Hockey Australia

For the governing body of ice hockey in Australia, see Ice Hockey Australia.

Hockey Australia is an organisation that formed from the merger of the Australian Hockey Association and Women's Hockey Australia in 2000. It is the national body responsible for the promotion, development and administration of field hockey in Australia. Hockey Australia is a full member of the International Hockey Federation and comprises the State and Territory associations.

Hockey Australia Limited

Sport	Field hockey
Jurisdiction	Australia
Abbreviation	HA
Founded	2000 (2000)
Affiliation	FIH
Affiliation date	1925
Regional affiliation	OHF
Headquarters	Melbourne, Victoria
President	Ross Sudano
CEO	David Pryles
Vice president(s)	Patrick Hall Sandra Sully
Director	Brent Clark, Max Diamond, Sally Carbon, Joanne Scanlon, Craig Roberts, Colin Murphy
Men's coach	Colin Batch
Women's coach	Katrina Powell
Sponsor	Australia Institute of Sport
Official website
www.hockey.org.au

History

The British Army has been credited with the spread of hockey throughout the world, but in Australia's case, the British Navy deserves the honours. In the late 1800s, Australia did not have a naval fleet of its own and relied upon the Royal Navy for the security of the coastline. The British Naval officers stationed in Australia taught the locals the game of hockey and laid the foundations for a sport which Australians have developed and mastered.

National teams

Hockey Australia is the governing body that oversees Australia's National Teams.

• The Kookaburras (Men)
• The Hockeyroos (Women)
• The Burras (Under 21 Men)
• The Jillaroos (Under 21 Women)
• Australia women's national indoor hockey team
• Australia Men's national indoor hockey team

Tournaments

Hockey Australia organises National Tournaments, at various levels. These are as follows:

• Australian Hockey League 1991–2018 (Men) 1991–2018 (Women), Replaced by Hockey One
• Hockey One 2019–present (Men & Women)
• National Championships Last Run in 1993 (Women) 1994 (Men), Replaced by AHL
• Under 21 National Championships
• Under 18 National Championships
• Under 16 National Championships
• Under 14 National Championships
• National Country Championships
• Veterans National Championships
• Under 14 Indoor National Championships
• Under 16 Indoor National Championships
• Under 18 Indoor National Championships
• Under 21 Indoor National Championships
• Opens Indoor National Championships

In August 2015, Hockey Australia announced its Indoor Australian Championships will be held in Wollongong in 2016 and 2017. The three-week festival of indoor hockey will be played at the Illawarra Hockey Centre, in Wollongong. Championships will be played in Open, Under 15, Under 18 and the Under 21 categories, as well as a new Under 13 event, over the 23 days. This is the first time all Australian Indoor Championships are held in one venue.

Championship results

Source:

Men

The Australian Hockey League is the premier field hockey competition in Australia, it began in 1991, with its arrival the Open National Championships were discontinued.

