The 2005 Men's EuroHockey Nations Championship is the tenth edition of the EuroHockey Nations Championship. It was held on the complex of hockeyclub ATV Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany from August 28 to September 4, 2005. For the first time there were just eight teams competing instead of twelve. From 2005 on the competition has been held every two years, while the lower ranked teams got their own championship, divided into a Nations Trophy ("B"-nations) and a Nations Challenge ("C"-nations).
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