Monday, September 14 – Dublin: The EY Hockey League, Eire’s highest division of membership hockey, returns this weekend with each the Ladies’s and Males’s competitions getting underway on Saturday, September 19.
The 2026/27 season will see 10 Ladies’s and 10 Males’s groups from throughout Eire compete throughout 18 rounds of elite-level competitors, with all sides aiming to complete the marketing campaign as EY Hockey League winners.
The highest six groups in every League after 18 rounds will then advance to the EY Champions Trophy weekend, the place the final word Champions for the season will likely be topped. Each the EY Hockey League winners and EY Champions Trophy winners will earn qualification to EuroHockey’s membership competitors, representing Eire. The format applies equally throughout each the Ladies’s and Males’s Leagues.
The brand new season guarantees one other extremely aggressive marketing campaign, with reigning Males’s EY Hockey League and EY Champions Trophy winners Lisnagarvey trying to defend each of their titles. They are going to face robust competitors from native rivals Banbridge, Monkstown, YMCA, Corinthian, Avoca, Pembroke Wanderers and Three Rock Rovers, whereas newly promoted Cork Harlequins return to the topflight and Portrane put together to make their EY Hockey League debut.
Within the Ladies’s competitors, 2025/26 league winners Loreto will likely be concentrating on a exceptional fourth successive EY Hockey League title. Railway Union could have their sights firmly set on league success following their trio of triumphs within the EY Champions Trophy, whereas Pegasus, Pembroke Wanderers, College Faculty Dublin, Queen’s College Belfast, Previous Alex and Portadown will all be aiming to problem on the prime finish of the desk.
Newly promoted Monstown and Ards can even convey contemporary competitors to the Ladies’s League, with each returning to the highest desk following a one-year absence.
Simon MacAllister, EY Eire Accomplice, Co-Head of Geopolitical Technique, Accomplice Sponsor of Hockey Eire:
“EY Eire is delighted to proceed our help of the EY Hockey League as we kick off one other season of top-class competitors, throughout each the lads’s and girls’s leagues.
It’s good to see the league go from power to power, with newly promoted groups stepping up and much more video games out there to followers by means of Hockey Eire TV this 12 months.
For us, hockey brings collectively the identical qualities we worth in our personal folks and our purchasers, teamwork, ambition, and a drive to maintain enhancing, and it’s a privilege to again a sport that’s rising so visibly.
We’re wanting ahead to seeing all of it unfold this season and good luck to all.”
Richard Fahey, CEO of Hockey Eire:
“The EY Hockey League showcases the standard and ambition of membership hockey throughout Eire. We sit up for one other aggressive season and welcome our newly promoted groups. EY’s continued help helps us construct the profile of each the ladies’s and males’s sport, whereas expanded Hockey Eire TV protection will give extra supporters the chance to observe their golf equipment. Finest needs to all gamers, coaches, officers and volunteers for the season forward.”
Hockey Eire TV additionally returns for the 2026/27 season, promising followers much more reside and on-demand protection than final season. The expanded programme will as soon as once more convey the perfect of home hockey to supporters throughout the island of Eire, with a season move remaining at simply EUR 39.99.
Protection will get underway throughout Spherical 1 of the EY Hockey League, giving followers the chance to observe the motion all through one other thrilling season of elite home hockey.
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