Men's Field Hockey FIH Pro League 2022 - 2023

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Men's Field Hockey FIH Pro League 2022 - 2023

 

Multi-Stage Event - 28 October 2022 - 5 July 2023

 

 

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Edited October 18, 2022 by Sindo

[NaBUru38 219]

There's a new tournament format to reduce travel. There will be 12 mini tournaments with 3 teams, played over a double round robin over a week. Therefore, every team will play every rival twice, as in previous years.

 

• India will host New Zealand and Spain from October 28 to November 6.
• Argentina will host Belgium and Germany on November 4-9.
• Argentina will host Britain and Netherlands on December 3-18.
• Australia will host Argentina and Spain from February 28 to March 5.

 

Germany and Spain will host no rounds. Australia and New Zealand will host one round each. The other five countries will host two rounds.

Edited October 25, 2022 by NaBUru38

[De_Gambassi 1,276]

1 hour ago, NaBUru38 said:

There's a new tournament format to reduce travel. There will be 12 mini tournaments with 3 teams, played over a double round robin over a week. Therefore, every team will play every rival twice, as in previous years.

 

• India will host New Zealand and Spain from October 28 to November 6.
• Argentina will host Belgium and Germany on November 4-9.
• Argentina will host Britain and Netherlands on December 3-18.
• Australia will host Argentina and Spain from February 28 to March 5.

 

Germany and Spain will host no rounds. Australia and New Zealand will host one round each. The other five countries will host two rounds.

The whole point of this Pro League was to move away from the tournaments format and to provide regular home games helping growing a fan base in each country 

[JoshMartini007 2,804]

4 minutes ago, De_Gambassi said:

The whole point of this Pro League was to move away from the tournaments format and to provide regular home games helping growing a fan base in each country 

I think the FIH overestimated the amount of money even the top nations have to spend on travel.

[LDOG 2,472]

An additional problem besides traveling costs was that many windows clashed with decisive stages of european leagues which made many teams play some pro league games with B/C squads.  

 

If you check the schedule for this year it's all compressed in November-February (when many european leagues do a long winter stop) and then straight to June when all european leagues are over.  

[De_Gambassi 1,276]

4 hours ago, JoshMartini007 said:

I think the FIH overestimated the amount of money even the top nations have to spend on travel.

Likely, yes and also revenues they were expecting didn't happen. I don't think the competition will survive much longer.

[NaBUru38 219]

Playing a double round robin home and away was just too expensive. This format seems quite reasonable, though I'd rather see three simultaneous groups playing at the same week rather than spread out along the year.

[owenp_23 564]

Heading into the final week, has the lead in the standings but the championship is really down to and .

 

Netherlands has two matches remaining, both against Belgium.

 

Current Standings

1. 32 pts (0 remaining)

2. 30 pts (0 remaining)

3. 29 pts (2 remaining)

4. 24 pts (4 remaining)

[owenp_23 564]

wins the Pro League by beating on their home soil twice.

 

Final Standings

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