Year	Open	Under 21	Under 18 (Under 16 until 1981, Under 17 from 1982–1993)	Under 16 (Under 15 from 1980–2023)	Under 14 (Under 13 til 2023)
1925	Victoria
1926	Victoria
1927	New South Wales
1928	South Australia
1929	Western Australia
1930	Victoria
1931	No Competition
1932	Queensland
1933	Queensland
1934	Queensland
1935	New South Wales
1936	Western Australia
1937	Queensland
1938	Western Australia
1939	Queensland
1946	Victoria	Western Australia
1947	Queensland	Victoria
1948	Queensland	Western Australia
1949	New South Wales	Western Australia
1950	Western Australia Queensland	New South Wales	New South Wales
1951	New South Wales	Western Australia	New South Wales
1952	Western Australia	Western Australia	Western Australia
1953	New South Wales	Queensland	Western Australia
1954	Queensland	New South Wales	Western Australia
1955	Western Australia	New South Wales	Western Australia
1956	Western Australia	Queensland	Queensland
1957	New South Wales	New South Wales	Western Australia
1958	Western Australia	Queensland	Western Australia
1959	Queensland	New South Wales	Queensland
1960	Western Australia	New South Wales	Victoria
1961	Queensland	Queensland	New South Wales
1962	Western Australia	Western Australia	Western Australia
1963	Western Australia	Queensland	South Australia
1964	Western Australia	Queensland	New South Wales
1965	Western Australia	South Australia	South Australia
1966	Western Australia	Western Australia	New South Wales
1967	Western Australia	Western Australia	New South Wales
1968	Queensland	South Australia	Queensland
1969	Western Australia	New South Wales	New South Wales
1970	Western Australia	South Australia	Western Australia
1971	Victoria	South Australia	Queensland
1972	South Australia Western Australia	Victoria	New South Wales
1973	Queensland	South Australia	Western Australia
1974	Western Australia	Western Australia	New South Wales
1975	Western Australia	South Australia	Victoria
1976	Western Australia	Queensland	Queensland
1977	Western Australia	Queensland	Victoria
1978	South Australia	Victoria	Queensland
1979	Western Australia	Victoria	Victoria
1980	South Australia	Victoria	New South Wales	Queensland
1981	Western Australia	South Australia	Queensland	New South Wales
1982	Western Australia	Western Australia	Queensland	Western Australia
1983	Western Australia	Western Australia	New South Wales	Western Australia
1984	Western Australia	New South Wales	Western Australia	New South Wales
1985	Victoria	Victoria	New South Wales	New South Wales
1986	Western Australia	Queensland	Queensland	Queensland
1987	Western Australia	New South Wales	Victoria	Queensland
1988	Victoria	Western Australia	Victoria	Queensland
1989	New South Wales	Victoria	Queensland	New South Wales
1990	New South Wales	New South Wales	Western Australia	Victoria
1991	Western Australia	Queensland	Western Australia	New South Wales
1992	Victoria	Victoria	Victoria	New South Wales
1993	Not Held	Victoria	New South Wales	New South Wales
1994	Queensland	Queensland	Victoria	Queensland
1995	Discontinued	New South Wales	New South Wales	New South Wales
1996		Western Australia	New South Wales	Western Australia
1997		Queensland	Victoria	Victoria
1998		Victoria	Western Australia	Queensland
1999		Victoria	Victoria	Western Australia
2000		Queensland	New South Wales	Northern Territory
2001		Queensland	Queensland	Western Australia
2002		Western Australia	Western Australia	Queensland
2003		Victoria	Northern Territory	Victoria	Queensland
2004		New South Wales	Western Australia	Victoria	Queensland
2005		Western Australia	Western Australia	Queensland	Queensland
2006		Victoria	New South Wales	New South Wales	Queensland
2007		Victoria	Queensland	New South Wales	Victoria
2008		Queensland	Queensland	New South Wales	Victoria
2009		Queensland	Queensland	New South Wales	New South Wales
2010		Victoria	Queensland	New South Wales	New South Wales
2011		Western Australia	New South Wales	New South Wales	Victoria
2012		Queensland	New South Wales	New South Wales	New South Wales
2013		Queensland	Victoria	New South Wales	Victoria
2014		New South Wales	Queensland	New South Wales	New South Wales
2015		Victoria	Western Australia	Western Australia	Victoria Blue
2016		Victoria	Western Australia	Queensland	Victoria Blue
2017		New South Wales	New South Wales State	New South Wales State	Victoria Blue
2018		Tasmania	Victoria	Queensland Maroon	Western Australia Storm
2019		New South Wales	Queensland	Western Australia Gold	Victoria Venom
2020		Cancelled due to the COVID-19 Global Pandemic
2021		Cancelled due to the COVID-19 Global Pandemic	New South Wales State	New South Wales State	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 Global Pandemic
2022		Western Australia	Western Australia Gold	Queensland Maroon	Victoria Venom
2023		Western Australia	Tasmania	Queensland Maroon	Western Australia Lightning
2024		Western Australia	Victoria	Queensland Maroon	Western Australia Gold

