The 2012–13 Euro Hockey League was the sixth season of the
Euro Hockey League
The Euro Hockey League is an annual men's field hockey cup competition organized by the EHF for the very top field hockey clubs in Europe. The competition was launched at the start of the 2007-08 field hockey season when it merged and replaced th ...
, Europe's premier club
field hockey
Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ci ...
tournament organized by the
EHF. It was held at four different locations from October 2012 to May 2013.
The
final
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** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of cont ...
was played between
Bloemendaal and
Dragons at Sportpark 't Kopje, in
Bloemendaal, Netherlands. The hosts Bloemendaal defeated Dragons 2–0 to win their second title.
UHC Hamburg were the defending champions but they did not qualify for this season's edition.
Amsterdam
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took the bronze medal.
Teams
Group phase
The 24 teams were drawn into eight pools of three. In each pool, teams played against each other once in a
round-robin format. The pool winners and runners-up advanced to the
round of 16. Pools A, C, E, and F were played in
Barcelona
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, Spain from 12 to 14 October 2012 and the other pools were played in
East Grinstead
East Grinstead is a town in West Sussex, England, near the East Sussex, Surrey, and Kent borders, south of London, northeast of Brighton, and northeast of the county town of Chichester. Situated in the extreme northeast of the county, the civ ...
, England from 26 to 28 October 2012. If a game was won, the winning team received five points. A draw resulted in both teams receiving two points. A loss gave the losing team one point unless the losing team lost by three or more goals, then they received zero points.
Pool A
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Pool B
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Pool C
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Pool D
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Pool E
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Pool F
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Pool G
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Pool H
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Knockout stage
The round of 16 and the quarter-finals were played in Amstelveen, Netherlands from 29 March to 1 April 2013 and the semi-finals, bronze medal match and the final were played in
Bloemendaal, Netherlands from 18 to 19 May 2013.
Bracket
Round of 16
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Quarter-finals
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Semi-finals
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Bronze medal match
Final
External links
Official Website (English)European Hockey Federation
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Euro Hockey League
2012–13 in European field hockey