2021–22 Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey

This article is about the men's event. For the women's event, see 2021–22 Women's Hoofdklasse Hockey.

The 2021–22 Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey, also known as the Tulp Hoofdklasse Men for sponsorship reasons,^[1] was the 49th season of the Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey, the top Dutch field hockey league. It began on 12 September 2021 and it concluded on 28 May 2022 with the second match of the championship final.^[2]

Hoofdklasse

Season	2021–22
Dates	12 September 2021 – 29 May 2022
Champions	Bloemendaal (22nd title)
Relegated	Hurley SCHC Tilburg
Euro Hockey League	Amsterdam Bloemendaal Pinoké
Matches played	132
Goals scored	641 (4.86 per match)
Top goalscorer	Alexander Hendrickx (25 goals)
Biggest home win	Kampong 8–0 Hurley Rotterdam 9–1 Tilburg
Biggest away win	Hurley 0–8 Pinoké SCHC 0–8 Rotterdam
Highest scoring	Kampong 9–2 SCHC
← 2020–21 2022–23 →

Bloemendaal were the defending champions.^[3] They defended their title by defeating Pinoké 3–0 in the final best of three series.^[4]

Teams

Bloemendaal

Klein Zwitserland

Amsterdamse Bos

Rotterdam

HGC

SCHC

Kampong

Tilburg

Den Bosch

Oranje-Rood

Amsterdamse Bos teams
Amsterdam
Hurley
Pinoké

2021–22 Men's Hoofdklasse teams

Accommodation and locations

Team	Location	Province	Accommodation
Amsterdam	Amstelveen	North Holland	Wagener Stadium
Bloemendaal	Bloemendaal	North Holland	Sportpark 't Kopje
Den Bosch	's-Hertogenbosch	North Brabant	Sportpark Oosterplas
HGC	Wassenaar	South Holland	De Roggewoning
Hurley	Amstelveen	North Holland	Amsterdamse Bos
Kampong	Utrecht	Utrecht	De Klapperboom
Klein Zwitserland	The Hague	South Holland	Sportpark Klein Zwitserland
Oranje-Rood	Eindhoven	North Brabant	Sportpark Aalsterweg
Pinoké	Amstelveen	North Holland	Amsterdamse Bos
Rotterdam	Rotterdam	South Holland	Hazelaarweg Stadion
SCHC	Bilthoven	Utrecht	Sportpark Kees Broekelaan
Tilburg	Tilburg	North Brabant	Sportpark Oude Warande

Personnel

Team	Trainer-coach	Captain
Amsterdam	Alexander Cox	Mirco Pruyser
Bloemendaal	Rick Mathijssen	Glenn Schuurman
Den Bosch	Jeroen Verboom	Imre Vos
HGC	Paul van Ass	Seve van Ass
Hurley	Reinoud Wolff	Pim Wasser
Kampong	Roelant Oltmans	Lars Balk
Klein Zwitserland	Omar Schlingemann	Steven van Rhede van der Kloot
Oranje-Rood	Robert van der Horst	Thomas Briels
Pinoké	Jesse Mahieu	Jannis van Hattum
Rotterdam	Albert Kees Maneschijn	Jeroen Hertzberger
SCHC	Gilles van Hesteren	Léon van Barneveld
Tilburg	Sjoerd Marijne	Felix Gulinck

Number of teams by province

Province	Number of teams	Teams
North Holland	4	Amsterdam, Bloemendaal, Hurley and Pinoké
North Brabant	3	Den Bosch, Oranje-Rood and Tilburg
South Holland		HGC, Klein Zwitserland and Rotterdam
Utrecht	2	Kampong and SCHC
Total	12