Women

Year	Open	Under 21	Under 18 (Under 19 1976-1983)	Under 16 (Under 15 from 2003-2023, Invitational til 2002)	Under 14 (Under 13 til 2023)
1910	New South Wales
1911	Tasmania
1912	New South Wales
1913	South Australia
1914	New South Wales
1920	Tasmania
1921	South Australia Tasmania
1922	Tasmania
1923	South Australia
1924	New South Wales
1925	South Australia
1926	Victoria
1927	New South Wales
1928	New South Wales Victoria
1929	Western Australia
1931	New South Wales
1932	Tasmania Victoria
1933	Tasmania
1934	Tasmania
1935	Tasmania Victoria
1936	New South Wales
1937	New South Wales
1938	Western Australia
1939	Western Australia
1946	Western Australia
1947	Western Australia
1948	New South Wales Western Australia
1949	Western Australia
1950	Western Australia
1951	Western Australia
1952	Western Australia
1953	Western Australia
1954	New South Wales
1955	Western Australia
1957	Western Australia
1958	Western Australia
1959	Western Australia
1960	Western Australia
1961	Queensland
1962	Western Australia
1963	Western Australia
1964	Western Australia
1965	Western Australia South Australia
1966	Western Australia
1967	Western Australia
1968	South Australia Western Australia
1969	Western Australia
1970	South Australia Western Australia
1971	Victoria
1972	Western Australia
1973	Western Australia
1974	Western Australia
1975	Western Australia		Queensland
1976	Western Australia		Queensland
1977	Western Australia		New South Wales
1978	New South Wales Queensland Tasmania		Queensland
1979	Western Australia		Queensland Western Australia
1980	Queensland		Queensland
1981	Western Australia		Queensland
1982	Western Australia		Queensland
1983	Queensland		Queensland
1984	New South Wales	Queensland	Queensland
1985	Western Australia	Western Australia	Western Australia
1986	Western Australia	New South Wales	New South Wales
1987	Western Australia Queensland	Queensland	Queensland Western Australia
1988	Western Australia	Western Australia	New South Wales
1989	Western Australia	New South Wales	Queensland
1990	Western Australia	Queensland	New South Wales Queensland
1991	Western Australia	Queensland	Queensland Victoria
1992	Queensland	Queensland	Queensland
1993	Queensland	Queensland	New South Wales
1994	Discontinued	Victoria	New South Wales
1995		Victoria	New South Wales Queensland
1996		Victoria	Western Australia
1997		New South Wales	Western Australia
1998		Victoria	Victoria
1999		Victoria	Australian Capital Territory
2000		Queensland	Queensland
2001		South Australia	New South Wales
2002		New South Wales	Queensland
2003		Queensland	Queensland	New South Wales
2004		Queensland	Victoria	New South Wales
2005		Australian Capital Territory	New South Wales	Western Australia	Australian Capital Territory
2006		Queensland	Western Australia	New South Wales	New South Wales
2007		Queensland	New South Wales	New South Wales	Queensland
2008		Western Australia	New South Wales	Western Australia	Queensland
2009		Tasmania	New South Wales	New South Wales	New South Wales
2010		Victoria	Victoria	New South Wales	New South Wales
2011		Western Australia	Victoria	New South Wales	Queensland
2012		New South Wales	Queensland	New South Wales	Western Australia
2013		Queensland	New South Wales	New South Wales	New South Wales
2014		New South Wales	Queensland	New South Wales	New South Wales State
2015		Victoria	Queensland	Queensland	New South Wales State
2016		Queensland	Queensland	Queensland	Victoria Blue
2017		New South Wales	Queensland 1	Victoria	Queensland Cinders
2018		New South Wales	New South Wales State	New South Wales State	New South Wales Lions
2019		Queensland	Queensland	Victoria	Queensland Cinders
2020		Cancelled due to the COVID-19 Global Pandemic
2021		Cancelled due to the COVID-19 Global Pandemic	Queensland Maroon	New South Wales State	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 Global Pandemic
2022		Victoria	Queensland Gold	Queensland Maroon	Queensland Cinders
2023		New South Wales State	Queensland Maroon	Queensland Maroon	Queensland Cinders
2024		Queensland	Queensland Maroon	Queensland Maroon	Queensland Embers

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Open National Championships

The Open National Championships were discontinued from 1992 for the Men (The men held a competition called the Kookaburra Cup in 1994) and 1994 for the Women. This coincided with the creation of the Australian Hockey League in 1991 (Men) and 1993 (Women) which became the flagship National Competition. In 2019 Hockey One was created to supersede the Australian Hockey League.

Under 21 National Championships

The Under 21 National Championships followed a full round-robin and semi-final (1st v 4th, 2nd v 3rd), winners play in the Gold Medal match until 2014.

