2024–25 Men's England Hockey League season

Men's England Hockey League
Champions	Surbiton (league); Harborne (cup)
	← 2023–24 2025–26 →

The 2024–25 Men's England Hockey League season is the 2024–25 season of England's field hockey league structure and the England Hockey Men's Championship Cup for men.^[1]^[2] The season started on 21 September 2024.^[3] Old Georgians were the defending league champions, having won the league for three successive seasons and Beeston would defend the cup.

Surbiton won the league title^[4] and Harborne won the Cup.

Format

Phase 1 - 11 matches per club determining the top six and bottom six clubs for phase 2.
Phase 2 - 5 additional matches per club determining the top eight and bottom four clubs for phase 3.
Phase 3 - 3 additional matches per club determining the top four to progress to league finals weekend and the bottom two to be relegated.

2024-25 teams

Premier Division

Team	City/town	Home pitch
Beeston	Beeston	Nottingham Hockey Centre
Bowdon	Bowdon	The Bowdon Club
Cardiff & Met	Cardiff	Sophia Gardens
East Grinstead	East Grinstead	East Grinstead Sports Club, Saint Hill Rd
Hampstead & Westminster	Paddington	Paddington Recreation Ground
Holcombe	Rochester	Holcombe Park, Curtis Way
Old Georgians	Addlestone	St George's College
Oxted	Oxted	Caterham School
Richmond	Chiswick	Quintin Hogg Memorial Sports
Southgate	Trent Park	Southgate Hockey Centre
Surbiton	Long Ditton	Surbiton HC, Sugden Road
Wimbledon	Wimbledon	Raynes Park High School

Division One South

Team	City/town	Home pitch
Canterbury	Canterbury	Polo Farm
Havant	Havant	Havant Park
Indian Gymkhana	Isleworth	Indiana Gymkhana Club, Thornbury Ave
Old Loughtonians	Chigwell	Roding Sports Centre, Luxborough Lane
Reading	Reading	Sonning Lane
Sevenoaks	Sevenoaks	Vine Cricket Ground, Hollybush Lane
Team Bath Buccaneers	Bath	University of Bath
Teddington	Teddington	Teddington School
University of Bristol	Bristol	Coombe Dingle Sports Complex
University of Exeter	Exeter	Streatham Campus

Division One North

Team	City/town	Home pitch
Brooklands Manchester University	Sale	Brooklands Sports Club
Deeside Ramblers	Tiverton	Whitchurch Road
Durham University	Durham	The Graham Sports Centre
Harborne	Harborne	Eastern Road, King Edward School
Lindum	Lincoln	Lindum Sports Club Ground, St Giles Ave
Loughborough Students	Loughborough	Loughborough University
Olton & West Warwicks	Olton	West Warwickshire Sports Club
Stourport	Stourport-on-Severn	Stourport Sports Club
University of Birmingham	Birmingham	Bournbrook
University of Nottingham	Nottingham	University of Nottingham

Tables

Premier Division

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	Pts	Section
1	Old Georgians	16	15	1	0	46	Top 6-top 8
2	Surbiton	16	12	2	2	38	Top 6-top 8
3	Holcombe	16	10	2	4	32	Top 6-top 8
4	Wimbledon	16	9	4	3	31	Top 6-top 8
5	Hampstead and Westminster	16	7	1	8	22	Top 6-top 8
6	Oxted	16	5	2	9	17	Top 6-top 8
7	Beeston	16	7	4	5	25	Bottom 6-top 8
8	East Grinstead	16	5	4	7	19	Bottom 6-top 8
9	Cardiff & Met	19	7	1	11	22	Bottom 6-bottom 4
10	Southgate	19	5	4	10	19	Bottom 6-bottom 4
11	Bowdon (R)	19	5	1	13	16	Bottom 6-bottom 4
12	Richmond (R)	19	1	2	16	5	Bottom 6-bottom 4

