Actual Membership de Polo de Barcelona will host the ABN AMRO EHL Males’s KO16 at Camp Eduardo Dualde from October ninth to twelfth, kickstarting the nineteenth season of the world’s premier membership competitors.
Reacting to the announcement, Actual Membership de Polo’s competitors board member Leandro Martinez Zurita mentioned: “Internet hosting the EHL KO16 is an thrilling problem for the membership and the staff, bringing a few of the world’s greatest gamers to our venue to tackle our native heroes. We can not anticipate it.”
Polo participant Guillermo Fortuño added: “We’re thrilled to have dwelling benefit as soon as once more for the KO16. In 2023, we had an excellent crowd behind us which performed an enormous half in us advancing to the FINAL8.”
“Actual Membership de Polo is among the golf equipment who’ve performed such a pivotal half within the EHL story and so we’re delighted to as soon as once more be again in Barcelona for the EHL KO16,” mentioned EHL President Peter Elders.
“I’m positive it is going to be a really memorable weekend in such an iconic metropolis synonymous with trendy hockey!”
The occasion will see 16 golf equipment from 11 completely different nations competing in a straight knock-out format. Right here is the confirmed record of groups who will likely be within the line-up:
HC Bloemendaal, SV Kampong (Netherlands); Royal Léopold Membership, Braxgata HC (Belgium), Previous Georgians HC, Wimbledon HC (England); Hamburger Polo Membership (Germany); Actual Membership de Polo de Barcelona, Membership de Campo de Madrid (Spain), CAM 92, Saint Germain HC (France), HC Wien (Austria), Banbridge HC (Eire), Western Wildcats HC (Scotland), SK Slavia Prague (Czechia), HC Olten (Switzerland)
For groups who win two successive video games, they are going to earn one of many valuable FINAL8 tickets on supply the place they are going to be part of already certified AH&BC Amsterdam (Netherlands), Gantoise (Belgium), Surbiton HC (England) and Crefelder HTC (Germany).
Will probably be the third time the Barcelona membership has hosted the occasion, the earlier time being ROUND1A in 2009 and the KO16 in 2023.
** The draw for the EHL Males’s KO16 will happen on July 15 LIVE on the Euro Hockey League Fb web page.