Senior Information

With 12 men’s and 9 ladies’ senior sides there’s a team for everyone at Spencer - whether you’re looking to get back into the sport or want a crack at playing National League hockey.

For the first time in the club's history, both our Men's and Women's 1st XI play in the UK's National League, while all other teams play across the London Hockey League. Competitive teams train from Monday to Thursday at our home pitch, Fieldview. On Friday we host mixed social hockey.

If you’re interested in joining us for the 2023-24 season, we’d love to hear from you. Please note that the club is close to capacity so we can not guarantee that you will be able to join this season.

For the Women's section, email our New Player Secretary spencerhcnewplayers@gmail.com

For the Men's section, please complete the following new player registration form here

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Spencer Hockey Club is a diverse community gathered around our sport and committed to making our club into the country's best community hockey club.

Spencer is a not for profit organisation, controlled and run by our own members through an Executive Committee. Everyone on our committee is a volunteer, although we employ coaches and some staff to manage the facilities. Each senior member has a voice as to how the club is run and the strategic direction we take. The committee is democratically elected from the membership by the members.

We have an ongoing focus on consolidating our senior section's success, developing our volunteers, and improving fundraising in support of our strategic vision to become the country's best community hockey club. We're excited by the rapid progress our juniors have made and are committed to better integration with the senior section.

Spencer Hockey Club shares facilities and a club ethos with the other sports sections in The Spencer Club family: cricket, lacrosse, tennis and squash.

We have been playing hockey at Spencer for more than 100 years.

We want to encourage you as a member - be it current player, alumni, parent or friend - to get involved in the Club's development. Whether it is helping out with socials, coaching, umpiring, helping us find sponsors or taking on committee appointments, our aim is to have more roles with manageable amounts of work. Whether you can spare an hour a day or an hour a month, we'd love to have you on board.

To find out more about volunteering email the volunteer co-ordinator.

We believe Spencer HC has a unique set of values and a culture we want to protect. This has been embodied in the "Spencer Ethic", which the Committee seeks to adhere to in developing the Club.

When playing the game, as a minimum, we expect our members to:

• Learn and play by the rules of the game
• Be a good sport - win with modesty, lose with dignity
• Respect your team-mates, umpires and the opposition
• Recognise and applaud good play
• Pay all subscriptions and fees due to the club on time
• Wear the Spencer colours with pride!

Spencer Hockey Club is an amateur not-for-profit sports club. The club has a written constitution and is run by an elected Executive Committee on a voluntary basis on behalf of the members. The Spencer club has HMRC "Community Amateur Sports Club" status, which means that we can reclaim gift aid on donations made to the club.

Full senior members can vote at the club's AGM, which usually takes place in May, and junior members vote through their team representative.

Spencer Hockey Club is based at Fieldview, home to our clubhouse, bar and all-weather pitch.

Address: The Spencer Club, Fieldview, Earlsfield, London, SW18 3HF

Tel: 020 8874 2717

Fieldview is a short walk (10-15 minutes) from both Earlsfield and Wandsworth Common stations.

Residential parking is available on the Spencer Club side of Fieldview. When parking on the pavement, please allow 1.2m between your car and the hedge or any street furniture - parking attendants patrol the area even on Saturday and Sunday.

Find Fortress Fieldview.

Spencer Hockey Club also plays limited home fixtures at the following grounds:

Address: Battersea Park All Weather Sports Ground, Battersea Bridge, Battersea Park, London, SW11 4NJ

Battersea Park is a short walk from Battersea Park and Queenstown Road, Battersea stations. Parking is available on Prince of Wales Drive, and the Albert Bridge Road and Prince of Wales Drive entrance is nearest to the pitches.

Find the Battersea Park Pitches

Address: Bank of England Sports Centre, Priory Ln, London, SW15 5JQ

Bank of England Sports Centre is a 10-15 walk from Barnes station. There is parking available at the Sports club.

Find the Bank of England Sports Centre

Training takes place at the club's home in Fieldview during the hockey season, and there's fitness training through the summer months. The current crop of coaches are excellent, so please take advantage - the cost is covered in your subs.

The training schedule for 2023-34 will be confirmed in due course.

Spencer Hockey Club subs are all inclusive. Matches, training, coaching, facility use and match teas are all covered as part of your membership.

Non-payment of Subs by 31st October 2023 will incur late payment charges. The club will operate a strict No-Pay, No-Play policy to ensure all members contribute their fair share.

Certain membership categories such as coaching rates may not be visible in the online store. Members wishing to apply for these rates should contact the club directly in order to receive a personal link for these products.

If you have any questions please contact your captain, or alternatively speak directly to the Treasurer at spencerhctreasurer@gmail.com.

Subs payments are now collected through Teamo. Members are able to pay in full, or in certain categories elect to set up a Direct Debit to pay via instalments.

For any members who are unclear as to which category they should purchase, please email your captain who can point you in the right direction.

