The 2008–09 Euro Hockey League was the second season of the Euro Hockey League, Europe's premier club field hockey tournament organised by the EHF.
The final was played between UHC Hamburg and Bloemendaal at the Hazelaarweg Stadion in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Bloemendaal beat UHC Hamburg, the defending champions, 5–4 to win their first Euro Hockey League title. Rotterdam took the bronze medal.
Association team allocation
Association ranking Rank Change Association Teams 1 Netherlands 3 2 3 1 England 4 1 Germany 5 4 2 6 1 7 1 Belgium 8 Scotland 9 2 Russia 1 10 Ireland 11 12
Teams Champions Bloemendaal Saint Germain Dinamo Kazan Real Club de Polo Grunwald Poznań Three Rock Rovers Reading Leuven Olimpia Kolos Sekvoia Club an der Alster Kelburne BraRunners-upThird placed Amsterdam Lille Rotterdam Atlètic Terrassa Pocztowiec Poznań Club Egara East Grinstead Waterloo Ducks Cannock Düsseldorfer HC Western Wildcats UHC Hamburg
Round one Pools A, B, C and D were played in Amstelveen, the Netherlands between 24 and 26 October 2008 and the other four pools were played in Lille, France. If a game was won, the winning team received 5 points. A draw resulted in both teams receiving 2 points. A loss gave the losing team 1 point unless the losing team lost by 3 or more goals, then they received 0 points.
Pool A
Pool B
Pool C
Pool D
Pool E
Pool F
Pool G
Pool H
Knockout stage The round of 16 and the quarter-finals were played in Hamburg, Germany between 10 and 13 April 2009 and the semi-finals, third place match and the final were played in Rotterdam, the Netherlands between 30 and 31 May 2009.
Bracket
Round of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Bronze medal match
Final
Statistics Top goalscorers RankPlayerTeamGoals1 Guillermo Schickendantz Club Egara560112 Ronald Brouwer Bloemendaal71083 Taeke Taekema Amsterdam07074 Santi Freixa Amsterdam6006 Simon Child Rotterdam600 Marco Miltkau UHC Hamburg510 Pau Quemada Leuven1508 Phil Burrows Rotterdam3205 Olmer Meijer Bloemendaal050 Patrick Breitenstein UHC Hamburg050
External links Official website