Leicester Hockey Club News Articles

League Tables (Nearly Final)

LHC Web — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 12:25:17 +0100

Not quite the final results tables of the season, but nearly all issues regarding promotion / relegation and even finishing positions are just about sorted.

LHC1s will finish Runners-up in Div5E and congratulations on their promotion.

LHC2s will finish 4th in Div6SE.

LHC3s will finish either 8th or 9th in Div7SE.

LHC4s will finish 3rd in Div10CentralE.

There will be the usual required rejigging of leagues at the beginning of next season as new teams start, old teams fold etc. but all looking good!

Complete season info available on EH results, if you wish! (see the links on the "Meet The Team" pages)

	DIV 5 EAST	P	W	D	L	F	A	DIF	PTS
P	Repton 2	21	18	2	1	109	37	72	56
P	Leicester	21	15	2	4	127	54	73	47
	Nottingham	21	14	0	7	100	47	53	41
	Mkt Harboro	21	13	1	7	86	60	26	40
	L'boro Students 4	21	12	2	7	85	46	39	36
	Panthers	21	12	0	9	76	79	-3	36
	Melton	20	9	2	9	60	65	-5	29
	L'boro Town 3	21	8	1	12	45	65	-20	24
	Westleigh 1	21	8	0	13	52	95	-43	24
	Derby	21	7	0	14	48	68	-20	21
R	Nuneaton	20	3	0	17	36	116	-80	9
R	Khalsa Leam 3	21	1	0	20	29	121	-92	3

	DIV 6 SE	P	W	D	L	F	A	DIF	PTS
P	Saints 3	19	18	1	0	85	14	71	55
	Oundle 1	18	16	1	1	61	13	48	49
	Ashby 2	19	14	1	4	64	30	34	43
	Leicester 2	20	12	1	7	49	38	11	37
	Coventry & NW 2	19	6	5	8	36	56	-20	23
	Melton 2	18	7	1	10	42	45	-3	22
	Warwick 3	19	6	3	10	41	47	-6	21
	Berkswell & BC 2	19	6	2	11	44	45	-1	20
	Uni Warwick 3	19	5	2	12	28	63	-35	17
R	L'boro Town 4	19	3	1	15	32	55	-23	9
R	Coalville Town 2	17	0	2	15	12	88	-76	1

	DIV 7 SE	P	W	D	L	F	A	DIF	PTS
P	Sikh U (Cov) 2	21	18	0	3	119	25	94	54
P	Atherstone 2	21	17	2	2	77	25	52	53
	Rugby & EW 4	21	16	1	4	79	30	49	49
	Stratford 3	21	13	3	5	74	39	35	42
	Hampton 3	21	11	4	6	56	32	24	37
	Wellingboro 1	21	12	0	9	75	48	27	36
	Rugby & EW 5	21	10	1	10	34	57	-23	31
	Leicester 3	21	6	1	14	54	71	-17	19
	Westleigh 2	21	6	3	12	40	64	-24	19
	Saints 4	21	3	4	14	36	66	-30	13
R	Khalsa Leam 4	21	3	3	15	34	85	-51	12
R	Tamworth 2	21	0	0	21	5	141	-136	-8

	DIV 10 Central E	P	W	D	L	F	A	DIF	PTS
P	Leics City 2	17	14	0	3	73	22	51	41
	Uni Nottm Stags	17	14	0	3	123	17	106	40
	Leicester 4	17	11	0	6	57	35	22	32
	Barton 4	18	10	1	7	58	42	16	31
	Westleigh 3	17	8	0	9	45	78	-33	20
	Ashby 5	17	6	0	11	32	53	-21	17
	Nuneaton 3	17	6	0	11	28	51	-23	16
	Burton 5	17	5	2	10	28	72	-44	15
	Panthers 2	17	6	0	11	56	82	-26	14
	Leics City 3	16	3	1	12	15	63	-48	0

End Of Season Club Day & Presentation Evening

LHC Web — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 20:50:18 +0000

2022 Presentation Evening - Sat 28th May

Tickets £10.

