Hockey Club Bloemendaal is a Dutch field hockey

Field hockey

Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

 club, which was established on April 16, 1895, and is therefore one of the oldest field hockey clubs in the Netherlands

Netherlands

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. As of October 31, 2004, the Bloemendaal

Bloemendaal

Bloemendaal is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. According to the Dutch Central Statistical Bureau, Bloemendaal is the wealthiest place in the Netherlands.-Population centres :...

 based club has 1.307 members.

HC Bloemendaal is one of the reigning clubs in the Netherlands, with the men's team competing for the title in the highest league ("Hoofdklasse") nearly every year. In 2006 the team coached by Michel van den Heuvel won the national championship by defeating Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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 in the final of the play-offs (best-of-three).

Honours

• Dutch national title: 13

1985-86, 1986-87, 1987-88, 1988-89, 1990-91, 1992-93, 1998-99, 1999-2000, 2001-02, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09

• EuroHockey Club Champions Cup
  EuroHockey Club Champions Cup
  The EuroHockey Club Champions Cup, previously known as the European Club Championship, is the leading woman's field hockey competition for clubs in Europe. It is held annually. Prior to the creation of the Euro Hockey League in 2007, the woman's competition also had a men's counterpart of the same...
  
  : 2

1987, 2001

• Euro Hockey League
  Euro Hockey League
  The Euro Hockey League is an annual mens field hockey cup competition organised by the EHF for the very top hockey clubs in Europe. The competition was launched at the start of the 2007-08 hockey season, when it merged and replaced the mens EuroHockey Club Champions Cup and European Cup II...
  
  : 1

2008-09

Notable players from HC Bloemendaal

• Marc Benninga
  Marc Benninga
  Marc Alexander Benninga is a former Dutch field hockey player, who earned a total number of 53 caps, scoring no goals for the Netherlands national field hockey team in the 1980s and early 1990s....
  
  
• Olmer Meijer
• Ad Boelaars
• Menno Booij
• Floris Jan Bovelander
  Floris Jan Bovelander
  Floris Jan Bovelander is a former field hockey player from the Netherlands, who was a member of the Dutch national squad that won the golden medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta...
  
  
• Jaap-Derk Buma
  Jaap-Derk Buma
  Jaap-Derk Buma is a former Dutch field hockey player, who played 143 international matches for the Netherlands, in which he scored nineteen goals. The striker made his debut for the Dutch on 5 November 1994 in a match against Belgium...
  
  
• Cees Jan Diepeveen
  Cees Jan Diepeveen
  Cees Jan Diepeveen is a former field hockey player from the Netherlands, who participated in three Summer Olympics: in Los Angeles , in Seoul and finally in Barcelona...
  
  
• Jamie Dwyer
  Jamie Dwyer
  Jamie Dwyer OAM is a field hockey striker from Australia. He wears the number 1 jersey for his country....
  
  
• Ronald Jan Heijn
• Erik Jazet
  Erik Jazet
  Erik Alexander Jazet is a former Dutch field hockey player, who played 308 international matches for the Netherlands. The defender made his debut for the Dutch on November 17, 1990 in a match against England....
  
  
• Karel Klaver
  Karel Klaver
  Karel Klaver is a field hockey player from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal with the national squad at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.-References:...
  
  
• Hendrik Jan Kooijman
• Jan Jörn van 't Land
• Nick Meijer
• Marinus Moolenburgh
• Teun de Nooijer
  Teun de Nooijer
  Teun Floris de Nooijer is a field hockey player from the Netherlands, who twice became Olympic champion with the Dutch national squad: in 1996 and in 2000. He currently plays for Dutch side HC Bloemendaal.- Life and work :He made his debut on 4 June 1994 in a friendly match against New Zealand...
  
  
• Dave Smolenaars
• Jiske Snoeks
• Macha van der Vaart
• Tibor Weißenborn
  Tibor Weißenborn
  Tibor Weißenborn is a field hockey player from Germany, who was a member of the Men's National Team that won the bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics He was also a member of both the teams that won the 10th World Cup in Malaysia in 2002, and 11th...
  
  
• Martijn van Westerop
• Remco van Wijk
  Remco van Wijk
  Remco van Wijk is a former Dutch field hockey player, who played 242 international matches for The Netherlands, in which he scored 63 goals. The striker made his debut for the Dutch on May 5, 1993 in a friendly match against Ireland...
  
  
• Christopher Zeller
  Christopher Zeller
  Christopher Zeller is a field hockey player from Germany and the younger brother of Philipp Zeller. He was a member of the Men's National Teams that won the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics...
  
  

External links

Official website HC Bloemendaal