Phil Roper


Phillip "Phil" Roper is an English international field hockey player who plays as a midfielder or forward for the England and Great Britain national team.

Club career

Roper plays club hockey in the Men's England Hockey League Premier Division for Wimbledon. Born in Chester he started playing hockey, aged 8, for Chester Hockey Club, he played there for ten years before going to university, where he played for Sheffield Hallam.

International career

Roper made his international debut in 2013 and He competed for England in the men's hockey tournament at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where he won a bronze medal. On 24 May 2017 he was named as one of a three-man captaincy group, for England and Great Britain. It is a new captaincy structure for the men’s international teams.