Men's EuroHockey U21 Championship

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Men's EuroHockey U21 Championship
Most recent season or competition:
2022 Men's EuroHockey Junior Championship
FormerlyMen's EuroHockey Junior Championship
SportField hockey
Founded1976; 48 years ago (1976)
First season1976
No. of teams8
ConfederationEHF (Europe)
Most recent
champion(s)
 Netherlands (10th title)
(2022)
Most titles Netherlands (10 titles)
Level on pyramid1
Relegation toEuroHockey U21 Championship II

The Men's EuroHockey U21 Championship is a men's international under-21 field hockey tournament organized by the European Hockey Federation. The tournament has been held since 1977 and serves as a qualification tournament for the Men's FIH Hockey Junior World Cup.[1]

In June 2023, the tournament was renamed from the Men's EuroHockey Junior Championship to the Men's EuroHockey U21 Championship.[2]

Competition format

The tournament usually comprises 8 teams, while some editions have featured more and less.

Teams are split into two pools, playing in a round-robin format. The top two teams in each pool move forward to contest the medal matches, while the bottom two (or more) teams playoff to avoid relegation to the EuroHockey Junior Championship II.

Championship I

Results

Year Host Final Third place match Number of teams
Winner Score Runner-up Third place Score Fourth place
1976
Details
Hamburg, West Germany
Netherlands
2–0
Spain

West Germany
2–1
Poland
8
1977
Details
Folkestone, England
West Germany
4–3
Netherlands

Spain
1–0
England
8
1978
Details
Dublin, Ireland
Netherlands
6–2
Ireland

West Germany

France
8
1981
Details
Barcelona, Spain
West Germany
2–1
Belgium

Netherlands
4–2
Spain
8
1984
Details
Rome, Italy
West Germany
3–2
Netherlands

France
2–1
Belgium
8
1988
Details
Santander, Spain
West Germany
3–0
England

Netherlands
2–1
Spain
8
1992
Details
Vught, Netherlands
Netherlands

Spain

Germany

England
8
1996
Details
Vejle, Denmark
Netherlands
3–2
Germany

England
2–2 (a.e.t.)
(6–4 p.s.)

Spain
8
1998
Details
Poznań, Poland
Germany
3–2
England

Netherlands
3–3 (a.e.t.)
(4–2 p.s.)

Spain
8
2000
Details
Madrid, Spain
Spain
4–4 (a.e.t.)
(4–3 p.s.)

Germany

Netherlands
7–2
England
8
2002
Details
Lausanne, Switzerland
Netherlands

Germany

Spain

England
8
2004
Details
Nivelles, Belgium
Spain

Germany

Netherlands

England
8
2006
Details
Prague, Czech Republic
Netherlands

Germany

Belgium

Spain
8
2008
Details
San Sebastián, Spain
Spain
1–0 (a.e.t.)
Netherlands

Germany
4–3
Belgium
8
2010
Details
Siemianowice Śląskie, Poland
Netherlands
4–1
Belgium

Germany
4–3
England
8
2012
Details
's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Belgium
2–2
(3–2 s.o.)

Netherlands

Germany
8–0
France
8
2014
Details
Waterloo, Belgium
Netherlands
5–2
Germany

England
1–1
(4–3 s.o.)

Belgium
8
2017
Details
Valencia, Spain
Netherlands
2–2
(5–3 s.o.)

Belgium

Germany
Match cancelled
Spain
8
2019
Details
Valencia, Spain
Germany
5–3
England

Netherlands
3–1
Spain
8
2022
Details
Ghent, Belgium
Netherlands
3–1
Germany

Belgium
3–1
Spain
8
2024
Details
Terrassa, Spain 8

Summary

Team Winners Runners-up Third place Fourth place
 Netherlands 10 (1976, 1978, 1992*, 1996, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2017, 2022) 4 (1977, 1984, 2008, 2012*) 6 (1981, 1988, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2019)
 Germany[a] 6 (1977, 1981, 1984, 1988, 1998, 2019) 7 (1996, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2014, 2022) 7 (1976*, 1978, 1992, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2017)
 Spain 3 (2000*, 2004, 2008*) 2 (1976, 1992) 2 (1977, 2002) 8 (1981*, 1988*, 1996, 1998, 2006, 2017*, 2019*, 2022)
 Belgium 1 (2012) 3 (1981, 2010, 2017) 2 (2006, 2022*) 3 (1984, 2008, 2014*)
 England 3 (1988, 1998, 2019) 2 (1996, 2014) 6 (1977*, 1992, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2010)
 Ireland 1 (1978*)
 France 1 (1984) 2 (1978, 2012)
 Poland 1 (1976)
* = hosts

