Women's EuroHockey Junior Championship
The Women's EuroHockey Junior 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]
Most recent season or competition: 2019 Women's EuroHockey Junior Championship | |
Sport | Field hockey |
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Founded | 1977 |
Inaugural season | 1977 |
No. of teams | 8 |
Confederation | EHF (Europe) |
Most recent champion(s) | (2019) |
Most titles | |
Level on pyramid | 1 |
Relegation to | EuroHockey Junior Championship II |
The Women's EuroHockey Junior Championships consists of two levels. There was a third level until 2012. There is promotion and relegation between the two 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 eighth titles and Spain won their first and only title at the most recent edition in Valencia, Spain.[2]
Championship I
Results
Season | Host | Final | Third place match | ||||||
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Winner | Score | Runner-up | Third place | Score | Fourth place | ||||
1977 Details |
Vienna, Austria | West Germany |
Netherlands |
France |
Austria | ||||
1978 Details |
Celle, West Germany | Netherlands |
Round-robin | West Germany |
Spain |
Round-robin | Austria | ||
1979 Details |
Düsseldorf, West Germany | West Germany |
Netherlands |
Belgium |
Spain | ||||
1981 Details |
Barcelona, Spain | Netherlands |
2–1 | Germany |
Spain |
1–0 | Belgium | ||
1984 Details |
Dundee, Scotland | Netherlands |
2–1 | West Germany |
Ireland |
4–1 | Spain | ||
1988 Details |
Paris, France | West Germany |
3–1 | England |
Netherlands |
4–1 | Soviet Union | ||
1992 Details |
Edinburgh, Scotland | Germany |
2–1 | Netherlands |
Spain |
3–1 | England | ||
1996 Details |
Cardiff, Wales | Germany |
2–2 (a.e.t.) (6–5 p.s.) |
Ukraine |
Netherlands |
3–0 | England | ||
1998 Details |
Belfast, Northern Ireland | Germany |
4–2 | Netherlands |
Ukraine |
4–3 | Spain | ||
2000 Details |
Leipzig, Germany | Netherlands |
England |
Ukraine |
Germany | ||||
2002 Details |
Alcalá la Real, Spain | Netherlands |
2–1 | England |
Germany |
2–0 | Scotland | ||
2004 Details |
Dublin, Ireland | Netherlands |
1–1 (6–5 pen.) |
Germany |
England |
5–1 | Scotland | ||
2006 Details |
Catania, Italy | Germany |
1–0 | England |
Italy |
1–1 (3–2 pen.) |
Spain | ||
2008 Details |
Valencia, Spain | Germany |
2–1 | Netherlands |
England |
5–2 | Belarus | ||
2010 Details |
Lille, France | Netherlands |
4–1 | England |
Spain |
2–1 | Germany | ||
2012 Details |
's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands | Netherlands |
9–1 | Spain |
England |
3–2 | Germany | ||
2014 Details |
Waterloo, Belgium | Netherlands |
2–0 | Germany |
England |
2–0 | Spain | ||
2017 Details |
Valencia, Spain | Netherlands |
6–0 | Belgium |
England |
3–2 | Germany | ||
2019 Details |
Valencia, Spain | Spain |
1–1 (4–3 pen.) |
Netherlands |
Germany |
1–1 (3–2 pen.) |
Belgium |
Summary
Team | Titles | Runners-up | Third places | Fourth places |
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10 (1978, 1981, 1984, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2010, 2012*, 2014, 2017) | 6 (1977, 1979, 1992, 1998, 2008, 2019) | 2 (1988, 1996) | ||
8 (1977, 1979*, 1988, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2006, 2008) | 5 (1978*, 1981, 1984, 2004, 2014) | 2 (2002, 2019) | 4 (2000*, 2010, 2012, 2017) | |
1 (2019*) | 1 (2012) | 4 (1978, 1981*, 1992, 2010) | 5 (1979, 1984, 1998, 2006, 2014) | |
5 (1988, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2010) | 5 (2004, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2017) | 2 (1992, 1996) | ||
1 (1996) | 2 (1998, 2000) | |||
1 (2017) | 1 (1979) | 2 (1981, 2019) | ||
1 (1977) | ||||
1 (1984) | ||||
1 (2006*) | ||||
2 (1977*, 1978) | ||||
2 (2002, 2004*) | ||||
1 (1988) | ||||
1 (2008) |
- * = hosts
Team appearances
Team | 1977 |
1978 |
1979 |
1981 |
1984 |
1988 |
1992 |
1996 |
1998 |
2000 |
2002 |
2004 |
2006 |
2008 |
2010 |
2012 |
2014 |
2017 |
2019 |
Total |
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4th | 4th | – | 6th | 8th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | |
Part of the Soviet Union | – | 8th | – | 6th | 6th | 6th | 4th | 5th | 8th | – | – | 9th | 8 | |||||||
– | – | 3rd | 4th | 6th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 7th | – | 5th | 5th | 2nd | 4th | 8 | |
Part of Czechoslovakia | – | 6th | 6th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 7th | – | – | 3 | ||||||
– | – | – | – | 5th | 2nd | 4th | 4th | 5th | 2nd | 2nd | 3rd | 2nd | 3rd | 2nd | 3rd | 3rd | 3rd | 6th | 15 | |
3rd | 5th | 5th | 5th | – | 8th | 8th | – | – | 8th | – | 8th | – | – | 6th | 6th | 6th | 5th | 8th | 13 | |
1st | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 4th | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 4th | 4th | 2nd | 4th | 3rd | 19 | |
– | – | – | – | 3rd | 7th | 6th | – | 7th | – | – | 7th | – | – | – | – | – | 5th | 7th | 7 | |
5th | – | – | 8th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3rd | 8th | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | |
Part of the Soviet Union | – | – | – | 8th | – | – | 6th | 7th | – | – | – | – | 3 | |||||||
