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2018 Rink Hockey European Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Spain
City	A Coruña
Dates	14–22 July 2018
Teams	11
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Spain (17th title)
Runners-up	Portugal
Third place	Italy
Fourth place	France
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The 2018 Rink Hockey European Championship, also named as EuroHockey 2018, was the 53rd edition of the Rink Hockey European Championship, a biennial tournament for men's national roller hockey teams of Europe organised by World Skate Europe - Rink Hockey, which took place between 14 and 22 July in A Coruña, Spain.^[1]

Spain won the tournament and took its seventeenth title overall.

Teams

Eleven teams joined the tournament. Andorra, Belgium and Netherlands joined the other eight teams from the previous edition.^[2]

This had the highest number of participants since 1994.

Team	Appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance
Andorra	4th	2006	Eighth place (1992, 2006)
Austria	8th	2016	Eighth place (2010, 2016)
Belgium	39th	1996	Runners-up (1947)
England	52nd	2016	Champions (1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939)
France	52nd	2016	Runners-up (1926, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1931)
Germany	49th	2016	Runners-up (1932, 1934)
Italy	51st	2016	Champions (1953, 1990, 2014)
Netherlands	33rd	2008	Third place (1963, 1967, 1969)
Portugal	48th	2016	Champions (1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1956, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1987, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2016)
Spain	40th	2016	Champions (1951, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1969, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012)
Switzerland	53rd	2016	Runners-up (1937, 2006)

Venue

All the games of the tournament took place at Pazo dos Deportes de Riazor, in A Coruña, Spain.

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Portugal	4	4	0	38	6	+32	12	Advance to play-off stage	—	5–4	—	7–1	—
2	France	4	3	1	29	10	+19	9		—	—	6–0	5–2	—
3	Andorra	4	2	2	9	19	−10	6		0–11	—	—	—	6–0
4	Switzerland	4	1	3	10	16	−6	3		—	—	2–3	—	5–1
5	Austria	4	0	4	5	40	−35	0	Advance to classification group	1–15	3–14	—	—	—

Source: EuroHockey 2018

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain (H)	5	5	0	55	4	+51	15	Advance to play-off stage	—	2–0	7–1	10–1	—	—
2	Italy	5	4	1	59	15	+44	12		—	—	11–5	9–4	—	—
3	Germany	5	3	2	34	23	+11	9		—	—	—	8–4	5–1	—
4	England	5	2	3	29	33	−4	6		—	—	—	—	6–4	14–2
5	Netherlands	5	1	4	21	45	−24	3	Advance to classification group	2–14	4–15	—	—	—	10–5
6	Belgium	5	0	5	7	85	−78	0	Advance to classification group	0–22	0–24	0–15	—	—	—

Source: EuroHockey 2018
(H) Hosts

Classification group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Austria	2	1	1	0	9	8	+1	4	—	—	4–4
2	Netherlands	2	1	0	1	19	8	+11	3	4–5	—	—
3	Belgium	2	0	1	1	7	19	−12	1	—	3–15	—

Source: zerozero.pt

Play-off stage

Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Finals

20 July

Germany	2
		21 July
France	5
		France	2
20 July
		Spain	8
Switzerland	2
				22 July
Spain	10
				Spain	6
20 July
				Portugal	3
Andorra	2
		21 July
Italy	6
		Italy	2
20 July
		Portugal	4	Third place game
England	2
				22 July
Portugal	14
				France	2

				Italy	5

5th to 8th place

Semifinals		Fifth place game

21 July

England	2
		22 July
Andorra	8
		Andorra	3
21 July
		Switzerland	5
Switzerland	7

Germany	6
		Seventh place game

		22 July

		England	6

		Germany	12

Final standings

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
1	B	Spain (H)	8	8	0	0	79	11	+68	24	Champions
2	A	Portugal	7	6	0	1	59	16	+43	18	Runners-up
3	B	Italy	8	6	0	2	72	23	+49	18	Third place
4	A	France	7	4	0	3	38	25	+13	12
5	A	Switzerland	7	3	0	4	24	35	−11	9
6	A	Andorra	7	3	0	4	22	32	−10	9
7	B	Germany	8	4	0	4	54	41	+13	12
8	B	England	8	2	0	6	39	67	−28	6
9	A	Austria	6	1	1	4	14	48	−34	4
10	B	Netherlands	7	2	0	5	40	53	−13	6
11	B	Belgium	7	0	1	6	14	104	−90	1