Women’s EuroHockey Club Trophy II 2026 – May 21st to 24th, 2026 (Alanya, Türkiye)
A wide selection of well-known adversaries will battle for women’s EuroHockey Club Trophy II success this weekend in Alanya with promotion and potential EHL Ranking Table points up for grabs.
Indeed, host Metpack Alanya Stars were the host 12 months ago for the Challenge I event in which Cardiff & Met were present with both sides earning promotion.
From Trophy II in Glasgow in 2025, Clydesdale Western, HC Olten, WAC and Šiauliai Ginstrektė-Akademija were all in situ and so there will be a rare level of familiarlity between the teams.
Pool A features Alanya Stars, Rotweiss Wettingen, WAC and Šiauliai with Pool B’s sides being Cardiff, Clydesdale Western, Olten and Turkish champions Gaziantep Polisgücü.
Top in each group goes through to Sunday’s final while second in each group will battle for bronze.
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Find out more about each team here:
Pool A
Alanya Stars Hokey SK (TUR)
Alanya Stars (pictured above) will play at their highest level of European competition this year after their debut last year in the EuroHockey Club Challenge II saw them win gold in Poland.
This season, they took the bronze medal in the Turkish championship when they defeated Adana 6-2 having fallen at the semi-final stage to YFO Haydarpaşa in a shoot-out.
The side is captained by Kübra Güzelal and has experienced internationals in the line-up like Sinem Yalçin and Emine Bahçivan combining with rising stars like Gülcan Paksoy and Zeliha Kendir.
HC Rotweiss Wettingen (SUI)
Rotweiss qualified as Swiss champions last year and they will be looking to bounce back after their seventh place finish in Trophy I in 2025, ending a run of three consecutive seasons at that level.
It will be their 19th appearance on the Euro outdoor club scene since 2000 and they go in fine form on the domestic front.
They are leading the way in the Swiss league by a point over Servette with one round of matches to be played after Whitsun. Key among their goalscorers are the experienced Elena Trösch with Sophie De Lint and Jessica Aebi also on the mark regularly.
All have been part of several European campaigns and they are among the clubs with the most know-how on this stage.
WAC (AUT)
WAC are looking to continute their steady upward progression on the Euro club front, having won Challenge II in 2023, finished third in Challenge I in 2024 and then took fifth in Trophy II a year ago.
Domestically, they have reached the Austrian final for a number of years in succession and they qualified as second place finishers yet again behind city rivals AHTC.
The key players will be Amelie Malik, Pippa Bahr, Isabella Klausbruckner (former Austrian national team player) and three curreny Austrian internationals Luisa Mayer, Johanna Buchleitner and captain Carla Kemper.
Coach Bernhard Hajos says that the goal is to finish in the top four of the tournament, so to secure a second place in the group. He wants the team to bring the flow of the national championship into the tournament and get some positive results.
Captain Kemper says that the minimal goal is to stay in the Trophy II and to take the chance to develop as a team. Currently, they are second in the league.
Šiauliai Ginstrektė-Akademija (LTU)
Šiauliai Ginstrektė-Akademija are excited to arrive in Turkey to Alanya, where the club’s young players will try their hand at this level having finished in sixth place a year ago.
The club is currently undergoing a generational change, which means that the team is being renewed. The most experienced team members are Dovilė Kuklienė and team captain Samanta Jakovleva.
Viktorija Bogdanova was the best Lithuanian field hockey player in 2025 while the team also includes national team players; Rimantė Gudeliauskytė, Austėja Dimskytė, Viktorija Bogdanova, Austėja Vaičaitė, Dovilė Kuklienė.
They lead the way in first place in the Lithuanian championship as it stands.
Pool B
Cardiff & Met (WAL)
Cardiff & Met are looking forward to representing Wales at this level for the first time having won gold in the Challenge I at this same venue a year ago.
This season, they competed in England’s Women’s Conference West where they ended in third place, just behind Trojans on games won after they ended level in points.
Rhiannon Barker and Ruth Bowe will be among their goalscoring threats while Jamie Bulbring made her Welsh international debut earlier this year in the World Cup qualifiers. Amy Partridge was part of the Welsh under-21 side that played in the Junior World Cup last December.
Clydesdale Western (SCO)
Azets Clydesdale Western are back in European outdoor action after a three year break, returning to Alanya where they finished third in the EuroHockey Club Challenge I in 2023.
The Titwood based side travel to Türkiye on the back of their most successful domestic season in quite a while, winning the Scottish Cup with a decisive win over Wildcats. A week later Fiona Semple’s charges won the Championship final with a 2-1 victory over Watsonians with Semple herself scoring the winning goal thus claiming a Euro Hockey League place.
Player-coach Semple says of the tournament: “The aim is to go and perform at our best in Türkiye, naturally with the goal of winning every game. We know Europe, the heat and the opposition can throw up a number of challenges but have belief in ourselves and look forward to representing Scotland out there.
“We want as many Scottish clubs to be able to compete at the highest possible competitions and so promotion is very much the target.”
Clydesdale`s domestic statistics make encouraging reading, in their 16 league encounters they scored a total of 97 goals and only conceded ten – good shooting. The goals have come from many sources, but of late Jenny Eadie, Bronwyn Shields, Jika Nyirenda, Emma McGregor and Ava Graham have been prominent.
Gaziantep Polisgücü (TUR)
Gaziantep Polisgücü won the Turkish title last week yet again to ensure they will be back in 2027 as they saw off YFO Haydarpaşa in the final via a shoot-out.
It followed an epic 3-3 battle in normal time and sees them looking to earn promotion for themselves to Trophy I. They have good form on this stage, taking silver in Trophy II in 2024 when they finished behind Ireland’s UCD in the final at this same Alanya venue.
Goal machine Fatma Songül Gültekin was joined at the head of the Turkish competition’s top scorer list this season by club mate Perihan Cinar (19 goals each) while Ebru Cinar added 13, showing their potency in front of goal.
HC Olten (SUI)
The Swiss runners-up are looking to build on their fourth place finish a year ago in Glasgow in Trophy II with a fine 5-2 win over Šiauliai Ginstrektė-Akademija the highlight.
Indeed, this will be their fourth successive year in Euro club action with last year their best finish.
With one round left to go in the Swiss regular season, they are sitting in third place and comfortably in the playoff positions. Chief among their attacking threats will be Nora Wintenberger and Sofia Thüring along with captain Sina Muggli.
Both Wintenberger and Thüring have been involved in all four of their recent escapades along with super goalkeeper Ursinz Fazis and Diana Hoxhaj, offering them strong experience for the battles ahead.
