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Phil Roper
Personal information
Full name	Philip Andrew Roper
Born	24 January 1992 (age 32); Chester, England
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	66 kg (146 lb)
Playing position	Midfielder / Forward
Youth career
2000–2010	Chester HC
Senior career
Years	Team
2008-2009	Brooklands MU
2010-2013	Sheffield Hallam
2013-2021	Wimbledon
2021-2022	Oranje-Rood
2022-2023	Holcombe HC
2024-present	Old Georgians
National team
Years	Team
2013–present	England & GB
Medal record
Commonwealth Games
EuroHockey Championship

Phillip Andrew "Phil" Roper (born 24 January 1992) is an English field hockey player who plays as a midfielder or forward for Old Georgians and the England and Great Britain national teams.^[1]^[2]

Club career

Roper joined Dutch club Oranje-Rood for the 2021–22 season, for at least two seasons.^[3]

He previously played club hockey in the Men's England Hockey League Premier Division for Wimbledon.

He started playing hockey, aged 8, for his local club Chester HC and played there for ten years before going to university, where he played for Sheffield Hallam.^[4]

Roper presents the popular Let’s Stick Together podcast alongside fellow international hockey players Brendan Creed and Joep de Mol. He is also a partner in The Social Bean a boutique coffee business, alongside Old Georgians teammate Chris Griffiths (field hockey), as well as David Goodfield, and Jacob Draper.

International career

Roper made his international debut in 2013. He competed for England in the men's hockey tournament at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where he won a bronze medal.^[5] On 24 May 2017 he was named as one of a three-man captaincy group, for England and Great Britain. It was a new captaincy structure for the men's international teams.^[6] On 28 May 2021, he was selected in the England squad for the 2021 EuroHockey Championship.^[7] He was selected to represent Great Britain at the 2024 Summer Olympics.^[8] The team went out in the quarter-finals after losing a penalty shootout to India.^[9]