Lausanne, Switzerland: From 26 November to 4 December 2024, the best junior Asian men’s hockey teams will compete in the Muscat, Oman in the Men’s Junior Asia Cup 2024, with six spots up for grabs in the upcoming FIH Junior Hockey Men’s World Cup 2025, to be played in India, with an expanded competition format that will feature 24 teams for the very first time!
The ten participating teams have been split into two pools, with Pool A comprising Chinese Taipei, India, Japan, Korea and Thailand. In Pool B hosts Oman will be joined by Bangladesh, China, Malaysia and Pakistan.
Each team in the pool stage will play the other four teams in their pool once. The top two teams in both pools will qualify for the semi-finals, while the teams in third and fourth positions will compete for the 5-8 place classification. The teams finishing in the fifth place in both pools will go head-to-head to avoid finishing in the tenth place.
The losing semi-finalists will play in the bronze medal match, with the two finalists and the bronze medalists qualifying for the FIH Junior Hockey World Cup 2025. India, as hosts, have already qualified for the World Cup, so if they finish within the top-6 positions in the event, then the 7th placed team will also secure entry into the World Cup.
The FIH Junior Hockey Men’s World Cup 2025 will be played in India. As hosts India have already qualified for the competition. Belgium, England, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Austria and Switzerland have qualified from Europe. Argentina, Canada and Chile have qualified from the Americas. Following the six qualifiers from Junior Asia Cup, three more teams from Oceania and Africa (each) will qualify for the World Cup to complete the qualification process over the next few months.
For more details about the event, click here.
-FIH