Meet from 17.30 (light refreshments and drinks for sale)
Junior Presentations from 18.00
Break for food around 18.30 (Hog roast or vegetarian altenative)
Resume Senior Presentations around 19.15 until 19.45
Finish at 20.30

It would be great to see as many seniors as possible getting there early for the junior presentations to our future players! Likewise, it would be good to see juniors staying after the food for the senior teams - but not if they've got homework to do!

Great Cup Runs Ended

LHC Web — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 11:15:09 +0000

OUT BUT NOT DOWN!

Three LHC teams each made it to the last 16 of their respective national England Hockey Cup competitions, unfortunately they all went out in the same round. However, there is good news!

LHC is a relatively small East Midlands club with ambition and these results came in Boys under-14 competition, Men’s club competition and Masters over-40 competition – there can’t be many other teams that can say that, even from the big clubs that have ten or more teams and even hundreds of players to choose from. Well done to the 1st Team who put on an excellent display away at Nottingham Trent University (2 divisions higher and unbeaten in the league) but unfortunately lost 5-1. Well done to the u14s who had a long trip to Lancaster to take on Manx Hockey (like taking on a county team) in a rearranged fixture but lost out 7-2. Finally, well done to the Masters o40 team who went out in a penalty shoot-out against one of the biggest clubs in the Midlands after drawing 2-2 against Beeston.

Even though the competitions are “tiered” (a bit like the football competitions, so you don’t often get ties like Everton vs. Boreham Wood!); having Under14s, Mens and Over40s all progressing in their competitions, shows some quality and strength in depth. LHC Ladies start in competition next year as the Club continues to grow, the 1st Team aim for promotion and boys and girls junior provision is expanding.

Fancy a game? Want to pick up a stick? Get in touch!

Masters Lose Close Last16 Game

LHC Web — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 20:44:08 +0000

Having made it to the "Round of 16", LHC Masters (over 40s) lost a tight game at Beeston, but only after going to penalties following a 2 -2 draw.

A strong Beeston team had prolonged spells of possession, Leicester swift and dangerous on the attack. Adam opened the scoring for Leicester, but Beston drew level a couple of minutes before half-time. Leicester took the lead again through PaulL but Beeston threw everything forward and equalised in the final minutes. Cup competitions go straight to penalties and Beeston won the toss to take the first stroke, which pinged back of the post, whilst Leicester scored B0/L1 Both second strokes were saved and both third stokes were converted making it B1/L2. Beeston pulled it level on the 4th stroke, whilst the Leicester stroke was saved B2/L2. In a nail-biting end, Beeston went ahead for the first time in the game as their fifth stroke was converted and then it was Leicester's turn to have one ping back off the post - final score B3/L2.

For a much smaller club (Leicester run 4 men's teams and Beeston run 10 men's teams), it was a valiant effort and an exciting game to watch.

Match Days 2022

LHC Web — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 20:47:04 +0000

Happy New Year

Fixtures are up to date on the website for 2022, if you click on "Meet the teams", you can see each team's results and fixtures in an easy to read format.

NB: Full details are available if you follow the the links to England Hockey GMS (click on the team-page where it says results - tables)

The Club Website should include any recent changes, but the GMS pages are guaranteed to be error-free and fully up-to-date.

GMS is for league games only, whereas Club Website includes cup competitions, friendlies, badgers, vets.

Meet the team LINKS:

1st Team Page 2nd Team Page 3rd Team Page 4th Team Page Badgers Page Masters Page

Match Weekend 27th Nov 2021

LHC Web — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 16:51:28 +0000

Storm Arwen brought morning snowfall to the midlands but with temperatures above freezing the 1s were able to clear slush off the pitch and allow home games (1s and 3s) to go ahead.

