Women's EuroHockey U21 Championship

The Women's EuroHockey U21 Championship is a women'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 Women's FIH Hockey Junior World Cup.[1] In June 2023, the tournament was renamed from the Women's EuroHockey Junior Championship to the Women's EuroHockey U21 Championship.[2]

Women's EuroHockey U21 Championship
Most recent season or competition:
2022 Women's EuroHockey Junior Championship
FormerlyWomen's EuroHockey Junior Championship
SportField hockey
Founded1977 (1977)
Inaugural season1977
No. of teams8
ConfederationEHF (Europe)
Most recent
champion(s)
 Germany (9th title)
(2022)
Most titles Netherlands (10 titles)
Level on pyramid1
Relegation toEuroHockey U21 Championship II

The Women's EuroHockey Junior Championships consists of three levels. There is promotion and relegation between the three levels. The top two placed teams in the Championship II are promoted to the following year's Championship while the two lowest placed teams in the Championship are relegated to the following year's Championship II.

The highest level has been won by three different teams: the Netherlands has the most titles with ten, Germany has nine titles and Spain won their first and only title at the 2019 edition in Valencia, Spain.[3]

Championship I

Results

Year Host Final Third place match Number of teams
Winner Score Runner-up Third place Score Fourth place
1977
Details
Vienna, Austria
West Germany

Netherlands

France

Austria
6
1978
Details
Celle, West Germany
Netherlands
Round-robin
West Germany

Spain
Round-robin
Austria
5
1979
Details
Düsseldorf, West Germany
West Germany

Netherlands

Belgium

Spain
5
1981
Details
Barcelona, Spain
Netherlands
2–1
Germany

Spain
1–0
Belgium
8
1984
Details
Dundee, Scotland
Netherlands
2–1
West Germany

Ireland
4–1
Spain
8
1988
Details
Paris, France
West Germany
3–1
England

Netherlands
4–1
Soviet Union
8
1992
Details
Edinburgh, Scotland
Germany
2–1
Netherlands

Spain
3–1
England
8
1996
Details
Cardiff, Wales
Germany
2–2 (a.e.t.)
(6–5 p.s.)

Ukraine

Netherlands
3–0
England
8
1998
Details
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Germany
4–2
Netherlands

Ukraine
4–3
Spain
8
2000
Details
Leipzig, Germany
Netherlands

England

Ukraine

Germany
8
2002
Details
Alcalá la Real, Spain
Netherlands
2–1
England

Germany
2–0
Scotland
8
2004
Details
Dublin, Ireland
Netherlands
1–1
(6–5 pen.)

Germany

England
5–1
Scotland
8
2006
Details
Catania, Italy
Germany
1–0
England

Italy
1–1
(3–2 pen.)

Spain
8
2008
Details
Valencia, Spain
Germany
2–1
Netherlands

England
5–2
Belarus
8
2010
Details
Lille, France
Netherlands
4–1
England

Spain
2–1
Germany
8
2012
Details
's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Netherlands
9–1
Spain

England
3–2
Germany
8
2014
Details
Waterloo, Belgium
Netherlands
2–0
Germany

England
2–0
Spain
8
2017
Details
Valencia, Spain
Netherlands
6–0
Belgium

England
3–2
Germany
7
2019
Details
Valencia, Spain
Spain
1–1
(4–3 s.o.)

Netherlands

Germany
1–1
(3–2 s.o.)

Belgium
9
2022
Details
Ghent, Belgium
Germany
1–1
(4–3 s.o.)

Belgium

Netherlands
2–1
England
8
2024
Details
Terrassa, Spain 8

Summary

Team Titles Runners-up Third places Fourth places
 Netherlands 10 (1978, 1981, 1984, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2010, 2012*, 2014, 2017) 6 (1977, 1979, 1992, 1998, 2008, 2019) 3 (1988, 1996, 2022)
 Germany[lower-alpha 1] 9 (1977, 1979*, 1988, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2006, 2008, 2022) 5 (1978*, 1981, 1984, 2004, 2014) 2 (2002, 2019) 4 (2000*, 2010, 2012, 2017)
 Spain 1 (2019*) 1 (2012) 4 (1978, 1981*, 1992, 2010) 5 (1979, 1984, 1998, 2006, 2014)
 England 5 (1988, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2010) 5 (2004, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2017) 3 (1992, 1996, 2022)
 Belgium 2 (2017, 2022*) 1 (1979) 2 (1981, 2019)
 Ukraine 1 (1996) 2 (1998, 2000)
 France 1 (1977)
 Ireland 1 (1984)
 Italy 1 (2006*)
 Austria 2 (1977*, 1978)
 Scotland 2 (2002, 2004*)
 Soviet Union 1 (1988)
 Belarus 1 (2008)
* = hosts

