Women's EuroHockey Championship
The Women's EuroHockey Championship is an international women's field hockey competition organized by the European Hockey Federation (EHF) for the top eight European national teams.When the tournament is held close to the Summer Olympic games or the Women's Hockey World Cup, the winner of the tournament is awarded a place in those competitions.National teams qualify for a division based on their performance in the previous competition.In each pool, A and B, all the teams play each other once, with points awarded as follows: Upon completion of these matches, each team in the pool is ranked according to the number of points each has accumulated.The results from those games and from the game that was previously played against the other team in their original pool are used to rank each team according to the ranking procedure used in Pool A and B.