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1990–91 England Hockey League Season
The 1990–91 English Hockey League season took place from October 1990 until May 1991. The Men's National League was sponsored by Poundstretcher and was won by Havant. The top four teams qualified to take part in the Poundstretcher League Cup tournament which was won by Hounslow. The Women's National League was sponsored by Typhoo and was won by Slough. The Men's Hockey Association Cup was won by Hounslow and the Women's Cup (National Club Championship finals) was won by Sutton Coldfield. Men's Poundstretcher National League First Division League Standings Men's League Cup Tournament Hounslow Richard Purvis, Owen Mackney, Mike Williamson, Jon Potter (capt), Guy Swayne, Jon Rees (Mike Rose ''sub''), Dave Hacker, Andy Ferns, Nick Gordon ( Guy Fordham ''sub''), Robert Thompson, Mike Alcock (Andy Thompson ''sub'') Havant Jimmy Lewis, David Faulkner (capt), David Roberts, Rob Hill, Steve Lawson, A Cave, M Coleman, Russell Garcia, Stuart Avery, Colin Cooper, J Goldrin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Men's England Hockey League
The Men's England Hockey League is a field hockey league organised by England Hockey that features men's teams from England and Wales. Format Regular season There are 62 teams in the league, the top tier consists of a Premier Division of twelve teams. Below this is tier two, which consists of two ten-team Division One regional teams (North and South). The third tier consists of three regional conferences North, West, and East, all consisting of ten teams. The teams play each other home and away during an 18 week season from September to April. The league has a winter break between December and February. The winners of the Premier Division regular season automatically qualify to play in the Euro Hockey League. League Finals Weekend The top four Premier Division teams from the regular season qualify for the League Finals Weekend. The team that wins this tournament will be overall champions of the Men's England Hockey League and will qualify to play in the Euro Hockey L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neston Hockey Club
Neston Hockey Club is a field hockey club that is based at Parkgate in South Wirral, Cheshire. Founded in 1963 the team became Men's England Hockey League, National Champions of England in 1984. Major National honours * 1978-79 in English field hockey, 1978–79 Men's Cup Runner-up * 1982–83 England Hockey League season, 1982–83 Men's Cup winners * 1983–84 England Hockey League season, 1983–84 Men's League champions * England Hockey Ladies Hockey Team of the Year 2014 Teams The club runs eight men's teams and five women's teams and the Mens 1s and Ladies 1s compete in the North Premier Hockey League, as of 2020/21 season. The Facilities The club also offers 12 tennis courts, two cricket pitches and three squash courts. Three function rooms each with its own bar, the club has a very busy events side to it, The Parkgate Clubhouse hosts weddings, conferences, parties and other events. Notable players Men's internationals Key *Oly = Olympic Games *CG = Comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ealing Hockey Club
Ealing Hockey Club is a field hockey club based at Perivale Lane in Greenford and at St.Augustine's Prior School, W5, Middlesex The original club was formed in 1884 and gained notable success in the 1980s when the women's team won three successive National Clubs Competitions during the 1986–87 England Hockey League season, 1987–88 England Hockey League season and 1988–89 England Hockey League season. Former internationals include Sheila Harding-Cornwallis, Katie Dodd, Mandy Nicholson-Langridge and Joan Lewis. The club was re-formed by TotalHockey (a coaching agency of England Hockey) in 2012 and runs a ladies team who play in the Middlesex League. The club principally concentrated on the development of junior teams but is now growing an adult section. 2019 the club was handed to its members as a member owned not for profit community amateur sports club. The club had to be reformed because in 2000 it went out of existence after a merger with Hounslow Hounslow ( ) is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chelmsford Hockey Club
Chelmsford Hockey Club is a field hockey club based in Chelmsford, Essex, England. The club's home ground is at Chelmer Park, with a capacity of 100 seats and numerous standing. Club The club has over 450 members and runs seven men's teams and seven women's teams in addition to 2 veterans teams and a range of junior squads. For the 2022/23 season, the Ladies' 1st team will play in the Women's Hockey League Conference East, while the Men's 1st team will be playing in the East Men's Premier Division The remaining men's and ladies' teams play in the East Hockey Leagues. History * The Grove Lawn Tennis Club was founded in 1893 in Grove Road. In 1894 the Club moved to a site in Vicarage Road, where "Wellmeads" stands today. At that time the whole of the Moulsham area was yet to be developed and as well as renting the site for tennis courts, in 1898 permission was granted from the tenant, Mr Herbert Marriage, of Moulsham Lodge, for the use of a "field" behind the courts for a newly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowdon Hockey Club
Bowdon Hockey Club is a field hockey club based in Bowdon, Greater Manchester, England. The hockey club was established in 1886 but the Bowdon Club which hosts the team was formed in 1856. The women's team have been champions of England on one occasion (2008–09). Teams The men's 1st XI play in the Men's England Hockey League The Men's England Hockey League is a field hockey league organised by England Hockey that features men's teams from England and Wales. Format Regular season There are 62 teams in the league, the top tier consists of a Premier Division of ... and the ladies 1st XI (known as Bowdon Hightown Ladies 1st XI ) play in the Investec Women's Hockey League. The club fields ten men's teams, seven ladies teams and various youth sides. The women's team is known as Bowdon Hightown due to the 2004 merger of the Hightown Hockey Club ladies section and Bowdon Hockey Club. History In 1998, Carolyn Reid won the 1998 Hockey Writers' UK Player of the Year, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ipswich Hockey Club
