HC Rotterdam 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 founded on September 16, 1925. With a total number of 2,342 members (January 1, 2006) it is the biggest hockeyclub in the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

. The first teams (men and women) compete on the highest level of the Dutch field hockey league, which is called "Hoofdklasse". HC Rotterdam hosted the 2001 Men's Champions Trophy

2001 Men's Champions Trophy (field hockey)

The 2001 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy has been reorganised to take place in Rotterdam, Netherlands on the scheduled dates of November 3 to November 11, 2001. The event will take place at HC Rotterdam’s brand new NLG 24 million, 8,000-seating facility, which opened in August and will be the first...

 and the 2005 Men's Junior Hockey World Cup.

Famous internationals from HC Rotterdam

• Waseem Ahmad
  Waseem Ahmad
  Waseem Ahmad is a Pakistan field hockey player and ex- captain of Pakistan hockey team...
  
  
• Sohail Abbas
  Sohail Abbas
  Sohail Abbas is a field hockey defender and penalty corner specialist from Pakistan. He is the highest scorer of goals in Hockey breaking Dhyan Chand's record 274 goals for the most goals scored in international competition, with his current goal tally at 328...
  
  
• Ryan Archibald
• Phillip Burrows
• Fleur van de Kieft
• Mark Knowles
  Mark Knowles (field hockey player)
  For the Bahamian tennis player see Mark KnowlesMark Knowles OAM is a field hockey defender from Australia.-External links:*...
  
  
• Bart Looije
• Fatima Moreira de Melo
  Fatima Moreira de Melo
  Fatima Moreira de Melo LL.M. is a Dutch field hockey player. She has played 191 international matches for the Dutch national team, where she has scored 30 times. Her debut match was on 21 October 1997 against Germany which ended in a 2-1 victory for The Netherlands. She plays on the position of...
  
  
• Rob Short
  Rob Short
  Rob Short is a Canadian field hockey player.- Career :Short played his first international senior tournament in 1995, at the Pan American Games in Mar del Plata. Highlights include the 1998 World Cup in The Netherlands where the Canadian team finished 8th with Rob scoring 4 goals in the 7 games...
  
  
• Peter Short
  Peter Short (field hockey)
  Peter Short is a field hockey player from Canada, whose brother Rob also represents the Men's National Team....
  
  
• Beth Storry
  Beth Storry
  Elizabeth Storry is an English field hockey goalkeeper, who was a member of the England and Great Britain women's field hockey team during the late 1990s and 2000s.-References:**...
  
  
• Sarah Thomas
  Sarah Thomas (field hockey)
  Sarah Thomas is a Welsh field hockey midfield and forward player, who was a member of the Wales and Great Britain women's field hockey team since making her GB debut in 2003.-References:*...
  
  

External links

• Official website of HC Rotterdam