Dublin to host 2022 EuroHockey Championship qualifier

Ireland will host the women’s 2022 EuroHockey Championship qualifier event while the Irish men are bound for Calais, France for their competition next summer.

These tournaments are new on the international calendar with the winners of each event qualifying for the top tier of European action in 2023 in Monchengladbach. That tournament, in turn, will potentially offer a high quota of Olympic qualifying berths.

The European Hockey Federation confirmed the breakdown of events on Thursday morning with both events running between August 21^st and 27^th, 2022.

The 12^th ranked Irish women will be the top seed for a Dublin-based event which also features Poland (27^th), the Czech Republic (24^th), Turkey (33^rd) and Finland (unranked).

The venue will be finalised in due course and will provide a first major home event since 2019 when Banbridge hosted the World Series Finals and Donnybrook brought a record crowd for the Olympic Qualifiers.

The 14^th ranked men have a tough competition, placed in Qualifier B alongside host side France – 13^th in the world – as well as Ukraine (28^th), Turkey (44^th), Lithuania (62^nd) and Slovenia (71^st).

Previously, the level of European championship competition countries took part in was on a promotion and relegation basis.

This new format sees four men’s and four women’s qualifier tournaments with one ticket to the top tier championships in 2023 on offer from each event.

The second and third placed finishers in each tournament will play in the 2023 EuroHockey Trophy; fourth and fifth placed sides go to the third tier while the remaining teams will go into the fourth tier.

2022 EuroHockey Championship qualifiers (all August 2022)

Men

Qualifier A (Ourense, Spain): Spain, Poland, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia

Qualifier B (Calais, France): France, IRELAND, Ukraine, Turkey, Slovenia

Qualifier C (Vienna, Austria): Austria, Russia, Belarus, Croatia, Denmark, Hungary

Qualifier D (TBC, Scotland): Scotland, Wales, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Gibraltar, Finland

Women

Qualifier A (Durham, England): England, Wales, Russia, Croatia, Slovakia

Qualifier B (Dublin, Ireland): Ireland, Poland, Czech Republic, Turkey, Finland

Qualifier C (TBC): Belarus, Italy, Ukraine, Lithuania, Gibraltar

Qualifier D (Dunkirk, France): France, Scotland, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Slovenie

Name	Provider	Purpose
ajs_anonymous_id seg_xid	Segment	ajs_anonymous_id and seg_xid contain the data that Segment needs to track the behaviour of the visitor when interacting with IOC digital properties. These cookies are used by the IOC to identify the user so that user actions on the site may be collected and used by the IOC in order to measure and understand traffic and to improve and personalize the user experience, build a profile and to show the user and other people relevant adverts and content. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) manages and benefits from the data generated by these cookies in accordance with the IOC Privacy Policy
uid	Adform	uid is a unique identifier, enabling IOC to target ads to users, to evaluate how well their ads work, and to see users opt-out choices. With reference to this unique identifier, the IOC is able to target you with relevant advertisements on other websites. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) manages and benefits from the data generated by these cookies in accordance with the IOC Privacy Policy
DSID, FLC, AID, TAID, _gads,‘_gads, SID,HSID	Essence - Floodlight Google Campaign Manager	hese cookies enable the conversions tracking of marketing campaigns, provide reporting and verification, and build audiences for retargeting. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) manages and benefits from the data generated by these cookies in accordance with the IOC Privacy Policy