2024 Women's Hockey One

2024 Women's
Liberty Hockey One
Tournament details
Host country Australia
Dates11 October – 1 December
Teams7
Venue(s)9 (in 9 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Perth Thundersticks (1st title)
Runner-up Brisbane Blaze
Third place NSW Pride
Tournament statistics
Matches played25
Goals scored145 (5.8 per match)
Top scorer(s) Lexie Pickering (13 goals)
Best player Gitte Michels
2023 (previous) (next) 2025

The 2024 Women's Liberty Hockey One was the fourth season of Hockey Australia's national league, Hockey One. The tournament was held across 7 states and territories of Australia. Competition commenced on 11 October, and culminated with a finals weekend in Hobart, from 30 November to 1 December.[1][2][3]

Competition format

Format

The 2024 Hockey One season followed the same format as the previous seasons of the league. Teams will play a series of home and away matches during the Pool Stage, which will be followed by a Classification Round.

During the pool stage, teams played each other once in either a home or a way fixture. The top four ranked teams qualified for the classification round, playing in two semi-finals with the winners contesting the final and losers the third place match.

Rules

In addition to FIH sanctioned rules, Hockey Australia is implementing the following rules for Hockey One:

  • When a field goal or penalty stroke is scored the same athlete will have an automatic one-on-one shootout with the goalkeeper for an extra goal.
  • Outright winner: There will be no drawn games. In the event of a draw, teams will contest a penalty shoot-out to determine a winner.

Point allocation

Match points will be distributed as follows:

  • 5 points: win
  • 3 points: shoot-out win
  • 2 points: shoot-out loss
  • 0 points: loss

Participating teams

The seven teams competing in the league come from Australia's states and territories, with the Northern Territory being the only team absent.[4]

Head Coach: Mark Victory

  1. Bridget Laurance (GK)
  2. Ella du Preez
  3. Sherilyn Cass
  4. Teyjah Abell
  5. Holly Evans
  6. Chloe Holland
  7. Linzi Appleyard
  8. Michaela Spano
  9. Britney de Silva
  10. Tyler Pedley
  11. Lucy Sharman
  12. Eliza White
  13. Harriet Shand (C)
  14. Annalise Abbott
  15. Beatriz Monger-Molowny
  16. Casey Crowley
  17. Julia van den Heuvel
  18. Puck de Beijer
  19. Amy Hammond (GK)
  20. Zara Pelham
  21. Margot van Geffen
  22. Shona McCallin
  23. Gabriella Mitreska
  24. Rosario Villagra
  25. Rachel van der Ploeg

Head Coach: Nikki Taylor

  1. Savannah Fitzpatrick
  2. Ambrosia Malone
  3. Kendra Fitzpatrick
  4. Claire Colwill
  5. Morgan Gallagher (C)
  6. Camryn Mathison
  7. Hannah Cullum-Sanders
  8. Dayle Dolkens
  9. Casey Dolkens
  10. Madison Fitzpatrick
  11. Morgan Mathison
  12. Jade Smith
  13. Karissa van der Wath
  14. Stephanie Kershaw
  15. Jade Reid
  16. Keeley Walker
  17. Andie Griffin
  18. Madeline Kenny
  19. Rhiannon Baxter
  20. Jamie-Lee Surha
  21. Renee Taylor
  22. Britt Wilkinson
  23. Kyra Livermore
  24. Emily Witheyman-Crump (GK)
  25. Jordan Bliss (GK)

Head Coach: Matthew Cook

  1. Mikayla Evans
  2. Giselle Ansley
  3. Grace Balsdon
  4. Emma Baxter
  5. Claudia Johnston
  6. Emma Davidsmeyer
  7. Naomi Evans (C)
  8. Elena Rayer
  9. Georgina West
  10. Aleisha Price
  11. Edwina Bone
  12. Imogen Dorsett
  13. Georgina Smithers
  14. Olivia Martin
  15. Lucy Nash
  16. Philippa Mannix
  17. Mikaela Patterson
  18. Taquira McGrath
  19. Sarah White
  20. Lauren Yee
  21. Caitriona Bailey-Price
  22. Madeline Dooley
  23. Gabrielle Millan (GK)
  24. Sarah Steinhardt (GK)
  25. Kayley Boye (GK)

