EGHC News

Emma and Nick Bandurak have joined East Grinstead Hockey Club, for the 2024 / 2025 season.  Click through to learn more...

The 2024 Olympic Games have begun and already the hockey has started !  Click through to find out more; how you can watch and which East Grinstead players are representing ! 

EGHC Men will open their YouTube programming for the 2021/2022 Season on Sunday September 19th with their home opener against Oxted Hockey Club in the England Hockey Premier League.  Click through to learn how to watch, subscribe and stay up to date ! 

EGHC Ladies will open our YouTube programming for the 2021/2022 Season on Saturday September 18th with their home openner against Loughborough Students in the England Hockey Premier League.  Click through to learn how to watch, subscribe and stay up to date ! 

East Grinstead Ladies 1st Team star, Laura Unsworth has been named GB Captain for upcoming Pro League Matches.  Click though for more... 

Sophie Bray was today awarded the prestigious UK Hockey Player of the Year Award for 2019 as voted by the Hockey Writers Club.  Bray becomes the fifth East Grinstead Player to win the award whilst representing the club and the first female player to do so.  The Hockey Writers Club was founded in 1972 and today consists of a group of writers, photographers, broadcasters and digital content masters whose objective is to promote hockey.

As announced by England Hockey, former EG player Alex Malzer has been selected in the GB squad for their upcoming FIH Pro League matches.

Richard Leman, one of EGHC's longest serving players and volunteers has been awarded Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen's 2018 Birthday Honours List.  Richard received the honour for "Services to Hockey". 

The Sultan Azlan Shah Cup takes place from March 3rd in Malaysia and England Men have called up three East Grinstead Players for the competition as part of preparation for the Commonwealth Games.  Read on... 

Great Britain's women are currently on a tour in Argentina as part of preparation for the forthcoming Commonwealth Games.  EG's Ellie Rayer and Laura Unsworth were included in the squad as well as former EG star, Sophie Bray.  Read on... 

Ahead of the upcoming World League finals in New Zealand, England and Great Britain have named Alex Danson as Captain and Hollie Pearne-Webb and EG's Laura Unsworth as Vice Captains.  Read on to learn more, and CONGRATULATIONS Laura Unsworth !!!!!  Laura will be back in action for EG after Christmas following the World League Finals and the Indoor break.

EGHC's Men's 1st Team played their first home match of the season on Sunday October 8th, hosting a Holcombe side that was coming straight off the back of a win against new Premier League side Sevenoaks.  Read on for details... 

Recently, 1-2-1 Coaching interviewed Glenn Kirkham about his transition into the role of Head Coach at EG and his approach to coaching.  Click through for the link and to learn more ! 

Today, England Hockey announce that it will become a part of the new International Hockey Pro League, to begin in January 2019.  The new league, which is due to launch in January 2019, will see the nine best men's and nine best women's teams from around the world play each other home and away every year, across a total of 144 games. The fixtures will take place in national stadiums, week in, week out, from January to June.

Its been a busy and successful few weeks for England and GB's David Condon and Chris Griffiths.  Both were named yesterday in the England Squad to compete in the Summer's World League competition.

Great Britain's men lifted the Azlan Shah Cup after beating Australia in a seven-goal thriller in Malaysia.

No side from the British Isles had won the title since England in 1994, and GB saw off the nine-time champions in an incredible final.

Goals from Alan Forsyth and David Goodfield put GB into an early lead before Eddie Ockenden pegged one back, but Ollie Willars was on hand to extend the lead once again.

Joshua Pollard and Dylan Wotherspoon netted either side of Goodfield's second goal of the game to make for a tense finale but GB held firm to ensure a memorable victory.

Great Britain's women's hockey team won the Sporting Role Model Team award at the Women's Sports Trust #BeAGameChanger Awards.

Hockey as a whole has evolved after the successful Gold medal victory in Rio with participation expanding in both the men's and women's games across all ages.

​BT Sport ESPN - Sky Channel 426 - will be showing GB Men's victory in the Sultan Azlan Trophy this evening.  In fact it started showing just a few moments ago at 18:45, so tune in fast !!!