 2 (1987*, 2013) 6 (1999, 2005, 2007*, 2009, 2011, 2017) 4 (1984, 1995, 2003, 2019)
 Spain 2 (1995, 2003*) 1 (2019) 5 (2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015)
 Soviet Union 1 (1984) 2 (1987, 1991)
 Belgium 1 (2017) 1 (2013*)
 Russia 1 (1999)
* = host

Team appearances

Team
1984

1987

1991

1995

1999

2003

2005

2007

2009

2011

2013

2015

2017

2019

2021

2023
Total
 Austria 11th12th12th3
 Azerbaijan 9th5th6th7th4
 Belarus Part of the Soviet Union8th8th2
 Belgium 8th9th7th11th11th5th4th5th2nd6thQ11
 Czech Republic Part of Czechoslovakia10th12th7th3
 Czechoslovakia 9thDefunct1
 England 4th2nd1st4th3rd4th3rd3rd3rd3rd2nd1st3rd4thQ15
 France 10th10th10th7th10th8th8th7
 Germany[lower-alpha 1] 3rd4th2nd3rd2nd3rd2nd1st2nd2nd1st3rd4th2ndQQ16
 Ireland 5th7th8th8th9th6th5th6th5th6th7th6th5thQ14
 Italy 12th11th11th9th11th7th8th7thQ9
 Lithuania 8th1
 Netherlands 1st1st4th1st1st1st1st2nd1st1st3rd2nd1st1stQ15
 Poland 8th1
 Russia Part of the Soviet Union5th4th10th7th7th5
 Scotland 6th6th5th6th6th7th7th8th6th6th8thQ12
 Soviet Union 2nd3rd3rdDefunct3
 Spain 7th5th6th2nd5th2nd4th4th4th4th5th4th5th3rdQ15
 Sweden 12th1
 Ukraine Part of the Soviet Union7th5th6th8th4
 Wales 8th9th12th3
Total1212121212128888888888[1]

See also

Notes

  1. Includes results representing West Germany between 1970 and 1990

References

  1. "Competitions Archive". p. 20. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
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