2019 Men's FIH Olympic Qualifiers

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.

2019 Men's FIH Olympic Qualifiers

Tournament details
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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Format

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]

Qualification

The participating teams were confirmed on 29 August 2019 by the International Hockey Federation.^[3]

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

Seeding

The seeding was announced on 8 September 2019.^[3][4]

Pot 1 (Host teams) Team Rank  Netherlands 3  India 5  Germany 6

Pot 2 (Host teams) Team Rank  Great Britain 7  Spain 8  New Zealand 9  Canada 10

Pot 3 (Away teams) Team Rank  Malaysia 11  France 12  Ireland 13  South Korea 16

Pot 4 (Away teams) Team Rank  Pakistan 17  Austria 20  Russia 22

Overview

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.Tooltip Aggregate score	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

Matches

25 October 2019 18:00 Spain  3–3  France Lleonart  30' Quemada  41', 50' Report Charlet  19' Baumgarten  26' Bellenger  30' Estadio Betero, Valencia Umpires: Coen van Bunge (NED) Raghu Prasad (IND)

26 October 2019 18:00 Spain  3–2  France Delas  21' Iglesias  28' Lleonart  40' Report Baumgarten  3' Goyet  39' Estadio Betero, Valencia Umpires: Coen van Bunge (NED) Raghu Prasad (IND)

Spain won 6–5 on aggregate.

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26 October 2019 16:00 Netherlands  4–4  Pakistan Van der Weerden  20', 60' Kellerman  21' Kemperman  52' Report M. Ali  5', 58' Ghazanfar  25' Rizwan Sr.  38' Wagener Stadium, Amstelveen Umpires: Dan Barstow (ENG) Sean Rapaport (RSA)

27 October 2019 16:00 Netherlands  6–1  Pakistan Kellerman  9' Van der Weerden  17', 29' Pruyser  22' Pieters  39' Janssen  43' Report R. Ali  53' Wagener Stadium, Amstelveen Umpires: Dan Barstow (ENG) Jakub Mejzlík (CZE)

Netherlands won 10–5 on aggregate.

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26 October 2019 14:00 Canada  3–5  Ireland Johnston  15' Pereira  23', 48' Report Cargo  8' O'Donoghue  33', 53' Murray  37', 51' Ambleside Rutledge Field, West Vancouver Umpires: Ben Göntgen (GER) Diego Barbas (ARG)

27 October 2019 14:00 Canada  3–1  Ireland Johnston  21' Scholfield  37' Tupper  60+' Report McKee  6' Penalties Johnston S. Panesar Pereira Wallace Froese Johnston Froese 5–4 Magee McKee Caruth Robson O'Donoghue Magee McKee Ambleside Rutledge Field, West Vancouver Umpires: Gareth Greenfield (NZL) Ben Göntgen (GER)

6–6 on aggregate. Canada won 5–4 after penalty-shootout.

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1 November 2019 20:00 India  4–2  Russia Harmanpreet  5' Mandeep  24', 53' Sunil  48' Report Kuraev  17' Matkovskiy  60' Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar Umpires: Lim Hong-Zhen (SGP) Francisco Vázquez (ESP)

2 November 2019 20:00 India  7–1  Russia Lalit  17' Akashdeep  23', 29' Nilakanta  47' Rupinder  48', 59' Amit  60+' Report Sobolevskiy  1' Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar Umpires: Lim Hong-Zhen (SGP) Francisco Vázquez (ESP)

India won 11–3 on aggregate.

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2 November 2019 15:00 New Zealand  3–2  South Korea Jenness  3', 17' Child  52' Report Lee N.  15' Jang  33' Taranaki Hockey Club, Stratford Umpires: Adam Kearns (AUS) Javed Shaikh (IND)

3 November 2019 15:00 New Zealand  3–0  South Korea Jenness  16' Lane  23' Russell  42' Report Taranaki Hockey Club, Stratford Umpires: Adam Kearns (AUS) Germán Montes de Oca (ARG)

New Zealand won 6–2 on aggregate.

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2 November 2019 18:30 Germany  5–0  Austria Windfeder  11' Staib  19' Rühr  27' Fuchs  42' Oruz  49' Report Warsteiner HockeyPark, Mönchengladbach Umpires: Marcin Grochal (POL) David Tomlinson (NZL)

3 November 2019 16:30 Germany  5–3  Austria Grambusch  14' Miltkau  15' Staib  39' Wellen  57' Rühr  58' Report Körper  14', 40', 41' Warsteiner HockeyPark, Mönchengladbach Umpires: David Tomlinson (NZL) Marcin Grochal (POL)

Germany won 10–3 on aggregate.

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2 November 2019 16:30 Great Britain  4–1  Malaysia Ward  33' Roper  36' Forsyth  42' Gall  47' Report Nabil  6' Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre, London Umpires: Christian Blasch (GER) Peter Wright (RSA)

3 November 2019 15:00 Great Britain  5–2  Malaysia Forsyth  9', 56', 57' Ward  11', 31' Report Fitri  24' Razie  40' Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre, London Umpires: Peter Wright (RSA) Christian Blasch (GER)

Great Britain won 9–3 on aggregate.

Goalscorers

There were 85 goals scored in 14 matches, for an average of 6.07 goals per match.

4 goals

• Alan Forsyth
• Mink van der Weerden

3 goals

• Michael Körper
• Samuel Ward
• Stephen Jenness

2 goals

• Gordon Johnston
• Keegan Pereira
• Gaspard Baumgarten
• Christopher Rühr
• Akashdeep Singh
• Mandeep Singh
• Rupinder Pal Singh
• Sean Murray
• Shane O'Donoghue
• Bjorn Kellerman
• Mubashar Ali
• Xavi Lleonart
• Pau Quemada

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

Notes

1. 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.
2. Egypt withdrew and was replaced by Russia.

See also

• 2019 Women's FIH Olympic Qualifiers