Welcome to The Indoor Hockey League
The vision for The Indoor Hockey League is two fold: to provide a more accessible, informal, sociable but competitive hockey league: to enable those players unable to commit to traditional club hockey an opportunity to continue to engage with the sport and also to provide existing club hockey players - senior and junior the opportunity to access (guaranteed dry and warm), regular and competitive indoor hockey.
I know that I am not the only hockey-playing parent who questions the desire to give up a big chunk of precious family time on a Saturday to play traditional club hockey. If we played other sports there would be alternative ways to continue participation i.e. 5-a-side football, Last Man Stands cricket and Touch rugby all have league competitions that run on an evening, arguably more accessible for parents. Of course, it is not just parents who have constraints on their time; shift workers, weekend workers and players of multiple sports could also benefit from a more accessible format of hockey.
There just isn’t a comparable offer for hockey players and, as a sports development professional, I thought that maybe I could change that… The Indoor Hockey League was born.
I know that I am not the only hockey-playing parent who questions the desire to give up a big chunk of precious family time on a Saturday to play traditional club hockey. If we played other sports there would be alternative ways to continue participation i.e. 5-a-side football, Last Man Stands cricket and Touch rugby all have league competitions that run on an evening, arguably more accessible for parents. Of course, it is not just parents who have constraints on their time; shift workers, weekend workers and players of multiple sports could also benefit from a more accessible format of hockey.
There just isn’t a comparable offer for hockey players and, as a sports development professional, I thought that maybe I could change that… The Indoor Hockey League was born.