Australia men's national indoor hockey team

The Australia men's national indoor hockey team represents Australia in men's international indoor hockey competitions. They are currently ranked 5th in the world. The governing body is Hockey Australia for both indoor and field hockey in Australia. Australia is part of the Oceania Hockey Federation.

Every four years, Australia competes in the FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup where the best finish has been in 4th position in 2018. The Australian national indoor team is nominated and selected from the indoor Australian Championships

The Australian men's coach is Jonathan Stebbings team captain is Jake Staines

Matthew Hotchkis hold the record for most international caps with 56 and is the current assistant coach.

Australia debut at the 2025 Nkosi Cup winning a silver medal

The next world cup is to be held in 2029 with Oceania qualifiers to be held in June 24, 2028

Australia also competed for the first time at the HRH Sultan Nazrin Shah Men's International Indoor Tournament in 2023. The tournament returns in 2026 with Australia to enter a team.

Australia also sends a junior men's (and women's) development team to the Big Apple International Tournament held in Philadelphia USA. They first sent a team in 2004 and will send a team again in 2026. This in not an FIH recognised tournament and caps are not recorded at international level. This is an important platform to develop the international teams with Jett Leong (SA and TAS) and Annelyse Tevant (QLD) graduating to the international team that competed at the Nkosi Cup both winning silver medals.

World Cup rankings In the first Indoor Hockey World Cup, held in Germany in 2003, the Australian team came 8th in the final standings. Their best placing is 4th, achieved in the 2018 World Cup.

Tournament record

Indoor Hockey World Cup

2003 - 8th 2007 - 8th 2011 - 7th 2015 - 10th 2018 - 4th 2023 – 11th 2025 – 6th

Nkosi Cup

2025 – 2nd 2026 – Qualified

Sultan Nazrin Shah Cup

2023 – 4th

Current squad The current 24-man Australian squad was selected at the completion of the 2024/5 national championships held in Canberra. The team to compete at the 2025 Men's FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup was selected from the extended squad.

Squad for the Nkosi Cup 25

Head coach: Jonathan Stebbings +Shirt #Player NameGoalsCaps1Aiden Dooley16152Luke Randle163Brendan Hill (GK)0175Ryan Pace31210Garry Backhus02214Jake Stains32116Jett Leong121218Ben Rennie (GK)03919Mitchell Pace0623Scott Govers3925Tim Deavon11255Connor Tuddenham212 World Cup Players (not attending Nkosi Cup) Shirt #Player NameGoalsCaps4Thomas Miotto395James Knee152217Joshua Gregory11531Ben Staines912

List of Australian indoor players :Category:Australian male indoor hockey players

See also Kookaburras (hockey) Australia women's national indoor hockey team Men's FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup

References

Australia men's national indoor hockey team

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