Pitch Clearing Teamwork!

Early Badgers game had to be cancelled and later 4s game on sand had to be postponed. 2s away game at Coventry was also postponed.

#ChangeStartsHere

LHC Web — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 08:48:38 +0100

On 2 November 2021 England Hockey are hosting their very first #ChangeStartsTogether virtual conference, focusing on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Free / Online / 17.30-19.00

Change Starts Here

Midland League Regulations

LHC Web — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 17:25:25 +0100

FROM THE MIDLANDS HOCKEY WEBSITE:

"The Directors of Midlands Hockey have today issued the Adult League Regulations under which the Midlands Area Adult Leagues, both Men’s and Women’s, will operate.

This new single set of Adult League Regulations, which replace the 10 sets of league rules under which the Midlands Men’s, Women’s and County heritage leagues previously operated, will apply not only in the Midlands, but to the leagues run by all 8 Areas. There has been extensive deliberation and debate by representative of all 8 Areas, Officiating and EHCD and our thanks go to all those involved in reaching these agreed regulations.

The full set of Regulations, with appendices can be found here. [The amended version released on 24 August 2021 is now available on this link.]"

Until GMS is up and running there are also complete fixture lists. They are not so easy to follow, but LHC teams are in Division5 East, D6 SE, D7 SE, D10 Central.

We'll be doing our best to keep our own WebPages up to date, so just click on the links!

LHC1s LINK LHC2s LINK LHC3s LINK LHC4s LINK

October Club Social (Mon 18th)

LHC Web — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 23:49:16 +0100

Ticket Info on Facebook

All players invited to our first Club Social of 2021-22: Families/Partners/Friends - come individually or as a group. Monday October 18th (6.45 meet for 7.00 eat!) at Chef and Spice, 1 Andrewes Street. Hinckley Road, LE3 5PG Location Map - would you believe the What Three Words location is hails.effort.foods!

Salad bar
Starter bar; a wide choice of Asian, Chinese and British food
Popadoms with pickles
Dosa (spicy pancakes)
Tandoori oven, naan bread
Stir fry noodle bar
Main courses buffet bar
Teppanyaki hot griddle
Pizza
Desserts, a great range of desserts and ice creams featuring a chocolate fountain
The meat & chicken served is suitable for Halal diets.
Vegetarian options clearly labelled – ask a member of staff if you are not sure about the contents of dishes.

Tickets available NOW, just £16, book the date!

Proceeds from the evening will go to the Club's "Hardship Fund" - to assist players and families finding difficulty with the costs of sport participation.

Youth Hockey 2021-22

LHC Web — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 23:21:37 +0100

YOUTH HOCKEY

DEVELOPMENT CAMP & ACADEMY CENTRE ACTIVITY.

The Development Centre (DC) is the first stage of the Player Pathway and is open to anyone from age 11 wishing to develop their hockey. Players take part in a range of training sessions or camp-based activities to develop their skills and begin to stretch them beyond school and club hockey.

In Leicestershire, Schools & Youth run initial Development Centres as camps in early September. Players are then selected for the Academy Centre (AC), or can continue to train at a Development Centre where their progress is continually reviewed.

Dates for this year are confirmed as - Oct 10, Nov 14, Dec 12, Jan 9, Feb 13, March 13, April 10, May 1, May 5, May 15

Emails have been sent to players in the Academy about this year

If you are new to this then please register on the player pathway database (please register at Ratcliffe DC for the appropriate age group)

https://www.playerpathway.englandhockey.co.uk

England Hockey have introduced a new Talent Strategy which you may wish to look at

https://www.englandhockey.co.uk/play/future-talent-strategy

If you need further information please contact Dinesh or Jane - contact details on Schools & Youth (S & Y) website

https://www.leicschoolandyouth.org.uk/index.php/contact/contact-directory

Further info on the S&Y website -

https://www.leicschoolandyouth.org.uk/index.php