Since 2014 these championships have operated with two pools of four teams, with the top two teams in each pool qualifying for the medal pool (1st-4th), and the bottom four teams qualifying for the classification pool (5th-8th).

Since 2018 the structure has changed slightly with every two pools of four teams. From there crossover quarterfinals occur with 1st place in Pool A playing 4th place from Pool B, 2nd in Pool A playing 3rd in Pool B and so on, this replicated the finals format from the World League. In the 2018 Men's Championship it meant that Tasmania who lost all three pool games were able to win three knockout matches and be crowned National Champions. Under the format from 2017, this would not have been possible.

Under 18 National Championships

The Under 18 National Championships followed a full round-robin and semi-final (1st v 4th, 2nd v 3rd), winners play in the Gold Medal match until 2014.

From 2014 onwards the championships have been contested by ten teams, with New South Wales and Victoria each fielding 2 teams, although in some cases it was Queensland and not Victoria. This required the creation of two pools of five teams each with crossover semi-finals of 1st in Pool A playing 2nd in Pool B and vice versa, the winners playing in the Gold medal match, loser playing for third place.

In 2016 the number of teams increased to eleven with the addition of a second Queensland team.

In 2022 this increased to 12 teams with the addition of a second team from Western Australia.

These four states' teams are selected as a First and Second team, these are their names: New South Wales State & New South Wales Blue Victoria & Victoria Development Queensland Maroon & Queensland Gold Western Australia Gold & Western Australia Black

Under 16 National Championships

In 2024, Hockey Australia shifted this age group to Under 16.

The Under 15 National Championships followed a full round-robin with the 1st and 2nd ranked teams to play in the Gold Medal match, 3rd and 4th placed teams playing for third place and so on, until 2009.

From 2010 to 2013 Hockey Australia did not play a finals series, so the winners were the teams ranked highest on the ladder after the round-robin competition.

In 2014 Hockey Australia increased the number of teams to twelve with the stronger states (New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia) fielding two teams each. This required the creation of two pools of six teams each with crossover semi-finals of 1st in Pool A playing 2nd in Pool B and vice versa, the winners playing in the Gold medal match, the loser playing for third place.

These four states' teams are selected as a First and Second team, these are their names: New South Wales State & New South Wales Blue Victoria & Victoria Development Queensland Maroon & Queensland Gold Western Australia Gold & Western Australia Black

Under 14 National Champiomship

In 2024, Hockey Australia shifted the age group to Under 14 and made it a National Championship, with a focus not just on participation, but also excellence. It followed a full round robin, but added a playoff game to the schedule (e.g. Final/Gold Medal is 1st v 2nd, Bronze Medal is 3rd v 4th etc...).

The Under 13 National Championship was included as a full National Championship from 2011 (with the inclusion of all States and Territories). Prior to this, an invitational event was run and sanctioned by Hockey Australia but did not hold National Championship status. There are no finals series and the Champion is the team ranked highest on the ladder at the conclusion of the competition.

In 2014 Hockey Australia increased the number of teams to 12 with the stronger states (New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia) fielding two teams each.

In 2015 Hockey Australia renamed this event as an Australian Carnival, with the stronger states (New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia) required to pick even teams in order to promote participation over elitism.
Despite this request Victoria continually picks a first and a second team as evidenced by their results (e.g. 2022 Boys Victoria Venom 1st, Victoria Volt 11th, 2019 Victoria Venom 1st, Victoria Volt 10th).
Other states have suggested averaging finishing positions to determine an Overall Winner (e.g. 2022 Boys, Western Australia should be crowned champions, with WA Lightning 2nd & WA Storm 3rd, equals an average of 2.5, Queensland Runners-Up, with Queensland Cutters 4th & Queensland Sabres 6th, equals an average of 5, Victoria in third place with Victoria Venom 1st & Victoria Volt 11th, equals an average of 6, and New South Wales in fourth place with NSW Lions 5th & NSW Stars 8th, equals an average of 6.5).
Matches are also shortened to 20-minute halves with a full round-robin, with teams required to often play double headers (two games) in one day.
In 2019 this was changed to four 10-minute quarters.

See also

• Kookaburras – Australia men's national field hockey team
• Australia women's national field hockey team
• Australian field hockey players
• Indoor field hockey
• Indoor Hockey World Cup
• Australian Hockey League
• Hockey One

External links

• Official website