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National Indoor Trophy Qualifying Draw Confirmed

28 October 2009

This season witnesses the launch of the National Indoor Trophy Competition.  The new format sees eleven womens teams and sixteen mens teams battle it out to become National Indoor Trophy Champions and qualify to represent Ireland in the European club championships in 2011. Both the mens and womens sides of the competition are structured to include a qualification tournament from which six womens and eight mens teams will emerge to qualify for the finals weekend on 6th & 7th February 2010 at the National Basketball Arena in Dublin. The womens qualification tournament is structured as three groups (1 group of 3 teams and two groups
containing 4 teams each) with each team playing each other in a round robin format, the top two of each group qualifying for the finals day. The mens qualification stages will be structured as four groups of four teams with again each team playing each other once in a round robin format.  The top two teams in each pool will qualify for the finals day.

Galway Hockey Club's Mens and Womens teams will be participating in this years qualifying tournaments. The women, who are the current national indoor champions, have been drawn in the three team group along with Corinthians and Loreto which will be played on Saturday 23^rd January 2010 in the National Basketball Arena. Galway's Men have been pitted against the reigning national indoor champions Three Rock Rovers, Pembroke Wanders and Trinity and their qualification tournament takes place on Sunday 20^th December 2009 in Dublin City University.

It'll be a busy period for indoor hockey in Galway with the EuroHockey Indoor Women’s Club Champions Challenge being hosted a fortnight after the national finals on 26th, 27th and 28th of February in the NUIG sports complex with a warm-up tournament planned for Galway in January.