Head Coach: Daniel Mitchell

  1. Sophie Taylor
  2. Aisling Utri
  3. Kary Chau
  4. Kristina Bates
  5. Josie Lawton
  6. Ciara Utri
  7. Hannah Cotter
  8. Alannah Hibbard
  9. Emily Hamilton-Smith
  10. Rene Hunter (GK)
  11. Charlotte Stapenhorst
  12. Laura Barden
  13. Olivia Downes
  14. Gracie Geddis
  15. Zara Geddis
  16. Josie Erbsland
  17. Dacia Koelmeyer
  18. Zali Ward
  19. Emma Leighton (GK)
  20. Charlotte Hodgson
  21. Hannah Gravenall (C)
  22. Rachael Lynch (C, GK)
  23. Samantha Love
  24. Bianca Zurrer
  25. Evie Stansby

Head Coach: Scott Barker

  1. Alice Arnott
  2. Chloe Holmes
  3. Kendelle Tait
  4. Chelsea Holmes
  5. Ella Carr
  6. Grace Stewart
  7. Makayla Jones
  8. Amalia Patterson
  9. Hannah French
  10. Emma Scriven
  11. Greta Hayes
  12. Miri Maroney
  13. Emmalee Croker
  14. Alana Kavanagh
  15. Estelle Hughes
  16. Lucinda Preeo
  17. Jocelyn Bartram (GK)
  18. Maddison Smith
  19. Lily Neilson
  20. Zoe Newman (GK)
  21. Abigail Wilson
  22. Mariah Williams (C)
  23. Emma Spinks
  24. Meike van Haeringen
  25. Grace Young

Head Coach: Philip Hulbert

  1. Phillipa Morgan (C)
  2. Kayla O'Sullivan
  3. Neasa Flynn
  4. Elyssa Melville
  5. Courtney Schonell
  6. Lexie Pickering
  7. Penny Squibb
  8. Georgina Dowd
  9. Georgia Hiskins
  10. Jesse Reid
  11. Liné Malan
  12. Caitlyn Templeman
  13. Elizabeth Duguid (GK)
  14. Bellé Ramshaw
  15. Madison Naish
  16. Annie Gibbs
  17. Kaitlin Nobbs
  18. Aleisha Power (GK)
  19. Karri Somerville
  20. Saysha Pillay
  21. Jolie Sertorio
  22. Eva Drummond
  23. Georgia Wilson
  24. Candyce Peacock
  1. Sarah McCambridge (C)
  2. Jemma Kenworthy
  3. Fiona Crackles
  4. Maddison Brooks
  5. Taylor Brooks
  6. Josie Crowden
  7. Lily Bushby
  8. Ruby Harris
  9. Holly Hunt
  10. Louisa Jacobson
  11. Romani Kenworthy
  12. Meah Leary
  13. Phillida Bridley
  14. Gitte Michels
  15. Lucy Cooper
  16. Madison Clark
  17. Nellie Paynter
  18. Kacee Pointing
  19. Sarah Robertson
  20. Beth Dobbie
  21. Millie Smith
  22. Lauren Canning
  23. Holly Gilbar
  24. Evelyn Dalton (GK)

Venues

Melbourne Perth Adelaide
Melbourne Sports Centre Perth Hockey Stadium MATE Stadium
Capacity: 8,000 Capacity: 6,000 Capacity: 4,000
Brisbane
Queensland State Hockey Centre
Capacity: 1,000
Canberra
National Hockey Centre
Goulburn
Goulburn Hockey Complex
Hobart Narellan Newcastle
Tasmanian Hockey Centre Macarthur Regional Hockey Complex Newcastle International Hockey Centre

Results

Preliminary round

Pos Team Pld W WD LD L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Perth Thundersticks 6 5 1 0 0 36 15 +21 28 Semi-finals
2 Brisbane Blaze 6 4 0 1 1 23 16 +7 22
3 NSW Pride 6 3 1 0 2 23 10 +13 18
4 Tassie Tigers 6 3 0 1 2 13 14 −1 17
5 HC Melbourne 6 2 1 0 3 10 19 −9 13
6 Canberra Chill 6 1 0 0 5 13 25 −12 5
7 Adelaide Fire 6 0 0 1 5 6 25 −19 2
Source: Hockey One
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result; 6) field goals scored.

