Since 1956 Melbourne Olympics till 2016 Rio Olympics, Malaysian (Men) Hockey Team played in 9 Olympics out of 17 Olympic Games. Very glaring is we failed 5 Olympic Cycles since 2000 Sydney Olympics.
The best period was from 1964 to 1976 where Malaysia played in 4 Olympics in a row (actually 5 but due to boycott for 1980 in Moscow).
As for Malaysian Hockey Olympians, there are a total of 108 members only from 9 Olympics participation & 8 members has passed away.
The Year of Participation:
| MALAYSIAN MEN HOCKEY TEAM AT OLYMPIC | |||||||
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| Year | Placing | ||||||
 1956 | Ninth place | ||||||
 1960 | Did not qualify | ||||||
 1964 | Ninth place | ||||||
 1968 | Fifteenth place | ||||||
 1972 | Eighth place | ||||||
 1976 | Eighth place | ||||||
 1980 | Did not participate | ||||||
 1984 | Eleventh place | ||||||
 1988 | Did not qualify | ||||||
 1992 | Ninth place | ||||||
| 1996 | Eleventh place | ||||||
| 2000 | Eleventh place | ||||||
 2004 | Did not qualify | ||||||
 2008 | Did not qualify | ||||||
 2012 | Did not qualify | ||||||
 2016 | Did not qualify | ||||||
| 2020 |
Did not qualify
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See both the pictures of First & Last...
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| FIRST TIME EVER MALAYSIAN HOCKEY TEAM IN OLYMPICS |
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| LAST TIME EVER MALAYSIAN HOCKEY PLAYED IN OLYMPICS |
The next 2 Olympics Cycle will be in 2024 Paris & 2028 LA. Hope in 2032 it will be in Asia either India or Indonesia to host the Olympics.
A good playing hockey Nation must be consistently playing in Olympics & World Cup levels. Luckily, FIH has expanded the Hockey World Cup & Junior World Cup from 12 teams to 16 teams.
As for Olympics, the quota remains 12 teams. The slots for process of qualification is: Host; 5 Continental Champions & 6 from Olympic Qualification playoff system i.e. 2 matches on Home & Away basis with total Aggregate score of both matches.
The critical issue here is when an Olympic is hosted by a non top playing hockey nation, then the qualification route gets very narrow & never been a good news for Malaysian Hockey Team. Since the next 2 Olympic Cycle is hosted by France & USA, it means only 6 slots are available for grab either than Continental & Host slots.
Based on Assumptions if these are the 5 Continental Champions - Oceania - Australia, Pan Am-Argentina, Europe-Holland, Asia-India & Africa-South Africa.
Then the Challenge for remaining 6 Slots will be between Belgium,Germany, Great Britain, Spain, New Zealand, Malaysia, Japan, Canada, Ireland, South Korea & Pakistan. Very tough route and it will be based on the luck of the draw by FIH.
Due to the above 2 Olympic host slots is taken by non top playing hockey nation, this implication has a major impact for Malaysian hockey to qualify. Hope the caretakers are aware of this circumstances.
The best & easier route for Malaysian Hockey Team is winning the Asian Games, keep in mind, the next 2 Asian games is in 2022 HANGZHOU, CHINA & 2026 NAGOYA, JAPAN.
Currently we have National Teams but without Olympic status...
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Malaysia can qualify only if they can become host nation.Its nothing to do with MHC,Coaches, Technology, Technical,it's up bringing from family,school,state and national have fail. Attitude is taught from house.The house or the family failed.Teachers especially hockey teachers have fail to instill right attitude,this carry's on to state and national team. A star in the national team was bailed out by certain high level MHC official as this star is caught gambling and running away from Along. Next you see a reporter and his coaches during his tenure in the Junior team come into supporting him..All this culprits are the one main failure if our Hockey team.Next you see this star in team..Wow..that's great.MHC at they time have set a bench mark,if you are are star you can do anything and still be in the team.Any one who put their self interest first instead of the nation should be thrown out the team, be it player,coach or even officials.Don 't waste time talking about the best Coach ,best technology and best run association, you will still fail if you don't stop the rot upbringing from the family.Sports school is failure for the team sport.Kindly look at 1980 football team that qualify for Moskow Olympics.the late Mokhtar Dahari was in the team,Soh Chin Aun couldn't get along well with Karl Heinze Weigang.Towkay put difference aside in the name of Nation.It's my personal opinion as an hockey player(not national level) along and some of Malaysian great players R Shankar,Nor Shaful Zaini, Mohd Abdul Hadi,Ahmad Fadzil,Beng Hai,Mirnawan,Maninderjit,Sarjit,Gary and many more greats. Our present national team no where compare to them.Good luck Malaysian Hockey
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