All EHL members for the brand new season have been introduced. As in previous years, three males’s groups and two girls’s groups are taking part in discipline hockey’s Champions League on behalf of the Netherlands. The lads’s groups of Bloemendaal and Kampong need to play preliminary rounds, whereas nationwide champion Amsterdam is the one males’s group immediately certified for the ‘remaining 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 remaining eight. English champion Surbiton and Crefeld – which was the perfect group in Germany – may also return to the Easter weekend. The group of captain Niklas Wellen is getting ready for its first EHL participation because the 2007/2008 season. The Germans didn’t make it previous the primary spherical by the best way.
Just like the Netherlands, Belgium and England additionally ship three groups. On behalf of our southern neighbors are, in addition to Gantoise, Royal Léopold – final yr eradicated within the quarter-finals – and Braxgata of former worldwide Pirmin Blaak. Will probably be the primary EHL look of the group from Increase. Wimbledon and Outdated Georgians are the 2 different English groups. France will get a spot within the new season. Because of this, 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 the perfect international locations are additionally immediately certified for the quarter-finals. In addition to Den Bosch, these are Membership de Campo (Spain), Braxgata (Belgium) and the shocking German Harvestehuder. The membership from Hamburg lately turned champions for the primary time in 52 years by dethroning titleholder Düsseldorfer. The runner-ups of the highest leagues need to play an eighth remaining. That goes for SCHC, Gantoise, Mannheimer and Membership Egara.
For the primary time in girls’s EHL historical past, a Scottish group can also be competing. That honor goes to Watsonians from Edinburgh. Ukraine will not have a girls’s group on the highest European stage subsequent season.
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