Fixtures

11 October 2024
21:00 (ACDT)
Adelaide Fire 1–1 HC Melbourne
Cass  58' Report Stansby  49'
Penalties
Van Geffen
McCallin
Spano
Pedley
1–3 Barden
Bates
Stapenhorst
MATE Stadium, Adelaide
Umpires:
Melanie Blanchard (AUS)
Rhiannon Murrie (AUS)

12 October 2024
16:30 (AEDT)
Tassie Tigers 3–3 NSW Pride
Michels  34'
McCambridge  38'38'
Report Patterson  20'20'
Scriven  27'
Penalties
Hunt
M. Brooks
Harris
Robertson
Bridley
2–3 Wilson
French
Williams
Hayes
Tasmanian Hockey Centre, Hobart
Umpires:
Iris Milham (AUS)
Nicola Brown (AUS)

13 October 2024
15:30 (AEDT)
Canberra Chill 3–10 Perth Thundersticks
West  45'45'
N. Evans  58'
Report Pickering  6'6'42'42'
Reid  19'19'
Somerville  21'
Malan  43'57'57'
National Hockey Centre, Canberra
Umpires:
Emily Carroll (AUS)
Kristy Robertson (AUS)

18 October 2024
18:30 (AEDT)
Canberra Chill 4–2 Adelaide Fire
N. Evans  3'3'
Rayer  4'4'
Report Spano  4'
Crowley  10'
National Hockey Centre, Canberra
Umpires:
Emily Carroll (AUS)
Kristy Robertson (AUS)

19 October 2024
15:00 (AEDT)
NSW Pride 2–3 Brisbane Blaze
Preeo  18'44' Report M. Fitzpatrick  19'21'
K. Fitzpatrick  21'
Newcastle International Hockey Centre, Newcastle
Umpires:
Cassidy Gallagher (AUS)
Michelle Farnill (AUS)

20 October 2024
17:30 (AWST)
Perth Thundersticks 6–3 Tassie Tigers
Nobbs  2'2'
Peacock  4'
Schonell  20'20'
Malan  60'
Report McCambridge  5'
Crackles  8'
Bridley  11'
Perth Hockey Stadium, Perth
Umpires:
Jaxon Geddes (AUS)
Matthew Claxton (AUS)

25 October 2024
21:00 (AEST)
Brisbane Blaze 4–2 Canberra Chill
S. Fitzpatrick  9'32'
C. Dolkens  51'
Taylor  59'
Report Ansley  11'19'
Queensland State Hockey Centre, Brisbane
Umpires:
Aleisha Neumann (AUS)
Tamara Leonard (AUS)

26 October 2024
20:00 (AEDT)
HC Melbourne 2–6 Perth Thundersticks
Gravenall  1'1' Report Pickering  18'
Squibb  38'
Schonell  42'42'46'46'
Melbourne Sports Centre, Melbourne
Umpires:
Nicola Brown (AUS)
Rhiannon Murrie (AUS)

27 October 2024
17:00 (ACDT)
Adelaide Fire 0–2 Tassie Tigers
Report Michels  33'35'
MATE Stadium, Adelaide
Umpires:
Iris Milham (AUS)
Melanie Blanchard (AUS)

1 November 2024
18:30 (AEDT)
HC Melbourne 1–6 NSW Pride
Cotter  54' Report Wilson  6'38'38'54'54'
French  6'
Melbourne Sports Centre, Melbourne
Umpires:
Nicola Brown (AUS)
Iris Milham (AUS)

