2019–20 Men's Hockey League season

Men's England Hockey League
Season2019–20
ChampionsSurbiton (3rd title)
RelegatedReading
Euro Hockey LeagueSurbiton
Hampstead & Westminster
Matches played90
Goals scored495 (5.5 per match)
Top goalscorerLuke Taylor (28 goals)
Biggest home winWimbledon 12–0 University of Exeter
Biggest away winBrooklands 0–12 Surbiton
Highest scoringWimbledon 12–0 University of Exeter
Brooklands 0–12 Surbiton
Surbiton 8–4 Hampstead & Westminster

The 2019–20 Men's England Hockey League season was the 2019–20 season of England's field hockey league structure. The season started on 14 September 2019 and was due to end in March 2020, but finished on 12 September 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.[1]

The defending champions were Hampstead and Westminster.[2] Old Georgians, winners of the Hockey League Conference East replaced the relegated Sevenoaks.

On 17 March 2020, the play-offs were suspended due to COVID.[3] The play-offs were officially cancelled on 28 April 2020 and Surbiton were crowned champions.[4]

Beeston Hockey Club won the delayed Championship Cup on 12 September 2020, defeating Bowdon and Fareham respectively.[5]

Regular season

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Surbiton (C) 18 15 2 1 93 25 +68 47 Qualification for the Euro Hockey League
2 Hampstead & Westminster 18 13 2 3 64 38 +26 41
3 Wimbledon 18 12 3 3 73 29 +44 39
4 Old Georgians 18 11 4 3 63 40 +23 37
5 Holcombe 18 7 5 6 51 53 −2 26
6 Beeston 18 6 2 10 37 41 −4 20
7 East Grinstead 18 4 2 12 31 65 −34 14
8 Brooklands 18 4 1 13 28 64 −36 13
9 University of Exeter 18 3 2 13 28 77 −49 11
10 Reading (R) 18 2 3 13 29 65 −36 9 Relegation to Division One
Source: England Hockey
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away BEE BRO EGS H&W HOL OG REA SUR UOE WIM
Beeston — 3–1 2–1 3–4 3–4 1–2 2–2 1–7 2–1 3–2
Brooklands 2–1 — 2–1 3–4 1–1 1–3 4–1 0–12 2–3 1–3
East Grinstead 1–5 5–3 — 1–6 4–3 0–5 2–1 0–5 2–2 3–4
Hampstead & Westminster 2–0 2–1 3–0 — 4–4 3–4 5–0 1–1 6–3 1–3
Holcombe 2–2 3–1 5–3 1–6 — 4–5 6–2 2–3 3–2 3–3
Old Georgians 2–1 3–1 5–0 1–3 3–3 — 5–2 3–4 5–1 3–3
Reading 2–1 3–1 1–3 3–4 2–3 4–4 — 1–10 0–3 1–3
Surbiton 4–2 7–0 4–1 8–4 3–1 3–3 4–0 — 7–0 1–3
University of Exeter 0–5 2–3 2–2 1–4 0–2 2–5 3–2 2–8 — 1–7
Wimbledon 2–0 7–1 7–2 1–2 6–1 4–2 2–2 1–2 12–0 —
Source: England Hockey
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

As of 15 March 2020[6]
Rank Player Club FG PC PS Goals
1 England Luke Taylor Surbiton 0 27 1 28
2 England Ed Horler Wimbledon 15 9 0 24
3 South Africa Matthew Guise-Brown Hampstead & Westminster 0 23 0 23
4 Scotland Alan Forsyth Surbiton 19 0 1 20
5 England Nick Bandurak Holcombe 13 4 0 17
6 England Sam Ward Old Georgians 9 6 1 16
7 England Ben Boon Surbiton 14 1 0 15
England Tom Carson Old Georgians 12 3 0
9 Wales Ben Francis Wimbledon 13 0 0 13
10 England James Tindall Old Georgians 8 4 0 12

Play-offs

The semi-finals were scheduled to be played on 29 March at the home club venues and the final was scheduled to be played on 5 April at the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre in London. On 17 March 2020, the play-offs were suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom.[3] The play-offs were officially cancelled on 28 April 2020[4]

Bracket

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
29 March – Long Ditton
 
 
Surbiton
 
5 April – London
 
Old Georgianscancelled
 
 N/A
 
29 March – London
 
N/Acancelled
 
Hampstead & Westminster
 
 
Wimbledoncancelled
 

England Hockey Men's Championship Cup

Quarter-finals

Team 1 Team 2 Score
Beeston Belper 12-2
Southgate University of Birmingham 3-2
Bowdon Timperley 0-0 (4-1 pens)
Fareham Canterbury w/o - conceded

Semi-finals

Team 1 Team 2 Score
Bowdon Beeston 2-2 (7-8p)[5]
Fareham Southgate 4-3 [5]

Final

Team 1 Team 2 Score Scorers
Beeston Fareham 9-1 [5] Dixon, Apoola (4), Griffiths (3), Alcalde / Boxall

Beeston
Simon Hujwan (gk), Joshua Pavis, Ollie Willars, Kyle Marshall, Robbie Gleeson, Gareth Griffiths, Tom Crowson, Nick Park, Henry Croft, Alex Blumfield, Adam Dixon, Lucas Alcalde, Chris Proctor, Sam Apoola, Matthew Crookshanks, James Hunt.
Fareham
Rory Kemp (gk), Sam Ratcliffe, Tom Larcombe, Christian McKenna, Shane Vincent, Niall Stott, Danny Rawlings, Fergus Jackson, Josh Steel, Alex Boxall, Phillip Larcombe; subs-Jamie Young, Neil West, Dylan Coleman, Christopher Tagg, Alex Beckett.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Men's Hockey League Premier Division". England Hockey. 20 October 2023.
  2. ^ "New Champions of Men's Hockey League are Hampstead & Westminster". England Hockey. 20 October 2023.
  3. ^ a b "England Hockey suspends national hockey activity". Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  4. ^ a b "Surbiton crowned double champions as England Hockey reconciles 2019/20 season". Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  5. ^ a b c d "Men's Tier 1 Championships". England Hockey. 20 October 2023.
  6. ^ "Individual Statistics - Goal Scorers". englandhockey.altiusrt.com. England Hockey.