Women's VP's Welcome

Welcome to UNSW Hockey Club!

As one of the biggest clubs in Sydney with 12 women's teams across two competitions. Sydney Women's Hockey League (SWHL) and Sydney Eastern Hockey Association (SEHA), the UNSW Hockey Club is open to all ages and abilities - you just have to be keen to play!

We are lucky enough that we have highly competitive and successful teams in both SWHL and SEHA but don't take ourselves too seriously that we can't have the occasional boogie.

Games are played on Sunday's across a number of pitches in Sydney including our home base of Daceyville.

Even though we are a University based club, anyone can join UNSW Hockey Club with a majority of our players from the community or alumni.

If you have any quesitons please don't hesitate to reach out via the contact us form.

We post more regular updates on our social media so make sure to follow us on Facebook and Instagram!

Hope to see you around the pitch soon!

Barb Parker,

2025 Women’s Vice President

Teams

UNSW Hockey Club is based in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs and welcomes female players of all skills and levels. We generally enter 9 – 11 women’s teams across 2 competitions - both are competitive, social and very friendly.

We have 5 teams that compete in the Sydney Womens Hockey League (SWHL) – Metro (ML or Met) 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 Divisions. ML1 is the highest level of women's hockey in Sydney. Games are played all over Sydney, including some at our home ground, but our players often carpool for away games.

We enter 6 teams in the Sydney Eastern Hockey Association (SEHA Women's) competition across all grades. The majority of games are played at our home field at Daceyville and Kyeemagh, with some games at Bankstown, Cumberland (Lidcombe), Cintra (Burwoord) and Sutherland.

We currently provide a player pathway up to our high performance teams.  We cater for all levels from beginners, returning players, social players through to the top grades.

The below is an indication of grades for 2025 but the standard and split will often overlap and vary year to year.

High Level
ML1 (highest level of hockey in Sydney), ML2 & ML3

Middle Grades
ML4 and ED1 (equivalent grades in different competitions) & ED2

Lower Grades
ML6 and ED3 (equivalent grades in different competitions)

(ML3 - Major Premiers 2024)

(ED2 Black - Minor & Major Premiers 2024)

Competition fees and Dates

SWHL (Metro)
SWHL is Sydney's Elite Hockey Competition for Opens and Masters players. SWHL runs the Metro League where games are played on Sundays. The season starts on Sunday 30th March 2025 and runs through to August with finals in September.

Sydney East Hockey Association (SEHA)
SEHA conducts local junior and senior competitions and provides representative level hockey for its members to State Championship level. The SEHA women’s competition will commence in late March or early April 2025 (exact date TBC) and ends late August. Finals are played throughout September. All games are on sundays.

Fees
Details about fees for the 2025 season will be released shortly.

UNSW Sports Scholarship Information

The following links provide information on the various sporting scholarships that are available for hockey players looking to join the UNSW hockey club. 

UNSW Sport Scholarships

Also to help players get in to UNSW they can apply for EAP (Elite Athlete Program) bonus points for being a player at state age competitions  and higher rep honours by following this link:

Elite Athlete Program

(EDP Gold - Minor & Major Premiers 2024)