Friday 30 May – Sunday 1 June 2025
We are delighted to be hosting the inaugural OCHC Hockey5s festival this May Bank Holiday and would love you to join us.
For those new to Hockey5s, it’s a fast-paced, fun game that combines the boards, technical skill and excitement of indoor hockey with the traditional outdoor format. Our Hockey5s festival will take place on our home astro and is a great opportunity to experience Hockey5s for the first time, in a fun competitive tournament. There will be entertainment at the clubhouse on both Friday and Saturday evenings after the hockey finishes and it promises to be a brilliant weekend of competitive, social hockey!
Introducing Hockey5s
For those unfamiliar with Hockey5s, take a look at the highlights of the recent FIH Hockey5s World Cup HERE.
For Hockey5s, a team usually consists of 4 outfield players and 1 GK with a maximum squad size of 8.
We will be playing the Festival using Hockey5s rules, summarised below:
- All 8 team tournaments will be split into two pools of 4, with semi finals and a final for the top 2 teams, and a placing game for each team that finished 3rd and 4th after the group stages.
- Every team is guaranteed a minimum of 4 matches, and the top 4 teams from each group are guaranteed 5 matches.
- Each match will be 10 minutes one-way.
- Indoor hockey rules with 3D skills and lifted passes allowed.
- There is no D – you can score from anywhere and the GK can touch the ball anywhere.
- Aerials are permitted if not dangerous.
- There will be no penalty corners during the tournament to speed up play. In the case of a a foul, such as a foot or back stick, a free hit from the half-way line will be awarded.
- Deliberate or dangerous actions will result in a 8-second shootout from the half-way line.
- Defenders must be 3m away from the free hit.
- The ball must travel 3m on attacking free hits before shots.
- If the ball leaves the field, the restart is 1m inside boards from where the ball went out.
- Deliberate foul play – 30 second yellow card.
Festival Schedule
Friday 6pm-9:30pm – Over 40s Tournament
Over 40s Men’s (4 teams)
Over 40s Ladies (4 teams)
Saturday 9am-12:30pm – U12s Tournament
U12 mixed (8 teams – each team must consist of 4 girls and 4 boys)
Saturday 1pm-8pm – Men’s and Ladies Tournament
Ladies (8 teams) – aimed at Tier 2-4 players
Men’s (8 teams) – aimed at Tier 2-4 players
Sunday 9am-12:30pm – U14s Tournament
U14 Girls (8 teams)
Sunday 1pm-4pm
U14 Boys (8 teams)
How to Enter
To ensure as many clubs as possible can get involved, at this stage, we are looking for a max of 1 one entry per club in each category. Please let us know on the booking form if you’d be interested in entering more than one team and we will be in touch if we can offer you additional spaces.
Please complete the registration form HERE in full. We will be in touch with payment details. Submitting an entry form commits you to the entry fee of £100 per team. Full terms and conditions can be found below.
Please email us with any questions at ochcjuniors@gmail.com (for all queries, not just about juniors!)
Terms and conditions
- Upon entering a team(s) in the OCHC Hockey5s Festival, you agree to pay the relevant entry fee upon receipt of payment details, which will be emailed to the named contact on the entry form.
- Cancellation before 1st May 2025 – 100% refund minus a £5 admin charge. Cancellation before 16th May 2025 – 50% refund minus a £5 admin charge. Cancellation on or after 16th May 2025 – 0% refund.
- This Festival will follow the England Hockey ‘Respect’ code of ethics and behaviour. Further details can be found on our website HERE. Any player infringing this code of conduct may be asked to leave the Tournament/Festival.
- We may take images (photo and/or video) during the Festival. These may be used for internal communication within OCHC and used externally for marketing purposes. All images will be taken and used in line with our Club policy, which may be viewed by clicking HERE. In this situation, images would be of players or teams and no individual players’ names would be used.
- If we have to cancel the Festival due to unforeseen circumstances, you will receive a full refund.