Regular season

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Bloemendaal (C)	22	18	3	1	71	29	+42	57	Qualification for the Euro Hockey League and the play-offs
2	Pinoké	22	13	4	5	71	43	+28	43
3	Amsterdam	22	13	3	6	60	48	+12	42
4	HGC	22	12	5	5	58	43	+15	41	Qualification for the play-offs
5	Kampong	22	12	4	6	69	30	+39	40
6	Oranje-Rood	22	11	5	6	53	39	+14	38
7	Klein Zwitserland	22	9	4	9	52	48	+4	31
8	Den Bosch	22	8	6	8	54	58	−4	30
9	Rotterdam	22	6	6	10	53	54	−1	24
10	Tilburg (R)	22	3	2	17	31	81	−50	11	Qualification for the relegation play-offs
11	SCHC (R)	22	2	5	15	38	84	−46	11
12	Hurley (R)	22	0	3	19	31	84	−53	3	Relegation to the Promotieklasse

Source: Flashscore
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result.^[5]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	AMS	BLO	DB	HGC	HUR	KAM	KZ	OR	PIN	ROT	SCH	TIL
Amsterdam	—	3–6	2–3	2–4	3–1	1–0	2–2	3–2	4–4	2–0	2–1	3–0
Bloemendaal	4–2	—	4–0	2–1	2–1	2–1	2–1	2–1	1–2	3–0	6–0	6–0
Den Bosch	0–0	3–3	—	1–3	5–2	0–2	2–4	1–1	2–7	2–2	6–1	4–2
HGC	1–3	2–2	3–2	—	3–2	4–3	2–1	1–2	1–2	3–3	1–0	4–1
Hurley	1–4	1–6	2–3	2–7	—	1–2	1–4	0–2	0–8	2–2	3–3	2–2
Kampong	8–1	0–2	1–2	2–0	8–0	—	2–2	1–1	2–1	1–0	9–2	7–1
Klein Zwitserland	0–1	1–3	4–3	2–3	3–1	2–1	—	3–5	3–1	1–2	5–2	4–3
Oranje-Rood	2–4	1–2	3–1	3–3	3–2	3–3	4–2	—	1–2	4–1	4–1	2–1
Pinoké	3–6	1–2	3–3	4–4	3–2	1–2	3–3	2–1	—	3–0	5–1	4–2
Rotterdam	0–5	4–4	3–4	1–3	4–2	2–2	0–0	3–4	0–7	—	4–1	9–1
SCHC	3–3	2–3	4–4	2–2	3–2	2–5	3–2	1–1	3–4	0–8	—	2–3
Tilburg	2–4	2–4	2–3	1–3	4–1	0–7	2–2	0–3	0–1	0–5	2–1	—

Source: Flashscore
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	FG	PC	PS	Goals[6]
1	Alexander Hendrickx	Pinoké	0	23	2	25
2	Jip Janssen	Kampong	1	20	1	22
3	Thierry Brinkman	Bloemendaal	20	0	0	20
4	Jeroen Hertzberger	Rotterdam	5	10	3	18
5	Trent Mitton	Amsterdam	11	5	0	16
	Seve van Ass	HGC	1	11	4
7	Koen Bijen	Den Bosch	12	1	2	15
	Gijs van Merriënboer	Oranje-Rood	0	14	1
9	Dennis Warmerdam	Pinoké	14	0	0	14
	Leandro Tolini	Tilburg	0	14	0

Play-offs

The semi-finals were held on 15, 21 and 22 May 2022 and the final was held on 26 and 28 May 2022.^[7]

Bracket

	Semi-finals						Final
	Bloemendaal	3	1	2
	HGC	0	3	1
							Bloemendaal		3 (3)	3
							Pinoké		3 (0)	0
	Pinoké		2 (4)	3
	Amsterdam		2 (3)	0

Semi-finals

15 May 2022 18:00 HGC 0–3 Bloemendaal Report Fuchs  27' Van der Veen  50' J. Brinkman  50' De Roggewoning, Wassenaar

21 May 2022 16:00 Bloemendaal 1–3 HGC Croon  14' Report Vos  53' Boltó  55' Van der Kroon  68' Sportpark 't Kopje, Bloemendaal

22 May 2022 15:00 Bloemendaal 2–1 HGC Swaen  42' Bovendeert  45' Report Forsyth  39' Sportpark 't Kopje, Bloemendaal

Bloemendaal won series 2–1.

