AHF: Xan de Waard (NED) and Tom Boon (BEL) named FIH Players of the Year
The International Hockey Federation (FIH) is proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 FIH Player of the Year awards: Women’s Player of the Year: Xan de Waard (NED) Men’s Player of the Year: Tom Boon (BEL) 2024 Women’s Player of the Year – Xan de Waard (NED) Xan de Waard delivered yet another outstanding […]
New Zealand: SAM LANE’S DOUBLE, NICK LIDSTONE’S FIRST
The Vantage Black Sticks continued their strong start to the 2025 Sultan of Azlan Shah Cup with a well-earned 3–1 win over Korea in challenging, rain-soaked conditions. With Korea coming off a narrow 1–0 loss to India, the match presented a crucial opportunity for the Vantage Black Sticks to climb to the top of the […]
FIH Pro-League: FIH Hockey Pro League: Pre-Season Interview with England women’s coach David Ralph
As we inch ever closer to the start of the FIH Hockey Pro League 2025-26 season on 9 December, we are excited to bring you an exclusive pre-season interview series with players and coaches from the world’s top hockey nations participating in the “League of the Best”. This series will dive into the minds of […]
England: EHL Premier Division Review | Week Eleven
Open/Men’s Premier Division Surbiton made it 11 wins out of 11 to conclude the first stage of the Open/Mens Premier Division with a 100% record. On Saturday they firmly extinguished any hopes Reading had of a top-six finish with a 10-1 win. Surbiton had eight different scorers including Gareth Furlong netting a hat-trick of corners […]
Hoofdklasse: The stats of the weekend: negative record Tilburg, SCHC productive
Tilburg conceded nine goals for the first time in history, Imme van der Hoek did something special at Den Bosch and SCHC closed the first half of the competition without defeat. Here are the weekend’s figures. TULP HOOFDKLASSE WOMEN 0 – After 23 games, Hurley remains at the hateful zero against neighbouring club Amsterdam. The […]
Hoofdklasse: Beautiful milestone for Matla: 200 goals in the Tulp Hoofdklasse
Sun 23 Nov 14:45 Women 9 – 2 Den Bosch D1 9 – 2 Tilburg D1 Frédérique Matla reached a fine milestone in her hockey career on Sunday. The Den Bosch striker scored her 200th (and 201st) goal in the Tulp Hoofdklasse in the home game with Tilburg (9-2). Matla signed for her jubilee goal […]
New Zealand: SECOND HALF COMEBACK FORCING A DRAW
The 2025 Sultan of Azlan Shah Cup began with heavy rain and pitch flooding forcing the postponement of the tournament’s opening match between South Korea and India. That made the Vantage Black Sticks clash with hosts Malaysia the first game of the event. With large pockets of water still visible on the turf at […]
Scotland: Western Wildcats move up to second in the men`s Premiership
Home » News » Western Wildcats move up to second in the men`s Premiership In the only game of the day Western Wildcats men travelled to Fettes to take on Grange and came away with a comprehensive 5-1 victory. The result pushes the Wildcats a point ahead of Watsonians and only two behind top-placed Edinburgh […]
Hoofdklasse: Rotterdam alongside HGC at last minute, milestone for Matla
The twelfth and final round of matches in the Tulp Hoofdklasse Women before the winter break was a cold and very wet affair. The matches had already been moved from 12.45pm to 2.45pm on Saturday due to the expected bad weather conditions. On Sunday afternoon, Kampong-Orange-Rood was called off. The Pinoké-Bloemendaal match did not start […]
Hoofdklasse: Rewatch: eleven goals at the Oosterplas, Jip Dicke on fire
In this year’s twelfth and final match round on the Tulp Hoofdklasse Women, Den Bosch made nine goals against Tilburg and Jip Dicke crowned herself as winter top scorer. Watch the highlights here. DEN BOSCH – TILBURG 9-2 HURLEY – AMSTERDAM 1-3 HDM – SCHC 1-6 PINOKÉ – BLOEMENDAAL 2-2 ROTTERDAM – HGC 2-2 KAMPONG […]
