The 2023–24 Men's Euro Hockey League was the 17th season of the Men's

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 ...

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's men'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

European Hockey Federation EuroHockey is a European sports federation for field hockey, based in Brussels. It is the umbrella organisation for all European national federations, and organises the Euro Hockey League. The president of the league is Marcos Hofmann. In reactio ...

. The first round was held from 6 to 8 October 2023 in

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, Spain and the Final8 took place from 28 March to 1 April 2024 in

Amstelveen Amstelveen () is a List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality and List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Holland, Netherlands, with a population of 95,996 as of 202 ...

, Netherlands.

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were the defending champions, having won the last three editions. They were eliminated in the first round by

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. The hosts

Pinoké Pinoké, also known as de Steekneuzen, is a Dutch field hockey club based in Amstelveen. It was founded on 23 January 1929, making it the second oldest hockey club in 'Amsterdamse Bos, het Amsterdamse Bos'. Both the men's and the women's 1st XI c ...

won their first title by defeating Kampong 1–0 in the final. Old Georgians won their first medal by defeating

Rot-Weiss Köln Kölner Tennis- und Hockey-Club Stadion Rot-Weiss e.V., also known as KTHC Stadion Rot-Weiss or simply Rot-Weiss Köln, is a German professional field hockey and tennis club based in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia. The home ground is the Kölner S ...

3–2 in the bronze medal match.

Association team allocation

A total of 20 teams from 11 of the 45 EHF member associations participated in the 2023–24 Men's Euro Hockey League. The association ranking based on the EHL country coefficients was used to determine the number of participating teams for each association: * Associations 1–3 each had three teams qualify. * Associations 4–6 each had two teams qualify. * Associations 7–11 each had one team qualify.

Association ranking

For the 2023–24 Euro Hockey League, the associations were allocated places according to their 2022–23 EHL country coefficients, which takes into account their performance in European competitions from 2020–21 to 2022–23.

Teams

The labels in the parentheses show how each team qualified for the place of its starting round: *1st, 2nd, 3rd: League positions of the previous season * RS: Regular season winners

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was hosted by

Real Club de Polo de Barcelona Real Club de Polo de Barcelona () is a country club in Barcelona, Spain. Established in 1897, it had 9000 members at the time of the 1992 Summer Olympics. Normally used for polo, field hockey, tennis, squash, and swimming by its members. the clu ...

, Spain from 7 to 9 October 2023. The draw took place on 26 July 2023. The winners of the second round advanced to the quarter-finals during Easter 2024.

Bracket

First round

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Ranking matches

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Second round

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Final8

The Final8 was hosted by

and

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and held alongside the

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at the

Wagener Stadium Wagener Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Amstelveen, Netherlands. It is currently used mostly for field hockey matches and hosted matches for the 1973 World Hockey Cup. The stadium holds 7,600 people. The complex has belonged to the Dut ...

, Netherlands from 28 March to 1 April 2024. The draw was held on 13 December 2023. The schedule was announced on 15 December 2023.

Bracket

Quarter-finals

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Ranking matches

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Semi-finals

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Bronze medal match

Final

Top goalscorers

References

External links

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Association team allocation

Association ranking

Teams

Preliminary round

Bracket

First round

Ranking matches

Second round

Final8

Bracket

Quarter-finals

Ranking matches

Semi-finals

Bronze medal match

Final

Top goalscorers

See also

References

External links