How are subs used?

The committee are often asked where members' subs go, so we're delighted to provide this breakdown of how your subs are spent.

HOCKEY COSTS:

Coaching 14%

Pitch Hire 46%

League Entry and EH Affiliation 5%

National League 2%

Kit & Training Supplies 3%

Umpiring 1%

SPENCER CLUB COSTS:

Match Teas 6%

Spencer Club Contributions & Administration 22%

The committee and Spencer Club work hard to keep admin and maintenance costs at appropriate levels. If you would like any further information about how your subs are used then please email spencerhctreasurer@gmail.com

For the 2023-24 season, Spencer Hockey Club will have kit provided by Y1 Sport (https://www.y1sport.com).

A hockey-focused brand, Y1 create athleisure and team wear for hockey players, including the sponsorship of GB athletes. Y1 have also long been supporters of our award-winning outreach programme Spencer Lynx, which provides free hockey to local state school primary children.

The Spencer Hockey Club Seniors play home games in maroon, and away games in white.

Before ordering shirts, you should contact your Club Captain who will tell you your shirt number. Shirt numbers will only be allocated to new players once they have paid subs.

Spencer is a sociable club and one of the few in South West London to boast a clubhouse on the same site as our pitch. Many members stay after matches to socialise and support other teams. The ladies’ and men’s hockey clubs join-up regularly for social events as well as running individual and joint team socials. All social events will be advertised on the website.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact the club social sec: spencerhcsocials@gmail.com

We have weekly men's, women's and mixed leagues throughout summer (June to August), at Fieldview.

There will be eight teams per league, entry fee is £380 per team with a free jug of beer/cider each week. Places are available on a first come, first served basis.

To enter, please email with the name of the league you would like to join spencersummerleague@gmail.com

General Rules for All Summer Leagues:

1. Leagues of 8 teams over 8 weeks will follow a round robin format.
2. Games are 25 mins each way. Two games are simultaneously played at 7:30pm, then another two at 8:30pm – ie. every team plays each week.
3. 3 Points for a win, 1 for a draw, 0 for a loss.
4. Umpires provided.
5. Free jug of beer/cider for each team each week.
6. Cost is £380 per team per 8 week league.
7. Venue: Spencer HC, Fieldview, Earlsfield, London, SW18 3HF

Additional Rules for Mixed Leagues:

1. 7-a-side no GKs or kicking backs.
2. A minimum of 3 girls on pitch at all times.
3. Played on half a hockey pitch, with small Ds.
4. No hitting anywhere on the pitch.
5. No penalty corners, instead a free hit at the closest point 5 metres outside the D is awarded.
6. No penalty flicks. A penalty goal is awarded if a defensive foul in front of goal stops an otherwise certain goal being scored.
7. No aerials anywhere on the pitch including lifted balls at goal.
8. New rules apply.

Additional Rules for Men's and Women's Leagues:

1. 7-a-side, fully kitted GKs compulsory.
2. Played on half a hockey pitch. Full sized Ds.
3. Hitting at goal allowed. Hitting out of defence allowed. Hitting anywhere else not allowed.
4. Penalty corners awarded in normal way. 2 players on the defending team must stand in the opposite D.
5. In the unavoidable event there is no goalkeeper, then there are to be no penalty corners and a free hit at the closest point 5 metres outside the D is awarded. The opposite team will still be allowed to hit at goal as teams are required to provide a goalkeeper.

Join the Spencer Friday Hockey Mailinglist here or email Xander Veldhuijzen

We run a social hockey session for adults and U16 juniors and upwards on Fridays from 8.15 pm till about 9.15 pm at Spencer Hockey Club, throughout the year, weather and numbers permitting.

Social hockey is open to all genders, all ages, and all levels of skill and/or fitness. So, are you radiantly fit and have an Olympic hockey medal on the wall? Join us! You haven't played in 30 years and/or your knee hurts a little? Join us! You’ve never played before, always watch your kids and want to find out how to hold a stick? Join us! 

Social hockey is free for all Junior Hockey volunteers; parents of Junior members; Junior members from U16s and above; and all registered Senior members. On occasion (traditionally at half-term and some other holidays), we allow players younger than U16 to join, but this is by invitation only.

The organiser, Xander Veldhuijzen sends an email round every week, and you decide then and there if that Friday suits you or not (join the mailing list using the link at the top of this page). If yes, press the green button (the button is hard to miss... a pre-filled email pops up when you press it) or reply 'yes' to the email. On the night, bring a dark and a light shirt (so we can make recognisable teams), a stick, shin pads, a mouthguard, and above all a smile!

People from outside Spencer who are looking for social hockey can also get in touch with Xander to join - they can trial a few sessions, and then enrol in a ‘social membership’ which involves payment of a fee as a contribution towards pitch hire, but does not give rise to membership of the Hockey Club.