Team appearances

Team Austria
1977
West Germany
1978
West Germany
1979
Spain
1981
Scotland
1984
France
1988
Scotland
1992
Wales
1996
Ireland
1998
Germany
2000
Spain
2002
Ireland
2004
Italy
2006
Spain
2008
France
2010
Netherlands
2012
Belgium
2014
Spain
2017
Spain
2019
Belgium
2022
Spain
2024
Total
 Austria 4th4th6th8thQ5
 Belarus Part of the Soviet Union8th6th6th6th4th5th8th9th8
 Belgium 3rd4th6th7th5th5th2nd4th2ndQ10
 Czech Republic Part of Czechoslovakia6th6th7th3
 England 5th2nd4th4th5th2nd2nd3rd2nd3rd2nd3rd3rd3rd6th4thQ17
 France 3rd5th5th5th8th8th8th8th6th6th6th5th8thQ14
 Germany[lower-alpha 1] 1st2nd1st2nd2nd1st1st1st1st4th3rd2nd1st1st4th4th2nd4th3rd1stQ21
 Ireland 3rd7th6th7th7th5th7th6thQ9
 Italy 5th8th3rd8th4
 Lithuania Part of the Soviet Union8th6th7th3
 Netherlands 2nd1st2nd1st1st3rd2nd3rd2nd1st1st1st5th2nd1st1st1st1st2nd3rdQ21
 Poland 7th1
 Russia Part of the Soviet Union7th6th8th5thDSQ4
 Scotland 7th6th5th4th4th8th8th8th8
 Soviet Union 4th7thDefunct2
 Spain 6th3rd4th3rd4th5th3rd5th4th5th5th5th4th5th3rd2nd4th5th1st5thQ21
  Switzerland 7th1
 Ukraine Part of the Soviet Union2nd3rd3rd7th4
 Wales 8th7th7th7th4
Total655888888888888887988[4]

Championship II

Results

Year Host Final Third place match Number of teams
Winner Score Runner-up Third place Score Fourth place
1998
Details
Bratislava, Slovakia
France

Wales

Russia

Poland
8
2000
Details
Prague, Czech Republic
Scotland

Belarus

Lithuania

Czech Republic
8
2003
Details
Prague, Czech Republic
France

Ireland

Italy

Russia
8
2004
Details
Swansea, Wales
Wales

Italy

Ukraine

Lithuania
8
2006
Details
Vilnius, Lithuania
Lithuania

Belgium

Russia

Poland
8
2008
Details
Prague, Czech Republic
France

Scotland

Ukraine

Poland
7
2010
Details
Bra, Italy
Belgium

Poland

Russia

Ukraine
10
2012
Details
Aleksin, Russia
Russia
Round-robin
Czech Republic

Scotland
Round-robin
Lithuania
6
2014
Details
Vienna, Austria
Italy
Round-robin
Ireland

Ukraine
Round-robin
Scotland
9
2017
Details
Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
Russia
3–0
Belarus

Czech Republic
3–2
Austria
8
2019
Details
Alanya, Turkey
Scotland
4–1
Italy

Wales
3–1
Ukraine
8
2022
Details
Vienna, Austria
Austria
Round-robin
France

Poland
Round-robin
Italy
6

Summary

Team Winners Runners-up Third place Fourth place
 France 3 (1998, 2003, 2008) 1 (2022)
 Scotland 2 (2000, 2019) 1 (2008) 1 (2012) 1 (2014)
 Russia 2 (2012*, 2017) 3 (1998, 2006, 2010) 1 (2003)
 Italy 1 (2014) 2 (2004, 2019) 1 (2003) 1 (2022)
 Wales 1 (2004*) 1 (1998) 1 (2019)
 Belgium 1 (2010) 1 (2006)
 Lithuania 1 (2006*) 1 (2000) 2 (2004, 2012)
 Austria 1 (2022*) 1 (2017)
 Belarus 2 (2000, 2017)
 Ireland 2 (2003, 2014)
 Poland 1 (2010) 1 (2022) 3 (1998, 2006, 2008)
 Czech Republic 1 (2012) 1 (2017*) 1 (2000*)
 Ukraine 3 (2004, 2008, 2014) 2 (2010, 2019)
* = hosts

