2018 Rink Hockey European Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Spain
City	A Coruña
Dates	14–22 July 2018
Teams	11
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Spain (17th title)
Runners-up	Portugal
Third place	Italy
Fourth place	France
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The 2018 Rink Hockey European Championship, also named as EuroHockey 2018, was the 53rd edition of the Rink Hockey European Championship, a biennial tournament for men's national roller hockey teams of Europe organised by World Skate Europe - Rink Hockey, which took place between 14 and 22 July in A Coruña, Spain. ^[1]

Spain won the tournament and took its seventeenth title overall.

Teams

Eleven teams joined the tournament. Andorra, Belgium and Netherlands joined the other eight teams from the previous edition. ^[2]

This had the highest number of participants since 1994.

Team	Appearance	Last appearance	Previous best performance
Andorra	4th	2006	Eighth place ( 1992, 2006)
Austria	8th	2016	Eighth place ( 2010, 2016)
Belgium	39th	1996	Runners-up ( 1947)
England	52nd	2016	Champions ( 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939)
France	52nd	2016	Runners-up ( 1926, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1931)
Germany	49th	2016	Runners-up ( 1932, 1934)
Italy	51st	2016	Champions ( 1953, 1990, 2014)
Netherlands	33rd	2008	Third place ( 1963, 1967, 1969)
Portugal	48th	2016	Champions ( 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1956, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1987, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2016)
Spain	40th	2016	Champions ( 1951, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1969, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012)
Switzerland	53rd	2016	Runners-up ( 1937, 2006)

Venue

All the games of the tournament took place at Pazo dos Deportes de Riazor, in A Coruña, Spain.

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Portugal	4	4	0	0	38	6	+32	12	Advance to play-off stage		—	5–4	—	7–1	—
2	France	4	3	0	1	29	10	+19	9			—	—	6–0	5–2	—
3	Andorra	4	2	0	2	9	19	−10	6			0–11	—	—	—	6–0
4	Switzerland	4	1	0	3	10	16	−6	3			—	—	2–3	—	5–1
5	Austria	4	0	0	4	5	40	−35	0	Advance to classification group		1–15	3–14	—	—	—

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain (H)	5	5	0	0	55	4	+51	15	Advance to play-off stage		—	2–0	7–1	10–1	—	—
2	Italy	5	4	0	1	59	15	+44	12			—	—	11–5	9–4	—	—
3	Germany	5	3	0	2	34	23	+11	9			—	—	—	8–4	5–1	—
4	England	5	2	0	3	29	33	−4	6			—	—	—	—	6–4	14–2
5	Netherlands	5	1	0	4	21	45	−24	3	Advance to classification group		2–14	4–15	—	—	—	10–5
6	Belgium	5	0	0	5	7	85	−78	0			0–22	0–24	0–15	—	—	—

Classification group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Austria	2	1	1	0	9	8	+1	4		—	—	4–4
2	Netherlands	2	1	0	1	19	8	+11	3		4–5	—	—
3	Belgium	2	0	1	1	7	19	−12	1		—	3–15	—

Play-off stage

	Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Finals
	20 July
	Germany	2
					21 July
	France	5
					France	2
	20 July
					Spain	8
	Switzerland	2
									22 July
	Spain	10
									Spain	6
	20 July
									Portugal	3
	Andorra	2
					21 July
	Italy	6
					Italy	2
	20 July
					Portugal	4			Third place game
	England	2
									22 July
	Portugal	14
									France	2
									Italy	5

5th to 8th place

	Semifinals				Fifth place game
	21 July
	England	2
					22 July
	Andorra	8
					Andorra	3
	21 July
					Switzerland	5
	Switzerland	7
	Germany	6
					Seventh place game
					22 July
					England	6
					Germany	12

Final standings

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
1	B	Spain (H)	8	8	0	0	79	11	+68	24	Champions
2	A	Portugal	7	6	0	1	59	16	+43	18	Runners-up
3	B	Italy	8	6	0	2	72	23	+49	18	Third place
4	A	France	7	4	0	3	38	25	+13	12
5	A	Switzerland	7	3	0	4	24	35	−11	9
6	A	Andorra	7	3	0	4	22	32	−10	9
7	B	Germany	8	4	0	4	54	41	+13	12
8	B	England	8	2	0	6	39	67	−28	6
9	A	Austria	6	1	1	4	14	48	−34	4
10	B	Netherlands	7	2	0	5	40	53	−13	6
11	B	Belgium	7	0	1	6	14	104	−90	1

References

External links

• Official website
• EuroHockey 2018 at CERS website