2nd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 3rd | 2nd | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 5th | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 19 | |
– | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 7th | – | – | – | 1 | |
Part of the Soviet Union | 7th | – | 6th | – | – | – | – | – | – | 8th | – | 5th | 4 | |||||||
– | – | – | – | 7th | 6th | 5th | – | – | – | 4th | 4th | 8th | – | 8th | – | – | – | – | 7 | |
– | – | – | – | – | 4th | 7th | Defunct | 2 | ||||||||||||
6th | 3rd | 4th | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 3rd | 5th | 4th | 5th | 5th | 5th | 4th | 5th | 3rd | 2nd | 4th | 5th | 1st | 19 | |
– | – | – | 7th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | |
Part of the Soviet Union | 2nd | 3rd | 3rd | 7th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | |||||||
– | – | – | – | – | – | – | 8th | – | 7th | – | – | 7th | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | |
Total | 6 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 9 | [3] |
Championship II
Results
Year | Host | Final | Third place game | 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 |
Summary
Team | Winners | Runners-up | Third place | Fourth place |
---|---|---|---|---|
3 (1998, 2003, 2008) | ||||
2 (2000, 2019) | 1 (2008) | 1 (2012) | 1 (2014) | |
2 (2012*, 2017) | 3 (1998, 2006, 2010) | 1 (2003) | ||
1 (2014) | 2 (2004, 2019) | 1 (2003) | ||
1 (2004*) | 1 (1998) | 1 (2019) | ||
1 (2010) | 1 (2006) | |||
1 (2006*) | 1 (2000) | 2 (2004, 2012) | ||
2 (2000, 2017) | ||||
2 (2003, 2014) | ||||
1 (2012) | 1 (2017*) | 1 (2000*) | ||
1 (2010) | 3 (1998, 2006, 2008) | |||
3 (2004, 2008, 2014) | 2 (2010, 2019) | |||
1 (2017) |
- * = hosts
Team appearances
Team | 1998 |
2000 |
2003 |
2004 |
2006 |
2008 |
2010 |
2012 |
2014 |
2017 |
2019 |
Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
– | – | 8th | – | – | – | 8th | 6th | 7th | 4th | 7th | 6 | |
– | 8th | – | – | 8th | – | 9th | – | – | – | – | 3 | |
– | 2nd | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6th | 2nd | – | 3 | |
– | 6th | – | – | 2nd | – | 1st | – | – | – | – | 3 | |
– | 4th | 7th | 8th | – | 5th | 6th | 2nd | – | 3rd | 5th | 8 | |
1st | – | 1st | – | 5th | 1st | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | |
– | 5th | 2nd | – | – | – | – | – | 2nd | – | – | 3 | |
7th | – | 3rd | 2nd | – | – | 5th | – | 1st | – | 2nd | 6 | |
5th | 3rd | – | 4th | 1st | – | – | 4th | 9th | – | – | 6 | |
4th | 7th | – | 5th | 4th | 4th | 2nd | – | 5th | 8th | 6th | 9 | |
3rd | – | 4th | 7th | 3rd | 7th | 3rd | 1st | – | 1st | – | 8 | |
6th | 1st | – | – | – | 2nd | – | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 1st | 7 | |
8th | – | – | – | – | – | 10th | – | – | – | – | 2 | |
– | – | 6th | 6th | 7th | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | |
– | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 8th | 7th | 8th | 3 | |
– | – | – | 3rd | 6th | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 3rd | 6th | 4th | 8 | |
2nd | – | 5th | 1st | – | 6th | 7th | – | – | – | 3rd | 6 | |
Total | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 8 | [4] |
Championship III
Results
Year | Host | Final | Third place game | 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 |
Summary
Team | Winners | Runners-up | Third place | Fourth place |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 (2008) | 1 (2002) | 1 (2012) | 1 (2004) | |
1 (2004) | 1 (2006) | 1 (2002) | ||
1 (2006) | ||||
1 (2012) | ||||
1 (2000*) | ||||
1 (2002*) | ||||
2 (2000, 2008*) | 1 (2006) | |||
1 (2012) | 1 (2008) | |||
1 (2004*) | ||||
2 (2006, 2008) | ||||
1 (2004) | ||||
1 (2000) | ||||
2 (2000, 2002) | ||||
1 (2012*) |
- * = hosts
Team appearances
Team | 2000 |
2002 |
2004 |
2006 |
2008 |
2012 |
Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2nd | – | 5th | 4th | 2nd | – | 4 | |
– | 2nd | 4th | – | 1st | 3rd | 4 | |
– | – | 3rd | – | – | – | 1 | |
– | – | 6th | 5th | – | – | 2 | |
– | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | – | – | 3 | |
– | – | – | 1st | – | – | 1 | |
4th | 4th | – | – | – | – | 2 | |
– | – | – | – | – | 1st | 1 | |
1st | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | |
– | 1st | – | – | – | – | 1 | |
– | – | – | – | — | 4th | 1 | |
– | – | – | 3rd | 3rd | – | 2 | |
– | – | 2nd | – | – | – | 1 | |
3rd | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | |
– | – | – | 6th | 4th | 2nd | 4 | |
Total | 4 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | [4] |
Notes
- Includes results representing West Germany between 1976 and 1988
References
- "Qualification Criteria for FIH Junior World Cup 2021" (PDF). fih.ch. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
- "2019 Eurohockey Junior Championships – Updated". eurohockey.org. European Hockey Federation. 12 April 2019. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
- "Competitions Archive". European Hockey Federation. pp. 24–25. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
- "Competitions Archive". European Hockey Federation. p. 25. Retrieved 10 April 2020.