The men's
field hockey
Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ci ...
tournament at the
2020 Summer Olympics
The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July.
Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...
was the 24th edition of the
field hockey event for men at the
Summer Olympic Games
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. It was held from 24 July to 5 August 2021. All games were played at the
Oi Hockey Stadium
The Oi Hockey Stadium (Japanese language, Japanese: 大井ホッケー競技場, Ōi hokkē kyōgijō) is a Japan, Japanese field hockey stadium built on the occasion of the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. It was inaugurated on August 17, 2019. Th ...
in
Tokyo
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,
Japan
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.
It was originally scheduled to be held from 25 July to 6 August 2020, but on 24 March 2020, the Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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. Because of this pandemic, the games were played
behind closed doors.
Argentina won the previous olympic field hockey event but were eliminated in the quarterfinals. Belgium captured their first gold medal after defeating Australia in the final after penalties. India won their first hockey medal since
1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...
by defeating Germany in the bronze-medal match.
The medals for the competition were presented by
Baron Pierre-Oliver Bekcers-Vieujant,
Belgium
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;
IOC Member, and the medalists' bouquets were presented by
Dr. Narinder Dhruv Batra,
India
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;
FIH President.
Competition schedule
Competition format
The twelve teams in the tournament were divided into two groups of six, with each team initially playing
round-robin games within their group. Following the completion of the round-robin stage, the top four teams from each group advanced to the quarter-finals. The two semi-final winners met for the gold medal match, while the semi-final losers played in the bronze medal match.
Qualification
Each of the Continental Champions from five confederations received an automatic berth. Japan as the host nation qualified automatically. The other teams qualified through the
2019 Men's FIH Olympic Qualifiers.
Umpires
On 11 September 2019, 14 umpires were appointed by the FIH.
*Germán Montes de Oca (ARG)
*Adam Kearns (AUS)
*Jakub Mejzlík (CZE)
*Ben Göntgen (GER)
*Martin Madden (GBR)
*Raghu Prasad (IND)
*Javed Shaikh (IND)
*Coen van Bunge (NED)
*Simon Taylor (NZL)
*David Tomlinson (NZL)
*Marcin Grochal (POL)
*Lim Hong Zhen (SGP)
*Peter Wright (RSA)
*Francisco Vázquez (ESP)
Squads
Group stage
The pools were announced on 23 November 2019.
''All times are local (
UTC+9
UTC+09:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +09:00.
During the Japanese occupations of British Borneo, Burma, Hong Kong, Dutch East Indies, Malaya, Philippines, Singapore, and French Indochina, it was used as a common time with ...
).''
Schedule
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Group A
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Group B
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Knockout stage
Bracket
Quarter-finals
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Semi-finals
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Bronze medal match
Gold medal match
Final ranking
Goalscorers
References
{{Events at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Men's tournament