News

It is with great sadness that we report that Chris Henderson, the league’s Treasurer, passed away on Monday. He had been in hospital with Covid for some time. Chris had been our Treasurer since 2008. He was active with Kent umpires, passing on his long experience to the next generation. Our thoughts are very much with […]

England Hockey have issued updated guidance, which has serious implications for travel in Tier 2 (currently covering nearly all of London). Specifically: “Car sharing is not permitted, meaning that teams must travel individually or in households/bubbles to matches.” Please note the following important points: We are not going to suspend the London League because of […]

Over 100 attended the webinar on Monday. Click here to download the presentation document.

Games scheduled for 5 December can go ahead as planned, following the government’s lifting of the second national lockdown, though anyone located in a Tier 3 area (just Kent at the time of writing), may be affected by travel restrictions. There is currently insufficient clarity on this matter, as mentioned in this announcement from England […]

Club hockey has been suspended until 4 December. England Hockey’s statement on this can be read here. Four Saturdays will be lost. To deal with this, we have decided to cancel the divisional finals, to extend the season to Sunday 25 April, and to move the fixtures to the four ‘new’ Saturdays, to save clubs […]

Good luck to everyone for the new season, which starts tomorrow. We have a strange season ahead of us, dominated by Covid, plus the transition to new leagues at the end, for the new Greater London Area. We have adopted additional rules in the event of Covid disruption: https://www.londonhockeyleague.org.uk/covid19. These will kick in if/when clubs […]

Please see https://www.londonhockeyleague.org.uk/covid19. This describes what we’ll do if the season is affected, and, looking at the news, it does seem quite likely that teams and/or venues will get locked down at some point. Leagues are not yet permitted to start the season, as England Hockey (EH) have not had permission from the government. We […]

Let’s hope we get to play them!

The league’s AGM took place as a video conference on 4 June, and those present felt it had gone well enough, especially as it obviously saved on travel time. We will probably use this for some future meetings. Rich Beer, Development Director of England Hockey, joined the meeting to update clubs on the latest response […]

As emailed just now to all club and team contacts… We have finalised tables for the season. For Division 2, where all teams had played the same number of matches, the table stands. For all the other tables, we have calculated percentages, based on points per game played, and reflected the percentages as ‘additional points’. How […]