The men’s EuroHockey Indoor Club Cup lands in Sant Cugat, Spain, for the first time on Friday with eight teams battling it out to be champions of Europe. It is a competition featuring two recent champions and four past medalists alongside four newcomers to this level of competition.
The eight teams are initially divided into two groups of four with the top two going into the semi-finals on Saturday evening while the bottom two battle to avoid relegation.
Each game will be streamed live on www.eurohockeytv.org for free for registered users of the site.
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Here’s how the teams in Pool B line out:
Pool B
Harvestehuder THC (GER)
Appearances: 7
Best performance: Winners five times (1997, 1998, 2014, 2016, 2024)
The competition’s second most successful club after Rot-Weiss Köln, Harvestehuder THC (pictured above) are looking to win the title for a sixth time having won it most recently in 2024 with a thrilling shoot-out win over hdm in Vienna.
They have a wealth of talents at their disposal from Germany and beyond; Austria’s Fülöp Losonci and Xaver Hasun who won EuroHockey Indoor Champions 2026 and Poland’s Gracjan Jarzyński who was player of the tournament in Heidelberg are chief among them.
There is a lot of young talent, too, with Vincent Scholz voted the best Under-21 player of the tournament while his club mate Jasper Ditzer was the German goalkeeper. The latter was joined in the Junior World Cup gold medal winning side by HTHC’s Alec von Schwerin, Titus Wex, Jonas von Gersum and Jasper Ditzer.
Indeed, Anton Pöhling, von Schwerin and Ditzer were all Indoor World Cup Champions 2025 in Croatia, showing they have a wealth of skills at their disposal.
Pöhling said of the competition: “I am looking forward to an exciting tournament with thrilling and high-level matches that will demand a lot from us as a team. However, we will approach the tournament well-prepared, with great enthusiasm and energy, aiming to bring the title back to Hamburg.”
They reached the quarter-finals of the German Bundesliga this season.
HK Zelina (CRO)
Appearances: 1 (silver in Alanya in 2022)
HK Zelina are playing in the top tier for the second time, hoping they can emulate their incredible silver medal in 2022 when they finished just behind Russia’s Dinamo Elektrostal.
While that side had big help from high quality imports like Benni Wess and Jan-Philipp Rebente, this year’s vintage has a youthful, homegrown look, a group riding high having won the Croatian title once more last weekend with a final win over HAHK Mladost.
Chief among the new faces are 18-year-old Karlo Perković who debuted for the national side in January in their EuroHockey Indoor Championship II gold and 20-year-old Ivan Soić who played in the World Cup along with Mario Ilinović.
Ukraine international Bohdan Kovalenko captained the Zelina side in 2022 and he brings a wealth of experience from spells in Belarus and Austria with Post SV. There is also a strong family element with three Hrupecs and two Dananićs included in their long list of 17 players.
Junior FC (ESP)
Appearances: debut
The Sant Cugat club are hosting the men’s EuroHockey Indoor Club Cup for the first time having previously welcomed the women’s equivalent to the city in 2006.
As such, it is the perfect celebration Junior enter their 100th year of existence, riding high after a strong commitment to indoor has borne fruit. The club’s U14, U16 and U18 teams have won the national championship several times in recent years with the men’s team’s greatest achievement coming last season when they won the national title for the first time with an entirely homegrown squad.
Their team includes a mix of experienced players and young talents, including two members of the Spanish team that won the bronze medal in Heidelberg: goalkeeper Pablo Luna and Ferrán Muñoz.
Preparations for the event have included participation in the Catalan and Spanish championships, along with early-morning training sessions over the past two months. This culminated in a bronze medal finish last weekend in the Spanish championship.
“Our focus is on enjoying the experience and working hard first, and then seeing where the results take us,” says coach Fede González.
“Our team is characterised by a mix of young and veteran players. They now play together as teammates, but in previous years, the younger players were coached by the more experienced ones.
“At times, and always in good spirits, those who were once the coaches are now corrected by the players they once coached.”
Old Georgians (ENG)
Appearances: debut
England champions Old Georgians earned promotion in 2025 as winners in Budapest of the Indoor Club Trophy as their hugely experienced panel came through in exciting style.
It is a team masterminded by the legendary Ashley Jackson who is still going strong, scoring a spectacular shoot-out goal in OGs run to the English indoor title in January.
Scottish goal machine Alan Forsyth, Chris Griffiths, Dan Shingles, Tom Carson and Henry Weir have countless international tournaments under their belt while George Pinner may have retired from the outdoor stage but he was a star in the English championship.
Forsyth netted 15 times in 2025 with James Carson slotting 10, marking them out as two key threats to be aware of.
Picture: Eva Gilbert
