2024–25 Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey

This article is about men's event. For women's event, see 2024–25 Women's Hoofdklasse Hockey.

The 2024–25 Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey, also known as the Tulp Hoofdklasse Men for sponsorship reasons,^[1] was the 52nd season of the Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey, the top Dutch field hockey league. It began on 14 September 2024 and will conclude in May 2025 with the second match of the championship final.^[2]

Hoofdklasse

Season	2024–25
Dates	14 September 2024 – 11 May 2025
Champions	Amsterdam (22nd title)
Relegated	Nijmegen SCHC
Euro Hockey League	Bloemendaal Amsterdam Kampong
Matches played	132
Goals scored	667 (5.05 per match)
Top goalscorer	Timo Boers (Den Bosch) (28 goals)
Biggest home win	Kampong 8–0 Nijmegen (9 November 2024)
Biggest away win	Hurley 0–10 Rotterdam (16 March 2025)
Highest scoring	Rotterdam 8–4 Nijmegen (27 April 2025)
← 2023–24 2025–26 →

Kampong were the defending champions, winning their ninth national title by defeating Rotterdam 3–4 on aggregate in the 2023–24 championship final.^[3] The did not defend their title as they lost the final to Amsterdam 6–5 in a shoot-out after the final finished 5–5 on aggregate. Amsterdam won their 22nd title (first since 2011–12) equalling Bloemendaal's record.^[4][5]

Teams

Bloemendaal

Amsterdamse Bos

Klein Zwitserland

Rotterdam

Kampong

SCHC

Den Bosch

HDM

Oranje-Rood

Nijmegen

Amsterdamse Bos teams
 Amsterdam
 Hurley
 Pinoké

2024–25 Men's Hoofdklasse teams

Twelve teams compete in the league - the top nine teams from the previous season, the winner of the 2023–24 Promotieklasse and the two winners of the 2023–24 relegation play-offs. Nijmegen won the 2023–24 Promotieklasse and replaced Schaerweijde. Hurley and SCHC won the relegation play-offs and replaced HGC and Laren.

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
HDM	The Hague	South Holland	Sportpark Duinzigt
Hurley	Amstelveen	North Holland	Amsterdamse Bos
Kampong	Utrecht	Utrecht	De Klapperboom
Klein Zwitserland	The Hague	South Holland	Sportpark Klein Zwitserland
Nijmegen	Nijmegen	Gelderland	Radboud Sportcentrum
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

Personnel

Team	Trainer-coach	Captain
Amsterdam	Rick Mathijssen	Boris Burkhardt Floris Middendorp
Bloemendaal	Michel van den Heuvel	Jorrit Croon Floris Wortelboer
Den Bosch	Nanco Jansonius	Jasper Tukkers
HDM	Pieter Pieterse	Cédric de Gier Sander Groenheijde
Hurley	Enzo Torossi	Lex Tump
Kampong	Tim Oudenaller	Lars Balk Jonas de Geus
Klein Zwitserland	Carlos Castaño	Marco Miltkau Koene Schaper
Nijmegen	Rob Haantjes	Luc de Rooij
Oranje-Rood	Omar Schlingemann	Joep de Mol
Pinoké	Jesse Mahieu	Jannis van Hattum
Rotterdam	Erik van Driel	Thijs van Dam
SCHC	Jeroen Groenheijde	Floris Steenman

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing trainer-coach	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in the table	Incoming trainer-coach	Date of appointment
Bloemendaal	Rick Mathijssen[6]	Signed by Amsterdam	11 May 2024	Pre-season	Michel van den Heuvel[7]	12 May 2024
Amsterdam	Taco van den Honert[6]	End of contract			Rick Mathijssen[6]
HDM	Erik van Driel[8]	Mutual consent			Richard Smith[9]
Klein Zwitserland	Omar Schlingemann[10]	Signed by Oranje-Rood			Robert Justus[11]
Oranje-Rood	Jeroen Baart[12]	End of contract			Omar Schlingemann[10]
Rotterdam	Robin Rösch[13]	Mutual consent			Erik van Driel[14]
Nijmegen	Bas Bogaard[15]	Mutual consent			Rob Haantjes[16]
HDM	Richard Smith	Mutual consent[17]	14 March 2025	9th	Pieter Pieterse	14 March 2025
Klein Zwitserland	Robert Justus	Mutual consent[18]	10 May 2025	8th	Carlos Castaño[19]	10 May 2025

