Qualification
Each of the continental champions from five federations received an automatic berth. Along with the five teams qualifying through the 2004 Women's Field Hockey Olympic Qualifier, Olympic Qualification Tournament, ten teams competed in this tournament. Although the host nation would have qualified automatically as well, the International Hockey Federation (FIH) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) refused to give them an automatic berth due to the standard of hockey in Greece. Greece appealed the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), however it was turned down. Greece's first option to gain a place at the Olympics was by qualifying for the EuroHockey Nations Championship held in 2003. As they did not qualify for this tournament their last option was to beat Russia, the last ranked team of the 2004 Women's Field Hockey Olympic Qualifier, Olympic Qualification Tournament in a best of three play-off competition. Russia would have kept its place in the Qualifier regardless of whether it won or lost against Greece. There would, however, have been four places at stake at the tournament if Greece had qualified, rather than five. Eventually Greece withdrew from participating due to explicit financial reasons.Umpires
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Results
All times are Eastern European Time (UTC+2)Preliminary round
Pool A
---- ---- ---- ----Pool B
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Ninth and tenth place
Fifth- to eighth-place classification
=Crossover
= ----=Seventh and eighth place
==Fifth and sixth place
=First- to fourth-place classification
=Semi-finals
= ----=Bronze-medal match
==Gold-medal match
=Statistics
Final ranking
Goalscorers
References
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