Hockey Australia

Hockey Australia[1] is an organisation that formed from the merger of the Australian Hockey Association and Women's Hockey Australia in 2000. It is the national body responsible for the promotion, development and administration of field hockey in Australia. Hockey Australia is a full member of the International Hockey Federation and comprises the State and Territory associations.

For the governing body of ice hockey in Australia, see Ice Hockey Australia.
Hockey Australia Limited
SportField hockey
JurisdictionAustralia
AbbreviationHA
Founded2000 (2000)
AffiliationFIH
Affiliation date1925
Regional affiliationOHF
HeadquartersMelbourne, Victoria
PresidentRoss Sudano
CEODavid Pryles
Vice president(s)Patrick Hall
Sandra Sully
DirectorBrent Dancer
Men's coachColin Batch
Women's coachKatrina Powell
SponsorAustralia Institute of Sport
Official website
www.hockey.org.au
Australia

History

The British Army has been credited with the spread of hockey throughout the world, but in Australia's case, the British Navy deserves the honours. In the late 1800s, Australia did not have a naval fleet of its own and relied upon the Royal Navy for the security of the coastline. The British Naval officers stationed in Australia taught the locals the game of hockey and laid the foundations for a sport which Australians have developed and mastered.[2]

National teams

Hockey Australia is the governing body that oversees Australia's National Teams.

Tournaments

Hockey Australia organises National Tournaments, at various levels. These are as follows:

  • Australian Hockey League[3] 1991–2018 (Men) 1991-2018 (Women), Replaced by Hockey One
  • Hockey One[4] 2019–Present (Men & Women)
  • National Championships Last Run in 1993 (Women) 1994 (Men), Replaced by AHL
  • Under 21 National Championships
  • Under 18 National Championships
  • Under 15 National Championships
  • Under 13 Australian Carnival
  • National Country Championships[5]
  • Veterans National Championships
  • Under 13 Indoor National Carnival
  • Under 15 Indoor National Championships
  • Under 21 Indoor National Championships
  • Under 18 Indoor National Championships
  • Opens Indoor National Championships[6]

In August 2015, Hockey Australia announced its Indoor Australian Championships will be held in Wollongong in 2016 and 2017. The three-week festival of indoor hockey will be played at the Illawarra Hockey Centre, in Wollongong. Championships will be played in Open, Under 15, Under 18 and the Under 21 categories, as well as a new Under 13 event, over the 23 days. This is the first time all Australian Indoor Championships are held in one venue.[7]

Championship results[8]

Men

The Australian Hockey League is the premier field hockey competition in Australia, it began in 1991, with its arrival the Open National Championships were discontinued.

