The 2024 Men's Liberty Hockey One was the fourth season of Hockey Australia's national league, Hockey One. The tournament was held across 7 states and territories of Australia. Competition commenced on 11 October, and culminated with a finals weekend in Hobart, from 30 November to 1 December.
Competition format Format The 2024 Hockey One season followed the same format as the previous seasons of the league. Teams will play a series of home and away matches during the Pool Stage, which will be followed by a Classification Round.
During the pool stage, teams played each other once in either a home or a way fixture. The top four ranked teams qualified for the classification round, playing in two semi-finals with the winners contesting the final and losers the third place match.
Rules In addition to FIH sanctioned rules, Hockey Australia is implementing the following rules for Hockey One:
When a field goal or penalty stroke is scored the same athlete will have an automatic one-on-one shootout with the goalkeeper for an extra goal. Outright winner: There will be no drawn games. In the event of a draw, teams will contest a penalty shoot-out to determine a winner.
Point allocation Match points will be distributed as follows:
5 points: win 3 points: shoot-out win 2 points: shoot-out loss 0 points: loss
Participating teams The seven teams competing in the league come from Australia's states and territories, with the Northern Territory being the only team absent.
Head Coach: Jethro Eustice
Jed Snowden (GK) Luke Anderson Lucas Toonen Jack Holland Trent Symms Angus Fry Geoffrey Abbott Sebastian Foster Fred Gray (C) Thomas Wycherley Kyton Rayner Lachlan Arneil James Humphries Isaac Whittaker Fraser Bowden Hugh Snowden Bryce Hammond Thomas Brown Daniel Sibbald Jethro Eustice Richard Pautz Lucas Noel Landon Morley Oliver Higgins (GK) Mitchell Dell
Head Coach: Darren Fowler
William Mathison Shane Kenny Corey Weyer Noah Fahy Tyler Spry Kyle Jeffery-Prestwich Elliot Dale Adam Imer Jacob Anderson Michael Francis Jacob Whetton David Hubbard Jayden Atkinson Timothy Howard Scott Boyde Luke Randle Thomas Campbell Max Harding Matthew Finn (GK) Daniel Beale (C) Diarmid Chappell Hayden Pease Daykin Stanger Joel Rintala Mitchell Nicholson (GK)
Head Coach: Seyi Onitiri
Aaron Knight Benjamin Staines Anand Gupte Jaume Torras Jesse Absolom Xavier Gispert Aidan Smith Sean Baker Owen Chivers Garry Backhus Jake Staines Dylan Brick Théophile Ponthieu Hayden Dillon Oscar Smart Aiden Dooley Kaito Tanaka Hamish Morrison Niranjan Gupte Darcy MacDonald Jay MacDonald Davis Atkin James Jewell Max Robson (GK) Andrew Charter (C, GK)
Head Coach: Andrew Smith
Craig Marais Peter Scott Jonathan Bretherton Liam Henderson Doug Buckley Damon Steffens (C) Nathan Ephraums Kade Leigh Oliver Will Bradley Marais Cooper Burns Connar Otterbach Andrew Scanlon Waheed Rana Joshua Simmonds Nicholas Fitzgerald William Carruthers Johan Durst (GK) Jordan Rees Nye Roberts Connor Tuddenham Benjamin White Eden Davis George McGeogh (GK) Max Ferrier
Head Coach: Roel van Maastright
Lachlan Sharp Nathan Ackroyd (GK) Sebastien Griffith Ashleigh Thomas (GK) Daine Richards Nathanael Stewart Nathan Czinner Liam Alexander Dylan Downey Jared Findlay Blake Govers Dylan Martin Miles Davis Joshua Gregory Nicholas McEwen Toby Mallon Jack Hayes (C) Ky Willott Luke Noblett Ryan Woolnough Timothy Brand Callum Mackay Thomas Miotto Michael Taylor
Head Coach: Stephen Davies
Thomas Keating William Battistessa Brayden King Jake Harvie (C) Thomas Wickham Kye Stirrat Dave Gavranich Coby Green James Day Joshua Bowen Thomas Harvie Marshall Puzey Samuel Ashton Chaz Davies Matthew Bird Brodee Foster Benjamin Rennie (GK) Angus Adamson Christian Starkie (GK) Max Freedman Cambell Geddes Matthew Willis Fraser Heigh James Collins Harrison Golding (GK)
Head Coach: Benjamin Read
Magnus McCausland (GK) Harvey Bessell Keenan Johnson Hayden Beltz Max Johnstone Joshua Brooks Joshua Mardell Ryan Jones Jeremy Edwards Samuel Payne Edward Ockenden (C) Jack Pritchard Joshua Beltz Jack Welch Oscar Pritchard Alexander Hogan-Jones Oliver Pritchard Grant Woodcock (GK) Timothy Deavin Ehren Hazell Leon Hayward (GK) Oliver Stebbings Oliver Smith Lachlan Rogers
Venues Melbourne Perth Adelaide Melbourne Sports Centre Perth Hockey Stadium MATE Stadium Capacity: 8,000 Capacity: 6,000 Capacity: 4,000 Brisbane Queensland State Hockey Centre Capacity: 1,000 Canberra National Hockey Centre Goulburn Goulburn Hockey Complex Hobart Narellan Newcastle Tasmanian Hockey Centre Macarthur Regional Hockey Complex Newcastle International Hockey Centre
Results Preliminary round
Fixtures
Classification round
Semi-finals
Third and fourth place
Final
Final standings
Awards Top GoalscorerPlayer of the LeaguePlayer of the FinalFans Player of the League Landon Morley Aidan Dooley Edward Ockenden Nathan Ephraums Cooper Burns
Team of the Year At the conclusion of the regular season, a team of the year was named:https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=885533123771860&set=pcb.885533207105185
2024 Men's Team of the YearGoalkeeperDefendersMidfieldersForwardsSubstitutesJohan Durst (Mebourne)Anand Gupte (Chill)James Day (Thundersticks)Jay MacDonald (Chill)Jake Harvie (Thundersticks)Hayden Beltz (Tigers)Nathan Czinner (Pride)Jayden Atkinson (Blaze)Cooper Burns (Melbourne)Benjamin White (Melbourne)Benjamin Staines (Chill)Edward Ockenden (Tigers)Hayden Dillon (Chill)Peter Scott (Melbourne)Thomas Wickham (Thundersticks)
Goalscorers
References
External links Hockey Australia Hockey Australia Results Portal