The 2012–13 Euro Hockey League was the sixth season of the

Euro Hockey League The Euro Hockey League is an annual 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 the men ...

, Europe's premier club

field hockey Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...

tournament organized by the EHF. It was held at four different locations from October 2012 to May 2013. The

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was played between

Bloemendaal Bloemendaal () is a municipality and town in the Western Netherlands, in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Holland. Bloemendaal is, together with Wassenaar, the wealthiest place in the Netherlands. It is located just west of Haa ...

and

Dragons A dragon is a magical legendary creature that appears in the folklore of multiple cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but dragons in Western cultures since the High Middle Ages have often been depict ...

at Sportpark 't Kopje, in

, 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 Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re ...

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 A single-elimination knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of a match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, w ...

. Pools A, C, E, and F were played in

Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...

, 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 northeast corner of the county, bord ...

, 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

, 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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