Team appearances

Team West Germany
1976
England
1977
Ireland
1978
Spain
1981
Italy
1984
Spain
1988
Netherlands
1992
Denmark
1996
Poland
1998
Spain
2000
Switzerland
2002
Belgium
2004
Czech Republic
2006
Spain
2008
Poland
2010
Netherlands
2012
Belgium
2014
Spain
2017
Spain
2019
Belgium
2022
Spain
2024
Total
 Austria 7th 8th 8th 6th 6th 8th 7th 7
 Belgium 5th 6th 2nd 4th 5th 6th 6th 5th 3rd 4th 2nd 1st 4th 2nd 5th 3rd Q 17
 Czech Republic Part of Czechoslovakia 8th 7th 7th 7th 4
 Denmark 8th 1
 England 4th 7th 7th 5th 2nd 4th 3rd 2nd 4th 4th 4th 5th 5th 4th 5th 3rd 5th 2nd 6th Q 20
 France 7th 4th 8th 3rd 6th 5th 4th 7th 6th 5th Q 11
 Germany[a] 3rd 1st 3rd 1st 1st 1st 3rd 2nd 1st 2nd 2nd 2nd 2nd 3rd 3rd 3rd 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd Q 21
 Gibraltar 8th 1
 Italy 6th 6th 8th 3
 Ireland 6th 8th 2nd 5th 7th 7th 8th 7th Q 9
 Netherlands 1st 2nd 1st 3rd 2nd 3rd 1st 1st 3rd 3rd 1st 3rd 1st 2nd 1st 2nd 1st 1st 3rd 1st Q 21
 Poland 4th 6th 7th 6th 6th 6th 8th 8th 7th 9
 Portugal 6th 8th 2
 Russia Part of the Soviet Union 8th 7th DSQ 2
 Scotland 7th 8th 5th 5th 5th 5th 7th 7th 7th 8th 10
 Soviet Union 5th 8th 6th 5th Defunct 4
 Spain 2nd 3rd 5th 4th 4th 2nd 4th 4th 1st 3rd 1st 4th 1st 6th 6th 5th 4th 4th 4th Q 20
  Switzerland 7th 8th 2
 Turkey Q 1
 Wales 8th 6th 8th 3
Total 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8

Championship II

Results

Year Host Final Third place match Number of teams
Winner Score Runner-up Third place Score Fourth place
1998
Details
Padua, Italy
Ireland

France

Italy

Wales
8
2000
Details
Vienna, Austria
Belgium

Czech Republic

Switzerland

Austria
8
2002
Details
Cagliari, Italy
Poland

Ireland

France

Italy
7
2004
Details
Lousada, Portugal
Czech Republic

Russia

France

Switzerland
8
2006
Details
Gibraltar
Scotland

Austria

France

Wales
8
2008
Details
Bra, Italy
Russia

France

Belarus

Italy
10
2010
Details
Vienna, Austria
Scotland

Wales

Austria

Czech Republic
8
2012
Details
Cernusco sul Naviglio, Italy
Austria
4–2
Poland

Russia
6–1
Ukraine
8
2014
Details
Lousada, Portugal
Ireland
Round-robin
Portugal

Scotland
Round-robin
Italy
7
2017
Details
Saint Petersburg, Russia
France
3–0
Poland

Scotland
4–3
Czech Republic
8
2019
Details
Plzeň, Czech Republic
Scotland
9–0
Russia

Ireland
4–1
Turkey
8
2022
Details
Plzeň, Czech Republic
Ireland
Round-robin
Turkey

Wales
Round-robin
Poland
6
2024
Details
Walcz, Poland 6
Lausanne, Switzerland 5

Summary

Team Winners Runners-up Third place Fourth place
 Ireland 3 (1998, 2014, 2022) 1 (2002) 1 (2019)
 Scotland 3 (2006, 2010, 2019) 2 (2014, 2017)
 France 1 (2017) 2 (1998, 2008) 3 (2002, 2004, 2006)
 Russia 1 (2008) 2 (2004, 2019) 1 (2012)
 Poland 1 (2002) 2 (2012, 2017) 1 (2022)
 Austria 1 (2012) 1 (2006) 1 (2010*) 1 (2000*)
 Czech Republic 1 (2004) 1 (2000) 2 (2010, 2017)
 Belgium 1 (2000)
 Wales 1 (2010) 1 (2022) 2 (1998, 2006)
 Turkey 1 (2022) 1 (2019)
 Portugal 1 (2014*)
 Italy 1 (1998*) 3 (2002*, 2008*, 2014)
  Switzerland 1 (2000) 1 (2004)
 Belarus 1 (2008)
 Ukraine 1 (2012)
* = hosts