Year Open Under 21 Under 18
(Under 16 until 1981, Under 17 from 1982-1993)		 Under 16
(Under 15 from 1980-2023)		 Under 14
(Under 13 til 2023)
1925 Victoria
1926 Victoria
1927 New South Wales
1928 South Australia
1929 Western Australia
1930 Victoria
1931 No Competition
1932 Queensland
1933 Queensland
1934 Queensland
1935 New South Wales
1936 Western Australia
1937 Queensland
1938 Western Australia
1939 Queensland
1946 Victoria Western Australia
1947 Queensland Victoria
1948 Queensland Western Australia
1949 New South Wales Western Australia
1950 Western Australia
Queensland		 New South Wales New South Wales
1951 New South Wales Western Australia New South Wales
1952 Western Australia Western Australia Western Australia
1953 New South Wales Queensland Western Australia
1954 Queensland New South Wales Western Australia
1955 Western Australia New South Wales Western Australia
1956 Western Australia Queensland Queensland
1957 New South Wales New South Wales Western Australia
1958 Western Australia Queensland Western Australia
1959 Queensland New South Wales Queensland
1960 Western Australia New South Wales Victoria
1961 Queensland Queensland New South Wales
1962 Western Australia Western Australia Western Australia
1963 Western Australia Queensland South Australia
1964 Western Australia Queensland New South Wales
1965 Western Australia South Australia South Australia
1966 Western Australia Western Australia New South Wales
1967 Western Australia Western Australia New South Wales
1968 Queensland South Australia Queensland
1969 Western Australia New South Wales New South Wales
1970 Western Australia South Australia Western Australia
1971 Victoria South Australia Queensland
1972 South Australia
Western Australia		 Victoria New South Wales
1973 Queensland South Australia Western Australia
1974 Western Australia Western Australia New South Wales
1975 Western Australia South Australia Victoria
1976 Western Australia Queensland Queensland
1977 Western Australia Queensland Victoria
1978 South Australia Victoria Queensland
1979 Western Australia Victoria Victoria
1980 South Australia Victoria New South Wales Queensland
1981 Western Australia South Australia Queensland New South Wales
1982 Western Australia Western Australia Queensland Western Australia
1983 Western Australia Western Australia New South Wales Western Australia
1984 Western Australia New South Wales Western Australia New South Wales
1985 Victoria Victoria New South Wales New South Wales
1986 Western Australia Queensland Queensland Queensland
1987 Western Australia New South Wales Victoria Queensland
1988 Victoria Western Australia Victoria Queensland
1989 New South Wales Victoria Queensland New South Wales
1990 New South Wales New South Wales Western Australia Victoria
1991 Western Australia Queensland Western Australia New South Wales
1992 Victoria Victoria Victoria New South Wales
1993 Not Held Victoria New South Wales New South Wales
1994[9] Queensland[10] Queensland Victoria Queensland
1995 Discontinued New South Wales New South Wales New South Wales
1996 Western Australia New South Wales Western Australia
1997 Queensland Victoria Victoria
1998 Victoria Western Australia Queensland
1999 Victoria Victoria Western Australia
2000 Queensland New South Wales Northern Territory
2001 Queensland Queensland Western Australia
2002 Western Australia Western Australia Queensland
2003 Victoria Northern Territory
 Victoria Queensland
2004 New South Wales Western Australia Victoria Queensland
2005[11] Western Australia Western Australia Queensland Queensland
2006[12] Victoria New South Wales New South Wales Queensland
2007[13] Victoria Queensland New South Wales Victoria
2008[14] Queensland Queensland New South Wales Victoria
2009[15] Queensland Queensland New South Wales New South Wales
2010 Victoria Queensland New South Wales New South Wales
2011 Western Australia New South Wales New South Wales Victoria
2012 Queensland New South Wales New South Wales New South Wales
2013 Queensland Victoria New South Wales Victoria
2014[16] New South Wales Queensland New South Wales New South Wales
2015[17] Victoria Western Australia Western Australia Victoria Blue
2016[18] Victoria Western Australia Queensland Victoria Blue
2017[19] New South Wales New South Wales State New South Wales State Victoria Blue
2018[20] Tasmania Victoria Queensland Maroon Western Australia Storm
2019[21] New South Wales Queensland Western Australia Gold Victoria Venom
2020 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 Global Pandemic[22]
2021 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 Global Pandemic New South Wales State[23] New South Wales State[24] Cancelled due to the COVID-19 Global Pandemic
2022 Western Australia[25] Western Australia Gold[26] Queensland Maroon[27] Victoria Venom[28]
2023 Western Australia[29] Tasmania[30] Queensland Maroon[31] Western Australia Lightning[32]

Women

[33]

