The Australia men's national field hockey team (nicknamed the Kookaburras) is one of the nation's most successful top-level sporting teams. They are the only Australian team in any sport to receive medals at six straight

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(1992–2012). The Kookaburras placed in the top four in every Olympics between 1980 and 2012 winning gold in

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; in

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, the Kookaburras placed sixth. They won the Hockey World Cup in 1986, 2010 and 2014. They won the Hockey Champions Trophy 15 times, the most by any team. They also won the Pro League and World League twice each. The Kookaburras' inability to win an Olympic gold medal despite their perennial competitiveness, led many in the Australian hockey community to speak of a "curse" afflicting the team, finally broken in 2004 with the win in Athens. However, they failed to win Gold after that after losses in subsequent Olympics including a loss to

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in the Gold Medal Match of 2020 Tokyo Olympics - the Kookaburras instead won the silver medal.

History

Australia's first men's team competed in an international match in 1922. The first major competition won by the national team was the 1983 World Championships held in

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Participations

Australia's first men's team competed at the Olympics in field hockey at the

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. Australia did not medal at the

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or the

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. At the

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, Australia earned a silver medal, losing gold to Germany. At the

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, Australia finished third, earning a bronze medal. The team won their first Olympic gold medal at the

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. Barry Dancer coached the side. Should Australia win the gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics they will become the first national team in field hockey history to hold all four international titles available to them simultaneously. They would hold titles in the 2012 Olympics, 2010 World Cup, 2011 Champions Trophy and their continental championship (2011 Oceania Cup) at the same time. Along with those four titles Australia also holds the Commonwealth Games title from the 2010 championships. File:2008 Olympic field hockey team Australia.JPG, Australia at the 2008 Olympics File:2012 Olympic field hockey team Australia.JPG, Australia at the 2012 Olympics

Tournament records

Team

Current squad

The following 22 players were named in the Kookaburras squad for the

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Leg of the 2024–25 FIH Pro League. ' Head coach: Mark Hager The remainder of the 2025 national squad is as follows:

Recent call-ups

The following players have received call-ups to the national team in the last twelve months.

Notable players

* Ric Charlesworth * Jamie Dwyer

Results and fixtures

The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.

2024

2025

Family

Barry Dancer/Brent Dancer and Ric Charlesworth/Jonathan Charlesworth are two pairs of father as coach and son as player while both were affiliated with the national team in those positions.

Recognition

* 1981: Australian Sport Awards Team of the Year * 1987: Australian Sport Awards Team of the Year * 2004: Australian Sport Awards International Team of the Year * 2014: AIS Sport Performance Awards Team of the Year.

References

General sources Further reading
The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games n.d., Tokyo 2020
''olympics.com''. Retrieved 3 August 2021.

External links

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FIH profile
{{Oceania Men's national field hockey teams

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Oceanian men's national field hockey teams 1922 establishments in Australia