One other packed 12 months of hockey awaits
As we step into the brand new 12 months, we’re thrilled to share the thrilling tournaments and initiatives that await us in 2025.
This 12 months guarantees to be a landmark season for our Junior Nationwide Groups, with two main worldwide competitions awaiting our junior males and junior ladies. This contains their first-ever look on the Junior Pan American Video games this summer time in Paraguay. 2025 marks the second iteration of the Junior Pan Am Video games and the primary inclusion of hockey within the Video games. Discipline Hockey Canada is happy that our younger stars will be capable of carry out and benefit from the distinctive expertise of a multi-sport occasion.
Crew Canada participates on the 2024 Junior Pan American Championships in Surrey, BC. Photographs/Blair Shier.
Following a profitable Junior Pan American Championships on house soil in Surrey final 12 months, our junior groups have certified for the 2025 FIH Junior World Cups. These tournaments are set to happen in India (males) and Chile (ladies) in November/December.
For our Senior Nationwide Groups, they’re gearing up for an thrilling chase for World Cup qualification this 12 months. The Girls’s Nationwide Crew kicks off their marketing campaign in February with their participation within the 2025 FIH Nations Cup in Santiago. Each the Males’s Nationwide Crew and the Girls’s Crew will then problem for World Cup qualification on the 2025 Pan American Cup in Uruguay. Canada is trying to make historical past; the final time each the ladies’s and males’s groups certified for the World Cup in the identical cycle was in 1986— not since unification of each associations into one Discipline Hockey Canada governing physique.
Pan American Championships can be the main focus of this 12 months’s masters program. Following final 12 months’s extremely profitable World Cups in New Zealand, our Masters groups are actually refocusing on the WMH Pan American Championships in September in Paraguay, aiming to construct on their appreciable achievements from final 12 months.
Crew Canada Girls’s O50 collaborating on the WMH Masters World Cup in Auckland, NZ.
This 12 months will even see the continuation of the system construct. Youth excursions stay an integral a part of the Discipline Hockey Canada developmental and NextGen system. This 12 months’s youth calendar is busier than ever together with three ladies’s excursions to Europe this spring. A U16 Crew will journey to Czechia and two U18 groups will journey to France and Wales respectively. For the boys, they are going to construct off final 12 months’s U17 males’s tour in Malaysia, with Discipline Hockey Canada’s youth boys once more be collaborating within the Mirnawan Cup within the fall of 2025.
Domestically, our calendar is full of a rising roster of occasions to serve all sectors of our group. These embrace the Corridor of Fame ceremony, Nationwide Championships at youth, college, and grasp ranges, and thrilling worldwide internet hosting and nationwide competitions, together with the Can-Am Indoor Sequence this spring.
Because the Discipline Hockey Crew of Groups from coast to coast throughout Canada continues to develop, we’re excited for the 12 months forward. Keep tuned for extra updates and let’s work collectively to make 2025 a 12 months to recollect.
High: Nationwide Groups take part on the 2024 Nations Cup. Backside: USPORTS x FHC Nationwide Champs in Toronto. Picture/Yan Huckendubler.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
DATESPROGRAMEVENTLOCATION
Feb 24 – Mar 2, 2025Women’s Nationwide TeamNations CupSantiago, Chile
March 14-16, 2025Indoor Nationwide TeamsCan-Am Indoor SeriesToronto, ON
April 13-21, 2025U16 Youth TeamU16 Czech TourHradec Králové, Czechia
April 13-21, 2025U18 Youth TeamU18 Wales TourCardiff, Wales
Could 1-10, 2025U18 Youth TeamU18 France TourNantes, France
Could/June TBDMen’s Nationwide TeamEurope TourNetherlands/France
July 24-29, 2025U18 Provincial TeamsU18 NationalsBrampton, ON
Jul 24-Aug 3, 2025Men’s Nationwide TeamPan American CupMontevideo, Uruguay
Jul 24-Aug 3, 2025Women’s Nationwide TeamPan American CupMontevideo, Uruguay
Jul 31-Aug 5, 2025U16 Provincial TeamsU16 NationalsBrampton, ON
August 9-19, 2025Junior Girls’s Nationwide TeamJunior Pan Am GamesAsunción, Paraguay
August 9-19, 2025Junior Males’s Nationwide TeamJunior Pan Am GamesAsunción, Paraguay
September 21-30, 2025Masters Nationwide TeamsMasters Pan American ChampionshipsAsunción, Paraguay
November TBDUniversity Girls’s HockeyUSPORTS NationalsLocation TBD
November TBDU17 Males’s TeamMirnawan CupKuala Lumpur, Malaysia
November 29-December 9, 2025Junior Males’s Nationwide TeamJunior World CupIndia
December 1-13, 2025Junior Girls’s Nationwide TeamJunior World CupSantiago, Chile
* This can be a dwelling calendar and may change from month to month.
