Cannock Hockey Club are an English professional

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team. They were established in 1905, and are based in the village of Hatherton, near

Cannock Cannock () is a town in the Cannock Chase district in the county of Staffordshire, England. It had a population of 29,018. Cannock is not far from the nearby towns of Walsall, Burntwood, Stafford and Telford. The cities of Lichfield and Wolverh ...

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...

. Both the men's and women's first teams play in the England Hockey League Premier Division, the top division of hockey in England.

History

Founded in 1905, the men's first team was the most successful team in the country having won seven

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titles from 1995 to 2006. Additionally they have won four National cup competitions and three Super Cup's. They have also provided several international players to

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and other national teams. Their home ground, Chase Park (formerly The Morris Ground), has hosted various national and international tournaments, including the

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in 2000 and 2006. It has also hosted England matches, particularly while the

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was in use by

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team. Chase Park was also used as a pre-games training venue for the

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. In recent years the club suffered a series of unfortunate events, with the men's first XI being relegated from the Premier Division during the

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. Then in June 2019, the club found themselves locked out of their home as receivers took over the site. Players left and the club's teams struggled to find available pitches to fulfill their fixture. The club became known as the Cannock Community Hockey Club and played in local leagues, the men in the Midlands Men's League and the women in the Midlands Premier League. However at the beginning of the 2022/23 season the club began to move upwards again with the teams being allowed to play from Chase Park again and the women's first XI playing in the Conference Midland division of the 2022–23 Women's England Hockey League season after gaining promotion the previous season.

Major National Honours

National Champions * 1995–96 Men's League Champions * 1997–98 Men's League Champions * 1998–99 Men's League Champions * 2002–03 Men's League Champions * 2003–04 Men's League Champions * 2004–05 Men's League Champions * 2005–06 Men's League Champions National Cup winners * 1997–98 Men's Cup winners * 2001–02 Men's Cup winners * 2004–05 Men's Cup winners * 2013–14 Men's Cup winners Premiership Tournament/Super Cup winners * Men's 1998–1999 * Men's 1999–2000 * Men's 2004–2005

Notable players

Men's internationals

; ; * Stuart Loughrey

Women's internationals

;

References

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