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]

2018–19 Women's Hockey Series
Tournament details
Teams42 (from 5 confederations)
Venue(s)10 (in 10 host cities)
Tournament statistics
Matches played130
Goals scored801 (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
Main article: 2018–19 Women's Hockey Series Open
Dates Location Teams Hockey series finals
quotas		 Hockey series finals
qualifier(s)
5–10 June 2018 Salamanca, Mexico  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  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
Main article: 2018–19 Women's FIH Series Finals

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
  1. Japan cannot qualify for the Olympic Qualifiers because they have already qualified as hosts and winners of the Asian Games.
  2. Because Japan finished in the top two and cannot qualify for the Olympic Qualifiers only one team qualified.
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References
  1. "Pakistan and Vanuatu to host Hockey Series Open events". FIH.ch. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  2. Hockey Series Q&A
  3. Olympic qualification system
  4. "Pools and venues confirmed for 2019 FIH Series Finals". fih.ch. International Hockey Federation. 23 October 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
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