| Tournament details | |||
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| Dates | 25 October – 3 November | ||
| Teams | 14 (from 4 confederations) | ||
| Venue(s) | 7 (in 7 host cities) | ||
| Tournament statistics | |||
| Matches played | 14 | ||
| Goals scored | 85 (6.07 per match) | ||
| Top scorer(s) |  Alan Forsyth  Mink van der Weerden (4 goals) | ||
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The 2019 Men's FIH Olympic Qualifiers was the final stage of the qualification for the men's field hockey event at the 2020 Summer Olympics. It was held in October and November 2019.
In the first part of the qualification, the five continental champions automatically gained an Olympic berth, where they were joined by the hosts, Japan. Originally, twelve teams were to take part in the Olympic qualifying events. These teams were to be drawn into six pairs; each pair playing a two-match, aggregate score series, and the winner of each series qualifying for the Olympics. As Japan won the 2018 Asian Games (thereby qualifying twice, once as host and once as Asian champions), there instead were 14 teams, seven of whom qualified. [1] The seven Olympic qualifiers each featured two nations playing two back-to-back matches, with nations drawn to play each other based on their rankings at the end of the 2018 / 2019 Continental Championships. It was held in October and November 2019 and the matches were hosted by the higher-ranked of the two competing nations. [2]
The participating teams were confirmed on 29 August 2019 by the International Hockey Federation. [3]
| Dates | Event(s) | Location | Quota | Qualifier(s) |
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| 19 January – 30 June 2019 | 2019 FIH Pro League | 2 |  Australia  Belgium Great Britain Netherlands | |
| 26 April – 4 May 2019 | 2018–19 FIH Series Finals | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | 2 |  Canada  Malaysia |
| 6–15 June 2019 | Bhubaneswar, India | 1 |  India  South Africa | |
| 15–23 June 2019 | Le Touquet, France | 2 |  France  Ireland | |
| 8 September 2019 | FIH World Rankings | 7 |  Austria  Egypt  Germany  New Zealand  Pakistan  Russia  South Korea  Spain | |
| Total | 14 | |||
The seeding was announced on 8 September 2019. [3] [4]
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The first legs were played on 25 and 26 October or 1 and 2 November 2019, and the second legs on 26 and 27 October or 2 and 3 November 2019. [5]
All times are local.
| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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| Spain | 6–5 | France | 3–3 | 3–2 |
| Netherlands | 10–5 | Pakistan | 4–4 | 6–1 |
| Canada | 6–6 (5–4 p.s.o.) | Ireland | 3–5 | 3–1 |
| India | 11–3 | Russia | 4–2 | 7–1 |
| New Zealand | 6–2 | South Korea | 3–2 | 3–0 |
| Germany | 10–3 | Austria | 5–0 | 5–3 |
| Great Britain | 9–3 | Malaysia | 4–1 | 5–2 |
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Spain won 6–5 on aggregate.
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Netherlands won 10–5 on aggregate.
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6–6 on aggregate. Canada won 5–4 after penalty-shootout.
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India won 11–3 on aggregate.
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New Zealand won 6–2 on aggregate.
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Germany won 10–3 on aggregate.
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Great Britain won 9–3 on aggregate.
There were 85 goals scored in 14 matches, for an average of 6.07 goals per match.
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
Oliver Scholfield Scott Tupper Amaury Bellenger Victor Charlet François Goyet Florian Fuchs Timur Oruz Constantin Staib Niklas Wellen Lukas Windfeder James Gall Phil Roper Nilakanta Sharma Harmanpreet Singh S. V. Sunil Lalit Upadhyay Amit Rohidas Chris Cargo John McKee Fitri Saari Nabil Fiqri Razie Rahim Jip Janssen Robbert Kemperman Terrance Pieters Mirco Pruyser Simon Child Sam Lane Kane Russell Rizwan Ali Ali Ghazanfar Muhammad Rizwan Sr. Andrey Kuraev Semen Matkovskiy Alexey Sobolevskiy Jang Jong-hyun Lee Nam-yong Miquel Delas Álvaro Iglesias Source: FIH
