All EHL members for the brand new season have been introduced. As in previous years, three males’s groups and two ladies’s groups are taking part in subject hockey’s Champions League on behalf of the Netherlands. The boys’s groups of Bloemendaal and Kampong should play preliminary rounds, whereas nationwide champion Amsterdam is the one males’s workforce immediately certified for the ‘last 8’.
The latter additionally applies to Gantoise, which gained the EHL final season. As Belgian champions, they’re additionally certain of a spot within the last eight. English champion Surbiton and Crefeld – which was one of the best workforce in Germany – will even return to the Easter weekend. The workforce of captain Niklas Wellen is making ready for its first EHL participation for the reason that 2007/2008 season. The Germans didn’t make it previous the primary spherical by the way in which.
Just like the Netherlands, Belgium and England additionally ship three groups. On behalf of our southern neighbors are, apart from Gantoise, Royal Léopold – final 12 months eradicated within the quarter-finals – and Braxgata of former worldwide Pirmin Blaak. It is going to be the primary EHL look of the workforce from Growth. Wimbledon and Outdated Georgians are the 2 different English groups. France will get a spot within the new season. Consequently, the finalists of the French playoffs, Montrouge and Saint-Germain, are each represented within the upcoming EHL. Austria surrenders a spot and has just one extra participant.
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The women: shock from Hamburg, Scottish first
Within the girls, the 4 nationwide champions of one of the best international locations are additionally immediately certified for the quarter-finals. Moreover Den Bosch, these are Membership de Campo (Spain), Braxgata (Belgium) and the stunning German Harvestehuder. The membership from Hamburg just lately grew to become champions for the primary time in 52 years by dethroning titleholder Düsseldorfer. The runner-ups of the highest leagues should play an eighth last. That goes for SCHC, Gantoise, Mannheimer and Membership Egara.
For the primary time in ladies’s EHL historical past, a Scottish workforce can also be competing. That honor goes to Watsonians from Edinburgh. Ukraine will not have a ladies’s workforce on the highest European degree subsequent season.
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