Ipswich Hockey Club is a field hockey club founded in 1899 and based at the Ipswich Sports Club in Henley Road, Ipswich, Suffolk Suffolk ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by Norfolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Essex to the south, and Cambridgeshire to the west. Ipswich is the largest settlement and the county ... with matchday fixtures held at Tuddenham Road. The women's team have been champions of England on one occasion (1992–93). Teams The club runs five women's teams, four men's teams and a number of junior teams. The women's first X1 play in the East Women's League and the men's first X1 play in the East Men's League Honours The women's team has gained significant honours - * 1992-93 National League Champions * Seven times National League Runner-up * 1984-85 Cup Champions * 1995-96 Cup Champions * 2001-02 Cup Champions Notable players Women's internationals References {{reflist Field hockey c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leicester Hockey Club
Leicester City Hockey Club is a field hockey club based in Leicester, England, who play their home games at St. Margaret's Pastures. The ladies side has produced a number of international players and is recognised as one of the most successful clubs in England having won six league titles. Teams The ladies team was established in 1894 and the men's section was launched in 2018. The club currently fields five ladies teams, two men's teams and various youth teams. The ladies 1st XI play in the Women's England Hockey League. The men's teams, and the remainder of the ladies teams, play in the Midlands League. The Academy Leicester City Hockey Club recently launched their junior academy with training, matches and tournaments for junior players aged 6-18. The club is well-known for producing high class players, who often go on to achieve international honours. The academy is a more professional structure to junior development. Plenty of opportunities for recreational hockey, as we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Garcia (field Hockey)
Russell Simon Garcia (born 20 June 1970) is an English field hockey coach and a former England & GB field hockey player. He won a gold medal with Great Britain at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul at the age of 18 years 3 months, making him Britain's youngest ever Olympic champion. Garcia also competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics and 1996 Summer Olympics. Biography Garcia was born in Portsmouth, England. He played club hockey for Havant in the Men's England Hockey League and played international hockey from 1988 to 2000 and was awarded his first cap aged 17. While at Havant he won his Olympic Gold medal in 1988, played in the 1990 Men's Hockey World Cup and went to his second Olympics in 1992. Between 1993 and 1996 he was player coach at Real Club de Polo de Barcelona. Between the ages of 23-26 he took his Spanish club team to two European Cup Winners tournaments, 1995 winning a bronze medal in Italy, and three cup finals (Copa del Rey). After his third Olympics Garcia switch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Hill (field Hockey)
Robert William Hill (born 11 June 1967) is a British former field hockey player who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics. Biography Hill attended Millfield from 1981 to 1986 and became a farmer by trade. For the 1989/90 season he signed for Havant Hockey Club. While at Havant, he represented England at the 1990 Men's Hockey World Cup and represented Great Britain at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. After the Olympics, he joined Bristol hockey club Firebrands for one season before rejoining Havant the following season. He retired from playing hockey in 1994 to concentrate on his agricultural business. In 2013, Hill joined Eastbourne College Eastbourne College is a co-educational Private schools in the United Kingdom, fee-charging school in the English Public school (United Kingdom), public school tradition, for boarding school, boarding and Day school, day pupils aged 13–18, in ... as Director of Hockey. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Thompson (field Hockey)
Nicholas Thompson (born 21 September 1967) is a British former field hockey player who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics. He gained 196 caps and scored 58 goals. Biography Thompson, born in Hackney, only picked up a hockey stick in 1981 aged 14 but by 1983 was representing the England U16 team. Thompson played club hockey for Old Loughtonians Hockey Club in the Men's England Hockey League from 1986 and was involved in the Seoul 1988 Olympic training squad. He was selected for the 1990 Men's Hockey World Cup. After missing selection for the 1992 Olympics he was added to the squad for the 1994 Men's Hockey World Cup. Still at Old Loughtonians he was selected for the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and participated in the 1998 Men's Hockey World Cup. Thompson left Old Loughtonians to join Cannock Hockey Club, Cannock and experienced a legue title success during the 2003–04 England Hockey League season and in 2010 would become the England Hockey leagues all–time record sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Fordham
Guy Tristan Fordham (born 19 July 1975) is a British former field hockey player who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics and in the 2004 Summer Olympics. Biography Fordham played club hockey for Hounslow in the Men's England Hockey League, breaking into the first team at the age of 16. He made his England debut with the club in 1995 and became the club captain. Still at Hounslow, Fordham represented England and won a bronze medal in the men's hockey, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. Fordham left Hounslow to join Guildford for the 1999/2000 season. It was while at Guildford that Fordham made his two Olympic appearances, first at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and then he represented Great Britain Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland, and Wales. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the List of European ... at the 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Potter
Jonathan Nicholas Mark Potter (born 19 November 1963) is a former field hockey player who was a member of the gold-winning Great Britain squad at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. After his playing career he became the managing director of House of Suntory and Maison Courvoisier at Suntory Global Spirits. Biography Potter was born in Paddington, Greater London, in an Anglo-Indian family and brought up in Slough, England. He attended Burnham Grammar School from 1976 to 1982, and represented England Schoolboys at field hockey. Potter graduated from Southampton University in 1986 with a BA (Hons) in geography, and attended Aston Business School (1986–87) to obtain his MBA. Potter represented Great Britain and England in field hockey. He competed in three Olympic Games, earning a bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. In total Potter won 126 caps for Great Britain and 108 caps for England, scoring 41 inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
