Hockey European Championship in Mönchengladbach: All information about the home tournament

From August 8th, the hockey European Championships of women and men will take place again in Mönchengladbach. The German teams want at least to the semi -finals.

When and where does the 2025 hockey European Championship take place?

The field hockey European Championship begins on August 8th (Friday) and runs ten days until August 17th (Sunday). The European Championship takes place again in the Gladbacher Hockeyark. The stadium offers space for 9,500 spectators during the tournament.

The teams of the German Hockey Association (DHB) celebrated great success in the Hocypark. In 2006 the men became world champions there, in 2011 they won the European Championship title-and the women EM silver. At the last European Championship in Gladbach 2023, women secured the bronze medal.

What is the tournament mode?

The tournament starts with a group phase, in which it is played in two groups of four until August 13th. The teams in the first two places in a group move into the semi -finals. For the losers of the semi -finals there is a match for the bronze medal. The eight teams that leave in the group phase then have placement games.

All eight participants qualify for the European Championship 2027, where the group phase will then be eliminated and there will be co-games right from the start. The European champions also qualify for the 2026 World Cup in the Netherlands and Belgium.

What nations take part in the EM?

A total of 16 teams from ten nations take part in the European Championship:

What is the schedule?

When do the DHB teams play?

The German men and women are in use every day of the group phase – always alternately:

What are the title chances of the German selection of women?

After the quarter-finals against Argentina at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, a personnel team took place at the German national team. That is precisely why she was “not busy with high expectations to the team,” emphasized the new national coach Janneke Schopman. “But we can play hockey and I think we have proven that too,” added the Dutch.

Under Schopman, it was still in hockey Pro League, the competition for national teams held by the World Association. As a table seventh for nine participants, the DHB selection secured the relegation, but it was the worst result since the 2019 league introduction.

“I think there is a lot of potential in this team what is still to be exploited,” said the native of Krefeld Lisa Nolte, who alternates with Linnea Weidemann as a captain and also relying on the home advantage: “Hopefully the stadium is full of every game, you can use this energy of the audience to perform – and that is a huge motivation for us as a team.”

The measure of all things will again be the Netherlands, which are also group opponents of the DHB selection: the team became Olympic champion twice in a row, world champion three times in series and four times in a row. However, the other German group tasks France and Ireland can be solved. The goal of German women is the semi -finals, but: “I want to win a medal and prefer to come to the final,” said Nolte.

What are the title chances of the German men’s selection?

A change also took place after the Olympic Games, but as world champions from 2023 and silver medalists from Paris are part of the favorite group. For his players, only one “logic” is communicated, emphasized national coach André Henning shortly before the opening game of France: “namely to win the tournament.”

Hardest competitor, like women, should be the Netherlands, against which the DHB selection lost the Olympic final 2024 in penalty shooting. In addition to the world rankings and Germany (second place), Belgium, Spain and the German group opponent England are represented by the world rankings places three to five, the teams are at eye level.

“It is clear that we are still a bit in change and in Berlin at the Pro League we also experienced a roller coaster ride,” said Mats Grambusch, who will lead his team to the field in his hometown as a captain. “It has to be more stable.” Germany took fourth place in the Pro League. The semi-finals are the minimum goal of German men.

Where can I follow the EM in the live?

The streaming service “Magenta sport“According to its own information, shows around 30 hours of live hockey with up to 16 games-including selected games of the ko round and the final. The games of the German teams are broadcast live and free of charge. In addition,” Magenta Sport “shows two games of the special hockey eM of the mentally impaired players who in parallel in Mönchengladbach is held.

Where are tickets?

Day tickets are available in three price categories. How many cards have already been sold is not known. Tickets can be bought here:

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