European Women's Field Hockey Championship 2009

The 2009 European Field Hockey Championship for women is the ninth edition of the European Field Hockey Championship for women. It took place from August 22 to 29, 2009 in Amstelveen in the Netherlands .

The venue was the Wagener Stadium , which had already been the venue for the Men's World Cup in 1973 and the Men's European Championship in 1983 and four Champions Trophies . The winners were the Netherlands, who defeated the German national team in the final with 3-2 goals. The Dutch women have secured their seventh European title in nine championships so far.

Preliminary round

Group A

Date / time	Team 1	Team 2	Result
August 22nd - 1.30pm	Netherlands	Azerbaijan	10-0
August 22nd - 5:30 pm	England	Russia	4-0
23 August - 3:30 p.m.	Netherlands	England	5-0
23 August - 7:30 p.m.	Azerbaijan	Russia	1: 1
August 25th - 5:30 pm	Azerbaijan	England	1: 4
August 25th - 7:30 pm	Netherlands	Russia	9-0

table

rank	country	Games	Gates	difference	Points
1	Netherlands	3	24: 0	+24	9
2	England	3	8: 6	+2	6th
3	Russia	3	1:14	-13	1
4th	Azerbaijan	3	2:15	-13	1

Group B

Date / time	Team 1	Team 2	Result
August 22 - 9:30	Spain	Scotland	3: 1
August 22 - 11:30	Germany	Ireland	7-0
August 23 - 9:30	Ireland	Scotland	0-0
August 23 - 11:30	Germany	Spain	2: 1
August 25th - 1.30pm	Ireland	Spain	1: 4
August 25th - 3:30 pm	Germany	Scotland	4-0

table

rank	country	Games	Gates	difference	Points
1	Germany	3	13: 1	+12	9
2	Spain	3	8: 4	+4	6th
3	Scotland	3	1: 7	–6	1
4th	Ireland	3	1:11	-10	1

Final round

Relegation games

The third and fourth of both groups form a relegation group. The last two have to relegate to the Nations Trophy, from which Belgium and Italy will be promoted for the 2011 European Championship . The games of the third against the fourth are taken over from the preliminary group.

Date / time	Team 1	Team 2	Result
August 27 - 12:00	Russia	Scotland	1: 1
August 27th - 2:00 pm	Azerbaijan	Ireland	1: 2
August 29th - 8:30 am	Russia	Ireland	1: 1
August 29 - 10:30	Azerbaijan	Scotland	3: 1

table

rank	country	Games	Gates	difference	Points
5	Ireland	3	3: 2	+1	5
6th	Azerbaijan	3	5: 4	+1	4th
7th	Russia	3	3: 3	0	3
8th	Scotland	3	2: 4	-2	2

Finals

	Semifinals				final
	August 27 - 4:00 pm
	Netherlands	5
	Spain	1
					August 29th - 3:30 pm
					Netherlands	3
					Germany	2
					Game for third place
	August 27th - 7:00 pm				August 29th - 1pm
	England	1			Spain	1
	Germany	2 n. V.			England	2

Web links

• EuroHockey (PDF file; 54 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Hockey women lose the European Championship final against the Netherlands ( Memento from September 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) at newsticker.sueddeutsche.de, August 29, 2009