2025 Women's Hockey One

2025 Women's
Hockey One
Tournament details
Host country Australia
Dates10 October – 30 November
Teams7
Venue(s)9 (in 9 host cities)
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The 2025 Women's Hockey One is the upcoming fifth season of Hockey Australia's national league, Hockey One. The tournament will be held across 7 states and territories of Australia. Competition will commence on 10 October, and culminate with a finals weekend on 29–30 November.[1][2][3]

Competition format

Format

The 2025 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 medal 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]

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Venues

Melbourne Perth Adelaide
State Netball and Hockey Centre Perth Hockey Stadium State Hockey Centre
Capacity: 8,000 Capacity: 6,000 Capacity: 4,000
Brisbane
Queensland 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

All times are local.

Preliminary round

Standings

Pos Team Pld W WD LD L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Adelaide Fire 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Semi-finals
2 Brisbane Blaze 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Canberra Chill 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 HC Melbourne 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 NSW Pride 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Perth Thundersticks 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Tassie Tigers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: 10 October 2025. 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

10 October 2025
20:15 (AEST)
Brisbane Blaze v Perth Thundersticks
Report
Queensland Hockey Centre, Brisbane

11 October 2025
14:00 (AEDT)
Canberra Chill v NSW Pride
Report
National Hockey Centre, Canberra

12 October 2025
14:00 (AEDT)
Tassie Tigers v HC Melbourne
Report
Tasmanian Hockey Centre, Hobart

17 October 2025
18:30 (AEDT)
HC Melbourne v Adelaide Fire
Report
State Netball and Hockey Centre, Melbourne

18 October 2025
16:15 (AEDT)
NSW Pride v Tassie Tigers
Report
Macarthur Regional Hockey Complex, Narellan

19 October 2025
16:15 (AWST)
Perth Thundersticks v Canberra Chill
Report
Perth Hockey Stadium, Perth

24 October 2025
18:30 (AEDT)
NSW Pride v HC Melbourne
Report
Newcastle International Hockey Centre, Newcastle

25 October 2025
16:00 (ACDT)
Adelaide Fire v Perth Thundersticks
Report
State Hockey Centre, Adelaide

26 October 2025
15:15 (AEDT)
Canberra Chill v Brisbane Blaze
Report
National Hockey Centre, Canberra

31 October 2025
18:30 (AEST)
Brisbane Blaze v NSW Pride
Report
Queensland Hockey Centre, Brisbane

1 November 2025
16:15 (AEDT)
Tassie Tigers v Adelaide Fire
Report
Tasmanian Hockey Centre, Hobart

2 November 2025
14:30 (AWST)
Perth Thundersticks v HC Melbourne
Report
Perth Hockey Stadium, Perth

7 November 2025
20:15 (AEDT)
HC Melbourne v Brisbane Blaze
Report
State Netball and Hockey Centre, Melbourne

8 November 2025
16:15 (AEDT)
Tassie Tigers v Perth Thundersticks
Report
Tasmanian Hockey Centre, Hobart

9 November 2025
13:00 (ACDT)
Adelaide Fire v Canberra Chill
Report
State Hockey Centre, Adelaide

14 November 2025
20:15 (ACDT)
NSW Pride v Adelaide Fire
Report
Goulburn Hockey Complex, Goulburn

15 November 2025
18:30 (AEDT)
HC Melbourne v Canberra Chill
Report
State Netball and Hockey Centre, Melbourne

16 November 2025
14:00 (AEST)
Brisbane Blaze v Tassie Tigers
Report
Queensland Hockey Centre, Brisbane

21 November 2025
18:30 (AEDT)
Canberra Chill v Tassie Tigers
Report
National Hockey Centre, Canberra

22 November 2025
16:00 (ACDT)
Adelaide Fire v Brisbane Blaze
Report
State Hockey Centre, Adelaide

23 November 2025
14:30 (AWST)
Perth Thundersticks v NSW Pride
Report
Perth Hockey Stadium, Perth

Medal round

Bracket

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
29 November
 
 
1st Pool
 
30 November
 
4th Pool
 
Winner SF1
 
29 November
 
Winner SF2
 
2nd Pool
 
 
3rd Pool
 
Third place
 
 
30 November
 
 
Loser SF1
 
 
Loser SF2

Semi-finals

29 November 2024
1st Pool SF1 4th Pool
Report
Venue TBD

29 November 2024
2nd Pool SF2 3rd Pool
Report
Venue TBD

Third and fourth place

30 November 2024
Loser SF1 v Loser SF2
Report
Venue TBD

Final

30 November 2024
Winner SF1 v Winner SF2
Report
Venue TBD

References

  1. ^ "Bigger, bolder, better – Hockey One League 2025 Fixtures Announced!". hockeyone.com.au. Hockey One. 12 June 2025. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
  2. ^ "Season 2025 – Home Game Schedule". hockeyqld.com.au. Hockey Queensland. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
  3. ^ "Goulburn to host 'blockbuster' NSW Pride Hockey matchday for second year in a row". goulburnpost.com.au. Goulburn Post. 11 June 2025. Retrieved 3 July 2025.
  4. ^ "NEW LEAGUE AND TV DEAL FOR HOCKEY". thewomensgame.com.au. The Women's Game. Retrieved 11 June 2024.