We’re only one month away from the electrifying motion unfolding on the second version of the FIH Hockey Nations Cup! The boys’s match will probably be performed in Gniezno, Poland from 31 Could to 9 June whereas the motion runs from 3 to 9 June within the girls’s competitors to be performed at Terrassa, Spain.
Austria, Canada, France, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan and South Africa will be a part of hosts Poland in competing on the males’s match. Canada, Chile, Eire, Italy, Japan, Korea and New Zealand will be a part of hosts Spain in competing for the highest spot within the girls’s match.
As within the earlier version, the prize for ending on the prime of the standings within the competitors isn’t just the gold medal, but additionally the chance to be promoted to play within the subsequent season of the FIH Hockey Professional League!
Format
The FIH Hockey Nations Cups will probably be contested between 9 groups within the males’s competitors and eight groups within the girls’s competitors. The groups have been cut up into two Swimming pools of 5 and 4 groups within the males’s competitors and two equal swimming pools of 4 groups every within the girls’s competitors. Every workforce will face the opposite groups of their Pool as soon as within the group stage. On the finish of the group stage, the highest two groups from every pool will make it to the semi-finals, with the remaining groups taking part in within the classification matches.
Promotion
The successful 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 exchange the groups that end within the final place within the 2023-24 season of the FIH Hockey Professional League.
FIH President Tayyab Ikram talking in regards to the upcoming FIH Hockey Nations Cup stated: “On behalf of FIH, I’d like to increase our gratitude to the cities of Gniezno, Poland and Terrassa, Spain, in addition to the Polish and Spanish Hockey Federations for his or her large efforts to place collectively unbelievable FIH Hockey Nations Cup occasions! I want all athletes to get pleasure from this expertise to the fullest and make it a real milestone of their hockey profession. I can guarantee them that each the hosts and FIH will present them with the perfect situations to showcase their unimaginable expertise! I invite all hockey followers to come back in numbers to attend the matches and comply with them on all our digital channels, on TV and on Watch.Hockey.”
Match Schedule
For the entire match schedule of the FIH Hockey Males’s Nations Cup, click on right here.
For the entire match schedule of the FIH Hockey Ladies’s Nations Cup, click on right here.
Broadcast
All matches from the boys’s and ladies’s FIH Hockey Nations Cup 2023-24 will probably be streamed reside (and accessible on-demand) on the Watch.Hockey* app.
*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 beginning Friday, 3 Could, by clicking right here.