Hockey Series

Hockey Series
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2018–19 Men's Hockey Series
2018–19 Women's Hockey Series
Sport Field hockey
Founded 2018
Continent International (FIH)

The Hockey Series is an international field hockey competition organised by the International Hockey Federation (FIH). The competition, also serves as a qualifier for the Hockey World Cup (men and women's) and Olympic Games.[1]

The first edition will be started in 2018.[2]

Format

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. 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).[3]

The top two placed teams in each of the Finals events will qualify for the Olympic qualification events.[4] 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.

Men

Summaries

Year Final Third place match Teams
PR / FR
Champions Score Runners-up Third place Score Fourth place
2018–19

Women

Summaries

Year Final Third place match Teams
PR / FR
Champions Score Runners-up Third place Score Fourth place
2018–19

References

  1. ↑ "Questions and answers". fih.ch. 2 May 2018. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  2. ↑ "FIH launches the 'Hockey Series' with all roads leading to Tokyo 2020". fih.ch. 2 May 2018. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  3. ↑ Hockey Series Q&A
  4. ↑ Olympic qualification system
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