Hockey is truly a global sport and in these pages we feature some of the big hockey competitions from Europe and around the world.

We are fortunate in the UK that two of the biggest, the 2012 Olympics and the 2014 Commonwealth Games, will take place here, and so we have devoted pages to those, but we also have a World Cup relatively close to home in 2014 in The Netherlands.

Europe sees some top class tournaments for both nations and clubs, and the highly successful EuroHockey League is an example of the latter.  Europe also features a number of top class indoor competitions.

Under ‘Other International Hockey’ we feature the annual men’s and women’s Champions Trophy, together with other tournaments like