2021 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship

2021 Women's EuroHockey Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Netherlands
City	Amstelveen
Dates	4–13 June
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	Wagener Stadium
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The 2021 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship will be the fifteenth edition of the Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship, the biennial international women's field hockey championship of Europe organised by the European Hockey Federation.

The tournament will be held alongside the men's tournament at the Wagener Stadium in Amstelveen, Netherlands and was originally scheduled to take place from 20 to 29 August 2021.[1][2] However, following the postponement of the 2020 Summer Olympics to July and August 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic the tournament was rescheduled and will take place from 4 to 13 June 2021.[3]

The top two teams not already qualified will qualify for the 2022 World Cup.[4]

Qualification

Along with the hosts, the Netherlands, the top 5 teams at the 2019 EuroHockey Championship which was held in Antwerp from 16 to 25 August 2019 and the top 2 teams from the 2019 EuroHockey Championships II qualified.[1]

Dates	Event	Location	Quotas	Qualifier(s)
1 July 2018	Host	N/A	1	Netherlands
16–25 August 2019	2019 EuroHockey Championship	Antwerp, Belgium	5	Belgium England Germany Ireland Spain
4–10 August 2019	2019 EuroHockey Championship II	Glasgow, Scotland	2	Italy Scotland
Total			8

Preliminary round

The pools were announced on 11 May 2020.[3]

Pool A

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Ireland	Semi-finals
1	Netherlands (H)	Semi-finals
1	Scotland	Pool C
1	Spain	Pool C

First match(es) will be played on 4 June 2021. Source:
(H) Host.

Pool B

Pos	Team	Qualification
1	Belgium	Semi-finals
1	England	Semi-finals
1	Germany	Pool C
1	Italy	Pool C

First match(es) will be played on 4 June 2021. Source:

References

"2021 EUROHOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIPS, MEN AND WOMEN TO TAKE PLACE IN THE WAGENER STADIUM". eurohockey.org. European Hockey Federation. 1 July 2018. Archived from the original on 30 July 2019. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
"EuroHockey Championships goes Dutch as Amstelveen awarded 2021 event". www.thehockeypaper.co.uk. 2 July 2018. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
"EuroHockey 2021 dates rejigged ahead of Tokyo Olympics". thehockeypaper.co.uk. The Hockey Paper. 11 May 2020. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
"2022/23 FIH Hockey World Cups qualification process reviewed". fih.ch. Lausanne: International Hockey Federation. 2 June 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2020.

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[eurohockey_host-1] "2021 EUROHOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIPS, MEN AND WOMEN TO TAKE PLACE IN THE WAGENER STADIUM". eurohockey.org. European Hockey Federation. 1 July 2018. Archived from the original on 30 July 2019. Retrieved 13 February 2019.

[2] "EuroHockey Championships goes Dutch as Amstelveen awarded 2021 event". www.thehockeypaper.co.uk. 2 July 2018. Retrieved 13 February 2019.

[postpone-3] "EuroHockey 2021 dates rejigged ahead of Tokyo Olympics". thehockeypaper.co.uk. The Hockey Paper. 11 May 2020. Retrieved 13 May 2020.

[4] "2022/23 FIH Hockey World Cups qualification process reviewed". fih.ch. Lausanne: International Hockey Federation. 2 June 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2020.