Hockey Club Rotterdam, commonly known as Rotterdam is a Dutch

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club based in

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte (river), Rotte'') is the second largest List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the Prov ...

South Holland South Holland ( nl, Zuid-Holland ) is a province of the Netherlands with a population of over 3.7 million as of October 2021 and a population density of about , making it the country's most populous province and one of the world's most densely ...

. It was founded on 16 September 1925. The first men's team competes on the highest level of the Dutch field hockey league, which is called "

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 ...

" and the first women's team competes in the second tier called the Promotieklasse. HC Rotterdam plays their matches in the 3,500-capacity

Hazelaarweg Stadion The Hazelaarweg Stadion is a multi-use stadium in Rotterdam, Netherlands, run by the biggest field hockey club in the Netherlands, HC Rotterdam. It is close to the international cricket ground Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played be ...

, which also hosted the 2001 Men's Champions Trophy and the

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Honours

Men

* Winners (1): 2012–13 * Runners-up (2): 2011–12, 2016–17

Euro Hockey League The Euro Hockey League is an annual men's field hockey cup competition organized by the European Hockey Federation, EHF for the very top field hockey clubs in Europe. The competition was launched at the start of the 2007-08 field hockey season whe ...

* Runners-up (1): 2009–10 Hoofdklasse Indoor * Winners (2): 2007–08, 2013–14 EuroHockey Indoor Club Challenge I * Winners (1): 2015

Women

* Runners-up (2): 2000–01, 2001–02 KNHB Cup * Winners (1): 1995 EuroHockey Cup Winners Cup * Winners (2): 2002, 2003 Hoofdklasse Indoor * Winners (3): 1998–99, 1999–00, 2000–01 EuroHockey Indoor Club Trophy * Winners (1): 2001 EuroHockey Indoor Club Challenge I * Winners (1): 2000

Players

Men's squad

Head coach: Albert Kees Maneschijn

Notable players

Men's internationals

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; * Ranjeev Deol * Peter Short *

Rob Short Rob ("Shorty") Short (born August 11, 1972 in Maidstone, England) is a Canadian field hockey player. Career Short played his first international senior tournament in 1995, at the Pan American Games in Mar del Plata. Highlights include the 1998 ...

;/ * Alastair Brogdon * Adam Dixon * Harry Martin ; * Michael Darling * Sean Murray ; *

Ryan Archibald Ryan Jeffrey Archibald (born 1 September 1980) is a field hockey player from New Zealand, who earned his first cap for the national team, nicknamed ''The Black Sticks'', in 1997 against Malaysia. Currently he is a player for Somerville Hocke ...

* Phil Burrows *

Simon Child Simon James Law Child (born 16 April 1988) is a field hockey player from New Zealand, who earned his first cap for the national team, ''The Black Sticks'', in 2005 against Malaysia. Personal life Simon Child was born and raised in Auckland, ...

Blair Tarrant Blair Thomas Fagan Tarrant (born 11 May 1990) is a New Zealand field hockey player who plays as a defender for the New Zealand national team. He represented his country at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where the men's team came s ...

* Nick Wilson ; *

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* Waseem Ahmed

Women's internationals

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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 ...

; * Kate Hollywood ;/ *

Susie Gilbert Susie Gilbert (born 21 February 1989) is an English international field hockey player who played as a midfielder for England and Great Britain. She plays club hockey in the Investec Women's Hockey League Premier Division for Surbiton. She compe ...

* Helen Grant * Beth Storry ;/ * Sarah Thomas

References

External links

Official website of HC Rotterdam

1925 establishments in the Netherlands Sports clubs in Rotterdam {{Netherlands-sport-team-stub