European Hockey Federation
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The European Hockey Federation is an Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

an sports federation for field hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

, based in Dublin, Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

. It is the umbrella organisation for all European national federations and organises the Euro Hockey League
Euro Hockey League
The Euro Hockey League is an annual mens field hockey cup competition organised by the EHF for the very top hockey clubs in Europe. The competition was launched at the start of the 2007-08 hockey season, when it merged and replaced the mens EuroHockey Club Champions Cup and European Cup II...

. Marijke Fleuren was elected as president on August 22, 2011.

Members association

Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus
Cyprus Hockey Association
The Cyprus Hockey Association is the national governing body for the sport of field hockey in Cyprus. At club level, it runs the field hockey leagues and organises representation of Cyprus in the EuroHockey Club Trophy and Challenge....

 Czech Republic Denmark England
England Hockey
England Hockey is the national governing body for the sport of hockey in England. There are separate governing bodies for the sport in the other parts of the United Kingdom. It was formed on 1 January 2003 to replace the English Hockey Association which had had to suspend operations 2002 because...

 Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Gibraltar Greece Great Britain Hungary Ireland
Irish Hockey Association
The Irish Hockey Association is the governing body for the game of hockey throughout the island of Ireland.The Association was formed in 2000 with the merger of the Unions that managed the men's and women's game separately. These Unions had governed the sport of hockey since the late 19th...

 Israel Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Netherlands
Koninklijke Nederlandse Hockey Bond
The Koninklijke Nederlandse Hockey Bond is the official governing body of field hockey in the Netherlands. It governs the field hockey leagues, as well as the Netherlands national field hockey team and the Netherlands women's national field hockey team....

 Norway Poland Portugal Romania
Romanian Field Hockey Federation
The Romanian Hockey Federation is the national governing body for the sport of field hockey in Romania.Considered as an aristocratic sport and little known to Romanian public, field hockey popularity has grown in the past years...

 Russia Scotland
Scottish Hockey Union
The Scottish Hockey Union, commonly referred to simply as Scottish Hockey or the SHU, is the national governing body for the sport of field hockey in Scotland. It is the SHU's responsibility to help provide for the development, promotion and management of hockey in Scotland...

 Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden
Swedish Hockey Association
The Swedish Hockey Association is the national hockey association in Sweden.The Swedish Hockey Association was founded in 1973 as interest in field hockey in Sweden increased substantially following the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich...

 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales

Outdoor

  • EuroHockey Nations Championships (senior and junior (u21), men's and women's)
    • EuroHockey Nations Championship
      EuroHockey Nations Championship
      The EuroHockey Nations Championship is an international men's and women's field hockey competition organised by the European Hockey Federation for the top eight European national teams. It is the top division of the EuroHockey Nations Championships...

    • EuroHockey Nations Trophy
      EuroHockey Nations Trophy
      The EuroHockey Nations Trophy is a competition for European field hockey national teams. There exist Trophies for outdoor as well as indoor hockey and for both men and women. In every cases it is a kind of B-European Championship. Underneath the Trophies there exist at least one division of the...

    • EuroHockey Nations Challenge
      EuroHockey Nations Challenge
      The EuroHockey Nations Challenge is a competition for european field hockey national teams. There exist Challenges for outdoor as well as indoor hockey and for both men and women. In every cases it is a kind of C-European Championship...

  • Youth Nations Championship (boy's and girl's u18 and u16)
  • Club competitions
    • Euro Hockey League
      Euro Hockey League
      The Euro Hockey League is an annual mens field hockey cup competition organised by the EHF for the very top hockey clubs in Europe. The competition was launched at the start of the 2007-08 hockey season, when it merged and replaced the mens EuroHockey Club Champions Cup and European Cup II...

       (men's)
    • EuroHockey Club Trophy
      EuroHockey Club Trophy
      The EuroHockey Club Trophy is an annual men's field hockey competition organised by the EHF for European hockey clubs. It is the second most prestigious European club competition, being one tier below the top men's European club competition the Euro Hockey League, and the top women's European club...

       (men's)
    • EuroHockey Club Challenge (men's)
    • EuroHockey Club Champions Cup
      EuroHockey Club Champions Cup
      The EuroHockey Club Champions Cup, previously known as the European Club Championship, is the leading woman's field hockey competition for clubs in Europe. It is held annually. Prior to the creation of the Euro Hockey League in 2007, the woman's competition also had a men's counterpart of the same...

       (women's)
    • EuroHockey Club Champions Trophy (women's)
    • EuroHockey Club Champions Challenge (women's)
    • EuroHockey Cup Winners Cup (women's)

Indoor

  • Nations Championship
    EuroHockey Indoor Nations Championship
    The EuroHockey Indoor Nations Championship is a European indoor field hockey competition organized by the European Hockey Federation . The tournament was started in 1974 for both men's competition and the women's competition....

  • Nations Trophy
    EuroHockey Nations Trophy
    The EuroHockey Nations Trophy is a competition for European field hockey national teams. There exist Trophies for outdoor as well as indoor hockey and for both men and women. In every cases it is a kind of B-European Championship. Underneath the Trophies there exist at least one division of the...

  • Nations Challenge
    EuroHockey Nations Challenge
    The EuroHockey Nations Challenge is a competition for european field hockey national teams. There exist Challenges for outdoor as well as indoor hockey and for both men and women. In every cases it is a kind of C-European Championship...

  • Junior Nations Championship
  • Club Champions Cup

Others

  • Alps Cup
  • Celtic Cup
  • Pannonia Cup
    Pannonia Cup
    The Pannonia Cup is an annual field hockey competition held between the national teams of Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia since 1993.* 2001, 2002 and 2003 tournaments were not official EHF tournaments!...

  • Baltic Championship
  • Nordic Championship

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