2008 Rink Hockey European Championship

The 2008 Rink Hockey European Championship was the 48th edition of the Rink Hockey European Championship—the biennial rink hockey competition for European national teams, supervised by CERH—that took place in the Spanish city of Oviedo, at the local arena Palacio de los Deportes (Sports Palace), on July 21–26, 2008. In a final against long-time rivals, Portugal, the hosts and holders Spain won their fifth consecutive European title.

Format
The tournament consists of two distinct phases: a single round-robin group phase and a knockout phase. In the first phase, the eight finalist teams are divided into two groups of four teams. Within each group, every team plays one match against all the other teams, to decide the group classification. Unlike previous editions, all participating teams advance to the quarterfinals phase, whatever their final placing in the group phase. In the quarterfinals, each group winner and the runner-up teams will play the third and fourth placed teams of the other group, respectively, for a place in the semifinals. The four losing teams will play one last game to decide their final ranking in the tournament. The quarterfinal winning sides progress to the semifinals and the two winners meet in the title-awarding final. A game deciding the third and fourth place will be held between the semifinal losing sides.

Group phase
The group phase was contested on July 21–23, with two matches per group, each day. Group A was composed by France, Italy, Netherlands and hosts Spain; Group B included Germany, England, Portugal and Switzerland.

Goalscorers
Below is a list of all the tournament goalscorers by decreasing number of goals scored:


 * 10 goals:
 * Ricardo Barreiros
 * 7 goals:
 * 🇪🇸 Marc Gual
 * 🇫🇷 Sébastien Landrin
 * 6 goals:
 * 🇩🇪 Jens Behrendt
 * 🇪🇸 Pedro Gil
 * 🇪🇸 Josep Ordeig
 * 5 goals:
 * 🇩🇪 Mark Wochnik
 * 🇮🇹 Mattia Cocco
 * 🇮🇹 Juan Travasino
 * Ricardo Oliveira
 * 4 goals:
 * 🇪🇸 Jordi Bargallo
 * Valter Neves
 * 3 goals:
 * Gael Jimenez


 * Matthieu Infante
 * Reinaldo Ventura
 * Ricardo Pereira
 * 🇪🇸 Sergi Panadero
 * Federico Mendez
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Marc Waddingham
 * Luis Viana
 * Tiago Rafael
 * Andreas Muenger
 * 🇪🇸 Lluis Teixido
 * 2 goals:
 * Dominic Wirth
 * Arjan van Gerven
 * 🇮🇹 Leonardo Squeo
 * 🇩🇪 Felix Bender
 * 🇫🇷 Rémi Lasnier
 * 🇫🇷 Nicolas Guilbert
 * 🇫🇷 Frédéric Hamon
 * 🇫🇷 Guirec Henry
 * 🇮🇹 Domenico Illuzzi


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 John Jones
 * 1 goal:
 * Pedro Moreira
 * 🇪🇸 Marc Torra
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Michael Ableson
 * Simon von Allmen
 * 🇫🇷 Olivier Lesca
 * 🇮🇹 Diego Nicoletti
 * Robbie van Dooren
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 James Taylor
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Mark Rutland
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Russell Lloyd
 * 🇩🇪 Dominic Brandt
 * Michael van Gemert
 * 🇩🇪 Thomas Haupt
 * 🇩🇪 Max Bros
 * 🇫🇷 Igor Tarassioux