How will the number of members in a club be calculated?

England Hockey will use a range of sources and a new formula to calculate club fees.
Initially this will use;

•  a combination of the number of players that have appeared on teamsheets during the previous season
• the number of players you have historically told us you have (within the annual membership on the Club Portal)
• a calculation based on the number of adult league teams you have (and using a figure of 22 players per team, which we know, based on teamsheet data, over 70% of our clubs have 22 or higher as an average). 

This will then be shared with the club in April for review and challenge if appropriate.  The total number of people actually registered with your club on GMS has absolutely NO bearing in the calculation.  Over time, this calculation will change, as the old numbers provided within the annual club membership submissions willl become more outdated.