Hamburger Polo Club

Match results

09 5 Oct 10:45 Hamburger Polo Club HPC 11 - 1 SV Arminen ARM Recap
14 6 Oct 12:30 HC Rotterdam ROT 3* - 3 Hamburger Polo Club HPC Recap

* Won by shoot-out

About Hamburger Polo Club

Hamburger Polo Club are looking forward to just their second appearance in the EHL following their meteoric rise up the ranks in the past decade to become major players in Germany.
In their debut season, they reached they recorded a seventh place finish overall, sweeping through the KO16 with wins over Wimbledon and Lisnagarvey in 2022.
This time, they have a strong EHL pedigree in the coaching team with Robert Tigges having won silver in 2012 and 2016 and bronze in 2008 and 2010 during spells with HC Rotterdam and AH&BC Amsterdam as a player. As Amsterdam’s women’s coach, he won EHL gold in 2022. His co-coach Christoph Bechmann coached Harvestehuder THC to EHL gold in 2014.
Polo have a mix of international players and youngsters led by team captain Mathias Müller, a long time international player for the German national team, becoming World Champion in 2022 and also a two-time EHL winner with UHC and Rot Weiss.
Former members of the national team; Niklas Garst (3rd goalie for Germany), Constantin Staib, Niklas Bosserhoff and Paul-Philipp Kaufmann are other key men.
There is also a strong link with Oceania: Tom Craig and Tim Brand are 2 Australian Olympians representing Polo as well as New Zealanders Nic Woods, Kane Russell, Hugo Inglis and Sean Findlay.
Furthermore there is a good mix of talented guys like Benjamin Kölbl, Bjorn Szerdahelyi, Lukas Kossel and some experienced Bundesliga players like Leon Thörnblom (Austrian international, Indoor World Champion) and Jan Hendrik Bartels.
Tigges says of the challenge: “We are really looking forward competing in the EHL again and measuring ourselves with the rest of Europe.”
Departing from the club this season are Diede van Puffelen), Otto van Stechow (both to Grossflottbek), Tim Behrmann (to Munich SC) and Saul Esteve (to Spain).

EHL History
2022/23 – Seventh place

The team

CRAIG Thomas

Shirt number: 2
Date of Birth: 03/09/1995
Nationality: Australia

BINDER Oliver

Shirt number: 3
Date of Birth: 12/07/1996
Nationality: Austria

MÜLLER Matthias

Shirt number: 4
Date of Birth: 03/04/1992
Nationality: Germany

FINDLAY Sean

Shirt number: 5
Date of Birth: 13/03/1997
Nationality: New Zealand

RUSSELL Kane

Shirt number: 6
Date of Birth: 14/03/1995
Nationality: Ireland

SMITH Paul

Shirt number: 7
Date of Birth: 21/01/2000
Nationality: Germany

KAUFMANN Paul

Shirt number: 8
Date of Birth: 21/06/1996
Nationality: Germany

KÖLBL Benjamin

Shirt number: 9
Date of Birth: 11/05/2002
Nationality: Austria

BRAND Timothy

Shirt number: 10
Date of Birth: 29/11/1998
Nationality: Australia

STAIB Constantin

Shirt number: 11
Date of Birth: 31/08/1995
Nationality: Germany

SARIKAYA Aidan

Shirt number: 12
Date of Birth: 03/07/1996
Nationality: New Zealand

WOODS Nicholas

Shirt number: 13
Date of Birth: 26/08/1995
Nationality: New Zealand

ESSEN Julian

Shirt number: 15
Date of Birth: 12/06/1991
Nationality: Germany

MÜLLER Luca

Shirt number: 16
Date of Birth: 24/02/1994
Nationality: Germany

BARTELS Jan-Hendrik

Shirt number: 17
Date of Birth: 17/07/1995
Nationality: Germany

MINK Lasse

Shirt number: 18
Date of Birth: 29/04/2002
Nationality: Germany

BOSSERHOFF Niklas

Shirt number: 20
Date of Birth: 15/04/1998
Nationality: Germany

SMITH Rhys

Shirt number: 22
Date of Birth: 13/03/1997
Nationality: England

QUINDERS Simón

Shirt number: 23
Date of Birth: 14/03/2003
Nationality:

THÖRNBLOM Leon

Shirt number: 24
Date of Birth: 03/09/1995
Nationality: Austria

SZERDAHELYI Björn

Shirt number: 25
Date of Birth: 20/01/2002
Nationality: Germany

INGLIS Hugo

Shirt number: 29
Date of Birth: 18/01/1991
Nationality: New Zealand

GARST Niklas

Shirt number: 30
Date of Birth: 25/04/1995
Nationality: Germany

BAKER George

Shirt number: 32
Date of Birth: 24/10/2002
Nationality: New Zealand

MILT Jasper

Shirt number: 33
Date of Birth: 05/04/2004
Nationality: Germany

WOLGAST Jannik

Shirt number: 34
Date of Birth: 19/09/1989
Nationality: Germany

KOSSEL Lukas

Shirt number: 37
Date of Birth: 02/03/2005
Nationality: Germany

LATSCH Jonathan

Shirt number: 38
Date of Birth: 07/02/2007
Nationality: Germany

DEMMEL Tom

Shirt number: 50
Date of Birth: 08/08/2005
Nationality: Germany

GLAGE Jim

Shirt number: 99
Date of Birth: 05/07/2003
Nationality: Germany