| Field hockey at the 2010 Asian Games | |||||||
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| Venue | Aoti Hockey Field | ||||||
| Dates | 13 October 2010 – 25 October 2010 | ||||||
| Competitors | 272 from 12 nations | ||||||
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The Field hockey event at the 2010 Asian Games was held in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China from 13 November 2010 for Women and 15 November 2010 for Men. In this tournament, 10 teams played in the men's competition, and 7 teams participated in the women's competition. All matches were played at the Aoti Hockey Field.
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 |  China | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Pakistan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 3 |  Malaysia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 South Korea | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 5 |  India | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Japan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (6 nations) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
Top 6 Asian teams, South Korea, India, Pakistan, Japan, China and Malaysia could enter the men's competition directly. For the next two spots a qualification tournament was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 7 to 16 May 2010. Oman and Singapore qualified as top two teams, Hong Kong and Bangladesh were added later.
Women's qualification tournament was held in Bangkok, Thailand from 21 to 29 May 2010. Three teams qualified for the Asian Games but later Chinese Taipei withdrew.
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The teams were distributed according to their position at the FIH World Rankings using the serpentine system for their distribution.
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| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L |
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 |  Pakistan | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
 |  Malaysia | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
 |  India | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 |  South Korea | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 5 |  China | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| 6 |  Japan | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 |  Oman | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 8 |  Bangladesh | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 9 |  Hong Kong | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 10 |  Singapore | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L |
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| China | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| South Korea | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| Japan | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | India | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 5 | Malaysia | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 6 |  Thailand | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 7 |  Kazakhstan | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
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