2010 Men's Hockey World Cup

Background

India's hosting of the event was put in doubt when the FIH reviewed the progress of the Indian Hockey Federation's "Promoting Indian Hockey" program and India's preparation for the championship, and warned that "satisfactory progress had not been made in either area". India was warned it could lose the right to host the World Cup unless satisfactory progress was made. It was confirmed on 18 July 2008 that the International Hockey Federation formally awarded the hosting rights to India.

Qualification

Each of the continental champions from five confederations and the host nation received an automatic berth. The European confederation received three extra quotas based upon the FIH World Rankings at the completion of the 2008 Summer Olympics. In addition to the three winners of each of the three Qualifiers, the following twelve teams, shown with final pre-tournament rankings, competed in this tournament.

Competition format

Twelve teams competed in the tournament with the competition consisting of two rounds. In the first round, teams were divided into two pools of six teams, and play followed round robin format with each of the teams playing all other teams in the pool once. Teams were awarded three points for a win, one point for a draw and zero points for a loss. At the end of the pool matches, teams were ranked in their pool according to the following criteria in order:

• Total points accumulated
• Number of matches won
• Goal difference
• Goals for
• The result of the match played between the teams in question

Following the completion of the pool games, teams placing first and second in each pool advanced to a single elimination round consisting of two semifinal games, a third place playoff and a final. Remaining teams competed in classification matches to determine their ranking in the tournament. During these matches, extra time of 7½ minutes per half was to be played if teams were tied at the end of regulation time. During extra time, play followed golden goal rules with the first team to score declared the winner. If no goals were scored during extra time, a penalty stroke competition was to take place.

Umpires

16 umpires were appointed by the FIH for this tournament. During each match, a video umpire was used to assist the on-field umpires in determining if a goal had been legally scored. The FIH also mandated that on a trial basis during the tournament, each team received the right to refer one decision made by an on-field umpire to the video umpire for assessment. Referrals were only permitted for decisions made within the 23 meter area relating to the award (or non-award) of goals, penalty strokes, and penalty corners. In the event that the referral was upheld, the referring team retained a right of further referral.

• Christian Blasch (GER)
• Ged Curran (SCO)
• David Gentles (AUS)
• Colin Hutchinson (IRL)
• Hamish Jamson (ENG)
• Kim Hong-lae (KOR)
• Satinder Kumar (IND)
• Andy Mair (SCO)
• Raghu Prasad (IND)
• Tim Pullman (AUS)
• Marcelo Servetto (ESP)
• Gary Simmonds (RSA)
• Amarjit Singh (MAS)
• Simon Taylor (NZL)
• Roel van Eert (NED)
• John Wright (RSA)

Squads

Preliminary round

All times are Indian Standard Time (UTC+05:30)

Pool A

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Pool B

Fifth to twelfth place classification

Eleventh and twelfth place

Ninth and tenth place

Seventh and eighth place

Fifth and sixth place

First to fourth place classification

Bracket

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Semi-finals

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Third and fourth place

Final

Statistics

Final standings

group stage

Awards

Goalscorers

• Luke Doerner

• Ashley Jackson

• Taeke Taekema

• Glenn Turner

• Lucas Vila

• Desmond Abbott

• Jamie Dwyer

• Florian Fuchs

• Sandeep Singh

• Andrew Hayward

• Nam Hyun-Woo

• Lee Nam-Yong

• Pau Quemada

• Facundo Callioni

• Phillip Wright

• James Tindall

• Martin Häner

• Jan-Marco Montag

• Shivendra Singh

• Ronald Brouwer

• Rogier Hofman

• Rehan Butt

• Marvin Harper

• Lloyd Norris-Jones

• Jang Jong-Hyun

• Pol Amat

• Tomás Argento

• Matías Paredes

• Mark Pearson

• Scott Tupper

• Jonathan Clarke

• Richard Mantell

• Barry Middleton

• Moritz Fürste

• Oliver Korn

• Benjamin Weß

• Matthias Witthaus

• Martin Zwicker

• Gurwinder Singh Chandi

• Rajpal Singh

• Teun de Nooijer

• Rob Reckers

• Sohail Abbas

• Abdul Haseem Khan

• Ian Haley

• Taine Paton

• Justin Reid-Ross

• You Hyo-Sik

• David Alegre

• Roc Oliva

• Mario Almada

• Pedro Ibarra

• Matthew Butturini

• Fergus Kavanagh

• Edward Ockenden

• Liam de Young

• Connor Grimes

• David Jameson

• Alastair Brogdon

• Nicholas Catlin

• Iain Mackay

• Robert Moore

• Richard Smith

• Linus Butt

• Christoph Menke

• Maximilian Müller

• Philip Witte

• Vikram Pillay

• Diwakar Ram

• Prabhjot Singh

• Sarwanjit Singh

• Jeroen Hertzberger

• Wouter Jolie

• Klaas Vermeulen

• Ryan Archibald

• Priyesh Bhana

• Phil Burrows

• Dean Couzins

• Nicholas Haig

• Hugo Inglis

• Shea McAleese

• Nicholas Wilson

• Shakeel Abbasi

• Waseem Ahmed

• Akhtar Ali

• Muhammad Imran

• Gareth Carr

• Thomas Hammond

• Julian Hykes

• Thornton McDade

• Austin Smith

• Hyun Hye-Sung

• Seo Jong-Ho

• Yoon Sung-Hoon

• Rodrigo Garza

• Albert Sala

• Eduard Tubau

References

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