Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

Last updated January 11, 2023

Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics

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Twelve teams qualified for the men's field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics (postponed to 2021^[1] due to the COVID-19 pandemic ).

Contents

Table

Event	Dates	Location(s)	Quota	Qualifier(s)
Host nation	—	—	1	Japan
2018 Asian Games	19 August – 1 September 2018	Jakarta	–	–^A
2019 Pan American Games	30 July – 10 August 2019	Lima	1	Argentina
2019 African Olympic Qualifier	12 – 18 August 2019	Stellenbosch	1	South Africa
2019 EuroHockey Championship	16 – 24 August 2019	Antwerp	1	Belgium
2019 Oceania Cup	5 – 8 September 2019	Rockhampton	1	Australia
2019 FIH Olympic Qualifiers	25 October – 3 November 2019	Various	7	Canada Germany Great Britain India Netherlands New Zealand Spain
Total			12

^A – Japan qualified both as the hosts and the continental champions, therefore that quota is added to the FIH Olympic Qualifiers rather than going to the runners-up of the tournament.^[2]

2018 Asian Games

The champion of the men's field hockey tournament at the 2018 Asian Games qualifies for the Olympics. If Japan is the winner, the quota place is added to the qualification events rather than going to the runner-up.^[2]

Qualified teams

Event	Dates	Location	Quotas	Qualifier(s)
Host	19 September 2014	Incheon	1	Indonesia
Qualified automatically via 2014 Asian Games	20 September – 2 October 2014	Incheon	5	India Pakistan South Korea Malaysia ~~China~~ Japan
Asian Games Qualifiers	8–17 March 2018	Muscat	4	Oman Bangladesh Sri Lanka Thailand ~~Chinese Taipei~~
Reallocation	—	—	2	Kazakhstan Hong Kong
Total			12

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	India	5	5	0	0	76	3	+73	15	Semi-finals
2	Japan	5	4	0	1	30	11	+19	12	Semi-finals
3	South Korea	5	3	0	2	39	8	+31	9	Fifth place game
4	Sri Lanka	5	2	0	3	7	41	−34	6	Seventh place game
5	Indonesia (H)	5	1	0	4	5	40	−35	3	Ninth place game
6	Hong Kong	5	0	0	5	3	57	−54	0	Eleventh place game

Source: FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) head-to-head result.
(H) Host

Pool B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Pakistan	5	5	0	0	45	1	+44	15	Semi-finals
2	Malaysia	5	4	0	1	41	6	+35	12	Semi-finals
3	Bangladesh	5	3	0	2	11	15	−4	9	Fifth place game
4	Oman	5	2	0	3	7	19	−12	6	Seventh place game
5	Thailand	5	1	0	4	4	27	−23	3	Ninth place game
6	Kazakhstan	5	0	0	5	5	45	−40	0	Eleventh place game

Source: FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) head-to-head result.^[3]

Final round

	Semi-finals				Gold medal match

	30 August

	India	2 (6)
					1 September
	Malaysia (p.s.o.)	2 (7)
					Malaysia	6 (1)
	31 August
					Japan (p.s.o.)	6 (3)
	Pakistan	0

	Japan	1
					Bronze medal match

					1 September

					India	2

					Pakistan	1

Final standings

Rank	Team
	Japan
	Malaysia
	India
4	Pakistan
5	South Korea
6	Bangladesh
7	Oman
8	Sri Lanka
9	Thailand
10	Indonesia
11	Kazakhstan
12	Hong Kong

Qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics as hosts

2019 Pan American Games

Qualified teams

Event	Dates	Location	Quotas	Qualified
Host Nation	—	—	1	Peru
2018 South American Games	29 May – 6 June	Cochabamba	2	Argentina Chile
2018 Central American and Caribbean Games	21–29 July	Barranquilla	2	Cuba Mexico
2017 Men's Pan American Cup	4–12 August	Lancaster	3	Canada United States Trinidad and Tobago
Total			8

A playoff was not necessary, as Canada and the United States were the top two teams not qualified from the 2017 Men's Pan American Cup.

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Argentina	3	3	0	0	20	1	+19	9	Quarter-finals
2	Chile	3	2	0	1	7	5	+2	6
3	Cuba	3	1	0	2	3	15	−12	3
4	Trinidad and Tobago	3	0	0	3	2	11	−9	0

Source: FIH

Pool B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Canada	3	3	0	0	23	2	+21	9	Quarter-finals
2	United States	3	2	0	1	21	5	+16	6
3	Mexico	3	1	0	2	10	12	−2	3
4	Peru (H)	3	0	0	3	3	38	−35	0