Year Open Under 21 Under 18
(Under 19 1976-1983)		 Under 16
(Under 15 from 2003-2023, Invitational til 2002)		 Under 14
(Under 13 til 2023)
1910 New South Wales
1911 Tasmania
1912 New South Wales
1913 South Australia
1914 New South Wales
1920 Tasmania
1921 South Australia
Tasmania
1922 Tasmania
1923 South Australia
1924 New South Wales
1925 South Australia
1926 Victoria
1927 New South Wales
1928 New South Wales
Victoria
1929 Western Australia
1931 New South Wales
1932 Tasmania
Victoria
1933 Tasmania
1934 Tasmania
1935 Tasmania
Victoria
1936 New South Wales
1937 New South Wales
1938 Western Australia
1939 Western Australia
1946 Western Australia
1947 Western Australia
1948 New South Wales
Western Australia
1949 Western Australia
1950 Western Australia
1951 Western Australia
1952 Western Australia
1953 Western Australia
1954 New South Wales
1955 Western Australia
1957 Western Australia
1958 Western Australia
1959 Western Australia
1960 Western Australia
1961 Queensland
1962 Western Australia
1963 Western Australia
1964 Western Australia
1965 Western Australia
South Australia
1966 Western Australia
1967 Western Australia
1968 South Australia
Western Australia
1969 Western Australia
1970 South Australia
Western Australia
1971 Victoria
1972 Western Australia
1973 Western Australia
1974 Western Australia
1975 Western Australia Queensland
1976 Western Australia Queensland
1977 Western Australia New South Wales
1978 New South Wales
Queensland
Tasmania		 Queensland
1979 Western Australia Queensland
Western Australia
1980 Queensland Queensland
1981 Western Australia Queensland
1982 Western Australia Queensland
1983 Queensland Queensland
1984 New South Wales Queensland Queensland
1985 Western Australia Western Australia Western Australia
1986 Western Australia New South Wales New South Wales
1987 Western Australia
Queensland		 Queensland Queensland
Western Australia
1988 Western Australia Western Australia New South Wales
1989 Western Australia New South Wales Queensland
1990 Western Australia Queensland New South Wales
Queensland
1991 Western Australia Queensland Queensland
Victoria
1992 Queensland Queensland Queensland
1993 Queensland Queensland New South Wales
1994 Discontinued Victoria New South Wales
1995 Victoria New South Wales
Queensland
1996 Victoria Western Australia
1997 New South Wales Western Australia
1998 Victoria Victoria
1999 Victoria Australian Capital Territory
2000 Queensland Queensland
2001 South Australia New South Wales
2002 New South Wales Queensland
2003 Queensland Queensland New South Wales
2004 Queensland Victoria New South Wales
2005[11] Australian Capital Territory New South Wales Western Australia Australian Capital Territory
2006[12] Queensland Western Australia New South Wales New South Wales
2007[13] Queensland New South Wales New South Wales Queensland
2008[14] Western Australia New South Wales Western Australia Queensland
2009[15] Tasmania New South Wales New South Wales New South Wales
2010 Victoria Victoria New South Wales New South Wales
2011 Western Australia Victoria New South Wales Queensland
2012 New South Wales Queensland New South Wales Western Australia
2013 Queensland New South Wales New South Wales New South Wales
2014[16] New South Wales Queensland New South Wales New South Wales State
2015[17] Victoria Queensland Queensland New South Wales State
2016[18] Queensland Queensland Queensland Victoria Blue
2017[19] New South Wales Queensland 1 Victoria Queensland Cinders
2018[20] New South Wales New South Wales State New South Wales State New South Wales Lions
2019[21] Queensland Queensland Victoria Queensland Cinders
2020 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 Global Pandemic[22]
2021 Cancelled due to the COVID-19 Global Pandemic Queensland Maroon[34] New South Wales State[35] Cancelled due to the COVID-19 Global Pandemic
2022 Victoria[36] Queensland Gold[37] Queensland Maroon[38] Queensland Cinders[39]
2023 New South Wales State[40] Queensland Maroon[41] Queensland Maroon[42] Queensland Cinders[43]

Open National Championships

The Open National Championships were discontinued from 1992 for the Men (The men held a competition called the Kookaburra Cup in 1994[10]) and 1994 for the Women. This coincided with the creation of the Australian Hockey League in 1991 (Men) and 1993 (Women) which became the flagship National Competition. In 2019 Hockey One was created to supersede the Australian Hockey League.


Under 21 National Championships

The Under 21 National Championships followed a full round-robin and semi-final (1st v 4th, 2nd v 3rd), winners play in the Gold Medal match until 2014.


Since 2014 these championships have operated with two pools of four teams, with the top two teams in each pool qualifying for the medal pool (1st-4th), and the bottom four teams qualifying for the classification pool (5th-8th).


