HC Klein Zwitserland

Hockey Club Klein Zwitserland, commonly known as Klein Zwitserland, is a Dutch professional field hockey club based in The Hague, South Holland.

Klein Zwitserland

Full name	Hockey Club Klein Zwitserland
Nickname(s)	De Steenbokken (The Capricorns)
Short name	KZ
League	Men's Hoofdklasse Women's Hoofdklasse
Founded	20 September 1908; 116 years ago (1908-09-20)
Home ground	Sportpark Klein Zwitserland, The Hague
Website	Club website
Home Away

The women and men's first teams compete in the hoofdklasse, the highest league of Dutch field hockey.

Founded on 20 September 1908, the club was incredibly successful during the 1970s, winning 8 national titles in a row. The first men's team played continuously on the highest level of Dutch hockey from 1974 until 2007. After promoting twice in a row they have been back in the hoofdklasse since 2018.

Honours

Men

Hoofdklasse

• Winners (8): 1976–77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84
• Runners-up (2): 1974–75, 1975–76 :

Gold Cup

• Winners (1): 2021–22^[1]

EuroHockey Club Champions Cup:

• Winners (2): 1979, 1981
• Runners-up (4): 1980, 1982, 1983, 1985

Hoofdklasse Indoor

• Winners (2): 1974–75, 1982–83

Players

Current squad

Men's squad

As of 13 September 2024^[2]

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK NED Koene Schaper (Captain) 6 MF NED Lucas Middendorp 7 FW NED Nick van Trigt 8 NED Daan Smits 9 NED Lars Daniels 10 FW NED Willem van Campen 11 NED Jonas Ellerman 12 MF NED Ties Klinkhamer 13 DF RSA Chad Futcher 14 DF USA Aki Käppeler 15 DF NED Douwe Steens

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 FW ARG Lucas Toscani 19 DF NED Pepijn Jones 20 FW NED Maurik Smits 21 NED Elout Kielman 22 FW GER Marco Miltkau (Captain) 23 FW ARG Nicolás Keenan 24 DF AUS Matthew Swann 25 GK NED Lars Zijderveld 27 FW ESP Albert Béltran 28 CZE Štěpán Klaban 35 MF GER Adrian Lehmann-Richter

Women's squad

Head coach: Razwan Mehmood Ahmed

As of 2022^[3]

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF NZL Kaitlin Cotter 3 MF JPN Moeka Tsubouchi 4 NED Sabine van Silfhout 5 NED Maud de Kok 6 NED Sietske Brüning 7 NED Meike Tjaberinga 8 FW AUS Lexie Pickering 9 MF RSA Kristen Paton 10 NED Philine Vinkesteijn 11 DF AUS Kaitlin Nobbs

No. Pos. Nation Player 12 NED Bibi Donraadt 13 NED Bernice van Aken 15 MF USA Fusine Govaert 16 NED Nanne Eijkman 18 FW AUS Alice Arnott 19 NED Pepita Rademakers 20 NED Kirsen Ender 21 NED Fleur Hofman 25 FW JPN Kaho Tanaka 33 NED Anne-Louise Nijdam

Notable players

Men's internationals

 Netherlands

Jan Albers Tjeerd Borstlap Edo Buma Jaap-Derk Buma Maurits Crucq

Geert-Jan Derikx Laurence Docherty Sander Dreesmann Thijs de Greeff Maarten van Grimbergen

Egbert Ho Hans Kruize Hidde Kruize Roepie Kruize Ties Kruize

Ron Steens Tim Steens Taeke Taekema Rochus Westbroek

 England/ Great Britain

• Brett Garrard

 Argentina

• Maximiliano Caldas
• Nicolas Keenan

 Australia

• Grant Schubert

 India

• Gagan Ajit Singh
• Dilip Tirkey

 United States

• Steven van Randwijck

Women's internationals

 Netherlands

• Naomi van As
• Merel de Blaeij
• Eveline de Haan
• Femke Kooijman
• Leonoor Voskamp

 Australia

• Alyson Annan

 England/ Great Britain

• Alex Danson