2018 Men's Hockey World Cup
Field hockey competition held in Bhubaneswar, India
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Belgium won the tournament for the first time after defeating the Netherlands 3–2 in the final on a penalty shoot-out after a 0–0 draw. Defending champions Australia won the third place match by defeating England 8–1 in the third place playoff of the Odisha men's hockey world cup 2018.
Bidding
In March 2013, one month after the FIH published the event assignment process document for the 2014–2018 cycle, Australia, Belgium, India, Malaysia and New Zealand were shortlisted as candidates for hosting the event and were asked to submit bidding documentation, a requirement that Belgium did not meet. In addition, one month before the host election, Australia withdrew their application due to technical and financial reasons. India was announced as host on 7 November 2013, during a special ceremony in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Qualification
Due to the increase to 16 participating teams, the new qualification process was announced in July 2015 by the International Hockey Federation. Each of the continental champions from five confederations and the host nation received an automatic berth, and the 10/11 highest placed teams at the Semifinals of the 2016–17 FIH Hockey World League not already qualified would enter the tournament. The following sixteen teams shown with final pre-tournament rankings, competed in this tournament.
- ^1 – India qualified both as host and continental champion, therefore that quota was given to China as the highest-ranked team from the 2016–17 Hockey World League Semifinals not already qualified.
Format
The 16 teams were drawn into four groups, each containing four teams. Each team played each other team in its group once. The first-placed team in each group advanced to the quarter-finals, while the second- and third-placed teams in each group went into the crossover matches. From there on a single-elimination tournament was played.
Squads
Umpires
16 umpires were appointed by the FIH for this tournament.
- Diego Barbas (ARG)
- Dan Barstow (ENG)
- Marcin Grochal (POL)
- Ben Göntgen (GER)
- Adam Kearns (AUS)
- Eric Kim Lai Koh (MAS)
- Lim Hong Zhen (SGP)
- Martin Madden (SCO)
- Raghu Prasad (IND)
- Javed Shaikh (IND)
- Simon Taylor (NZL)
- David Tomlinson (NZL)
- Gregory Uyttenhove (BEL)
- Jonas van't Hek (NED)
- Francisco Vásquez (ESP)
- Peter Wright (RSA)
Opening ceremony
Results
The schedule was published on 27 February 2018.
All times are local (UTC+5:30).
First round
Pool A
Source: FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result.
Pool B
Source: FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result.
Pool C
Source: FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result.
(H) Hosts
Pool D
Source: FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result.
Second round
Cross-overs
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Third place match
Final
Final ranking
Source: FIH
Rules for classification: 1) round; 2) position in pools; 3) points in pools; 4) matches won; 5) goal difference; 6) goals for.
(H) Hosts
Awards
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.
Goalscorers
There were 157 goals scored in 36 matches, for an average of 4.36 goals per match.
7 goals
- Blake Govers
- Alexander Hendrickx
6 goals
- Gonzalo Peillat
4 goals
- Timothy Brand
- Tom Craig
- Jeremy Hayward
- Thierry Brinkman
3 goals
- Agustín Mazzilli
- Tom Boon
- Cédric Charlier
- Simon Gougnard
- Marco Miltkau
- Christopher Rühr
- Simranjeet Singh
- Lalit Upadhyay
- Jeroen Hertzberger
- Mink van der Weerden
2 goals
- Lucas Martínez
- Jake Whetton
- Aran Zalewski
- Thomas Briels
- Sébastien Dockier
- Liam Ansell
- Will Calnan
- Mark Gleghorne
- Barry Middleton
- Victor Charlet
- Timothée Clément
- Timm Herzbruch
- Akashdeep Singh
- Harmanpreet Singh
- Shane O'Donoghue
- Razie Rahim
- Thijs van Dam
- Robbert Kemperman
- Valentin Verga
- Kane Russell
- Álvaro Iglesias
1 goal
- Lucas Vila
- Tim Howard
- Trent Mitton
- Eddie Ockenden
- Flynn Ogilvie
- Corey Weyer
- Dylan Wotherspoon
- Félix Denayer
- Loïck Luypaert
- Mark Pearson
- Floris van Son
- Scott Tupper
- Du Talake
- Guo Jin
- Guo Xiaoping
- David Condon
- Harry Martin
- James Gall
- Luke Taylor
- Gaspard Baumgarten
- Aristide Coisne
- Hugo Genestet
- François Goyet
- Dieter Linnekogel
- Mathias Müller
- Lukas Windfeder
- Amit Rohidas
- Chinglensana Singh
- Mandeep Singh
- Chris Cargo
- Alan Sothern
- Nabil Fiqri
- Faizal Saari
- Seve van Ass
- Lars Balk
- Jorrit Croon
- Mirco Pruyser
- Glenn Schuurman
- Bob de Voogd
- Stephen Jenness
- Hayden Phillips
- Muhammad Atiq
- Muhammad Umar Bhutta
- Nqobile Ntuli
- Nicholas Spooner
- Albert Beltrán
- Enrique González
- Josep Romeu
- Viçens Ruiz
Source: FIH