Hockey Club Bloemendaal (), commonly known as Bloemendaal, is a Dutch

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club based in Bloemendaal,

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. It was established on 26 April 1895, and is one of the oldest field hockey clubs in the

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. Originally, the club also played

bandy Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...

. HC Bloemendaal is one of the most successful clubs in the Netherlands, with the men's team competing for the title in the highest league ("

Hoofdklasse The Vierde Divisie, formerly known as Hoofdklasse () is the second-highest league of amateur football in the Netherlands, and the fifth tier in general. Background The league is divided into two sections: Saturday and Sunday. This is a result of ...

") nearly every year.

Honours

Men

National title / Hoofdklasse * Winners (22): 1918–19, 1919–20, 1920–21, 1921–22, 1922–23, 1985-86, 1986-87, 1987-88, 1988-89, 1990-91, 1992-93, 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2001-02, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009–10, 2018–19,

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, 2021–22 * ''Runners-up (12)'': 1917–18, 1921–22, 1923–24, 1924–25, 1984–85, 1991–92, 1993–94, 1995–96, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2010–11, 2013–14

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 ...

*Winners (5): 2008–09,

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, 2017–18,

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EuroHockey Club Champions Cup The EuroHockey Club Champions Cup is a defunct men's field hockey competition for clubs in Europe. It was first played for in 1974. It was replaced by the Euro Hockey League in 2007. Unofficial tournaments were played in 1969 and then in 1970, ...

: 2 *Winners (2): 1987, 2001 *''Runners-up (3):'' 1988, 1994, 2000 EuroHockey Cup Winners Cup *Winners (1): 2006 Dutch national title indoor hockey *Winners (1): 1986–87

Women

Gold Cup *Winners (1): 2017–18

Players

Current squad

Men's squad

Head coach: Rick Mathijssen

Women's squad

Head coach: Dave Smolenaars

Notable players

Men's internationals

; ; *

Jamie Dwyer Jamie Dwyer (born 12 March 1979) is an Australian field hockey player. He currently plays for YMCC Coastal City Hockey Club in the Melville Toyota League in Perth, Western Australia. He also played for the Queensland Blades in the Australian ...

* Blake Govers ; *

Arthur Van Doren Arthur Georges Stanislas Henri Van Doren (born 1 October 1994) is a Belgian field hockey player who plays as a defender for Dutch Hoofdklasse club Bloemendaal and the Belgium national team. He is the brother of fellow Belgian international L ...

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Tibor Weißenborn Tibor Weißenborn (born 20 March 1981 in West Berlin) is a field hockey player from Germany, who was a member of the Men's National Team that won the bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Ol ...

Christopher Zeller Christopher Zeller (born 14 September 1984) is a German national representative field hockey player. As of 2008, his current club is Rot-Weiss Köln. Zeller represented Germany in the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. Personal life Born in ...

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Sardara Singh Sardara Singh (born 15 July 1986), sometimes referred as Sardar Singh, is an Indian former professional field hockey player and captain of the Indian national team. He usually plays the center half position. Sardara became the youngest player t ...

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Rodrigo Garza Rodrigo Garza Barbero (born 3 December 1979 in Madrid) is a retired field hockey defender/midfielder from Spain. He represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000. Club career After the Athens Games (200 ...

Women's internationals

;/ * Inge Vermeulen * Danique Visser ; *

Cecilia Rognoni María Cecilia Rognoni (born December 1, 1976 in Buenos Aires) is a retired Argentine field hockey player, who won the 2002 World Cup in Perth, Australia where she was elected as the best woman hockey player in the world by the FIH. She is cur ...

* Pilar Romang ;/ *

Helen Richardson-Walsh Helen Richardson-Walsh, (''née'' Richardson, born 23 September 1981) is an English hockey player who plays as a midfielder. She has been a member of both the England and the Great Britain women's field hockey teams since 1999, and was a member ...

Kate Richardson-Walsh Kate Louise Richardson-Walsh, (''née'' Walsh; born 9 May 1980) is an Olympic Gold and Bronze Medal winning English field hockey player. She was capped a record 375 times for her country and was the England and Great Britain Captain for 13 yea ...

; * Anna O'Flanagan * Chloe Watkins

References

External links

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Official website HC Bloemendaal
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bloemendaal Dutch field hockey clubs Field hockey clubs established in 1895 1895 establishments in the Netherlands

HC Bloemendaal Hockey Club Bloemendaal (), commonly known as Bloemendaal, is a Dutch field hockey club based in Bloemendaal, North Holland. It was established on 26 April 1895, and is one of the oldest field hockey clubs in the Netherlands. Originally, the club a ...

Sports clubs in North Holland Defunct bandy clubs