The 2018–19 Men's Hockey Series was the inaugural season of the Hockey Series, a field hockey championship for men's national teams. The tournament started in June 2018 and finished in June 2019.
Format The Hockey Series was open to all 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 featured eight regional events with up to six teams each. Fifteen teams qualified from the Hockey Series Open to the FIH 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).Hockey Series Q&A
The top two placed teams in each of the Finals events qualified for the 2019 FIH Olympic Qualifiers.Olympic qualification system In this qualification event, they were joined by the top four placed teams from the Pro League, and the four highest ranked teams not already qualified. The teams will be drawn and play a two-legged tie to determine seven qualified nations for the Olympic Games.
Schedule Hockey Series Open
DatesLocationTeamsHockey Series FinalsquotasHockey Series Finalsqualifier(s)5–10 June 2018Salamanca, Mexico223 June – 1 July 2018Singapore125–30 June 2018Zagreb, Croatia 215–18 August 2018Port Vila, Vanuatu028 August – 2 September 2018Gniezno, Poland24–9 September 2018Lousada, Portugal218–23 September 2018Santiago, Chile225–30 September 2018Lahore, Pakistan0Cancelled7–9 December 2018Bulawayo, Zimbabwe117–22 December 2018Lahore, Pakistan121 January 2019Appointed by the FIH2Total15
FIH Series Finals
The pools and venues were announced on 23 October 2018 with three teams still to qualify. The final pools were confirmed on 21 January 2019.
DatesLocationTeams QualifiedOlympic QualifierQuotasOlympic QualifierQualifiersBy RankingFrom HockeySeries Open26 April – 4 May 2019Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia26–16 June 2019Bhubaneswar, India215–23 June 2019Le Touquet, France2Total6
See also 2018–19 Women's Hockey Series 2019 Men's FIH Pro League
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