EuroHockey Championships 2025

In the organizer's words:

The EuroHockey Championships will once again be held in Mönchengladbach in summer 2025

The DHB will once again host the 2025 European Men's and Women's Hockey Championships. From August 8 to 17, 2025, SparkassenPark in Mönchengladbach will be the venue for the continent's biggest field hockey event for the third time. The last time more than 70,000 fans were able to experience a ten-day field hockey festival in Mönchengladbach was in 2023.

Eight women's and eight men's teams from all over Europe will play 40 matches at the EuroHockey Championships 2025 to determine the best team on the continent. As an added bonus, the winning teams will receive a ticket to the 2026 World Championships.

"We are delighted to bring the EuroHockey Championships back to Mönchengladbach and Germany," said EuroHockey President Marcos Hofmann. "Building on the success of 2023, we hope for an even better 2025. We have seen Hockeypark become one of the biggest stadiums in world hockey over the past year and audiences from across the continent have enjoyed all the highs and lows of the event. The DHB's outstanding work last year showed us that the federation knows exactly how to put on a great event, and this knowledge will also allow us to grow the event even further. The European Hockey Championship is the highlight of our calendar and will be one of the best field hockey events in the world in 2025. European fans cannot afford to miss out on this," adds Hofmann.

Henning Fastrich, President of the German Hockey Federation, explains the importance of the 2025 European Championships for the DHB: "2023 has shown us that we as the German Hockey Federation can organize successful European Hockey Championships. When talks about the EuroHockey Championships 2025 began, we quickly agreed internally that hosting the event again would be a great opportunity for the DHB. We can continue to pursue our strategic approach of presenting world-class field hockey on our doorstep to the people of Germany every year. We are delighted that we were ultimately awarded the contract by EuroHockey. It was and is important that we have strong supporters at our side in the form of the city of Mönchengladbach and the state of NRW. Of course, one argument in favour of hosting the event again was that we gained a great deal of know-how last year, which will help us to organize an even better event next year. Sports fans in Germany can look forward to another field hockey festival."

Mönchengladbach's Lord Mayor Felix Heinrichs is also looking forward to the tournament in 2025: "Last year, we proved that we can organize a great European Hockey Championship here in Mönchengladbach together with the DHB and the state. We want to build on this together. Mönchengladbach received a great deal of attention from the European Hockey Championships last year and with our accompanying project "Meet and Greet@Hockey-EM 2023", we as a city were able to deepen our ties with our Dutch neighbors once again. As a city, we are therefore looking forward to supporting the organization of the European Hockey Championships again. We will certainly use our experience to further develop the European Hockey Championships 2025 and make it another great major event for everyone, also in connection with our 50th anniversary as a city."

The chance for revenge for the German field hockey teams

Twelve of the participating nations are already known, having qualified for the event by finishing in the top six in 2023. In the women's competition, these are the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, England, Ireland and Spain; in the men's competition, the Netherlands, England, Belgium, Germany, France and Spain have been confirmed. The remaining two places in each competition will be determined this summer at qualifying tournaments in Vienna and Dublin for the men and in Glasgow and Douai for the women.

For the two German national coaches, hosting the European Championships at home again in 2025 is a chance to make up for missing out on the finals last year.

"This is a really great decision for German field hockey. Playing another home European Championship directly next year and having our world-class fans behind us again is a huge source of anticipation. Ever since the crowd carried us to the bronze medal at the 2023 European Championships, we've been training and playing with the aim of winning the really important games "right now". We all thought the opportunity to become European champions in our home country was a "once in a lifetime" moment. Now we have the chance for revenge next year. It doesn't get any better than this," says Valentin Altenburg, national women's coach.

André Henning, national men's coach, added: "We're really looking forward to this tournament, because the European Championships will be by far the most important event for us in 2025. Last time, the World Championship also took place in the same year, this time the Hockeypark will have our undivided attention. The atmosphere was already fantastic last year. We will be extremely keen to make it to the final and to increase that once again."

Concept combines field hockey, music and art - Special Hockey European Championship takes place in parallel

Tickets for the European Hockey Championship 2025 will go on sale as soon as the final field of participants has been determined. Following the great success of the cooperation between field hockey and music at "Hockey meets Music" for the European Championship 2023, there will be another theme at the European Hockey Championship 2025: Field hockey meets Arts! There will be an interplay between field hockey, music and art that visitors can already look forward to. Spectacular art installations and top field hockey paired with a unique concert experience! A first for field hockey and unique for a sporting event in Germany.

Parallel to the EuroHockey Championships 2025, the EuroHockey ID Championship, the European field hockey championships for people with intellectual disabilities, will once again take place over five days, just like last year.