Tournament: | 2021 Women's Asian Champions Trophy |
Other Titles: | Donghae Women's Asian Champions Trophy 2021 |
Country: | South Korea |
City: | Donghae |
Dates: | 5–11 December |
Venues: | Donghae City Sunrise Stadium |
Teams: | 4 |
Confederations: | 1 |
Count: | 2 |
Matches: | 9 |
Goals: | 50 |
Top Scorer: | Gurjit Kaur |
Top Scorer Goals: | 5 |
Best Player: | Cheon Eun-bi |
Goalkeeper: | Siraya Yimkrajang |
Young Player: | Kim Seo-na |
Previous Year: | 2018 |
Previous Tournament: | 2018 Women's Asian Champions Trophy |
Next Year: | 2023 |
Next Tournament: | 2023 Women's Asian Champions Trophy |
The 2021 Women's Asian Champions Trophy was the sixth edition of the Women's Asian Champions Trophy, a biennial field hockey tournament for the six best Asian women's national teams organized by the Asian Hockey Federation.
The tournament was held at the Donghae City Sunrise Stadium in Donghae, South Korea and it was originally scheduled from 14 to 21 June 2020.[1] South Korea were the defending champions.[1]
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the tournament was postponed on 26 March 2020.[2] In September 2020 the new dates were announced and the tournament would be held from 31 March to 6 April 2021.[3] In January 2021 the tournament was postponed again [4] and in October was postponed further to 5 to 12 December 2021.[5]
The following four teams will be participating in the tournament. Malaysia could not play their first two matches of the tournament and eventually had to withdraw due to Covid-related issues.[6] [7] On 9 December India also had to withdraw from the tournament due to the same reason.[8]
Team | Appearance | Last appearance | Previous best performance | |
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6th | 2018 | 2nd (2011, 2016) | ||
6th | 2018 | 1st (2013) | ||
5th | 2018 | 1st (2010, 2011, 2018) | ||
Thailand | 1st | None | Debut |
All times are local, KST (UTC+9).
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