Belgium men's national field hockey team

Belgium

Nickname

Red Lions

Association

Royal Belgian Hockey Association

Confederation

EHF (Europe)

Coach

Shane McLeod

Assistant coach

Philippe Goldberg

Captain

John-John Dohmen

FIH ranking




First kit




Second kit

Belgium men's national field hockey team
Medal record
Olympic Games
	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Team
	1920 Antwerp	Team

The Belgium national field hockey team (nicknamed the Red Lions) represents Belgium in the international field hockey competitions. As of July 2014, they are coached by Shane McLeod, who succeeded the Dutch trainer Jeroen Delmee.

Their greatest achievements in international tournaments to date are reaching six semifinals at the EuroHockey Nations Championship since 1995, including a third place in 2007 and runners-up in 2013, winning the Champions Challenge in 2011, the silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics, the bronze medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the 2014–15 Hockey World League.

History

Belgium first played hockey in 1902 and their first club was formed two years later. In 1907, several clubs established the Belgian Hockey Association. Belgium played its first international match against Germany, and was one of the founding members of the International Hockey Federation (FIH).

Between 1920 and 1978, Belgium appeared in two of the first three World Cups and in eleven out of thirteen Summer Olympics. After the successful early years (before the 1950s) with three times being among the best five at the Summer Olympics, it would last six decades before Belgium reached the international field hockey top again from the 1990s on.

The team was coached by Adam Commens until the end of 2010 before being replaced by Colin Batch as Adam Commens had been appointed coach of the Australian women's national team. Commens has been coach of Belgium's national men's team since 2007, and led them to their first Olympics appearance in 32 years when the team competed in Beijing in 2008. He will begin his role with the Hockeyroos early 2011. After the 2007 Champions Challenge, hosted in their own country, they ended at the last (sixth) place. This prompted coach Gilles Bonnet and his assistant-coach Pascal Kina to be replaced by Adam Commens and assistant Murray Richards. From 2012 on Marc Lammers trained the Belgian squad with assistants Jeroen Delmee and Philippe Goldberg. After Lammers resigned in July 2014, Delmee became his successor.

Honours

Summer Olympics: Second place 02 !: 2016; Third place 03 !: 1920

European Championship: Runners-up: 2013; Third place: 2007

Champions Challenge: Winners: 2011; Third place: 2005

Tournament history

A red box around the year indicates tournaments played within Belgium.

Summer Olympics

Gold Silver Bronze Fourth place

In 1920, Belgium's field hockey team won the bronze medal at home, at the Olympic Stadium in Antwerp.

Olympics Games record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA
United Kingdom 1908	Did Not Participate
Sweden 1912	Not Held
Belgium 1920	Bronze Medal	3rd	3	1	0	2	6	19
France 1924	Not Held
Netherlands 1928	Fourth place	4th	5	3	0	2	8	12
United States 1932	Did Not Participate
Germany 1936	Group Phase	9th	3	0	2	1	5	8
United Kingdom 1948	Group Phase	5th	4	2	0	2	6	8
Finland 1952	Second round	9th	2	1	0	1	6	1
Australia 1956	Group Phase	7th	3	0	1	2	0	5
Italy 1960	Group Phase	11th	5	1	1	3	7	9
Japan 1964	Group Phase	11th	7	2	2	3	10	13
Mexico 1968	Group Phase	9th	8	4	1	3	17	9
Germany 1972	Group Phase	10th	8	2	1	5	9	16
Canada 1976	Group Phase	9th	6	3	0	3	11	19
Soviet Union 1980	Did Not Participate
United States 1984
Korea 1988
Spain 1992
United States 1996
Australia 2000
Greece 2004
People's Republic of China 2008	Group Phase	9th	6	2	1	3	12	13
United Kingdom 2012	Group Phase	5th	6	3	1	2	13	9
Brazil 2016	Final	2nd	8	6	0	2	29	11
Total	1 Silver Medal	14/25	74	30	10	34	139	150