Field hockey at the 2018 Asian Games – Men's tournament explained

Tournament:	Men's field hockey tournament at the 2018 Asian Games
Size:	120px
Country:	Indonesia
City:	Jakarta
Dates:	20 August – 1 September
Venues:	Gelora Bung Karno Hockey Field
Teams:	12
Confederations:	1
Count:	1
Matches:	37
Goals:	302
Top Scorer:	Jang Jong-hyun
Top Scorer Goals:	15
Previous Year:	2014
Previous Tournament:	Field hockey at the 2014 Asian Games – Men's tournament
Next Year:	2022
Next Tournament:	Field hockey at the 2022 Asian Games – Men's tournament

The men's field hockey tournament at the 2018 Asian Games was held at the Gelora Bung Karno Hockey Field, Jakarta, Indonesia, from 20 August to 1 September 2018.^[1]

Competition schedule

P	Preliminary round	½	Semi-finals	B	Bronze medal match	F	Gold medal match

Mon 20	Tue 21	Wed 22	Thu 23	Fri 24	Sat 25	Sun 26	Mon 27	Tue 28	Wed 29	Thu 30	Fri 31	Sat 1
P		P		P		P		P		½		B	F

Qualification

Event	Dates	Location	Quotas	Qualifier(s)
Host	19 September 2014	nowrap	Incheon	1	nowrap
Qualified automatically via 2014 Asian Games	20 September – 2 October 2014	nowrap	Incheon	5	nowrap
Asian Games Qualifiers	8–17 March 2018	Muscat	4	nowrap
Reallocation			2	nowrap
Total			12

Squads

See main article: Field hockey at the 2018 Asian Games – Men's team squads.

Pools composition

Teams were seeded following the serpentine system according to their FIH World Ranking as of July 2018.^[2]

width=25%	Pool A	width=25%	Pool B
(5)	(12)
(14)	(13)
(16)	(31)
(38)	(33)
(45)	(47)
(–)	(86)

Preliminary round

All times are local Indonesia Western Standard Time (UTC+7).

Pool A

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Pool B

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Final round

Classification round

Eleventh place game

Ninth place game

Seventh place game

Fifth place game

Medal round

Semi-finals

Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Statistics

Final standings

Rank	Team



4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12

Qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics as hosts

Goalscorers

Notes and References

Web site: 18th Asian Games Jakarta Palembang 2018 – Men's and Women's Hockey Competitions – Match Schedule. Asian Hockey Federation. 17 July 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180717041640/http://www.asiahockey.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/18th-Asian-Games-Jakarta-Palembang-2018-Match-Schedule-final.pdf. 17 July 2018. dead.
Web site: FIH Rankings – Senior – Men. FIH. 4 July 2018. 17 July 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180920100418/http://www.fih.ch/media/12944553/fih-hero-world-rankings-july-2018-men.pdf. 20 September 2018. dead.