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HGC

Full name

HOC Gazellen Combinatie

Nickname(s)

De Gazellen (The Gazelles)

League

Men's Hoofdklasse
Women's Hoofdklasse

Founded

22 September 1906; 118 years ago (1906-09-22)

Home ground

De Roggewoning, Wassenaar

Website

Club website

Home

Away

H.O.C. Gazellen-Combinatie, also known as HGC, is a Dutch professional field hockey club located in Wassenaar, South Holland on the border of The Hague. The club was founded on 22 September 1906.

The first teams (men and women) competed for many years on the highest level of the Dutch field hockey league, in the "Hoofdklasse". In 1995/'96 both the men's and the women's first team won the national championship. The men's 1st XI also competed in the Euro Hockey League.

HGC has produced a number of internationals for the Dutch national teams as well as attracting a number of internationals from other countries.

Honours

Men

Hoofdklasse

Winners (2): 1989–90, 1995–96
Runners-up (10): 1970–71, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1980–81, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1990–91, 1992–93, 2006–07, 2009–10

Euro Hockey League

Winners (1): 2010–11
Runners-up (1): 2007–08

European Cup

Winners (1): 1997

Cup Winners' Cup

Winners (2): 1992, 1993
Runners-up (1): 1994

Hoofdklasse Indoor

Winners (4): 1985–86, 1992–93, 1995–96, 1997–98

Women

Hoofdklasse

Winners (8): 1981–82, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1987–88, 1989–90, 1992–93, 1995–96, 1996–97
Runners-up (6): 1982–83, 1986–87, 1988–89, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1994–95

KNHB Cup

Winners (1): 1996

European Cup

Winners (7): 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1991, 1994
Runners-up (1): 1997

Cup Winners' Cup

Winners (1): 1993

Hoofdklasse Indoor

Winners (6): 1981–82, 1983–84, 1985–86, 1986–87, 2002–03, 2003–04

Players

Current squad

Men's squad

As of 22 September 2023


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	MF	NED	Karst Timmer
2	DF	IND	Devindar Walmiki
3		SUI	Boris Stomps
4	DF	ENG	Ollie Willars
5		NED	Pieter Schulpen
6	DF	NED	Vincent Langenhuijsen
7	FW	NED	Sam Figge
8		NED	Alexander Schop
9	MF	NED	Seve van Ass (Captain)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
10	MF	NED	Lucas Veen
11	FW	NED	Willem van Campen
13		NED	Casper Berkman
14	FW	NED	Jan van 't Land
17	MF	ESP	Marc Boltó
21	GK	NED	Daan Taphoorn
22	GK	NED	Sam van der Ven
24	DF	NED	Floris Benschop
26	MF	GER	Florian Scholten

Women's squad

Head coach: Robbert-Jan de Vos

As of 10 September 2021


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	NED	Anke van Goudoever
2	GK	NED	Ingeborg Dijkstra
3	MF	NED	Faye Muijderman
4		NED	Anne Eijsbouts
5	FW	ARG	Stefania Antoniazzi
6		NED	Lisa Lejeune
7		NED	Féline Engelkes
8	MF	NED	Isis van Loon
9	FW	ARG	Milagros Fernández Ladra
10		NED	Lisa Harteveld (Captain)
11	FW	NED	Sophie Schlatmann


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
12	FW	RSA	Dirkie Chamberlain
13		NED	Zoe Hessels
14		NED	Julie Sytsema
15		NED	Amy van den Bosch
16		NED	Karlijn Scheepens
18	DF	ENG	Giselle Ansley
20		NED	Fleur Gort
21	FW	NED	Valérie van Aalst
22	DF	NED	Loes Stijntjes
24	MF	NED	Eva de Goede
29	MF	GER	Cécile Pieper

Notable players

Men's internationals

Netherlands

England/ Great Britain

Spain

Argentina

Canada

Ireland

New Zealand

Belgium

Tanguy Cosyns

Japan

Kenta Tanaka

Women's internationals

Netherlands

Ireland

Lizzie Colvin

References

"HGC official website site". Retrieved 2015-01-31.
"Spelerslijsten Hoofdklasse seizoen 2023-2024" (PDF) (in Dutch). 22 September 2023.
"Spelerslijsten Hoofdklasse Dames en Tulp Hoofdklasse Heren 2021-2022" (PDF). knhb.nl (in Dutch). 10 September 2021. Retrieved 10 September 2021.

External links

Official website

v t e Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey
2024–25 clubs	Amsterdam Bloemendaal Den Bosch HDM Hurley Kampong Klein Zwitserland Nijmegen Oranje-Rood Pinoké Rotterdam SCHC
Former clubs	Almere Breda DKS Eindhoven EMHC Enschede Forward GCHC Geel-Zwart Gooische Groningen GSHC Hattem HGC HTCC Laren Leiden MEP MOP Oranje Zwart Push Qui Vive Schaerweijde Tilburg TMHC Tilburg Union Venlo Victoria Wageningen Voordaan
Seasons	2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25
Category Players

EuroHockey Club Champions Cup and Euro Hockey League winners

EuroHockey Club Champions Cup

1970s	1974: 1880 Frankfurt 1975: 1880 Frankfurt 1976: Southgate 1977: Southgate 1978: Southgate 1979: Klein Zwitserland
1980s	1980: Slough 1981: Klein Zwitserland 1982: Dynamo Alma-Ata 1983: Dynamo Alma-Ata 1984: Frankenthal 1985: Atlètic Terrassa 1986: Kampong 1987: Bloemendaal 1988: Uhlenhorst Mülheim 1989: Uhlenhorst Mülheim
1990s	1990: Uhlenhorst Mülheim 1991: Uhlenhorst Mülheim 1992: Uhlenhorst Mülheim 1993: Uhlenhorst Mülheim 1994: Uhlenhorst Mülheim 1995: Uhlenhorst Mülheim 1996: Uhlenhorst Mülheim 1997: HGC 1998: Atlètic Terrassa 1999: Den Bosch
2000s	2000: Club an der Alster 2001: Bloemendaal 2002: Club an der Alster 2003: Reading 2004: Real Club de Polo 2005: Amsterdam 2006: Stuttgarter Kickers 2007: Crefelder HTC

Euro Hockey League

2000s	2007–08: UHC Hamburg 2008–09: Bloemendaal
2010s	2009–10: UHC Hamburg 2010–11: HGC 2011–12: UHC Hamburg 2012–13: Bloemendaal 2013–14: Harvestehuder THC 2014–15: Oranje Zwart 2015–16: Kampong 2016–17: Rot-Weiss Köln 2017–18: Bloemendaal 2018–19: Waterloo Ducks
2020s	2021: Bloemendaal 2022: Bloemendaal 2022–23: Bloemendaal 2023–24: Pinoké

v t e HGC – current squad
1 Timmer 2 Walmiki 3 Stomps 4 Willars 5 Schulpen 6 Langenhuijsen 7 Figge 8 Schop 9 Van Ass (C) 10 Veen 11 Van Campen 13 Berkman 14 Van 't Land 17 Boltó 21 Taphoorn 22 Van der Ven 24 Benschop 26 Scholten Trainer-coach: Lomans

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