Scotland to compete in England Hockey’s Futures Cup

Scottish Hockey is delighted to announce that Scotland will have teams competing in England Hockey’s Futures Cup competition in 2016. It is fantastic opportunity for our top U15 and U17 athletes to experience the Futures Cup for the first time.

The competition potentially provides exposure to Great Britain programmes and coaches. It should inspire our players to set targets for their performance, and understand what they need to do to reach the next level; additionally it provides another chance to experience top level competition.

This is another step towards giving our players Great Britain opportunities following the introduction of Great Britain U23 and U21 programmes over the last year. Also, the Futures Cup gives our players an opportunity at a younger age to experience high level competition, an understanding of the level of competition that exists for GB selection in the future, and hopefully impress the watching coaches.

The Futures cup is the English regional competition designed to identify the players of the future. As this is not an international competition Scotland will play as the Caledonian Cougars. The competition takes place on Wednesday 26 October to Saturday 29th October and we are awaiting the fixture list before confirming all further details. Coaches will be looking to identify players for the tournament as part of the inter-districts over the next couple of weeks.

With the introduction of the Futures cup, the U16 regional performance event will be postponed this year to allow coaches to focus on the Futures Cup.

Futures Cup will take place at St Albans Hockey Club, Oaklands College, Smallford, Hatfield Road, St Albans, AL4 0JA from Wednesday 26 October to Saturday 29 October 2016.

There will be six teams taking part each entering an U16 and U18 team for each gender:

  • Wessex Leopards
  • Saxon Tigers
  • Pennine Pumas
  • Mercia Lynx
  • Caledonian Cougars
  • Celtic Jaguars

The competition format for all age groups and genders will be two pools of three teams playing two matches and having one rest day, followed by a playoff match on Saturday. Matches will be scheduled on Wednesday through Saturday.

This is the same format and length of time as the School Games which has run successfully for the last three years.

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