Field hockey at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Venue	Oi Hockey Stadium
Dates	24 July – 6 August 2021
No. of events	2
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Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Qualification
	men	women
Tournament
	men	women
Squads
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Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo took place from 24 July to 6 August 2021 at the Oi Seaside Park. Twenty-four teams (twelve each for men and women) competed in the tournament.^[1]

It was originally scheduled to be held in 2020, but on 24 March 2020, the Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[2]

Schedule

^[3][4]

Qualification

Each of the Continental Champions from five confederations received an automatic berth. Japan as the host nation qualified automatically. In addition, the remaining six nations were to be determined by an olympic qualification event. As Japan emerged as Asian champion in both men's and women's events, a seventh berth was made available in each qualification event. Although the qualification was unaffected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Men

Event	Dates	Location(s)	Quota	Qualifier(s)
Host nation	—	—	1	Japan
2018 Asian Games	19 August – 1 September 2018	Jakarta	–	–A
2019 Pan American Games	30 July – 10 August 2019	Lima	1	Argentina
2019 African Olympic Qualifier	12 – 18 August 2019	Stellenbosch	1	South Africa
2019 EuroHockey Championship	16 – 24 August 2019	Antwerp	1	Belgium
2019 Oceania Cup	5 – 8 September 2019	Rockhampton	1	Australia
2019 FIH Olympic Qualifiers	25 October – 3 November 2019	Various	7	Canada  Germany  Great Britain  India  Netherlands  New Zealand  Spain
Total			12

^A – Japan qualified both as the hosts and the continental champions, therefore that quota is added to the FIH Olympic Qualifiers rather than going to the runners-up of the tournament.^[1]

Women

Event	Dates	Location(s)	Quota	Qualifier(s)
Host nation	—	—	1	Japan
2018 Asian Games	19 August – 1 September 2018	Jakarta	–	–1
2019 Pan American Games	29 July – 9 August 2019	Lima	1	Argentina
2019 African Olympic Qualifier	12 – 18 August 2019	Stellenbosch	1	South Africa
2019 EuroHockey Championship	17 – 25 August 2019	Antwerp	1	Netherlands
2019 Oceania Cup	5 – 8 September 2019	Rockhampton	1	New Zealand
2019 FIH Olympic Qualifiers	25 October – 3 November 2019	Various	7	Australia  China  Germany  Great Britain  India  Ireland  Spain
Total			12

^1 – Japan qualified both as the hosts and the continental champions, therefore that quota is added to the FIH Olympic Qualifiers rather than going to the runners-up of the tournament.^[1]

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	0	1
	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	0	1
3	Argentina (ARG)	0	1	0	1
	Australia (AUS)	0	1	0	1
5	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	India (IND)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		2	2	2	6

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	Belgium Gauthier Boccard Tom Boon Thomas Briels Cédric Charlier Félix Denayer Nicolas De Kerpel Arthur De Sloover Sébastien Dockier John-John Dohmen Simon Gougnard Alexander Hendrickx Antoine Kina Loïck Luypaert Augustin Meurmans Victor Wegnez Vincent Vanasch Florent Van Aubel Arthur Van Doren	Australia Daniel Beale Joshua Beltz Tim Brand Andrew Charter Tom Craig Matt Dawson Blake Govers Jeremy Hayward Tim Howard Dylan Martin Trent Mitton Eddie Ockenden Flynn Ogilvie Lachlan Sharp Joshua Simmonds Jacob Whetton Tom Wickham Aran Zalewski	India Surender Kumar Varun Kumar Birendra Lakra Vivek Prasad Dilpreet Singh Gurjant Singh Harmanpreet Singh Hardik Singh Mandeep Singh Manpreet Singh Rupinder Pal Singh Shamsher Singh Simranjeet Singh Nilakanta Sharma P. R. Sreejesh Sumit Lalit Upadhyay Amit Rohidas
Women details	Netherlands Felice Albers Eva de Goede Xan de Waard Marloes Keetels Josine Koning Sanne Koolen Laurien Leurink Frédérique Matla Laura Nunnink Malou Pheninckx Pien Sanders Lauren Stam Margot van Geffen Caia van Maasakker Maria Verschoor Lidewij Welten	Argentina Agustina Albertario Agostina Alonso Noel Barrionuevo Valentina Costa Biondi Emilia Forcherio Agustina Gorzelany María José Granatto Victoria Granatto Julieta Jankunas Sofía Maccari Delfina Merino Valentina Raposo Rocío Sánchez Moccia Micaela Retegui Victoria Sauze Belén Succi Sofía Toccalino Eugenia Trinchinetti	Great Britain Giselle Ansley Grace Balsdon Fiona Crackles Maddie Hinch Sarah Jones Hannah Martin Shona McCallin Lily Owsley Hollie Pearne-Webb Isabelle Petter Ellie Rayer Sarah Robertson Anna Toman Susannah Townsend Laura Unsworth Leah Wilkinson

Men's tournament

The competition consisted of two stages; a group stage followed by a knockout stage.

