2015–16 England Hockey League season

The 2015–2016 English Hockey League season took place from September 2015 until April 2016. The regular season consisted of two periods September until December and then February until March.^[1] The end of season playoffs known as the League Finals Weekend was held on the 16 & 17 of April.^[2]

2015–16 England Hockey League

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Wimbledon won the Men's Premier League title despite finishing fourth in the regular season league standings. Surbiton won the Women's Premier League as well as finishing top of the regular season league standings.

The Men's Cup was won by Beeston and the Women's Cup was won by Clifton. ^{[3] [4]}

Men's Premier Division League Standings

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
1	Holcombe	18	13	5	0	57	24	33	44
2	Surbiton	18	12	1	5	67	46	21	37
3	Reading	18	10	2	6	51	41	11	32
4	Wimbledon	18	10	2	6	41	35	6	32
5	Brooklands Manchester University	18	7	4	7	49	46	3	25
6	Beeston	18	5	4	9	38	40	-2	19
7	Hampstead and Westminster	18	5	4	9	26	36	-10	19
8	East Grinstead	18	5	3	10	36	50	-14	18
9	Canterbury	18	5	1	12	32	58	-26	16
10	Cannock	18	4	2	12	45	66	-21	14

	= Qualified for League finals weekend
	= Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	Bee	Bro	Can	Can	EG	HW	Hol	Rea	Sub	Wim
Beeston	—	2–2	6–2	3–1	2–2	3–2	1–1	2–3	2–3	1–0
Brooklands MU	2–2	—	3–3	5–0	3–1	3–2	2–5	3–1	4–6	2–2
Cannock	2–1	6–4	—	2–4	4–3	1–2	2–3	2–6	3–6	2–4
Canterbury	4–3	3–2	1–3	—	2–2	1–2	0–3	2–4	4–2	0–4
East Grinstead	0–3	1–2	5–2	4–3	—	4–1	2–3	4–3	1–5	1–2
Hampstead and Westminster	2–1	3–1	2–2	1–3	0–0	—	0–3	3–1	1–4	2–2
Holcombe	4–1	3–1	4–1	7–2	3–0	1–1	—	3–3	3–1	3–1
Reading	3–2	3–1	3–2	4–0	2–4	1–0	2–2	—	1–2	5–3
Surbiton	4–3	3–5	5–3	6–2	7–0	4–2	1–1	5–4	—	2–3
Wimbledon	3–0	0–4	4–3	1–0	3–2	1–0	3–5	1–2	4–1	—

Source:^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Women's Investec Premier Division League Standings

^[5]

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts
1	Surbiton	18	14	4	0	53	11	46
2	Canterbury	18	12	4	2	45	18	40
3	University of Birmingham	18	11	3	4	37	20	36
4	Holcombe	18	9	3	6	28	31	30
5	East Grinstead	18	7	4	7	36	30	25
6	Leicester	18	7	1	10	24	36	22
7	Clifton	18	5	3	10	30	46	18
8	Reading	18	4	2	12	24	44	13
9	Bowdon Hightown	18	4	1	13	21	44	13
10	Buckingham	18	3	3	12	19	37	12

	= Qualified for League finals weekend
	= Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	Bow	Buc	Can	Cli	EG	Hol	Lei	Rea	Sub	Bir
Bowdon Hightown	—	1–2	0–1	2–3	0–5	1–2	2–0	0–3	1–1	0–2
Buckingham	0–1	—	2–3	0–0	1–3	1–3	3–3	1–1	1–3	0–1
Canterbury	7–1	3–1	—	2–0	2–3	1–1	2–1	5–0	1–1	2–1
Clifton	2–1	2–1	0–4	—	3–0	2–3	2–6	1–3	1–4	2–4
East Grinstead	2–1	1–2	0–1	2–2	—	4–1	4–0	3–2	0–2	1–3
Holcombe	2–1	3–2	0–0	2–2	2–1	—	1–3	3–0	0–5	3–1
Leicester	0–2	2–0	0–4	4–3	2–1	1–0	—	1–0	0–2	0–1
Reading	3–5	1–2	2–3	1–2	3–3	0–1	4–1	—	0–1	0–5
Surbiton	4–1	5–0	4–3	3–1	1–1	4–0	2–0	7–0	—	1–1
University of Birmingham	5–1	1–0	1–1	4–2	2–2	2–1	3–0	0–1	0–3	—

Source:^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

League Finals Weekend

Semi-finals

Division	Team 1	Team 2	Score
Men's Premier	Surbiton	Reading	2-4
Men's Premier	Holcombe	Wimbledon	2-3
Women's Premier	Surbiton	Holcombe	2-0
Women's Premier	Canterbury	University of Birmingham	6-0

Finals

Division	Team 1	Team 2	Score
Men's Premier	Wimbledon	Reading	1-1 (4-3 p) ^[6]
Women's Premier	Surbiton	Holcombe	0-0 (3-1 p)

Men's Cup

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Team 2	Score
Chichester	Havant	3-1
Beeston	Sheffield University Bankers	2-1
City of Peterborough	Banbury	5-2
Surbiton	Univ of Birmingham	3-1

Semi-finals

Team 1	Team 2	Score
Beeston	City of Peterborough	5-1
Chichester	Surbiton	1-0

Final

(Held at the Lee Valley Hockey & Tennis Centre on 14 February)

Team 1	Team 2	Score
Beeston	Chichester	3-0

Women's Cup

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Team 2	Score
Brooklands Poynton	Barnes	2-1
Holcombe	Bowdon Hightown	1-0
Buckingham	Ben Rhydding	3-2
Clifton	Univ of Birmingham	3-2

Semi-finals

Team 1	Team 2	Score
Buckingham	Brooklands Poynton	5-1
Clifton	Holcombe	3-1

Final

(Held at Lee Valley Hockey & Tennis Centre on 30 April)

Team 1	Team 2	Score
Clifton	Buckingham	1-0

References

1. "Men's Hockey League". England Hockey.
2. "Results". England Hockey.
3. "2015–16 Men's Cup". England Hockey.
4. "2015–16 Women's Cup". England Hockey.
5. "2015–16 Women's Hockey League". Fixtures Live.
6. "Wimbledon hold their nerve to capture crown". England Hockey.