The FIH Hockey Nations Cup bursts into motion in 4 days time, as a few of the finest hockey nations from all over the world will compete for the large prize. The lads’s event will probably be performed in Gniezno, Poland from 31 Might to 9 June whereas the motion runs from 3 to 9 June within the ladies’s competitors to be performed at Terrassa, Spain.
Within the males’s event there will probably be 9 groups competing for the title and the chance to be promoted to the FIH Hockey Professional League. The 9 groups have been divided into two swimming pools of 5 and 4 groups. Austria, Korea, New Zealand, Poland and South Africa will compete in Pool A, whereas Canada, France, Malaysia and Pakistan will battle it out in Pool B.
The all-Asian Pool B contest between Malaysia and Pakistan will get us underway in Gniezno at 11:30 CET on 31 Might, with three additional matches on the opening day. It will likely be France taking over Canada and South Africa dealing with Austria earlier than the ultimate sport of the day the place New Zealand will tackle hosts Poland at 19:00 CET.
The pool stage of the event will probably be performed from 31 Might to six June. The fifth positioned workforce in Pool A will end the event in ninth place. The third and fourth positioned groups in every pool will play within the 5-8 classification matches, whereas the highest two groups will go on to play within the semi-finals on 8 June, adopted by the ultimate between the profitable semi-finalists on 9 June.
Within the ladies’s event there will probably be eight groups competing for the title and the chance to be promoted to the FIH Hockey Professional League. The eight groups have been break up into two swimming pools of 4. In Pool A Eire, Italy, Korea and Spain will compete for the highest two spots that can assure a spot within the semi-finals, whereas in Pool B it’ll be Canada, Chile, Japan and New Zealand vying for a similar.
Pool B motion between New Zealand and Chile will get the motion underway in Terrassa on a gap day that can characteristic three extra matches, between Japan and Canada, Korea and Italy, earlier than hosts Spain face off in opposition to Eire within the last match of the day.
The pool stage of the event will probably be performed from 3-6 June. Just like the boys’s event, the third and fourth positioned groups in every pool will play within the 5-8 classification matches, whereas the highest two groups will go on to play within the semi-finals on 8 June, adopted by the ultimate between the profitable semi-finalists on 9 June.
Promotion
The profitable groups from the FIH Hockey Nations Cup, may have the chance to play within the FIH Hockey Professional League for the 2024-25 season, the place they are going to substitute the groups that end within the final place within the 2023-24 season of the FIH Hockey Professional League.
Match Schedule
For the whole match schedule of the FIH Hockey Males’s Nations Cup, click on right here.
For the whole match schedule of the FIH Hockey Ladies’s Nations Cup, click on right here.
Broadcast
All matches from the boys’s and girls’s FIH Hockey Nations Cup 2023-24 will probably be streamed stay (and out there on-demand) on the Watch.Hockey app*. Passes for the boys’s and girls’s FIH Hockey Nations Cup 2023/24 may be bought on Watch.Hockey for $4.99 (+VAT) every.
*besides on the Indian subcontinent.
Tickets
The tickets for the FIH Hockey Males’s Nations Cup in Gniezno, Poland may be bought right here.
The tickets for the FIH Hockey Ladies’s Nations Cup in Terrassa, Spain may be bought right here.