Team appearances

Team Italy
1998
Austria
2000
Italy
2002
Portugal
2004
Gibraltar
2006
Italy
2008
Austria
2010
Italy
2012
Portugal
2014
Russia
2017
Czech Republic
2019
Czech Republic
2022
Total
 Austria 4th 2nd 3rd 1st 4
 Azerbaijan 9th 8th 2
 Belarus 3rd 6th 7th 7th 6th DSQ 5
 Belgium 1st 1
 Croatia 5th 7th 2
 Czech Republic 5th 2nd 1st 8th 4th 8th 4th 7th 6th 9
 Denmark 6th 1
 France 2nd 3rd 3rd 3rd 2nd 1st 6
 Gibraltar 8th 7th 2
 Ireland 1st 2nd 1st 3rd 1st 5
 Italy 3rd 4th 6th 5th 4th 7th 5th 4th 5th 5th 5th 11
 Poland 6th 1st 2nd 2nd 4th 5
 Portugal 7th 7th 8th 8th 2nd 8th 6
 Russia 8th 2nd 1st 3rd 5th 6th 2nd 7
 Scotland 1st 1st 3rd 3rd 1st 5
  Switzerland 3rd 4th 6th 7th 6th 5
 Turkey 10th 7th 4th 2nd 4
 Ukraine 7th 6th 5th 4th 6th 8th 6
 Wales 4th 5th 6th 5th 4th 5th 2nd 3rd 8
Total 8 8 7 8 8 10 8 8 7 8 8 6

Championship III

Results

Year Host Final Third place match Number of teams
Winner Score Runner-up Third place Score Fourth place
1998
Details
Moscow, Russia
Russia

Switzerland

Ukraine

Belarus
6
2000
Details
Porto, Portugal
Portugal

Croatia

Denmark

Gibraltar
5
2002
Details
Elektrostal, Russia
Russia

Belarus

Ukraine

Azerbaijan
5
2004
Details
Brest, Belarus
Austria

Gibraltar

Ukraine

Azerbaijan
6
2006
Details
Bratislava, Slovakia
Ukraine

Belarus

Azerbaijan

Greece
10
2010
Details
Athens, Greece
Switzerland

Greece

Slovakia

Bulgaria
4
2012
Details
Lisbon, Portugal
Portugal
Round-robin
Turkey

Greece
Round-robin
Gibraltar
6
Bratislava, Slovakia
Ireland
14–0
Slovakia

Lithuania
3–2
Bulgaria
4
2014
Details
Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
Turkey
Round-robin
Czech Republic

Slovakia
Round-robin
Azerbaijan
6
2017 Lucerne, Switzerland Cancelled Cancelled
2019
Details
Vilnius, Lithuania
Wales
4–3
Ukraine

Lithuania
Only three teams 3
2022
Details
Helsinki, Finland
Switzerland
3–2
Ukraine

Lithuania
12–2
Finland
4

Summary

Team Winners Runners-up Third place Fourth place
  Switzerland 2 (2010, 2022) 1 (1998)
 Portugal 2 (2000*, 2012 A*)
 Russia 2 (1998*, 2002*)
 Ukraine 1 (2006) 2 (2019, 2022) 3 (1998, 2002, 2004)
 Turkey 1 (2014) 1 (2012 A)
 Austria 1 (2004)
 Ireland 1 (2012 B)
 Wales 1 (2019)
 Belarus 2 (2002, 2006) 1 (1998)
 Slovakia 1 (2012 B*) 2 (2010, 2014)
 Greece 1 (2010*) 1 (2012 A) 1 (2006)
 Gibraltar 1 (2004) 2 (2000, 2012 A)
 Croatia 1 (2000)
 Czech Republic 1 (2014*)
 Lithuania 3 (2012 B, 2019*, 2022)
 Azerbaijan 1 (2006) 3 (2002, 2004, 2014)
 Denmark 1 (2000)
 Bulgaria 2 (2010, 2012 B)
 Finland 1 (2022*)
* = hosts

Team appearances

Team Russia
1998
Portugal
2000
Russia
2002
Belarus
2004
Slovakia
2006
Greece
2010
Portugal
2012 A
Slovakia
2012 B
Czech Republic
2014
Lithuania
2019
Finland
2022
Total
 Austria 1st 1
 Azerbaijan 4th 4th 3rd 5th 4th 5
 Belarus 4th 2nd 5th 2nd 4
 Bulgaria 5th 5th 4th 4th 4
 Croatia 2nd 8th 2
 Cyprus 6th 1
 Czech Republic 2nd 1
 Denmark 3rd 1
 Finland 4th 1
 Georgia 6th 1
 Gibraltar 4th 2nd 4th 5th WD 4
 Greece 5th 5th 4th 2nd 3rd 5
 Ireland 1st 1
 Lithuania 7th 3rd 6th 3rd 3rd 5
 Portugal 1st 1st WD 2
 Romania 10th 1
 Russia 1st 1st 2
 Slovakia 6th 3rd 2nd 3rd WD 4
  Switzerland 2nd 1st 1st 3
 Turkey 6th 9th 2nd 1st 4
 Ukraine 3rd 3rd 3rd 1st 2nd 2nd 6
 Wales 1st 1
Total 6 5 5 6 10 4 6 4 6 3 4

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b Includes results representing West Germany between 1976 and 1988

References

  1. ^ "Qualification Criteria for FIH Junior World Cup 2021" (PDF). fih.ch. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  2. ^ "Update regulations June 2023". Retrieved 16 July 2023.

External links