2018–19 Women's Hockey Series
The 2018–19 Women's Hockey Series was the inaugural season of the Hockey Series, a field hockey championship for women's national teams. The tournament started in June 2018 and finished in June 2019.[1]
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Teams | 42 (from 5 confederations) |
| Venue(s) | 10 (in 10 host cities) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  South Korea  India  Spain |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 130 |
| Goals scored | 801 (6.16 per match) |
Format
The Hockey Series was open to national teams that were not playing in the Pro League.
The Hockey Series took place in two rounds, the Open and the Finals. The nine highest-ranked teams in the FIH World Rankings (as of 9 June 2017) skipped the Open and advanced directly to the Finals. All other national teams played in the Hockey Series Open, which features six regional events with up to six teams each. Fifteen teams qualified from the Hockey Series Open to the Hockey Series Finals, for a total of 24 teams in the Finals. Those teams played in three events, with eight teams per event (three automatic qualifiers and five that advanced from the Open).[2]
The top two placed teams in each of the Finals events qualified for the 2019 FIH Olympic Qualifiers.[3] In this qualification event, they were joined by the top four placed teams from the Pro League, and the two highest ranked teams not already qualified. The teams were drawn and played a two-legged tie to determine six qualified nations for the Olympic Games.
Schedule
Open events
| Dates | Location | Teams | Hockey series finals quotas |
Hockey series finals qualifier(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5–10 June 2018 | Salamanca, Mexico | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Canada Guatemala Mexico Panama Puerto Rico |
2 | Canada Mexico |
| 23 June – 1 July 2018 | Singapore |  Hong Kong Indonesia Kazakhstan Malaysia Singapore Thailand |
2 | Malaysia Thailand |
| 6–8 July 2018 | Wattignies, France |  Austria Belarus France Russia |
3 | Belarus France Russia |
| 13–18 August 2018 | Port Vila, Vanuatu |  Fiji Solomon Islands Tonga Vanuatu |
1 | Fiji |
| 21–26 August 2018 | Vilnius, Lithuania |  Czech Republic Lithuania Turkey Ukraine Wales |
3 | Czech Republic Ukraine Wales |
| 18–23 September 2018 | Santiago, Chile | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Bolivia Brazil Chile Paraguay Peru Uruguay |
2 | Chile Uruguay |
| 7–9 December 2018 | Bulawayo, Zimbabwe |  Namibia Zambia Zimbabwe |
1 | Namibia |
| 1 | Singapore | |||
| Total | 15 | |||
Finals events
The pools and venues were announced on 23 October 2018 with one team from Africa still to qualify.[4]
| Dates | Location | Teams Qualified | Olympic Qualification Events Quotas |
Olympic Qualification Event Qualifiers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| By Ranking | From Hockey Series Open | ||||
| 8–16 June 2019 | Banbridge, Ireland |  Ireland South Korea Scotland |
Czech Republic France Malaysia Singapore Ukraine |
2 | Ireland South Korea |
| 15–23 June 2019 | Hiroshima, Japan | India Japan[lower-alpha 1] Poland |
Chile Fiji Mexico Russia Uruguay |
1[lower-alpha 2] | India |
| 19–27 June 2019 | Valencia, Spain |  Italy Spain South Africa |
Belarus Canada Namibia Thailand Wales |
2 | Canada Spain |
| Total | 5 | ||||
Notes
- Japan cannot qualify for the Olympic Qualifiers because they have already qualified as hosts and winners of the Asian Games.
- Because Japan finished in the top two and cannot qualify for the Olympic Qualifiers only one team qualified.
References
- "Pakistan and Vanuatu to host Hockey Series Open events". FIH.ch. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
- Hockey Series Q&A
- Olympic qualification system
- "Pools and venues confirmed for 2019 FIH Series Finals". fih.ch. International Hockey Federation. 23 October 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2018.