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15 May 2022 16:00 Amsterdam 2–2 Pinoké Mitton  8' Dommershuijzen  31' Report Van Hattum  20' Warmerdam  69' Penalties Lissone Pruyser Middendorp Verga Mitton 3–4 Wellen Landbrug Bonhof Warmerdam M. Bukkens Wagener Stadium, Amstelveen

21 May 2022 16:00 Pinoké 3–0 Amsterdam M. Bukkens  15' Dockier  29', 37' Report Amsterdamse Bos, Amstelveen

Pinoké won series 2–0.

Final

26 May 2022 14:45 Pinoké 3–3 Bloemendaal Hendrickx  18', 44' Wellen  30' Report T. Brinkman  3' Swaen  32' Van Doren  70' Penalties Wellen Landbrug Bonhof 0–3 Croon T. Brinkman Fuchs Amsterdamse Bos, Amstelveen

28 May 2022 15:45 Bloemendaal 3–0 Pinoké Bovendeert  13', 21' Swaen  68' Report Sportpark 't Kopje, Bloemendaal

Bloemendaal won series 2–0.

Relegation play-offs

The relegation play-offs were held on 1, 4 and 6 June 2022.^[7]

Overview

Team 1	Series	Team 2	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
Voordaan	2–1	Tilburg	2–2 (3–2 s.o.)	1–4	4–4 (4–2 s.o.)
HDM	2–1	SCHC	3–3 (1–2 s.o.)	2–1	4–2

Matches

1 June 2022 20:30 Voordaan 2–2 Tilburg Stolk  18', 70' Report Casella  4' Tolini  42' Penalties Huisman Vermeij Frohn Stolk 3–2 Sprengers Kreft Casella Verzuu Prol Sportpark Bos, Groenekan

4 June 2022 16:00 Tilburg 4–1 Voordaan Krens  31' Tolini  41' Gencarelli  53' Kreft  65' Report Stolk  70' Sportpark Oude Warande, Tilburg

6 June 2022 16:00 Voordaan 4–4 Tilburg Huisman  18', 21', 45' Stolk  59' Report Casella  22', 32' Tolini  53' Krens  64' Penalties Huisman Vermeij Frohn Van der Weerd 4–2 Sprengers Casella Kreft Bams Sportpark Bos, Groenekan

Voordaan won series 2–1 and were promoted to the Hoofdklasse while Tilburg were relegated to the Promotieklasse.

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1 June 2022 20:30 HDM 3–3 SCHC Osses Van den IJssel De Gier Report Sweering Terwel Weers Penalties Groenheijde De Gier Taberima Schut Burkhardt 1–2 Uildriks Sweering Weers Van Leur Kleinsman Sportpark Duinzigt, The Hague

4 June 2022 16:00 SCHC 1–2 HDM Weers  40' Report Burkhardt  1', 70' Sportpark Kees Broekelaan, Bilthoven

6 June 2022 16:00 HDM 4–2 SCHC Burkhardt  18' Groenheijde  57' Kallenberg  58' Fontaine  67' Report Empey  28' Sweering  63' Sportpark Duinzigt, The Hague

HDM won series 2–1 and were promoted to the Hoofdklasse while SCHC were relegated to the Promotieklasse.

References

1. "Tulp hoofdsponsor en naamgever Hoofdklasse Heren". hockey.nl (in Dutch). 27 August 2020.
2. "Publicatie wedstrijdprogramma Hoofdklasse seizoen 2021-2022". knhb.nl (in Dutch). Royal Dutch Hockey Association. 14 July 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
3. "Hockeyers Bloemendaal kampioen na opmerkelijke rode kaart Kampong". nos.nl (in Dutch). 15 May 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
4. "Bloemendaal houdt Pinoké van stunt af en grijpt 22ste landstitel". nos.nl (in Dutch). NOS. 28 May 2022. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
5. "Bondsreglement 2021" (PDF). knhb.nl (in Dutch). KNHB. 1 August 2021.
6. "Matla en Hendrickx prolongeren topscorerstitel in Hoofdklasse". hockey.nl (in Dutch).
7. "Alle tijden van de play-offs en play-outs op een rijtje". hockey.nl (in Dutch). 19 May 2022.