Hockey Australia

Hockey Australia
Official website

Sport	Field hockey
Jurisdiction	Australia
Abbreviation	HA
Founded	2000 (2000)
Affiliation	FIH
Affiliation date	1925
Regional affiliation	OHF
Headquarters	Melbourne, Victoria
President	Stuart Grimshaw
Vice president	Clare Prideaux
www.hockey.org.au

Hockey Australia^[1] 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.

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.^[2]

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

Tournaments

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

Australian Hockey League^[3] 1991–Present (Men) 1991-Present (Women)
National Championships Last Run in 1993 (Women) 1994 (Men), Replaced by AHL
Under 21 National Championships
Under 18 National Championships
Under 15 National Championships
Under 13 Australian Carnival
National Country Championships
Veterans National Championships
Indoor National Championships
Under 21 Indoor National Championships
Under 18 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.^[4]

Championship results^[5]

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 15	Under 13
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	New South Wales	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		Victoria	New South Wales	New South Wales
1994		Queensland	Victoria	Queensland
1995		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
2016		Victoria	Western Australia	Queensland

Women

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Year	Open	Under 21	Under 18 (Under 19 1976-1983)	Under 15	Under 13
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		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
2015		Victoria	Queensland	Queensland	New South Wales
2016		Queensland	Queensland	Queensland

Open National Championships were discontinued after 1994, so for the early years of the AHL there was also a National Championships.
From 2014 onwards, the Under 18 National Championships have been contested by 10 teams, with New South Wales and Victoria each fielding 2 teams. In 2016 this number increased to 11 with the addition of a second Queensland team.
From 2010 onwards, Hockey Australia have not played a finals series in the U15 National Championships, 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 12 with the stronger states (NSW, QLD, VIC, WA) fielding two teams each, playoff matches were reintroduced.
The Under 13 National Championship was included as a full National Championship from 2011. Prior to this an invitational event was run and sanctioned by Hockey Australia, but did not hold National Championship status. Similarly to the U15 competition, there is 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 (NSW, QLD, VIC, WA) fielding two teams each. In 2015 Hockey Australia renamed this event as an Australian Carnival, with the stronger states (NSW, QLD, VIC, WA) required to pick even teams in order to promote participation over elitism, matches are also shortened to 20 minute halves with a full round robin.

References

External links

Official website

National members of the International Hockey Federation

AfHF (Africa)	Botswana Egypt Ghana Kenya Libya Malawi Morocco Namibia Nigeria Seychelles South Africa Sudan Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe

PAHF (Americas)	Argentina Bahamas Barbados Bermuda Brazil Canada Cayman Islands Chile Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Guyana Jamaica Mexico Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Trinidad and Tobago USA Uruguay Venezuela

AsHF (Asia)	Afghanistan Bangladesh Brunei Cambodia China Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Japan Kazakhstan Korea DPR Korea Macau Malaysia Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Oman Pakistan Philippines Qatar Singapore Sri Lanka Chinese Taipei Tajikistan Thailand Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan

EHF (Europe)	Armenia Austria Arzeibaijan Belarus Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Gibraltar Great Britain Hungary Ireland Israel Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales Former members: Soviet Union

OHF (Oceania)	American Samoa Australia Fiji Papua New Guinea(PNG) New Zealand Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Vanuatu

Sports governing bodies in Australia (AUS)

Summer Olympic sports	Aquatics Diving Swimming Water polo Archery Athletics Badminton Basketball Boxing Canoeing Cycling Equestrian Fencing Field hockey Football Golf Gymnastics Handball Judo Modern pentathlon Rugby 7's Rowing Sailing Shooting Table tennis Taekwondo Tennis Triathlon Volleyball/Beach volleyball Weightlifting Wrestling

Winter Olympic sports	Biathlon Bobsleigh Curling Skating Figure Speed Short track Ice hockey Luge Skeleton Skiing Alpine Cross country Nordic combined Freestyle Jumping Snowboarding

Other IOC recognised sports	Air sports Bandy Baseball Chess Cricket Floorball Karate Korfball Lacrosse Motor racing Motorcycle racing Netball Orienteering Polo Roller sports Rugby union Softball Sport climbing Squash Sumo Surfing Surf life saving Underwater sports Waterski and wakeboard

Paralympics and disabled sports	Blind sports Disabled Winter Sport Australia

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