The Groupings:
Men’s Hockey World Cup 2023
Group A: Australia, Argentina,
France, South Africa
Group B: Belgium, Germany, South
Korea, Japan
Group C: Netherlands, New
Zealand, Malaysia, Chile
Group D: India, England, Spain,
Wales
Format
As mentioned, 16 teams are
divided into pools of four. The single round-robin format will decide the
standings. Also, Toppers from each pool will directly go through to the
Quarterfinal. While the remaining four teams will be decided through
Crossovers. The rest will go on, as usual, i.e., quarterfinals, then
semifinals, and finally the final. There will be classifications going on
further down which will decide the exact position a team finishes the
tournament.
Rules for pool classifications based
on new tie-breaker rules.
Before moving to the knockouts,
one should understand a complicated term called “Crossovers”. Crossovers can be
seen as the pre-quarterfinals, except half the teams for the next round are
already decided. This is something one can only see in Hockey. The second and
third teams from each pool will form the four crossover fixtures. January 22
will see C2 vs D3 (Crossover 1) and C3 vs D2 (Crossover 2) while the next day
will see A2 vs B3 (Crossover 3) and B2 vs A3 (Crossover 4). Crossover fixtures
are abbreviated as C1, C2 etc.
The first quarterfinal will be
played between A1 vs Winner C1. The second will be played between B1 vs winner
C2 and so on. The winner of the first and fourth and second and third
quarterfinals will face each other in the semifinal on January 27 at Kalinga
Stadium.
The final and third-place
encounters will take place on January 29 at the same venue.
Deciding rest positions
Fourth-placed teams of each pool
and losers of each crossover will form M33-M36. The matchups will be like A4 vs
Loser C1, B4 vs Loser C2 and so on. Losers of each of these games will face a
one-off (L-M33 vs L-M34, L-M35 vs L-M36) to form the 13th-16th place
classification. While the winners will face one-off to form the 9th-12th place
classification. The order for that will be decided by the scoreline and margin
of the result.
As for full event schedule kindly click the following link to see the standings, official scores etc.
https://www.fih.hockey/events/world-cup/men/fih-odisha-hockey-mens-world-cup-2023-bhubaneswar---rourkela-1389
Thanking you.
Maninderjit Singh (Mike)
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