For the second season running Premiership side Hampstead and Westminster have had points deducted for fielding an unregistered player. The player in question was on the team sheet for the match but did not take the field during Hampstead’s 2-2 away draw against Beeston on 30 November. In a press release the England Hockey League Committee describe the club as “….inadvertently fielding an illegible player….”
The League Committee have ordered that Hampstead and Westminster be deducted one point. The club remain in 7th place but are now on seven points along with Loughborough Students.
In releasing their decision, the Committee commented, “The EHLC wished to note the club’s full co-operation on the matter.”
Last season Loughborough Students and Bath Bucanners suffered a massive points deductions as a result of fielding "deregistered" players.
