2006 Rink Hockey European Championship


The 2006 Rink Hockey European Championship was the 47th edition of the Rink Hockey European Championship, the biennial european rink hockey competition. The competition took place in Monza, Italy in the Pallazo dello Sport, also known as Pala Candy, from July 16 to July 22. Spain won the competition for the 13th time, beating Switzerland 2-0 in the final. Portugal took the 3rd place after beating 5-4 the hosts, Italy. This competition was part of the Euro Roller Games 2006, that also featured the European Championships of roller skating and artistic roller skating.

Format

There are 3 groups of 3 teams in Phase I. Each team plays each other within the group and all teams but the worse 3rd place of all groups will go into the quarter-finals.
Then, the losers and the team who didn't go to the quarter-finals will play a Poule for the 5th to 9th position. If any team played each other before this Poule, they won't be playing again: the results from Phase I will count.
The winners in the quarter-finals keep playing each other in a knockout system until the winner is found. There is also a game for 3rd and 4th place for the losers at the Semi-finals.
Every game lasts for 40 minutes, divided into 2 parts of 20, instead of the usual 50 minutes in some leagues.

Phase I

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Knockout Phase

Bracket

2006 Rink Hockey European Champion

SPAIN
Thirteenth Title

Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

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3rd Place Game

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Final

5th to 9th Poule

The games between teams that played against each other in Phase I are not repeated. The result from the Phase I game counted instead. This was the case for two matches, from Group A England vs. France and from Group B Austria vs. Germany:
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The other matches were played as follows:
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Final table

Goal scorers

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[Andorra]

NameBorn inGoals
Nelson Alves 1985
Ramon Bassols19818
Alex Martin19812
Marc Martin19840
Marc Montardit19772
Guillem Sarle19801
Juan Sebastian19731
Ferran Vila19730
Marc Vila 1981
Ivan Villaro19812
Carles Puig -

[Austria]

NameBorn inGoals
Klemens Schussling 1984
Andreas Kunz 1986
Gunter Faul19771
Thomas Haller19742
David Huber19884
Martin Laritz19760
Manuel Parfant19871
Thomas Simcic19761
Michael Schwendinger19821
Jokob Stockinger19860
Roland Mayer -

[England]

NameBorn inGoals
Ian Morrison 1983
Ian Smith 1984
Grant Zaccaria19850
Michael Ableson19860
Brendan Barker19784
Andrew Gregory19831
Karl Smith19791
Graeme Stewart19860
James Taylor19859
Joe Wheatley19690
José Carlos Amaral -

[France]

NameBorn inGoals
Olivier Gelebart 1975
Fabien Savreux 1973
Sylvain Brochard19873
Sebastien Furstenberger19853
Nicolas Guilbert19850
Henry Guirec19787
Remy Hourcq19803
Igor Tarassioux19772
Julien Huvelin19731
Baptiste Lucas19834
Eric Marquis -

[Germany]

NameBorn inGoals
Marc Berenbeck 1976
Patrick Glowka 1987
Felix Bender19852
Dominik Brandt19824
Markus Wilk19770
Stefan Gurtler19850
Thomas Haupt19800
Andre Kussolek19851
Tobias Mohr19800
Marc Schinkowski19831
Johan Van Diejen -

[Italy]

NNameBorn inPositionClubGoals
1Federico Stagi1974GKPrato
10Leonardo Barozzi1987GKViareggio
2Davide Motaran1984FRoller Novara4
3Leonardo Squeo1982D/MVercelli1
4Alberto Peripolli1986D/MBreganze1
5Francesco Dolce1973FHockey Novara12
6Nicola Palagi1981FViareggio0
7Mattia Cocco1984FValdagno2
8Mirco Bertolucci1972FFollonica5
9Alessandro Bertolucci1969FFollonica3
CoachAlessandro Cupisti-

[Portugal]

NNameBorn inPositionClubGoals
1Carlos Silva1982GKS.L. Benfica
10João Pereira 1980GKOC Barcelos
2Valter Neves1983D/MS.L. Benfica2
3Sérgio Silva1974D/MFollonica 6
4Vítor Hugo1984FACR Gulpilhares7
5Reinaldo Ventura1978FFC Porto7
6Tiago Rafael1983D/MOC Barcelos2
7Ricardo Barreiros1982FS.L. Benfica8
8Jorge Silva1984FFC Porto6
9Pedro Moreira1985D/MFC Porto2
CoachPaulo Batista-

[Spain]

NNameBorn inPositionClubGoals
1Sergi Fernández1985GKVic
10Juan Ramón de Moya1971GKNoia
2Sergi Panadero1985D/MFC Barcelona2
3Josep Maria Roca1981D/MVic2
4Jordi Bargallo1979FLiceo1
5Josep Maria Ordeig1981D/MBarcelona4
6Eduard Fernández1982FIgualada3
7Lluís Teixidó1978D/MReus3
8Marc Gual1980D/MReus7
9Pedro Gil1980FFC Porto 7
CoachCarlos Feriche-

[Switzerland]

NameBorn inClubGoals
Bjorn Hauert 1977SC Thunerstern
Nils Hauert 1983SC Thunerstern
Florian Brentini1983Genève HC3
Matthieu Brentini1980Genève HC1
Jerome Desponds1978Hockey Novara 0
Federico Garcia-Mendez1987Genève HC1
Andreas Munger1985RS Uttigen0
Stefan Rubi1979Montreux HC1
Gael Jimenez1987Genève HC1
Michael Muller1984Montreux HC3
Alain Richard --