2 November 2024
15:00 (AEDT)
Tassie Tigers 2–1 Brisbane Blaze
Cooper  41'41' Report Malone  59'
Tasmanian Hockey Centre, Hobart
Umpires:
Courtney Pearson (AUS)
Aaron Kitchener (AUS)

3 November 2024
19:00 (AWST)
Perth Thundersticks 5–0 Adelaide Fire
Drummond  6'6'28'28'
Schonell  12'
Report
Perth Hockey Stadium, Perth
Umpires:
Jaxon Geddes (AUS)
Daniel Johnston (AUS)

8 November 2024
20:30 (AEDT)
NSW Pride 1–3 Perth Thundersticks
Scriven  33' Report Pickering  10'10'
Squibb  48'
Macarthur Regional Hockey Complex, Narellan
Umpires:
Kristy Robertson (AUS)
Michelle Farnill (AUS)

9 November 2024
16:30 (AEDT)
Tassie Tigers 3–2 Canberra Chill
Michels  10'
Harris  19'19'
Report N. Evans  40'40'
Tasmanian Hockey Centre, Hobart
Umpires:
Courtney Pearson (AUS)
Jayden Pearson (AUS)

10 November 2024
15:00 (AEST)
Brisbane Blaze 4–1 HC Melbourne
Kershaw  11'11'
Kenny  41'
S. Fitzpatrick  60'
Report Cotter  2'
Queensland State Hockey Centre, Brisbane
Umpires:
Deborah O'Connell (AUS)
Tamara Leonard (AUS)

15 November 2024
20:00 (AEDT)
Canberra Chill 2–3 HC Melbourne
Yee  33'33' Report Cotter  16'16'
Gravenall  49'
National Hockey Centre, Canberra
Umpires:
Emily Carroll (AUS)
Deborah O'Connell (AUS)

16 November 2024
21:00 (ACDT)
Adelaide Fire 0–8 NSW Pride
Report Stewart  14'14'
Williams  21'21'
Jones  28'30'30'
Wilson  59'
MATE Stadium, Adelaide
Umpires:
Courtney Pearson (AUS)
Michelle Farnill (AUS)

17 November 2024
17:30 (AWST)
Perth Thundersticks 6–6 Brisbane Blaze
Pickering  24'24'32'32'55'
Malan  36'
Report D. Dolkens  6'13'13'43'
M. Fitzpatrick  54'54'
Penalties
Nobbs
Schonell
Pickering
Drummond
Gibbs
Nobbs
Schonell
5–4 Kershaw
M. Fitzpatrick
Malone
Colwill
Mathison
D. Dolkens
M. Fitzpatrick
Perth Hockey Stadium, Perth
Umpires:
Jaxon Geddes (AUS)
Rhiannon Murrie (AUS)

22 November 2024
18:30 (AEDT)
HC Melbourne 2–0 Tassie Tigers
A. Utri  36'36' Report
Melbourne Sports Centre, Melbourne
Umpires:
Nicola Brown (AUS)
Iris Milham (AUS)

23 November 2024
17:00 (AEST)
Brisbane Blaze 5–3 Adelaide Fire
Taylor  3'
S. Fitzpatrick  39'49'49'
Kershaw  58'
Report Pelham  32'
Van Geffen  43'43'
Queensland State Hockey Centre, Brisbane
Umpires:
Aleisha Neumann (AUS)
Tamara Leonard (AUS)

24 November 2024
13:00 (AEDT)
NSW Pride 3–0 Canberra Chill
Wilson  1'40'40' Report
Goulburn Hockey Complex, Goulburn
Umpires:
Emily Carroll (AUS)
Harrison Lye (AUS)

Classification round

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
30 November
 
 
Perth Thundersticks3
 
1 December
 
Tassie Tigers1
 
Perth Thundersticks4
 
30 November
 
Brisbane Blaze1
 
Brisbane Blaze3
 
 
NSW Pride1
 
Third place
 
 
1 December
 
 
Tassie Tigers4 (0)
 
