England Hockey League

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England Hockey League
Sport Hockey
Founded 2003
No. of teams 80
Country England
Most recent champion(s) East Grinstead Hockey Club
Official website www.englandhockey.co.uk

The England Hockey League (EHL) is a national hockey league run by England Hockey. It is the top of the English field hockey league system. The men's league is sponsored by 'NOW: Pensions' and is known as the NOW: Pensions Men's Hockey League, and the women's league is sponsored by Investec and is known as the Investec Women's Hockey League.


Divisions

The EHL league structure was altered for the 2008/2009 season, with the aim of promoting appropriate competition for the teams involved whilst reducing the overheads incurred by teams having to travel long distances. Previously there was a national Premier and national Division One league, which had players fed into it by a North league and South league. There is now only one Premier Division, which is fed by three "Conference" leagues, split into North, West and East regions.[1]

The EHL takes new teams into the National North/West/East leagues from five separately run regional hockey associations: East, Midlands, North, South and West. These associations run a multiple-division league structure of their own, and are in turn fed by teams from county or sub-regional hockey associations or leagues. For example, the Yorkshire Hockey Association runs 11 divisions, and those promoted out of the top Division will be received into the lower divisions of the North Hockey Association. Those promoted from the North Hockey Association's top league will be entered into the National North league of the EHL, from which they can be promoted into the EHL Premier league.


Teams for 2013/14 season

The following tables list the teams playing in the England Hockey League for the 2013/14 season.[2][3]

Men's Hockey League

Premier Division Conference East Conference North Conference West
Beeston Brighton & Hove Brooklands MU Cardiff & UWIC
Cannock Bromley & Beckenham Belper Cheltenham
Canterbury Cambridge City Bowdon Fareham
East Grinstead Holcombe Deeside Ramblers Guildford
Hampstead & Westminster Old Loughtonians Khalsa (Warks) Havant
Loughborough Students Oxted Leek Indian Gymkhana
Reading Richmond Olton & West Warwicks Isca
Sheffield Hallam Southgate University of Durham Team Bath Buccaneers
Surbiton St. Albans Wakefield University of Birmingham
Wimbledon Teddington West Bridgford University of Exeter

Women's Hockey League

Premier Division Conference East Conference North Conference West
Beeston Chelmsford Ben Rhydding Barnes Hounslow Ealing
Bowdon Hightown East Grinstead Boots (Nottingham) Bristol Firebrands
Canterbury Harleston Magpies Bradford Wakefield Buckingham
Clifton Holcombe Brooklands Poynton Exe
Leicester Horsham Doncaster Gloucester City
Olton & West Warwicks Ipswich Kendal Isca University
Reading Old Loughtonians Loughborough Students Oxford Hawks
Surbiton Sevenoaks University of Durham Slough
Sutton Coldfield St. Albans Stourport Swansea
University of Birmingham Wimbledon Whitley Bay & Tynemouth Trojans

Recent champions

Men's Hockey League Premier Division

Season Champions Runners Up
1999-00 Canterbury Cannock
2000–01 Reading Surbiton
2001–02 Reading Surbiton
2002–03 Reading Loughborough Students
2003–04 Cannock Reading
2004–05 Cannock Reading
2005–06 Cannock Surbiton
2006–07 Reading Cannock
2007–08 Reading East Grinstead
2008–09 East Grinstead Reading
2009–10 East Grinstead Beeston
2010–11 Beeston East Grinstead
2011–12 Reading East Grinstead
2012–13 Beeston Surbiton
[4]

Women's Hockey League Premier Division

Season Champions Runners Up
1999-00 Hightown Ipswich
2000–01 Leicester Ipswich
2001–02 Slough Olton & West Warwicks
2002–03 Slough Canterbury
2003–04 Hightown Chelmsford
2004–05 Leicester Ipswich
2005–06 Leicester Canterbury
2006–07 Leicester Slough
2007–08 Slough Bowdon Hightown
2008–09 Bowdon Hightown Olton & West Warwicks
2009–10 Slough Leicester
2010–11 Reading Leicester
2011–12 Leicester Reading
2012–13 Reading Leicester
[5]

External links

References

  1. "2008/09 Structure - England Hockey". England Hockey. Retrieved 2008-09-30. 
  2. "Tables - England Hockey". England Hockey. Retrieved 2012-01-17. 
  3. "Tables - England Hockey". England Hockey. Retrieved 2012-01-17. 
  4. "England Hockey League - History". fixturelive.com. Retrieved 2013-04-21. 
  5. "Women's Hockey League - History". fixturelive.com. Retrieved 2013-04-21. 
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