The 2024 Men'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.
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.
Head Coach: Jethro Eustice
- Jed Snowden <small>(GK)</small>
- Luke Anderson
- Lucas Toonen
- Jack Holland
- Trent Symms
- Angus Fry
- Geoffrey Abbott
- Sebastian Foster
- Fred Gray <small>(C)</small>
- Thomas Wycherley
- Kyton Rayner
- Lachlan Arneil
- James Humphries
- Isaac Whittaker
- Fraser Bowden
- Hugh Snowden
- Bryce Hammond
- <li value=19>Thomas Brown
- Daniel Sibbald
- Jethro Eustice
- Richard Pautz
- Lucas Noel
- <li value=25>Landon Morley
- <li value=27>Oliver Higgins <small>(GK)</small>
- <li value=33>Mitchell Dell
Head Coach: Darren Fowler
- William Mathison
- Shane Kenny
- Corey Weyer
- Noah Fahy
- Tyler Spry
- Kyle Jeffery-Prestwich
- Elliot Dale
- Adam Imer
- Jacob Anderson
- <li value=11>Michael Francis
- Jacob Whetton
- David Hubbard
- <li value=15>Jayden Atkinson
- Timothy Howard
- Scott Boyde
- <li value=19>Luke Randle
- Thomas Campbell
- Max Harding
- Matthew Finn <small>(GK)</small>
- Daniel Beale <small>(C)</small>
- Diarmid Chappell
- Hayden Pease
- Daykin Stanger
- Joel Rintala
- <li value=32>Mitchell Nicholson <small>(GK)</small>
Head Coach: Seyi Onitiri
- Aaron Knight
- Benjamin Staines
- Anand Gupte
- Jaume Torras
- Jesse Absolom
- Xavier Gispert
- Aidan Smith
- Sean Baker
- <li value=10>Owen Chivers
- Garry Backhus
- Jake Staines
- Dylan Brick
- Théophile Ponthieu
- Hayden Dillon
- Oscar Smart
- Aiden Dooley
- Kaito Tanaka
- Hamish Morrison
- Niranjan Gupte
- <li value=22>Darcy MacDonald
- Jay MacDonald
- Davis Atkin
- James Jewell
- Max Robson <small>(GK)</small>
- Andrew Charter <small>(C, GK)</small>
Head Coach: Andrew Smith
- Craig Marais
- Peter Scott
- Jonathan Bretherton
- Liam Henderson
- Doug Buckley
- Damon Steffens <small>(C)</small>
- Nathan Ephraums
- Kade Leigh
- Oliver Will
- Bradley Marais
- Cooper Burns
- Connar Otterbach
- Andrew Scanlon
- Waheed Rana
- Joshua Simmonds
- Nicholas Fitzgerald
- William Carruthers
- Johan Durst <small>(GK)</small>
- Jordan Rees
- Nye Roberts
- Connor Tuddenham
- Benjamin White
- <li value=26>Eden Davis
- George McGeogh <small>(GK)</small>
- Max Ferrier
Head Coach: Roel van Maastright
- Lachlan Sharp
- <li value=3>Nathan Ackroyd <small>(GK)</small>
- Sebastien Griffith
- Ashleigh Thomas <small>(GK)</small>
- <li value=7>Daine Richards
- Nathanael Stewart
- Nathan Czinner
- Liam Alexander
- Dylan Downey
- Jared Findlay
- Blake Govers
- Dylan Martin
- Miles Davis
- Joshua Gregory
- Nicholas McEwen
- Toby Mallon
- Jack Hayes <small>(C)</small>
- Ky Willott
- Luke Noblett
- <li value=23>Ryan Woolnough
- <li value=29>Timothy Brand
- <li value=32>Callum Mackay
- <li value=34>Thomas Miotto
- <li value=36>Michael Taylor
Head Coach: Stephen Davies
- Thomas Keating
- William Battistessa
- Brayden King
- Jake Harvie <small>(C)</small>
- Thomas Wickham
- Kye Stirrat
- Dave Gavranich
- Coby Green
- James Day
- Joshua Bowen
- Thomas Harvie
- Marshall Puzey
- Samuel Ashton
- Chaz Davies
- Matthew Bird
- Brodee Foster
- <li value=18>Benjamin Rennie <small>(GK)</small>
- <li value=20>Angus Adamson
- Christian Starkie <small>(GK)</small>
- Max Freedman
- Cambell Geddes
- Matthew Willis
- Fraser Heigh
- James Collins
- <li value=43>Harrison Golding <small>(GK)</small>
Head Coach: Benjamin Read
- Magnus McCausland <small>(GK)</small>
- Harvey Bessell
- Keenan Johnson
- Hayden Beltz
- Max Johnstone
- Joshua Brooks
- Joshua Mardell
- Ryan Jones
- Jeremy Edwards
- Samuel Payne
- Edward Ockenden <small>(C)</small>
- Jack Pritchard
- Joshua Beltz
- Jack Welch
- Oscar Pritchard
- Alexander Hogan-Jones
- Oliver Pritchard
- Grant Woodcock <small>(GK)</small>
- Timothy Deavin
- Ehren Hazell
- Leon Hayward <small>(GK)</small>
- Oliver Stebbings
- <li value=26>Oliver Smith
- <li value=28>Lachlan Rogers
Venues
Results
Preliminary round
Fixtures
Classification round
Semi-finals
Third and fourth place
Final
Final standings
Awards
Team of the Year
At the conclusion of the regular season, a team of the year was named:
Goalscorers
References
External links