Source: FIH
(H) Host

Classification round

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Gold medal match

	5 August

	Argentina	14
					8 August
	Peru	1
					Argentina	5
	5 August
					United States	0
	Cuba	1
									10 August
	United States	5
									Argentina	5
	5 August
									Canada	2
	Chile	2
					8 August
	Mexico	0
					Chile	2
	5 August
					Canada	3			Bronze medal match
	Trinidad and Tobago	1
									10 August
	Canada	5
									United States	2

									Chile	1

Final standings

Pos	Team v t e	Qualification
1	Argentina	2020 Summer Olympics
2	Canada
3	United States
4	Chile
5	Trinidad and Tobago
6	Cuba
7	Mexico
8	Peru (H)

Source: FIH
(H) Host

2019 African Olympic Qualifier

Teams

The following eight teams, shown with pre-tournament FIH World Rankings, were expected to participate in the tournament.^[4] Nigeria and Uganda withdrew before the tournament.

Egypt (20)
Ghana (36)
Kenya (48)
Namibia (68)
~~Nigeria~~ (57)
South Africa (14)
~~Uganda~~ (–)
Zimbabwe (61)

Pool

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	South Africa (H)	5	5	0	0	28	4	+24	15	2020 Summer Olympics
2	Egypt	5	4	0	1	24	7	+17	12
3	Ghana	5	3	0	2	12	18	−6	9
4	Zimbabwe	5	1	1	3	8	23	−15	4
5	Kenya	5	1	0	4	9	18	−9	3
6	Namibia	5	0	1	4	6	17	−11	1

Source: FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result; 6) field goals scored.^[5]
(H) Host

2019 EuroHockey Championship

Qualified teams

The following teams, shown with pre-tournament world rankings, participated in the 2019 EuroHockey Championship.^[6]

Dates	Event	Location	Quotas	Qualifier(s)
15 June 2016	Host		1	Belgium (2)
19–27 August 2017	2017 EuroHockey Championship	Amstelveen, Netherlands	5	Netherlands (3) England (6) Germany (7) Spain (9) Ireland (11)
6–12 August 2017	2017 EuroHockey Championship II	Glasgow, Scotland	2	Scotland (21) Wales (25)
Total			8

Preliminary round

Pool A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Belgium (H)	3	3	0	0	13	0	+13	9	Semi-finals
2	Spain	3	1	1	1	7	8	−1	4	Semi-finals
3	England	3	0	2	1	4	6	−2	2	Pool C
4	Wales	3	0	1	2	3	13	−10	1	Pool C

Source: FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result; 6) field goals for.^[7]
(H) Host

Pool B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Netherlands	3	3	0	0	14	3	+11	9	Semi-finals
2	Germany	3	2	0	1	16	3	+13	6	Semi-finals
3	Ireland	3	0	1	2	4	13	−9	1	Pool C
4	Scotland	3	0	1	2	3	18	−15	1	Pool C

Source: FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result; 6) field goals for.^[7]

Final round

	Semi-finals				Final

	22 August

	Belgium	4
					24 August
	Germany	2
					Belgium	5
	22 August
					Spain	0
	Netherlands	3

	Spain	4
					Third place

					24 August

					Germany	0

					Netherlands	4

Final ranking

Rank	Team
	Belgium
	Spain
	Netherlands
4	Germany
5	England
6	Wales
7	Scotland
8	Ireland

Qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics

Relegated to the EuroHockey Championship II

2019 Oceania Cup

Pool

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia (H)	3	2	1	0	9	2	+7	7	2020 Summer Olympics
2	New Zealand	3	0	1	2	2	9	−7	1

Source: FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) head-to-head result.^[8]
(H) Host

Olympic qualifying events

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. The winner of each series qualifies for the Olympics. As Japan won the 2018 Asian Games (thereby qualifying twice, once as host and once as Asian champions), there will instead be 14 teams, 7 of whom will qualify.^[2]

Qualification

The participating teams were confirmed on 29 August 2019 by the International Hockey Federation.^[9]

Dates	Event(s)	Location	Quota	Qualifier(s)
19 January – 30 June 2019	2019 FIH Pro League		2	~~Australia~~ ^{[lower-alpha 1]} ~~Belgium~~ ^{[lower-alpha 1]} 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~~ ^{[lower-alpha 1]}
15–23 June 2019		Le Touquet, France	2	France Ireland
8 September 2019	FIH World Rankings		7	Austria ~~Egypt~~ ^{[lower-alpha 2]} Germany New Zealand Pakistan Russia South Korea Spain
Total			14

Matches

The draw for the final seven qualification ties was held on 9 September 2019. The ties will be played over two legs, both in the home team's venue.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
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

See also

Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification

Notes

1 2 3 Australia, Belgium, and South Africa already qualified directly for the 2020 Summer Olympics by winning their continental championship so they were replaced by the highest ranked teams not already qualified.
↑ Egypt withdrew and was replaced by Russia.

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