Top 8 - Phase 3

Pool A
Pos	Team	Pts
1	Old Georgians	9
2	Wimbledon	6
3	Hampstead & Westminster	3
4	East Grinstead	0

Pool B
Pos	Team	Pts
1	Surbiton	9
2	Oxted	5
3	Holcombe	4
4	Beeston	0

Finals weekend

All matches were played at the Nottingham Hockey Centre in Nottingham.^[5]

Semi-finals		Final

3 May

Old Georgians	4
		4 May
Oxted	0
		Old Georgians	1
3 May
		Surbiton	2
Surbiton	6

Wimbledon	2
		Third place

		4 May

		Oxted	0 (2)

		Wimbledon (pen.)	0 (3)

Semi-finals

3 May 2025
11:00

Old Georgians	4–0	Oxted
Roper 7' Forsyth 23' Marshall 30' Proctor 42'	Report

Nottingham Hockey Centre, Nottingham
Umpires:
Nicholas Bennett (ENG)
Sean Edwards (ENG)

3 May 2025
13:15

Surbiton	6–2	Wimbledon
Furlong 13', 40' Walker 30', 39', 48' Ja. Gall 49'	Report	Fox 9' Gilmour 47'

Nottingham Hockey Centre, Nottingham
Umpires:
Daniel Barstow (WAL)
Paul Walker (ENG)

Third and fourth place

4 May 2025
11:00

Oxted	0–0	Wimbledon
	Report
Penalties
Bennett Royden-Turner Axford Porter Finnegan	2–3	Gilmour Horler Francis Scott Patterson

Nottingham Hockey Centre, Nottingham
Umpires:
Nicholas Bennett (WAL)
Paul Walker (ENG)

Final

4 May 2025
15:30

Old Georgians	1–2	Surbiton
T. Carson 20'	Report	Payton 14' Walker 42'

Nottingham Hockey Centre, Nottingham
Umpires:
Daniel Barstow (WAL)
Sean Edwards (ENG)

Finals squads

Old Georgians

3. Henry Weir
4. Liam Sanford
5. David Ames
6. Kyle Marshall
8. Tom Carson
9. James Carson
10. Ashley Jackson
11. Dan Shingles
13. Sam Ward
15. Phil Roper
16. Edward Carson
17. Chris Griffiths
18. James Albery (c)
19. Chris Proctor
21. Thabang Modise
22. Matthew Brown
23 David Condon
24. Ian Sloan
27. George Pinner (gk)
77. Alan Forsyth

Oxted

1. Max Christopher (gk)
2. Josiah Wood
5. Lucas Ward
7. Robert Mugridge
8. Matthew Crookshanks
9. Thomas Rhodes-Young
10. Jack Jamieson
13. Josh Nurse
14. Chris Porter
16. Owen Williamson (c)
17. Thomas Finnegan
18. Jamie Batten
20. Adam Miller
21. Peter Jarvis
22. Charlie Axford
23. Guy Morgan
24. Michael Royden-Turner
25. Oliver Bennett
26. Isaac Dale
36. Doug Allison
45. Nick Page

Surbiton

1. James Mazarelo (gk)
3. Luke Taylor
4. Rob Farrington
5. Max Anderson
6. Nick Nurse
7. Jonny Gall
8. Tim Nurse
10 Nick Park
11. Jacob Payton
12. Ben Park
13. Struan Walker
14. Louis Gittens
15. Barry Middleton
16. Jacob Smith
17. Stuart Rushmere
19. David Goodfield (c)
21. Adam Buckle
22. William Haspel
26. James Gall
27. Conor Williamson
28. Gareth Furlong

Wimbledon

5. Jack Turner
6. Fred Newbold
7. Duncan Scott
8. Evan Kimber
9. Rhys Bradshaw
10. Rory Patterson
11. Ed Horler (c)
13. Eddie Way
15. Sam Hooper
16. James Vallely
17. Ben Fox] *18. Euan Gilmour *19. Benjamin Francis (field hockey)|Ben Francis
21. Liam Ansell
23. Jonathan Lankfer
24. Kaden Draysey
25. Nathaniel O'Dwyer
26. Connor Greentree
28. Lewis Wilcher
30. Ore Ogunlana (gk)
32. Callum Mackenzie

