The Irish have done some great research work to pull together a full record of all the men’s international matches since the first game in 1895. The task has been completed by Steve Hines who admitted that it had been a labour of love to develop the database since he took over as senior men’s manager in 2001 and realised how poor the records were. He has also presented some fascinating analysis of the statistics and you can read his report in full by clicking on the PDF icon to the right. This report first appeared on the Irish Hockey website earlier this year.

The Hockey Museum is hopefully not too far behind as we have embarked on a project to digitise all the England and Great Britain men’s and women’s match and player records from the manual records developed in the 1980/90s by Bob Mason and Teresa Morris. We are aware that Hockey Australia has computerised its match records but we would be very interested to know of other Countries who have got their historic match records on computer as this will be invaluable when we begin to work with the International Hockey Federation to try and compile a record of all international matches ever played.

Contact the Museum if you have any information (contact form).

Katie Dodd, 14 August 2015