Hockey’s hotly contested FIH Professional League is returning to Australia for the primary time in two years, with a blockbuster five-day leg set for February 4-9, 2025 at Sydney Olympic Park.
The Sydney stage was proudly revealed by the Worldwide Hockey Federation (FIH) at present, as the total 2024/2025 FIH Professional League schedule was unveiled, mapping out the following season for our males’s and ladies’s nationwide groups, the Kookaburras and Hockeyroos.
Highlights embrace:
- FIH Professional League returns to Australia with a world-class lineup set to compete at Sydney Olympic Park, together with each our World No. 5 Hockeyroos and World No. 6 ranked defending champions Kookaburras.
- FIH Professional League season 5 champions the Kookaburras open their title defence in entrance of a house crowd.
- A re-match between the Kookaburras and Olympic gold medallists Netherlands – the primary since their Paris Olympic quarterfinal
- A re-match between the Hockeyroos and Olympic silver medallists China – the primary since their Paris Olympic quarterfinal
- Prime time summer season night viewing in Sydney with matches at 5.30pm and seven.30pm AEDT.
Proudly supported by the NSW Authorities’s tourism and main occasions company Vacation spot NSW, the action-packed Sydney stage will see the Olympic Gold Medallists, Netherlands women and men, and Paris silver medallists, China girls descend on the NSW capital to tackle our Kookaburras and Hockeyroos, in addition to Spain.
Proudly supported by the NSW Authorities’s tourism and main occasions company Vacation spot NSW, the action-packed Sydney stage will see the Paris Olympic Gold medallists, Netherlands males, silver medallists, China girls, and Spain’s males’s and ladies’s groups descend on the NSW capital to tackle our Kookaburras and Hockeyroos.
The Kookaburras will likely be out to defend their title after profitable Season 5, after they topped the lads’s FIH Professional League with an unimaginable 10 wins from 16 matches towards the world’s greatest. The world quantity 5 Hockeyroos begin their season having jumped up the rankings forward of their Sydney opponents, China and Spain.
“We’re delighted to kick off 2025 in Sydney and welcome the FIH Professional League again on Australian shores for the primary time in two years,” Hockey Australia CEO David Pryles stated.
“It doesn’t get a lot better than prime-time summer season night viewing in February. This occasion bridges the hole in Sydney’s sporting calendar, and I encourage everybody to get all the way down to Sydney Olympic Park and revel in among the greatest groups on the planet battle it out.
“That is the beginning of the following period for our nationwide groups as we stay up for the 2026 World Cup and the LA 2028 Olympic Video games and I’m excited to see the beginning of the journey.”
Only a week after competing in Sydney, the Hockeyroos and Kookaburras head to Argentina for feisty doubleheaders towards the South American hosts and Belgium.
In June, each groups embark on a tour of Europe with the Kookaburras beginning in England with matches towards Nice Britain, earlier than they tackle India and returning opponents New Zealand in Belgium, only a week earlier than they make a play for the title in Berlin towards Germany.
The Hockeyroos’ Europe Tour will get off to a scorching begin with an enthralling doubleheader towards the Olympic champions at residence within the Netherlands. Then they head to England to tackle India and Nice Britain earlier than rounding out the season towards Germany in Berlin.
All Hockeyroos and Kookaburras matches will likely be broadcast LIVE and free on 7plus. All FIH Professional League matches not that includes the Kookaburras & Hockeyroos will likely be proven on livehockey.com.au
The Males’s and Ladies’s FIH Hockey Professional League in Sydney, is proudly supported by the NSW Authorities’s tourism and main occasions company, Vacation spot NSW.
Kookaburras & Hockeyroos FIH Hockey Professional League 2024-25 schedule:
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