Number of teams by province

Province	Number of teams	Teams
North Holland	4	Amsterdam, Bloemendaal, Hurley and Pinoké
South Holland	3	HDM, Klein Zwitserland and Rotterdam
Utrecht	2	Kampong and SCHC
North Brabant	2	Den Bosch and Oranje-Rood
Gelderland	1	Nijmegen
Total	12

Regular season

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Bloemendaal	22	17	2	3	80	33	+47	53	Qualification for the Euro Hockey League first round and the play-offs
2	Den Bosch	22	14	5	3	67	33	+34	47	Qualification for the play-offs
3	Amsterdam (C)	22	14	4	4	77	39	+38	46	Qualification for the Euro Hockey League quarter-finals and the play-offs
4	Kampong	22	13	5	4	66	36	+30	44	Qualification for the Euro Hockey League first round and the play-offs
5	Rotterdam	22	11	7	4	77	48	+29	40
6	Oranje-Rood	22	11	5	6	67	57	+10	38
7	Pinoké	22	10	2	10	64	45	+19	32
8	Klein Zwitserland	22	7	4	11	36	52	−16	25
9	HDM	22	4	4	14	41	69	−28	16
10	SCHC (R)	22	4	4	14	37	61	−24	13[a]	Qualification for the relegation play-offs
11	Hurley (O)	22	2	3	17	23	101	−78	9
12	Nijmegen (R)	22	1	3	18	32	93	−61	6	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.^[21]
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. SCHC received a three-point deduction for fielding an ineligible player in the game against Kampong.^[20]

Results

Home \ Away	AMS	BLO	DB	HDM	HUR	KAM	KZ	NIJ	OR	PIN	ROT	SCH
Amsterdam	—	1–2	2–1	5–3	6–3	0–0	2–2	4–1	7–1	3–1	3–3	7–0
Bloemendaal	4–1	—	2–1	3–0	7–0	4–4	4–0	3–0	2–1	3–2	3–2	3–4
Den Bosch	3–0	2–2	—	5–2	8–1	2–2	3–1	3–1	2–2	2–1	4–1	4–1
HDM	1–6	2–7	1–2	—	1–1	0–5	2–2	3–1	2–4	2–3	2–2	2–1
Hurley	1–8	0–4	1–4	0–5	—	0–4	0–2	2–2	0–5	0–7	0–10	2–0
Kampong	2–4	1–3	3–1	2–0	4–2	—	4–1	8–0	4–1	3–2	3–3	3–1
Klein Zwitserland	1–3	3–2	0–3	3–1	1–1	2–2	—	4–0	1–0	1–2	0–4	3–0
Nijmegen	0–3	0–8	0–4	2–3	4–1	3–5	2–4	—	1–3	1–5	2–2	0–4
Oranje-Rood	3–2	2–3	4–4	6–4	5–1	3–2	4–1	5–4	—	4–3	4–4	3–2
Pinoké	1–3	2–3	2–4	5–3	4–1	1–2	5–2	8–1	2–2	—	3–1	1–1
Rotterdam	3–3	4–3	3–4	1–1	8–3	2–1	5–0	8–4	4–3	1–0	—	4–1
SCHC	3–4	1–5	1–1	3–1	2–3	1–2	3–2	3–3	2–2	2–4	1–2	—

