2021 Women's Asian Champions Trophy Explained

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]

Teams

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]

TeamAppearanceLast appearancePrevious best performance
6th20182nd (2011, 2016)
6th20181st (2013)
5th20181st (2010, 2011, 2018)
Thailand1stNoneDebut
Notes

Results

All times are local, KST (UTC+9).

First round

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Classification round

Final

Statistics

Goalscorers

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ikram . Ali . AHF 2020 Road map . asiahockey.org . . 4 February 2020 . 3 February 2020.
  2. Web site: Announcement: Postponement of the Bangabandhu Al-Arafah Islami Bank Junior Asia Cup Dhaka 2020 & the Women's Asian Champions Trophy Donghae 2020 . asiahockey.org . . 26 March 2020 . 25 March 2020.
  3. Web site: AHF Announces Dates for 6th Edition of Women's Asian Champions Trophy Donghae 2020. (Dates Approved by FIH) . asiahockey.org . . 17 September 2020.
  4. Web site: Men's Asian Champions Trophy Dhaka 2021 & Women's Donghae Asian Champions Trophy 2021 to be postponed . asiahockey.org . . 22 January 2021.
  5. Web site: Women's Asian Champions Trophy 2021 hockey to start in December. 2021-10-21. Olympics.com.
  6. Web site: Schedule Updated – Donghae Women's Asian Champions Trophy . asiahockey.org . . 7 December 2021.
  7. Web site: Update: Donghae Women's Asian Champions Trophy . asiahockey.org . . 5 December 2021.
  8. Web site: Indian women's hockey team's ACT campaign ends due to COVID case in squad . indiatimes.com . . 10 December 2021 . 9 December 2021.