| Most recent season or competition: 2025 Men's EuroHockey Championship | |
| Sport | Field hockey |
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| Founded | 1970; 55 years ago (1970) |
| First season | 1970 |
| No. of teams | 8 |
| Continent | EHF (Europe) |
| Most recent champion |  Germany (9th title)(2025) |
| Most titles | Germany (9 titles) |
| Level onpyramid | 1 |
TheMen's EuroHockey Championship is an international men'sfield hockey competition organised by theEuropean Hockey Federation (EHF) for the top eightEuropean national teams. It is the top division of the EuroHockey Championships. The tournament started in 1970. When the tournament is held close to theSummer Olympic games or theMen's FIH Hockey World Cup, the winner of the tournament is awarded a place in those competitions.
The tournament has been won by five different national teams:Germany has the most titles with nine, theNetherlands follow with seven,Spain has two wins andEngland andBelgium have one title each.
Themost recent edition, held inMönchengladbach, Germany, was won by the Germany who won their ninth title by defeating the Netherlands 4–1 in theshoot-out in the final.[1]
Since 2005 the tournament is played in Divisions, normally consisting of 8 teams. The top division, containing the eight best national teams, is called the EuroHockey Championship, below which there is theMen's EuroHockey Championship II, then theMen's EuroHockey Championship III, then theEuroHockey Championship IV.
National teams qualify for a division based on their performance in the previous competition. Each time the competition is held, it is with each division's previous top two teams promoted (assuming there is a higher division), and its previous bottom two teams demoted (assuming there is a lower division).
Assuming divisions consisting of the standard 8 teams, the teams are separated into two pools of four teams. In each pool (pool A and B) the teams play one match against each of the other teams in their pool (three in total). The teams then go on to play classification matches based on their relative ranking from these pool matches to determine their final tournament position.
In each pool, A, and B, all the teams play each other once, with points awarded as follows:
Upon completion of these matches, each team in the pool is ranked according to the number of points each has accumulated. If any teams in the pool have the same rank, then these teams are ranked:
Once the relative ranking of the teams in pools A and B is settled, the semi-finals proceed with two games as follows:
The winners of these matches then play a match against each other for 1st and 2nd places (the final) and the losing teams play a match against each other for 3rd and 4th places (Bronze medal match).
The third and fourth placed teams in each pool are placed in Pool C (the Relegation Pool) in order to determine fifth to eighth places. Each team plays one match against the two teams that they did not previously play. The results from those games and from the game that was previously played against the other team in their original pool are used to rank each team according to the ranking procedure used in Pool A and B.
The senior (men's and women's) Nations tournaments are held over seven to eight consecutive days (including rest days) some time during the last two weeks of July and the first four weeks of August every odd numbered year (2009, 2011, etc.).
| Team | Champions | Runners-up | Third-place | Fourth-place |
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| Germany[a] | 9 (1970, 1978, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2011*, 2013, 2025*) | 4 (1974, 2009, 2015, 2021) | 3 (1983, 1987, 2005) | 4 (2007, 2017, 2019, 2023*) |
 Netherlands | 7 (1983, 1987, 2007, 2015, 2017*, 2021*, 2023) | 8 (1970, 1978, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2005, 2011, 2025) | 4 (1974, 2009, 2013, 2019) | 1 (2003) |
 Spain | 2 (1974, 2005) | 3 (2003, 2007, 2019) | 2 (1970, 2025) | 3 (1978, 1983, 2009) |
 England | 1 (2009) | 2 (1987, 2023) | 7 (1978, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2011, 2017) | 4 (1974, 2013, 2015*, 2021) |
 Belgium | 1 (2019*) | 2 (2013*, 2017) | 3 (2007, 2021, 2023) | 4 (1995, 1999, 2005, 2011) |
 Soviet Union | 1 (1983) | 2 (1987*, 1991) | ||
 Ireland | 1 (2015) | |||
 France | 2 (1970, 2025) |
| Team | 1970 |  1974 | 1978 | 1983 | 1987 | 1991 |  1995 |  1999 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 | 2013 | 2015 | 2017 | 2019 | 2021 | 2023 | 2025 | 2027 | Total |
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 Austria | 11th | 15th | – | 11th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 7th | – | – | – | 7th | – | – | 7th | 8th | Q | 8 |
 Belarus | Part of the Soviet Union | 9th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | ||||||
| Belgium | 5th | 10th | – | 8th | 10th | 9th | 4th | 4th | 6th | 4th | 3rd | 5th | 4th | 2nd | 5th | 2nd | 1st | 3rd | 3rd | 5th | Q | 20 |
 Czech Republic | Part of Czechoslovakia | – | – | – | – | 8th | – | – | 8th | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | ||||||
| Czechoslovakia | 10th | 9th | 10th | – | – | – | Defunct | 3 | ||||||||||||||
 Denmark | 18th | 14th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | |
| England | 6th | 4th | 3rd | 5th | 2nd | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 6th | 5th | 1st | 3rd | 4th | 4th | 3rd | 5th | 4th | 2nd | 6th | Q | 21 |
 Finland | 16th | 18th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | |
| France | 4th | 6th | 7th | 6th | 11th | 6th | 12th | 7th | 5th | 5th | 6th | 6th | 8th | – | 7th | – | – | 6th | 5th | 4th | Q | 18 |
| Germany[a] | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 3rd | 3rd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 3rd | 4th | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 4th | 4th | 2nd | 4th | 1st | Q | 21 |
 Gibraltar | – | – | 12th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | |
 Hungary | 17th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | |
| Ireland | 9th | 11th | 8th | 10th | 6th | 7th | 5th | 11th | 9th | – | 7th | – | 5th | 6th | 3rd | 6th | 8th | – | – | – | Q | 16 |
| Italy | 13th | 12th | – | – | 9th | 12th | – | 12th | 10th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6 | |
 Malta | 19th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | |
| Netherlands | 2nd | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 4th | 2nd | 1st | 3rd | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 1st | 3rd | 1st | 1st | 2nd | Q | 21 |
 Poland | 7th | 5th | 5th | 9th | 5th | 8th | 6th | 9th | 7th | 7th | – | 8th | – | 7th | – | 8th | – | – | – | 7th | Q | 15 |
 Portugal | – | 16th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | |
 Russia | Part of the Soviet Union | – | 8th | 12th | – | – | – | 7th | – | 8th | – | – | 8th | – | – | 5 | ||||||
 Scotland | 15th | 7th | 11th | 7th | 8th | – | 10th | – | 8th | 8th | – | – | – | – | – | – | 7th | – | – | – | 9 | |
| Soviet Union | 14th | – | 9th | 2nd | 4th | 4th | Defunct | 5 | ||||||||||||||
| Spain | 3rd | 1st | 4th | 4th | 7th | 5th | 8th | 5th | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 4th | 6th | 5th | 6th | 5th | 2nd | 5th | 6th | 3rd | Q | 21 |
 Switzerland | 8th | 17th | – | – | – | 11th | 11th | 10th | 11th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6 | |
 Wales | 12th | 8th | 6th | 12th | 12th | 10th | 7th | 6th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6th | 7th | 8th | – | Q | 12 |
 Yugoslavia | – | 13th | – | – | – | – | Defunct | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 19 | 18 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 12 | [2] |
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