A feast of international hockey has lift-off at Dundee International Sports Centre with Day 1 of the EuroHockey Women’s Indoor Club Cup. Matches start at 10am with admission on the door.
European indoor hockey comes to Dundee this weekend as MJV Dundee Wanderers host the EuroHockey Women’s Indoor Club Cup from 23-25 February. The European Hockey Federation’s (EHF) premier indoor club competition features the top eight club teams in Europe.
Dundee Wanderers gained promotion to the top tier of European indoor hockey by winning the silver medal at the Trophy event in Lithuania in 2017 – a huge success for hockey in Scotland. And in addition to Wanderers’ Carmin Dow and Emily Dark, two current Scottish internationalists, the tournament will feature many of the stars of the recent FIH World Indoor Hockey Championships.
Among the visiting stars to look out for are gold medallists from Germany, Janne Muller-Wieland and Marie Mavers of UHC Hamburg, together with silver medallists Marjin Veen and Noor de Baat of AH&BC and three bronze medal winners Sviatlana Bahushevich, Nadzeya Silitskaya, Yuliya Kurhanskaya of GHC Ritm Grodno.
Competing clubs:-
HC Rotweiss Wettingen (Switzerland)
MSC Sumchanka (Ukraine)
AH&BC (The Netherlands)
GHC Ritm Grodno (Belarus)
Club Campo de Madrid (Spain)
UHC Hamburg (Germany)
SV Arminem (Austria)
MJV Dundee Wanderers (Scotland)
This is the full EuroHockey Women’s Indoor Club Cup match schedule and latest results.
Play starts at 10am with Switzerland’s Wettingen against MSC Sumchanka from Ukraine in Pool B, the first of a total of eight matches throughout the day. The hosts play their opening match in Pool A at 1.30pm against Club Campo de Madrid from Spain before closing the opening day’s play at 7.30pm with a match against Austria’s SV Arminem.
Admission for spectators at the EuroHockey Women’s Indoor Club Cup is on the day: Adults £2/Under 16s free.