2018–19 Women's Hockey Series

The 2018–19 Women's Hockey Series will be the inaugural season of the Hockey Series, a field hockey championship for women's national teams. The tournament will start in June 2018 and finish in November 2019.^[1]

The Hockey Series is open to national teams that are not playing in the Hockey Pro League.

The Hockey Series takes place in two rounds, the Open and the Finals. The nine highest ranked teams in the FIH World Rankings (as of 9 June 2017) skip the Open and advance directly to the Finals. All other national teams play in the Hockey Series Open, which features six regional events with up to six teams each. Fifteen teams will qualify from the Hockey Series Open to the Hockey Series Finals, for a total of 24 teams in the Finals. Those teams will play in three events, with eight teams per event (three automatic qualifiers and five that advanced from the Open).^[2]

The top two placed teams in each of the Finals events will qualify for the Olympic qualification events.^[3] In this qualification event, they will be joined by the top four placed teams from the Pro League, and the two highest ranked teams not already qualified. The teams will be drawn and play a two-legged tie to determine six qualified nations for the Olympic Games.

Schedule

Open events

Main article: 2018–19 Women's Hockey Series Open

Dates	Location	Teams	Hockey series finals quotas	Hockey series finals qualifier(s)
5–10 June 2018	Salamanca, Mexico	Canada  Guatemala  Mexico  Panama  Puerto Rico	2	Canada  Mexico
23 June – 1 July 2018	Singapore	Hong Kong  Indonesia  Kazakhstan  Malaysia  Singapore  Thailand	2	Malaysia  Thailand
6–8 July 2018	Wattignies, France	Austria  Belarus  France  Russia	3	Belarus  France  Russia
13–18 August 2018	Port Vila, Vanuatu	Fiji  Solomon Islands  Tonga  Vanuatu	1	Fiji
21–26 August 2018	Vilnius, Lithuania	Czech Republic  Lithuania  Turkey  Ukraine  Wales	3	Czech Republic  Ukraine  Wales
18–23 September 2018	Santiago, Chile	Bolivia  Brazil  Chile  Paraguay  Peru  Uruguay	2	Chile  Uruguay

Finals events

Qualified teams

Method	Teams
Ranking	South Korea	Spain	Japan
	India	South Africa	Italy
	Ireland	Scotland	Poland
Open	Canada	Mexico	Malaysia
	Thailand	Belarus	France
	Russia	Fiji	Czech Republic
	Ukraine	Wales	Chile
	Uruguay	TBD	TBD

Dates	Location	Teams Qualified			Olympic Qualification Events Quotas	Olympic Qualification Event Qualifiers
		Host	By Ranking	From Hockey Series Open
25 May–2 June 2019	Japan				2
19–27 June 2019	Valencia, Spain	Spain			2
					2

References