The first floodlit international hockey match
The Hockey Museum’s Mike Haymonds on floodlit hockey and an undiscovered Olympic team
The first floodlit international hockey match took place on the October 25 1955 at the Arsenal Football Club’s stadium at Highbury, London. The match was organised by the AEWHA to celebrate their 60th anniversary and was very much in line with their enlightened policy of holding their international match on famous sports grounds.