Current season, competition or edition: 2025–26 Men's Euro Hockey League | |
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| Formerly | EuroHockey Club Champions Cup |
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| Sport | Field hockey |
| Founded | 2007; 18 years ago (2007) |
| First season | 2007–08 |
| No. of teams | 20 |
| Confederation | EHF (Europe) |
| Most recent champion |  Gantoise (1st title)(2024–25) |
| Most titles |  Bloemendaal (6 titles) |
| Related competitions | Men's EuroHockey Club Trophy I (2nd tier) |
| Official website | ehlhockey.tv |
TheEuro Hockey League is an annualfield hockey cup competition organized by theEHF for the very top field hockey clubs inEurope. The competition was launched at the start of the 2007-08 field hockey season when it merged and replaced the men'sEuroHockey Club Champions Cup (the champions competition) and theEuroHockey Cup Winners Cup (the Cup Winners' competition). Featuring many of the world's best players, the EHL is now seen as the pinnacle of club hockey in Europe (hockey's equivalent of theUEFA Champions League) with top clubs from across the continent playing what many consider to be the most exciting and dynamic club hockey in the world.
The competition has been won by ten clubs, two of which have won it more than once.[1]Bloemendaal is the most successful club in the tournament's history; having won it six times. In 2019, theWaterloo Ducks became the first Belgian club to win the tournament.[2][3] Dutch clubs have the highest number of victories (9 wins), followed by Germany (5 wins) and Belgium (2 wins).
From the 2019–20 season onwards the tournament features 20 clubs from the 11 highest-rankedEHF member countries. Although the competition is called the Euro Hockey League, after round 1 the competition was a knock-out, rather than league format (similar to the UEFA Champions League in football). From the 2019–20 season onwards round one is also a knock-out format.
From the 2019–20 season onwards each year the 20 available league places are allocated between 11EHF member countries'National Associations, depending on those National Associations' EHF Club Ranking. National Associations ranked 1–3 in the EHL Ranking Table may enter three teams each in the Euro Hockey League, while National Associations ranked 4-6 may enter two teams each, and National Associations ranked 7-11 one team.
National Associations rankings are derived from each country's results in the Euro Hockey League andEuroHockey Club Trophy over the previous 3 years, with the points in the earlier years discounted by 50% (year 2) and 75% (year 1). This ranking of National Associations is based on the performance of all their clubs in the Euro Hockey League andEuroHockey Club Trophy. The total number of points won by clubs from each country is divided by the number of clubs to which the National Association was entitled in that year's competitions.
Each qualifyingNational Association is required to enter their national champion club but is otherwise free to decide the system of qualification for their own clubs for any remaining places to which they are entitled that year.
To be eligible to play in the Euro Hockey League a country must enter 2 clubs in the EHF club competitions.
From the 2019–20 season the EHL moved to a new format with the removal of theround-robin tournament in round one.[4] Instead, a knock-out format is used from the start of the tournament.[4] Round one will be replaced by the knockout 16 with four sides advancing to the quarter-finals, or Final 8 as it's called, onEaster.[4] The Final8 will consist of the champions from the top four nations on the EHL rankings table alongside the four sides that qualified from the knockout 16.[4] This means that instead of a total of 24 teams from 12 associations there will be 20 teams from 11 associations.[4]
The much-improved presentation and packaging of the Euro Hockey League have attracted a number of high-profile sponsors, most notably Dutch bankABN-AMRO, who are the presenting sponsor of the tournament.Vriendloterij are also named sponsors of the Euro Hockey League.
| Rank | Club | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | Bloemendaal | 6 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| 2 |  UHC Hamburg | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 3 | Rot-Weiss Köln | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 4 | Kampong | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | HGC | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Oranje Zwart | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| 7 | Harvestehuder THC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | Gantoise | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Pinoké | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Waterloo Ducks | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 11 | Amsterdam | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 12 | Rotterdam | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 13 | Dragons | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 14 |  Atlètic Terrassa | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Club de Campo | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Oranje-Rood | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 17 | Léopold | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mannheimer HC | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Old Georgians | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Racing | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 21–22 | Remaining | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals (22 entries) | 17 | 17 | 17 | 51 | |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | Netherlands (NED) | 10 | 9 | 7 | 26 |
| 2 | Germany (GER) | 5 | 5 | 2 | 12 |
| 3 | Belgium (BEL) | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 |
| 4 | Spain (ESP) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 5 | England (ENG) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Totals (5 entries) | 17 | 17 | 17 | 51 | |
The Euro Hockey League is the top men's club competition in Europe. Below the Euro Hockey League is theEuroHockey Club Trophy, then below that theEuroHockey Club Challenge 1, the EuroHockey Club Challenge 2, and so on. This structure is designed to give every EHF member nation the opportunity to enter their best clubs into European competition at an appropriate level, and through that exposure to improve the level of their domestic hockey.
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