Division One South

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	Pts
1	Reading	18	15	1	2	46
2	Indian Gymkhana	18	13	3	2	42
3	Old Loughtonians	18	9	5	4	32
4	Sevenoaks	18	9	2	7	29
5	Teddington	18	8	5	5	29
6	University of Exeter	18	8	1	9	25
7	Havant	18	5	4	9	19
8	Canterbury	18	4	2	12	14
9	Team Bath Buccaneers (R)	18	3	3	12	12
10	University of Bristol (R)	18	3	0	15	9

Division One North

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	Pts
1	Brooklands Manchester University	18	15	1	2	46
2	Loughborough Students	18	14	3	1	45
3	University of Nottingham	18	13	0	5	39
4	Harborne	18	7	3	8	24
5	Deeside Ramblers	18	6	3	9	21
6	University of Birmingham	18	6	2	10	20
7	Olton & West Warwicks	18	5	4	9	19
8	Durham University	18	4	7	7	19
9	Lindum (R)	18	3	4	11	13
10	Stourport (R)	18	3	1	14	10

England Hockey Men's Championship Cup

Semi-finals

Date	Team 1	Team 2	Score
15 Feb	Beeston	Indian Gymkhana	0–1
6 Apr	Harborne	Canterbury	2–1

Final

Venue Nottingham Hockey Centre

Date	Team 1	Team 2	Score
17 May	Harborne	Indian Gymkhana	2–1

Final teams

Harborne

1 Daniel Whittingham (gk)
3. Jake Litchfield
4. Pete Jackson
6. Tom Thorne
7. Cameron Ley
10. James Hall
11. Louie Morris (c)
12. Tom Poustie
14. Timothy Idoine
18. Oliver Horsler
24. Alexander Idoine
25. Joshua Jones
26. Duncan Miller
52 Niall Devaney-Dykes
66. Owen Raw

Indian Gymkhana

4. Ollie Willars
5. Yurav Saund
6. Gagan Hanspal
7. Ekam Bachu
8. Amrit Singh
10. James Tindall
11. Dylan Coleman
12. Ippel Fujimoto
13. Ranjeev Deol
14. Jaggy Hanspal (c)
16. Nihal Bilkhu
18. Amaraj Flora
20. Daman Bansal
24. Amraj Soor
31. Vishal Kapila
41 Jack Christian (gk)
Paul Reeves (gk)

References

^ "Men's season preview". England Hockey. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
^ "England: premier division is back". Hockey World News. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
^ "Men's England Hockey League Week 1 2024 results". England Hockey. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
^ "England Hockey Finals: Reading women and Surbiton men land surprise titles". The Hockey Paper. 5 May 2025. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
^ "EHL Mens Premier Division Finals". englandhockey.altiusrt.com. England Hockey. Retrieved 10 May 2025.

[1] "Men's season preview". England Hockey. Retrieved 19 October 2024.

[2] "England: premier division is back". Hockey World News. Retrieved 19 October 2023.

[3] "Men's England Hockey League Week 1 2024 results". England Hockey. Retrieved 19 October 2024.

[4] "England Hockey Finals: Reading women and Surbiton men land surprise titles". The Hockey Paper. 5 May 2025. Retrieved 5 May 2025.

[5] "EHL Mens Premier Division Finals". englandhockey.altiusrt.com. England Hockey. Retrieved 10 May 2025.

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Champions	Surbiton (league) Harborne (cup)
← 2023–24 2025–26 →

2024–25 Men's England Hockey League season

Format

2024-25 teams

Premier Division

Division One South

Division One North

Tables

Premier Division

Top 8 - Phase 3

Finals weekend

Finals squads

Division One South

Division One North

England Hockey Men's Championship Cup

Semi-finals

Final

See also

References