Team appearances

Team Slovakia
1998
Czech Republic
2000
Czech Republic
2003
Wales
2004
Lithuania
2006
Czech Republic
2008
Italy
2010
Russia
2012
Austria
2014
Czech Republic
2017
Turkey
2019
Austria
2022
Total
 Austria 8th8th6th7th4th7th1st7
 Azerbaijan 8th8th9th3
 Belarus 2nd6th2ndDSQ4
 Belgium 6th2nd1st3
 Czech Republic 4th7th8th5th6th2nd3rd5th5th9
 France 1st1st5th1st2nd5
 Ireland 5th2nd2nd4
 Italy 7th3rd2nd5th1st2nd4th7
 Lithuania 5th3rd4th1st4th9th6
 Poland 4th7th5th4th4th2nd5th8th6th3rd10
 Russia 3rd4th7th3rd7th3rd1st1st8
 Scotland 6th1st2nd3rd4th5th1st7
 Slovakia 8th10th2
  Switzerland 6th6th7th3
 Turkey 8th7th8th3
 Ukraine 3rd6th3rd4th5th3rd6th4th6th9
 Wales 2nd5th1st6th7th3rd6
Total8888871069886[5]

Championship III

Results

Year Host Final Third place match Number of teams
Winner Score Runner-up Third place Score Fourth place
2000
Details
Catania, Italy
Italy

Austria

Switzerland

Greece
4
2002
Details
Poznań, Poland
Poland

Azerbaijan

Croatia

Greece
4
2004
Details
Predanovci, Slovenia
Croatia

Slovenia

Belgium

Azerbaijan
6
2006
Details
Albena, Bulgaria
Czech Republic

Croatia

Slovakia

Austria
6
2008
Details
Vienna, Austria
Azerbaijan

Austria

Slovakia

Turkey
4
2012
Details
Lisbon, Portugal
Ireland
8–0
Turkey

Azerbaijan
4–0
Portugal
4
2022
Details
Alanya, Turkey
Turkey
2–0
Lithuania

Switzerland
Only three teams 3

Summary

Team Winners Runners-up Third place Fourth place
 Azerbaijan 1 (2008) 1 (2002) 1 (2012) 1 (2004)
 Croatia 1 (2004) 1 (2006) 1 (2002)
 Turkey 1 (2022*) 1 (2012) 1 (2008)
 Czech Republic 1 (2006)
 Ireland 1 (2012)
 Italy 1 (2000*)
 Poland 1 (2002*)
 Austria 2 (2000, 2008*) 1 (2006)
 Slovenia 1 (2004*)
 Lithuania 1 (2022)
  Switzerland 2 (2000, 2022)
 Slovakia 2 (2006, 2008)
 Belgium 1 (2004)
 Greece 2 (2000, 2002)
 Portugal 1 (2012*)
* = hosts

Team appearances

Team Italy
2000
Poland
2002
Slovenia
2004
Bulgaria
2006
Austria
2008
Portugal
2012
Turkey
2022
Total
 Austria 2nd5th4th2nd4
 Azerbaijan 2nd4th1st3rd4
 Belgium 3rd1
 Bulgaria 6th5th2
 Croatia 3rd1st2nd3
 Czech Republic 1st1
 Greece 4th4th2
 Ireland 1st1
 Italy 1st1
 Lithuania 2nd1
 Poland 1st1
 Portugal 4th1
 Slovakia 3rd3rd2
 Slovenia 2nd1
  Switzerland 3rd3rd2
 Turkey 6th4th2nd1st5
Total4466443[5]

See also

Notes

  1. 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.
  3. "2019 Eurohockey Junior Championships – Updated". eurohockey.org. European Hockey Federation. 12 April 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
  4. "Competitions Archive". European Hockey Federation. pp. 24–25. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  5. "Competitions Archive". European Hockey Federation. p. 25. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
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