European men's field hockey championship 2009

European men's field hockey championship 2009
2009 EuroHockey Nations Championship
Number of nations	8th
European champion	England
Association	European Hockey Federation
venue	Amstelveen
opening	August 22, 2009
Endgame	August 30, 2009
Number of games	20th
← 11th EM 2007 13th EM 2011 →

The 2009 European field hockey championship took place in Amstelveen from August 22nd to 30th . It was the twelfth edition of the men's field hockey championship . The winner was England, who defeated the German national team in the final with 5: 3 goals. The English secured their first European title. The German team missed a historic third European Championship victory in a row and became the first men's team in hockey history to become Olympic, world and European champions at the same time.

Attendees

In addition to the first six teams of the European Championship 2007 , the two finalists of the EuroHockey Nations Trophy 2007 Austria and Poland took part in the competition. The two newcomers could not prevail and were relegated to the Nations Trophy after the EM.

game schedule

Group stage

Group A

date	Team 1	Team 2	Result
August 23, 2009 1:30 p.m.	England	Austria	5: 0 (1: 0)
23 August 2009 5:30 p.m.	Germany	Belgium	3: 2 (0: 1)
August 24, 2009 3:30 p.m.	Austria	Belgium	0: 3 (0: 1)
August 24, 2009 5:30 p.m.	England	Germany	4: 4 (1: 1)
August 26, 2009 1:30 p.m.	England	Belgium	8: 2 (4: 2)
August 26, 2009 3:30 p.m.	Austria	Germany	1: 3 (0: 1)

table

rank	country	Games	Gates	difference	Points
1	England	3	17: 6	+11	7th
2	Germany	3	10: 7	+3	7th
3	Belgium	3	7:11	−4	3
4th	Austria	3	1:11	−10	0

Group B

date	Team 1	Team 2	Result
August 22, 2009 3:30 p.m.	Netherlands	Poland	9: 0 (2: 0)
August 22, 7:30 p.m.	Spain	France	3: 0 (1: 0)
August 24, 2009 1:30 p.m.	Poland	France	2: 3 (1: 1)
August 24, 2009 7:30 p.m.	Netherlands	Spain	0: 3 (0: 1)
August 26, 2009 5:30 p.m.	Spain	Poland	6: 1 (2: 0)
August 26, 2009 7:30 p.m.	France	Netherlands	0: 6 (0: 3)

table

rank	country	Games	Gates	difference	Points
1	Spain	3	12: 1	+11	9
2	Netherlands	3	15: 3	+12	6th
3	France	3	3:11	−8	3
4th	Poland	3	3:18	−15	0

Placement games

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 Ireland and Russia are promoted for the 2011 European Championship . The games of the third against the fourth are taken over from the preliminary group.

date	Team 1	Team 2	Result
August 28, 2009 12:00 p.m.	Austria	France	2: 3
August 28, 2009 2:00 p.m.	Belgium	Poland	5-0
August 30, 2009 8:30 am	Austria	Poland	5: 4
August 30, 2009 10:30 am	Belgium	France	7-0

table

rank	country	Games	Gates	difference	Points
1	Belgium	3	15: 0	+15	9
6th	France	3	6:11	−5	6th
7th	Austria	3	7:10	−3	3
8th	Poland	3	6:13	−7	0

Finals

Semifinals

date	Team 1	Team 2	Result
August 28, 2009 16:00	Germany	Spain	2: 1 n.v. G (1: 1, - :-)
August 28, 2009 7:00 p.m.	England	Netherlands	2: 1 n.v. G (1: 1, - :-)

^GDecision and end of game after golden goal in extra time

3rd place match

date	Team 1	Team 2	Result
August 30, 2007 1:00 p.m.	Netherlands	Spain	6: 1 (2: 1)

final

date	Team 1	Team 2	Result
August 30, 2009 3:30 p.m.	Germany	England	5: 3 (2: 2)

	Semifinals				final
	August 28th - 7pm
	Germany	2
	Spain	1
					August 30th - 3:30 pm
					Germany	3
					England	5
					Game for third place
	August 28 - 4:00 pm				August 30th - 1pm
	England	2			Spain	1
	Netherlands	1 a.d.			Netherlands	6th

Final placements

Pl.	team
	England
	Germany
	Netherlands
4th	Spain
5	Belgium
6th	France
7th	Austria
8th	Poland

Web links

• Men Field Hockey XII EuroHockey (European Championship) 2009 Amstelveen (NED) - Champion England Todor Krastev on www.todor66.com
• EuroHockey schedule (PDF file; 145 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DHB selection gambled away EM victory. In: Focus.de. August 30, 2009. Retrieved November 22, 2017 .