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

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	FG	PC	PS	Goals
1	Timo Boers	Den Bosch	0	23	5	28
2	Boris Burkhardt	Amsterdam	13	11	3	27
	Miles Bukkens	Pinoké	11	11	5
4	Jeroen Hertzberger	Rotterdam	11	10	4	25
5	Jip Janssen	Kampong	0	21	3	24
6	Marc Miralles	Bloemendaal	1	13	5	19
7	Nathan Ephraums	Bloemendaal	17	0	0	17
	Chris Taberima	HDM	0	12	5
9	Thibeau Stockbroekx	Oranje-Rood	16	0	0	16
	Joep Troost	Pinoké	6	8	2

Updated to 11 May 2025. Source: KNHB^[22]

Play–offs

Bracket

	Semi-finals						Final
	Den Bosch	2	3	5
	Amsterdam	3	3	6
							Amsterdam (s.o.)	3	2	5
							Kampong	4	1	5
	Bloemendaal	2	1	3
	Kampong	5	3	8

Semi-finals

17 May 2025 16:00 Kampong 5–2 Bloemendaal Janssen  11', 14', 24', 33' Gruter  22' Report Warmerdam  21' Beins  38' De Klapperboom, Utrecht

18 May 2025 16:00 Bloemendaal 1–3 Kampong Miralles  21' Report Janssen  18', 49' B. Phijffer  51' Sportpark 't Kopje, Bloemendaal

Kampong won 8–3 on aggregate.

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17 May 2025 18:00 Amsterdam 3–2 Den Bosch Burkhardt  14' Van Bijnen  16', 58' Report Boers  38' Tukkers  42' Wagener Stadium, Amstelveen

18 May 2025 18:00 Den Bosch 3–3 Amsterdam Boers  15', 19' Sorsby  27' Report Burkhardt  4', 29', 32' Sportpark Oosterplas, Den Bosch

Amsterdam won 6–5 on aggregate.

Final

25 May 2025 16:00 Kampong 4–3 Amsterdam Marree  4' Janssen  35' Gruter  40' Telgenkamp  57' Report Burkhardt  1', 58' Middendorp  33' De Klapperboom, Utrecht

29 May 2025 16:00 Amsterdam 2–1 Kampong Burkhardt  32' Middendorp  33' Report Janssen  4' Penalties Middendorp D. Cassiem M. Cassiem Dommershuijzen Morton Middendorp M. Cassiem 6–5 De Geus Pieters De Vilder Sprengers Telgenkamp Telgenkamp Pieters Wagener Stadium, Amstelveen

5–5 on aggregate; Amsterdam won 6–5 in the shoot-out to win their 22nd national title.

Relegation play-offs

The relegation play-offs took place on 31 May and 1 June 2025.^[23]

Overview

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
SCHC	2–3	Schaerweijde	2–2	0–1
Hurley	5–5 (3–2 s.o.)	Tilburg	2–3	3–2

Matches

31 May 2025 16:00 SCHC 2–2 Schaerweijde Hafkamp  3' A. Empey  36' Report Stadelmaier  21' Ros  53' Sportpark Kees Boekelaan, Bilthoven

1 June 2025 16:00 Schaerweijde 1–0 SCHC Stadelmaier  12' Report Sportpark Krakelingweg, Zeist

Schaerweijde won 3–2 on aggregate and were promoted to the Hoofdklasse, while SCHC were relegated to the Promotieklasse.

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31 May 2025 16:00 Hurley 2–3 Tilburg Aerts  53' Voskuil  55' Report Van der Ruijt  17' Haring  19' Bornebroek  27' Amsterdamse Bos, Amstelveen

1 June 2025 16:00 Tilburg 2–3 Hurley Haring  47', 48' Report Aerts  41', 47' Voskuil  55' Penalties   2–3   Oude Warande, Tilburg

5–5 on aggregate, Hurley won 3–2 in the shoot-out, and therefore both teams remained in their respective leagues.

See also

• 2024–25 Women's Hoofdklasse Hockey