The Eindhovense Mixed Hockey Club (acronym: EMHC) was a Dutch

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 ...

club, which was located in

Eindhoven Eindhoven () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of North Brabant of which it is its largest. With a population of 238,326 on 1 January 2022,North Brabant North Brabant ( nl, Noord-Brabant ; Brabantian: ; ), also unofficially called Brabant, is a province in the south of the Netherlands. It borders the provinces of South Holland and Gelderland to the north, Limburg to the east, Zeeland to the we ...

. The club was founded on October 14, 1921, and had about 1,000 members. This made it the second biggest club of the city, after neighbouring

Oranje Zwart Mixed Hockeyclub Oranje Zwart was a Dutch professional field hockey club located in Eindhoven, North Brabant, which was founded on 1 September 1933. With around 1,700 members – as of 3 May 2006 – it is one of the biggest clubs in the ...

. In 2016, the club merged with Oranje Zwart. The name of the new club is

HC Oranje-Rood Hockeyclub Oranje-Rood (), also known as HC Oranje-Rood or simply Oranje-Rood, is a Dutch field hockey club based in Eindhoven, North Brabant. The club was founded on 1 July 2016 as a merger of Oranje Zwart and EMHC. In May 2019, the first wome ...

Honours

Women

Dutch national title: 3 *1957, 1966, 1968

Notable players

Det de Beus Anna Maria Bernadette "Det" de Beus (18 February 1958 – 21 July 2013) in the Netherlands. Born in Utrecht, she was the first goalkeeper in women's field hockey to wear a mask. A player from Eindhovense Mixed Hockey Club in Eindhoven, De ...

Fieke Boekhorst Josephine Francisca Maria "Fieke" Boekhorst-Van Griensven (born 18 December 1957) is a retired Netherlands, Dutch field hockey player. She won an Olympic gold medal and a European title in 1984, and world titles in 1978 and 1983, but never becam ...

References

External links

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Official website of EMHC
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