Field Hockey · Stufe 3: Untere Mittelstufe · Unterstufe 3.2
Attacking Principles
10 Tests · 99 Fakten · aktualisiert am 30. Oktober 2026 · Markdown
The phases of play with the ball, width and depth, leads and their timing, support leads and triangles, the overlap, switching the point of attack, interchanges, getting to the circle and passing before dribbling.
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Test 1The phases with the ballTest machen
With the ball: play it out, build, create chances.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Systems in hockey · Wissen
Play it out: no risks, set patterns.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Systems in hockey · Wissen
Set patterns help a team bring the ball out safely.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Systems in hockey · Wissen
Build: little risk, then more risk further up.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Systems in hockey · Wissen
Create chances: score, attack rebounds.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Systems in hockey · Wissen
Transfer play shifts the ball to the other side to find space.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Systems in hockey · Wissen
Attacking rebounds belongs to creating chances.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Systems in hockey · Wissen
Safe, then progressive, then decisive.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Systems in hockey · Anwendung
Risk grows the nearer the opponents' goal.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Systems in hockey · Wissen
Safe passes near your own goal: playing it out.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Systems in hockey · Anwendung
Test 2Width and depthTest machen
Teaching players to stretch the width creates space in depth.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Eight-a-side · Wissen
In possession, the left and right strikers give width.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Six-a-side · Wissen
Width pulls defenders apart and opens gaps.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide · Wissen
Depth gives options ahead and behind the carrier.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide · Wissen
Two options to the sides and one in depth.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 1 · Wissen
Two options, either side.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Six-a-side · Wissen
Running in the width and depth, with and without rotations.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Skill plan · Wissen
The wider the shape, the more space inside.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide · Wissen
Width, spread, gap, penetrate.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide · Wissen
Players holding the side-lines give width.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Six-a-side · Anwendung
Test 3Leads and their timingTest machen
A lead is a sprint made towards the ball or into space.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Glossary · Wissen
In the correct direction, at the correct tempo, into the correct space.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 2 · Wissen
Dummy to one side and move to the other.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 2 · Wissen
Lead towards the ball to receive it.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 2 · Wissen
Indicate clearly where you want to receive the ball.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 2 · Wissen
Short and long leads.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 2 · Wissen
Timing matters: early leads let the marker recover.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 2 · Wissen
Fake, go, ask, receive.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 2 · Wissen
Direction, tempo, space.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 2 · Anwendung
A sprint towards the ball to receive: a lead.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Glossary · Anwendung
Test 4The support leadTest machen
Make a support lead after giving a good pass.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 2 · Wissen
It gives team-mates a passing option.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 2 · Wissen
Support leads determine the success of combinations.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 1 · Wissen
Always have two possible passing options.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 2 · Wissen
A player who moves after passing becomes the next option.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide · Wissen
Deep supporting leads to players in the striker line.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Role of the midfielders · Wissen
Lead to establish clear passing links from the defence.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Role of the midfielders · Wissen
Give, go, offer, get.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 2 · Wissen
The more options, the safer.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 2 · Wissen
Moving after the pass to offer an option: a support lead.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 2 · Anwendung
Test 5TrianglesTest machen
Playing in a triangular shape.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Skill plan · Wissen
In a triangle, the ball carrier always has two team-mates to pass to.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide · Wissen
Give and go: square pass, then run onto a through pass.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Glossary · Wissen
The centre midfielder is responsible for the triangular shape.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Individual tasks · Wissen
In a line, one player is blocked from the other.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide · Wissen
Flat lines remove angles; triangles keep them.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide · Wissen
Staying inside the strikers maintains the triangle.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Individual tasks · Wissen
Square, run, through, receive.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Glossary · Wissen
More points off the line give more angles.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide · Wissen
A triangle gives the ball carrier two angles.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide · Anwendung
Test 6The overlapTest machen
Running behind the player in possession to receive a pass.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Glossary · Wissen
The runner creates a 2 v 1 on the wing.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide · Wissen
They need to receive and eliminate markers to create overlap.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Outletting · Wissen
Wide players such as full-backs and wing midfielders are the usual overlappers.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Defence line · Wissen