Since 2018 the structure has changed slightly with every two pools of four teams. From there crossover quarterfinals occur with 1st place in Pool A playing 4th place from Pool B, 2nd in Pool A playing 3rd in Pool B and so on, this replicated the finals format from the World League. In the 2018 Men's Championship[44] it meant that Tasmania who lost all three pool games were able to win three knockout matches and be crowned National Champions. Under the format from 2017,[45] this would not have been possible.


Under 18 National Championships

The Under 18 National Championships followed a full round-robin and semi-final (1st v 4th, 2nd v 3rd), winners play in the Gold Medal match until 2014.


From 2014 onwards the championships have been contested by ten teams, with New South Wales and Victoria each fielding 2 teams, although in some cases it was Queensland and not Victoria. This required the creation of two pools of five teams each with crossover semi-finals of 1st in Pool A playing 2nd in Pool B and vice versa, the winners playing in the Gold medal match, loser playing for third place.


In 2016 the number of teams increased to eleven with the addition of a second Queensland team.


In 2022 this increased to 12 teams with the addition of a second team from Western Australia.

These four states' teams are selected as a First and Second team, these are their names: New South Wales State & New South Wales Blue Victoria & Victoria Development Queensland Maroon & Queensland Gold Western Australia Gold & Western Australia Black


Under 15 National Championships

In the Under 15 National Championships followed a full round-robin with the 1st and 2nd ranked teams to play in the Gold Medal match, 3rd and 4th placed teams playing for third place and so on, until 2009.


From 2010 to 2013 Hockey Australia did not play a finals series, so the winners were the teams ranked highest on the ladder after the round-robin competition.


In 2014 Hockey Australia increased the number of teams to twelve with the stronger states (New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia) fielding two teams each. This required the creation of two pools of six teams each with crossover semi-finals of 1st in Pool A playing 2nd in Pool B and vice versa, the winners playing in the Gold medal match, the loser playing for third place.

These four states' teams are selected as a First and Second team, these are their names: New South Wales State & New South Wales Blue Victoria & Victoria Development Queensland Maroon & Queensland Gold Western Australia Gold & Western Australia Black


Under 13 National Carnival

The Under 13 National Championship was included as a full National Championship from 2011 (with the inclusion of all States and Territories). Prior to this, an invitational event was run and sanctioned by Hockey Australia but did not hold National Championship status. There are no finals series and the Champion is the team ranked highest on the ladder at the conclusion of the competition.


In 2014 Hockey Australia increased the number of teams to 12 with the stronger states (New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia) fielding two teams each.


In 2015 Hockey Australia renamed this event as an Australian Carnival, with the stronger states (New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia) required to pick even teams in order to promote participation over elitism.
Despite this request Victoria continually picks a first and a second team as evidenced by their results (e.g. 2022[28] Boys Victoria Venom 1st, Victoria Volt 11th, 2019[46] Victoria Venom 1st, Victoria Volt 10th).
Other states have suggested averaging finishing positions to determine an Overall Winner (e.g. 2022[28] Boys, Western Australia should be crowned champions, with WA Lightning 2nd & WA Storm 3rd, equals an average of 2.5, Queensland Runners-Up, with Queensland Cutters 4th & Queensland Sabres 6th, equals an average of 5, Victoria in third place with Victoria Venom 1st & Victoria Volt 11th, equals an average of 6, and New South Wales in fourth place with NSW Lions 5th & NSW Stars 8th, equals an average of 6.5).
Matches are also shortened to 20-minute halves with a full round-robin, with teams required to often play double headers (two games) in one day.
In 2019 this was changed to four 10-minute quarters.

See also

References
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  17. Hockey Australia Annual Report 2014-15 (PDF)
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  24. Hockey Australia Under 15 Boys National Championship 2021
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  28. Hockey Australia Under 13 Boys National Carnival 2022
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  35. Hockey Australia Under 15 Girls National Championship 2021
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  38. Hockey Australia Under 15 Girls National Championship 2022
  39. Hockey Australia Under 13 Girls National Carnival 2022
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  43. Hockey Australia Under 13 Girls National Carnival 2023
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