2022 England Hockey PC Challenge Cup

The 2022 Performance Centre Challenge Cup (PCCC), was hosted at Nottingham Hockey Centre, saw over 1100 players participate with an opportunity to be exposed to a broader talent pool within a high-stakes competition.  The U17 event ran from Friday 29 – Sunday 31 July. 

There were 16 Performance Centres in England, each of which had a squad of 18 players from their U17 training squads, boys and girls.

The 16 Performance Centres were:

Bristol, Bury, Durham, East Midlands, Fylde, Guildford, Manchester, Northwood, Reading,

South Midlands, Southampton, Taunton, Tonbridge, West Midlands, Weybridge, Yorks 

Each Performance Centre was placed in an initial group of 4. The teams played 3 x 40-minute matches over the first day and a half.  The rankings placed each team in their second pool with all the 1st placed teams in Pool A where they played a second-round robin of matches, all 2nd placed teams in Pool B, 3rd placed teams in Pool C and 4th placed teams in Pool D. 

The tournament overview and programme can be downloaded here

IFSportImages' photographs from the U17 event featuring Northwood PC teams can be found below:

All images are ©copyright @IFSportsImages and Ian Foster (@IanhF) with all rights reserved, no commercial or professional use is permitted without prior written agreement, no image adaptation modification or manipulation of any kind is permitted without prior written agreement, any personal use (inc social media) must credit @IFSportsImages and Ian Foster (@IanhF).

BU17

2022-07-29 BU18 Fylde 1-1 Northwood https://photos.app.goo.gl/qKDvv8vsHBmEPVqZ7

2022-07-29 BU18 East Mids 2-2 Northwood https://photos.app.goo.gl/gupkP4eqRjseWQUQ8

2022-07-30 BU18 Bristol 1-3 Northwood https://photos.app.goo.gl/VL4Km2bazEthNSSd9

2022-07-30 BU18 Taunton 0-2 Northwood https://photos.app.goo.gl/gu8dZnYRw2EyMbB86

2022-07-31 BU18 Northwood 1-0 Guildford https://photos.app.goo.gl/RUyhuC2upceQkPFf8

2022-07-31 BU18 Northwood 2-4 Southampton https://photos.app.goo.gl/d7gvZeaMjQjfiXRo7

GU17

2022-07-29 GU18 Fylde 0-4 Northwood https://photos.app.goo.gl/XudEdRX2pW3H8at27

2022-07-29 GU18 East Mids 2-1 Northwood https://photos.app.goo.gl/GWAEjaBHARkBs9LGA

2022-07-30 GU18 Bristol 0-1 Northwood https://photos.app.goo.gl/NYPM6jDQszwyZskA6

2022-07-30 GU18 Northwood 2-0 Bury https://photos.app.goo.gl/LW4hvGPao7Ljjd8G7

2022-07-31 GU18 Northwood 2-3 South Mids https://photos.app.goo.gl/9ybuhb5Lc7ZW6zwc8

2022-07-31 GU18 Northwood 1-0 Yorkshire https://photos.app.goo.gl/XbQQty8hSK9BovFk8

Northwood PC Winners

2022-07-31 BU18 Champions https://photos.app.goo.gl/dUspV1oZPUhPjYWVA

2022-07-31 GU18 Champions https://photos.app.goo.gl/iu3PmEFkSHcH4agv7

2022-07-31 Northwood Groups https://photos.app.goo.gl/pBt9zXJ8HoUFRJeh9

2022-07-31 Marlow HC Groups https://photos.app.goo.gl/tqZzm2jHTqPiVjFe6

The competition results can be located here:

GU17 & BU17 https://englandhockey.altiusrt.com/competitions/321

The final results article can be found here https://www.englandhockey.co.uk/media/news/challenge-cup-round-up-u17

All images are ©copyright @IFSportsImages and Ian Foster (@IanhF) with all rights reserved, no commercial or professional use is permitted without prior written agreement, no image adaptation modification or manipulation of any kind is permitted without prior written agreement, any personal use (inc social media) must credit @IFSportsImages and Ian Foster (@IanhF).