title: East Region Hockey Association
text: # East Region Hockey Association
  
  The East Regional Hockey Association is the organising body for field hockey in the East of England. It feeds teams into the Men's and Women's England Hockey Leagues and takes teams from sub-regional leagues.
  
  ## League structure
  
  The men's and women's leagues both share a similar structure consisting of a Premier Division 1, with subsequent lower Premier divisions, followed by regional and sub-regional (county) divisions. The East Hockey Association covers nine counties.
  
  * Bedfordshire
  * Cambridgeshire
  * Essex
  * Hertfordshire
  * Kent (women only)
  * Lincolnshire (women only)
  * Norfolk
  * Suffolk
  