The 2026 Club Championships now have all their winners

The note published by England Hockey on May 5 works as the federation's official closing statement on one of the busiest club weekends of the season. The 2026 Club Championships finals were spread across Saturday May 2 to Monday May 4 at Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre and at Surbiton Hockey Club, and the final recap turns the whole event into a single, ordered picture. It is not a report on one match, but a summary piece that frames the bank holiday as a broad showcase of English hockey well beyond the immediate top tier.

The breadth of the honours list says a lot about the scale of the event. England Hockey runs through open categories, trophies and vases, but also a very wide masters spread, with strong representation from O35, O45, O55 and even O65 brackets. Names such as Harleston Magpies, Canterbury, Cheshire, Reading, Old Georgians, Slough and Timperley all appear among the winners, which turns the publication into a panorama of the English competitive ecosystem rather than a single isolated headline. That is where the journalistic value of the piece sits: it helps explain who finished the season strongly across many layers of the club game.

The institutional closing note matters as well. After naming the champions, England Hockey explicitly thanks volunteers, officials and umpires, underlining that a weekend like this is not sustained only by the teams that lift trophies. That final section shifts the article onto a broader structural plane: the finals crown winners, but they also reveal the real size of the community needed to run the competition. As an official piece dated May 5, the article neatly closes the map of the weekend and gives readers a useful reference point for following English club hockey beyond the Premier Division alone.