Drawing the defender opens the outside for the runner.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide · Wissen
Forcing an opponent into an area creates space elsewhere.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Glossary · Wissen
An overlap leaves a gap behind; the runner must recover.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide · Wissen
Draw, run, pass, attack.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Glossary · Wissen
One against one becomes two against one.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide · Anwendung
Running round the carrier to receive: an overlap.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Glossary · Anwendung
Test 7Changing the point of attackTest machen
Receive a pass from behind, turn out, accelerate in a new direction.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 2 · Wissen
Switching finds the space the defence has left.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide · Wissen
Around the press: play deep to the sweeper, who transfers to the other side.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Outletting · Wissen
Around the press means switching via the sweeper.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Outletting · Wissen
Over the press: the aerial ball can destroy a tight press.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Outletting · Wissen
Play into the press, suck the play in, then switch the ball out.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Outletting · Wissen
A hard accurate hit with disguise to a high forward in space.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Outletting · Wissen
Crowd, back, across, attack.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Outletting · Wissen
Along the ground round, along the ground through, then in the air.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Outletting · Wissen
Moving the ball to the empty side: a switch.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 2 · Anwendung
Test 8Interchanges and in-out leadsTest machen
Interchange: players change their positions on the field.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Glossary · Wissen
E.g. the left striker becomes the right striker for a while.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Glossary · Wissen
A lead to the inside and then to the outside.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Glossary · Wissen
It wrong-foots the defender so the attacker receives under less pressure.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Glossary · Wissen
Swapping positions confuses the marking.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Role of the strikers · Wissen
Scoring: from a positional interchange.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 1 · Wissen
Positional interchange: depth and width.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 2 · Wissen
In, follow, out, receive.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Glossary · Wissen
Swap, swap, doubt, release.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Glossary · Wissen
In, then out: the in-out lead.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Glossary · Anwendung
Test 9Getting to the circle fastTest machen
Speed to the circle beats a defence that is still setting.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Role of the strikers · Wissen
Individually or with short passing combinations.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Role of the strikers · Wissen
Cut to the inside as soon as possible: shortest way to goal.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Individual tasks · Wissen
A fast counter meets a disorganised defence.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Glossary (counter-attack) · Wissen
A fast attack after a turnover or a broken-down corner.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Glossary · Wissen
Attack space or the reverse stick side of the last line of defence.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Individual tasks · Wissen
Penetrate the opposition's defensive line.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Role of the strikers · Wissen
Win, release, run, finish.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Glossary · Wissen
The ball travels faster than a player.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide · Wissen
A fast attack after winning the ball: a counter.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Glossary · Anwendung
Test 10Passing before dribblingTest machen
Passing is more important than individual dribbling actions.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 2 · Wissen
Individual dribbling skills without being selfish.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 2 · Wissen
Running without the ball is quicker than dribbling, and the ball quicker still.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Six-a-side · Wissen
Dribble when space opens or no pass is on.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide · Wissen
Receive and early quick passes keep defenders moving.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 2 · Wissen
High tempo passing combinations.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 2 · Wissen
Look up: a free team-mate is usually the better choice.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 1 · Wissen
Receive, scan, pass first, then dribble.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 2 · Wissen
Pass first.
Quelle: KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 2 · Wissen
Quellen
KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, USA Field Hockey 101, NFHCA notes, FIH history and official results; original questions authored, nothing reproduced. Numbered rules belong to the Rules category (Field Hockey - Rules of Hockey).
- KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 223
- KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Glossary18
- KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide17
- KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Systems in hockey10
- KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Outletting8
- KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Six-a-side4
- KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Phase 14
- KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Individual tasks4
- KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Role of the strikers4
- KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Skill plan2
- KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Role of the midfielders2
- KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Eight-a-side1
- KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Defence line1
- KNHB/SAHA Field Hockey Activity Guide, Glossary (counter-attack)1