Hockeyclub 's-Hertogenbosch, also known as Den Bosch, is a Dutch professional

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club based in

's-Hertogenbosch s-Hertogenbosch (), colloquially known as Den Bosch (), is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Netherlands with a population of 160,783. It is the capital of ...

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. It was founded on 14 July 1937. The first teams (men and women) both compete on the highest level of the Dutch field hockey league, the Hoofdklasse. HC 's-Hertogenbosch won the title in

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

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2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

. The women's team reign since 1998, winning a record number of nineteen titles in 21 years since then.

Stadium

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Honours

Men

Hoofdklasse The Vierde Divisie (; "Fourth Division"), formerly known as Hoofdklasse () is the second-highest league of amateur football in the Netherlands, and the fifth tier in general. Background The league was divided into two sections: Saturday and Sunda ...

*Winners (2): 1997–98, 2000–01 * Runners-up (2): 1996–97, 1999–2000 Gold Cup * Winners (2): 2022–23, 2024–25 * Runners-up (1): 2017–18

EuroHockey Club Champions Cup The EuroHockey Club Champions Cup is a defunct men's field hockey competition for clubs in Europe Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to ...

* Winners (1): 1999 * Runners-up (1): 2002 EuroHockey Cup Winners' Cup * Winners (2): 1998, 2001 Hoofdklasse Indoor * Winners (1): 1969–70

Women

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* Winners (23): 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2023–24, 2024–25 * Runners-up (3): 2008–09, 2012–13, 2018–19 ;

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 ...

*Winners (3):

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

2025 So far, the year has seen the continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudanese civil war, and the Gaza war. Internal crises in Bangladesh post-resignation v ...

*''Runners-up (1):''

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

;Gold Cup * Winners (2): 2021–22, 2024–25 * Runners-up (1): 2022–23 ; EuroHockey Club Cup * Winners (16): 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010,

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

* Runners-up (4): 1999,

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

;Hoofdklasse Indoor * Winners (9): 1969–70, 1970–71, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1991–92, 2001–02, 2011–12, 2013–14, 2021–22 ; EuroHockey Indoor Club Cup * Winners (1): 2013

Players

Current squad

Men's squad

Women's Squad

Head coach: Marieke Dijkstra

Notable players

Men's internationals

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Nicolás Della Torre Nicolás Enrique Della Torre (born 1 March 1990) is an Argentine field hockey player who plays as a midfielder or forward for Belgian Hockey League club Dragons and the Argentina national team. Club career Della Torre played in Argentina for ...

Pedro Ibarra Pedro Ibarra (born 11 September 1985) is an Argentine former field hockey player who played as a defender. He represented the Argentine national team from 2004 to 2021. Career He made his debut for the national squad in 2004, after having play ...

Joaquín Menini Joaquín Raúl Menini Suero (born 18 August 1991) is a field hockey player who plays as a forward for Dutch Hoofdklasse club Rotterdam. Born in Argentina, he represents Spain at international level. He previously played for his country of birt ...

Lucas Vila Lucas Martín Vila (born 23 August 1986) is an Argentine former field hockey player who played as a forward. He made his debut for the national squad in 2005, after having played the Junior World Cup in Rotterdam, Netherlands. He played a tota ...

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Kieran Govers Kieran Govers (born 9 February 1988) is an Australian field hockey player. He plays field hockey professionally in Germany. He plays for the NSW Waratahs in the Australian Hockey League. He first represented Australia in 2010. He won a gold ...

Dylan Wotherspoon Dylan Wotherspoon (born 9 April 1993) is an Australian International Field Hockey player who plays for NMHC Nijmegen. His normal position is forward. He won a gold medal in the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Club career Wotherspoon played his juni ...

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Sébastien Dockier Sébastien Dockier (born 28 December 1989) is a Belgian field hockey player who plays as a forward for Dutch Hoofdklasse club Pinoké. Dockier comes from a real hockey family; not only his father and sister but even aunts and cousins have been ...

* Loic Van Doren ;/ *

Mark Gleghorne Mark Gleghorne (born 19 May 1985) is a field hockey player from Northern Ireland who has represented Ireland, England and Great Britain at international level. He represented Great Britain at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Gleghorne was a member of ...

; * Michael Darling *

Alan Sothern Alan Sothern (born 28 July 1987) is an Irish field hockey player who plays as a forward for the Pembroke Wanderers. He competed for the Ireland men's national field hockey team at the 2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), o ...

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Hayden Shaw Hayden Jonathan Shaw (born 31 August 1980) is a field hockey player from New Zealand. Shaw was born in Christchurch. He earned his first cap for the national team, nicknamed ''The Black Sticks'', in 2002 against Australia. Shaw was often invol ...

; * Francisco Cortés Juncosa * Rodrigo Garza ; * Austin Smith

Women's internationals

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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 o ...

; * Subhadra Pradhan

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Den Bosch Field hockey clubs in the Netherlands Field hockey clubs established in 1937 1937 establishments in the Netherlands Sports clubs and teams in 's-Hertogenbosch