 
NSW Pride (pen.)4 (3)

Semi-finals

30 November 2024
12:30 (AEDT)
Perth Thundersticks 3–1 Tassie Tigers
Pickering  18'
Flynn  24'
Drummond  34'
Report Michels  6'
Tasmanian Hockey Centre, Hobart
Umpires:
Cassidy Gallagher (AUS)
Tamara Leonard (AUS)

30 November 2024
16:00 (AEDT)
Brisbane Blaze 3–1 NSW Pride
M. Fitzpatrick  45'
Colwill  47'
Smith  48'
Report French  10'
Tasmanian Hockey Centre, Hobart
Umpires:
Iris Milham (AUS)
Kristy Robertson (AUS)

Third and fourth place

1 December 2024
10:00 (AEDT)
Tassie Tigers 4–4 NSW Pride
Michels  12'35'
Harris  34'
Crackles  43'
Report Wilson  8'29'31'
Neilson  50'
Penalties
Hunt
Harris
M. Brooks
0–3 Wilson
Williams
French
Tasmanian Hockey Centre, Hobart
Umpires:
Iris Milham (AUS)
Cassidy Gallagher (AUS)

Final

1 December 2024
13:00 (AEDT)
Perth Thundersticks 4–1 Brisbane Blaze
Malan  16'16'
Squibb  52'
Wilson  55'
Report Kershaw  34'
Tasmanian Hockey Centre, Hobart
Umpires:
Kristy Robertson (AUS)
Tamara Leonard (AUS)

Final standings

Pos Team Pld W WD LD L GF GA GD Pts Final standing
Perth Thundersticks 8 7 1 0 0 43 17 +26 38 Gold Medal
Brisbane Blaze 8 5 0 1 2 27 21 +6 27 Silver Medal
NSW Pride 8 3 2 0 3 28 17 +11 21 Bronze Medal
4 Tassie Tigers 8 3 0 2 3 18 21 −3 19 Fourth Place
5 HC Melbourne 6 2 1 0 3 10 19 −9 13 Eliminated in
Group Stage
6 Canberra Chill 6 1 0 0 5 13 25 −12 5
7 Adelaide Fire 6 0 0 1 5 6 25 −19 2

Awards

Top Goalscorer Player of the League Player of the Final Fans Player of the League
Lexie Pickering Gitte Michels Aleisha Power Eva Drummond

Team of the Year

At the conclusion of the regular season, a team of the year was named:[5]

2024 Women's Team of the Year
Goalkeeper Defenders Midfielders Forwards Substitutes
Evelyn Dalton (Tigers) Maddison Smith (Pride)
Gitte Michels (Tigers)
Penny Squibb (Thundersticks)
Fiona Crackles (Tigers)
Jesse Reid (Thundersticks)
Grace Young (Pride)
Eva Drummond (Thundersticks)
Lexie Pickering (Thundersticks)
Savannah Fitzpatrick (Blaze)
Courtney Schonell (Thundersticks)
Elena Rayer (Chill)
Abigail Wilson (Pride)
Margot van Geffen (Fire)
Holly Hunt (Tigers)

Goalscorers

There were 145 goals scored in 25 matches, for an average of 5.8 goals per match.

13 goals

12 goals

7 goals

6 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Source: Hockey Australia

References

  1. ^ "The Road to Hobart Begins! The 2024 H1 Schedule". hockeyone.com.au. Hockey One. 6 June 2019. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
  2. ^ "Tigers legends can bow out in style after Hobart snares Hockey One finals". themercury.com.au. The Mercury. 7 June 2024. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
  3. ^ "Hobart To Host 2024 Hockey One League Finals". miragenews.com. Mirage News. 6 June 2024. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
  4. ^ "NEW LEAGUE AND TV DEAL FOR HOCKEY". thewomensgame.com.au. The Women's Game. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
  5. ^ https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=885533123771860&set=pcb.885533207105185