Group stage

Teams were divided into two groups of six nations, playing every team in their group once. Three points were awarded for a victory, one for a draw. The top four teams per group will qualify to the quarter-finals.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	5	4	1	0	22	9	+13	13	Quarter-finals
2	India	5	4	0	1	15	13	+2	12
3	Argentina	5	2	1	2	10	11	−1	7
4	Spain	5	1	2	2	9	10	−1	5
5	New Zealand	5	1	1	3	11	16	−5	4
6	Japan (H)	5	0	1	4	10	18	−8	1

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Belgium	5	4	1	0	26	9	+17	13	Quarter-finals
2	Germany	5	3	0	2	19	10	+9	9
3	Great Britain	5	2	2	1	11	11	0	8
4	Netherlands	5	2	1	2	13	13	0	7
5	South Africa	5	1	1	3	16	24	−8	4
6	Canada	5	0	1	4	9	27	−18	1

Knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	1 August
	Australia (p.s.o.)	2 (3)
					3 August
	Netherlands	2 (0)
					Australia	3
	1 August
					Germany	1
	Germany	3
									5 August
	Argentina	1
									Australia	1 (2)
	1 August
									Belgium (p.s.o.)	1 (3)
	India	3
					3 August
	Great Britain	1
					India	2
	1 August
					Belgium	5			Bronze medal match
	Belgium	3
									5 August
	Spain	1
									Germany	4
									India	5

Final standings

As per statistical convention in field hockey, matches decided in regular time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
1	Belgium	8	6	2	0	35	13	+22	20	Gold Medal
2	Australia	8	5	3	0	28	13	+15	18	Silver Medal
3	India	8	6	0	2	25	23	+2	18	Bronze Medal
4	Germany	8	4	0	4	27	19	+8	12	Fourth place
5	Great Britain	6	2	2	2	12	14	−2	8	Eliminated in quarter-finals
6	Netherlands	6	2	2	2	15	15	0	8
7	Argentina	6	2	1	3	11	14	−3	7
8	Spain	6	1	2	3	10	13	−3	5
9	New Zealand	5	1	1	3	11	16	−5	4	Eliminated in group stage
10	South Africa	5	1	1	3	16	24	−8	4
11	Japan (H)	5	0	1	4	10	18	−8	1
12	Canada	5	0	1	4	9	27	−18	1

Women's tournament

The competition consisted of two stages; a group stage followed by a knockout stage.

Group stage

Teams were divided into two groups of six nations, playing every team in their group once. Three points are awarded for a victory, one for a draw. The top four teams per group will qualify for the quarter-finals.

Group A

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Netherlands	5	5	0	0	18	2	+16	15	Quarterfinals
2	Germany	5	4	0	1	13	7	+6	12
3	Great Britain	5	3	0	2	11	5	+6	9
4	India	5	2	0	3	7	14	−7	6
5	Ireland	5	1	0	4	4	11	−7	3
6	South Africa	5	0	0	5	5	19	−14	0

Group B

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	5	5	0	0	13	1	+12	15	Quarterfinals
2	Spain	5	3	0	2	9	8	+1	9
3	Argentina	5	3	0	2	8	8	0	9
4	New Zealand	5	2	0	3	8	7	+1	6
5	China	5	2	0	3	9	16	−7	6
6	Japan (H)	5	0	0	5	6	13	−7	0

Knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Gold medal match
	2 August
	Netherlands	3
					4 August
	New Zealand	0
					Netherlands	5
	2 August
					Great Britain	1
	Spain	2 (0)
									6 August
	Great Britain (p.s.o.)	2 (2)
									Netherlands	3
	2 August
									Argentina	1
	Germany	0
					4 August
	Argentina	3
					Argentina	2
	2 August
					India	1			Bronze medal match
	Australia	0
									6 August
	India	1
									Great Britain	4
									India	3

Final standings

As per statistical convention in field hockey, matches decided in regular time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Final result
1	Netherlands	8	8	0	0	29	4	+25	24	Gold Medal
2	Argentina	8	5	0	3	14	12	+2	15	Silver Medal
3	Great Britain	8	4	1	3	18	15	+3	13	Bronze Medal
4	India	8	3	0	5	12	20	−8	9	Fourth place
5	Australia	6	5	0	1	13	2	+11	15	Eliminated in quarter-finals
6	Germany	6	4	0	2	13	10	+3	12
7	Spain	6	3	1	2	11	10	+1	10
8	New Zealand	6	2	0	4	8	10	−2	6
9	China	5	2	0	3	9	16	−7	6	Eliminated in group stage
10	Ireland	5	1	0	4	4	11	−7	3
11	Japan (H)	5	0	0	5	6	13	−7	0
12	South Africa	5	0	0	5	5	19	−14	0