The 2021–22 Men's FIH Pro League was the third edition of the Men's FIH Pro League, a field hockey championship for men's national teams. The tournament started on 16 October 2021 and finished on 26 June 2022.[1]
| Dates | 16 October 2021 – 26 June 2022 | ||
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| Teams | 9 (from 4 confederations) | ||
| Final positions | |||
| Champions |  Netherlands (1st title) | ||
| Runner-up |  Belgium | ||
| Third place |  India | ||
| Tournament statistics | |||
| Matches played | 72 | ||
| Goals scored | 376 (5.22 per match) | ||
| Top scorer(s) | Harmanpreet Singh (18 goals) | ||
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Format edit
The home and away principle was kept but this principle was split over two consecutive seasons and worked according to the following example:[2]
- in previous season 2020–21, Team A hosted Team B twice within a couple of days.
- in current season 2021–22, Team B hosted Team A twice within a couple of days.
If one of the two matches played between two teams was cancelled, the winner of the other match would have received double points.
Teams edit
Originally, nine teams were scheduled to compete in a round-robin tournament, being played from October 2021 to June 2022. On 17 September 2021, both New Zealand and Australia withdrew due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the travel restrictions coming with it.[3][4] Canada and South Africa joined on 8 December 2021.[5][6] On 17 January 2022, Canada withdrew due to the COVID-19 Omicron variant and the travel restrictions coming with it, six weeks after being named New Zealand substitute.[7] France was announced as Canada's substitute on 25 January 2022.[8][9]
Squads edit
Results edit
Standings edit
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | SOW | SOL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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| 1 | Netherlands (C)
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16 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 61 | 28 | +33 | 42 |
| 2 | Belgium
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16 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 52 | 25 | +27 | 35 |
| 3 | India
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16 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 62 | 40 | +22 | 30 |
| 4 |  Germany
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16 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 40 | 36 | +4 | 28 |
| 5 |  Argentina
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16 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 31 | 35 | −4 | 25 |
| 6 |  England
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16 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 40 | 41 | −1 | 24 |
| 7 |  Spain
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16 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 36 | 43 | −7 | 18 |
| 8 |  France[a]
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16 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 31 | 46 | −15 | 13 |
| 9 |  South Africa[a]
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16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 23 | 82 | −59 | 1 |
Source: FIH
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result; 6) field goals scored.[10]
(C) Champion
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result; 6) field goals scored.[10]
(C) Champion
Fixtures edit
All times are local.
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Goalscorers edit
There were 376 goals scored in 73 matches, for an average of 5.15 goals per match.
18 goals
12 goals
10 goals
9 goals
8 goals
7 goals
6 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
Maico Casella- Tomas Domene
- Martín Ferreiro
- Lautaro Ferrero
Tanguy Cosyns
Will Calnan- David Goodfield
Malte Hellwig- Niklas Wellen
Dilpreet Singh- Varun Kumar
- Shilanand Lakra
Jorrit Croon- Terrance Pieters
- Derck de Vilder
Matthew Guise-Brown- Nqobile Ntuli
José Basterra- Pau Cunill
- Álvaro Iglesias
- Ignacio Rodríguez
2 goals
- Nicolás Della Torre
- Nicolás Keenan
- Tobias Martins
- Lucas Martínez
- Federico Monja
- Florent Van Aubel
- John-John Dohmen
- Nelson Onana
- Arthur De Sloover
- Chris Griffiths
- Matthew Ramshaw
- Stuart Rushmere
- Duncan Scott
Charles Masson- Blaise Rogeau
- Etienne Tynevez
- Niklas Bosserhoff
- Mats Grambusch
- Marco Miltkau
- Gursahibjit Singh
- Jarmanpreet Singh
- Sukhjeet Singh
- Jonas de Geus
- Jaïr van der Horst
- Tijmen Reyenga
- Floris Wortelboer
- Daniel Bell
- Keenan Horne
- Taine Paton
- Borja Lacalle
- Joaquín Menini
- Marc Recasens
1 goal
- Nicolás Acosta
- Franco Agostini
- Agustín Bugallo
- Federico Fernández
- Thomas Habif
- Matías Rey
- Facundo Sarto
- Santiago Tarazona
- Lucas Toscani
- William Ghislain
- Simon Gougnard
- Loïck Luypaert
- Thibeau Stockbroekx
- James Albery
- James Oates
- Liam Sanford
- Zachary Wallace
- Amaury Bellenger
- Maximilien Branicki
- Stanislas Branicki
- Eliot Curty
- Antonin Igau
- Viktor Lockwood
- Anton Boeckel
- Luis Gill
- Raphael Hartkopf
- Timm Herzbruch
- Paul-Philipp Kaufmann
- Moritz Ludwig
- Hannes Müller
- Christopher Rühr
- Mario Schachner
- Constantin Staib
- Moritz Trompertz
- Justus Weigand
- Lukas Windfeder
- Surender Kumar
- Akashdeep Singh
- Gurjant Singh
- Hardik Singh
- Manpreet Singh
- Sumit
- Bram van Battum
- Jasper Brinkman
- Jelle Galema
- Steijn van Heijningen
- Joep de Mol
- Dayaan Cassiem
- Mustaphaa Cassiem
- Jethro Eustice
- Le-Neal Jackson
- Richard Pautz
- Matthew de Sousa
- Alejandro Alonso
- Jordi Bonastre
- Gerard Clapés
- Pepe Cunill
- Alejandro Davila
- Xavier Gispert
- Eduard de Ignacio-Simó
- Marc Reyné
- Antonio Sanz
- Ricardo Sánchez
- Joan Tarrés
Source: FIH
See also edit
Notes edit
- ^ a b France and South Africa were both invited after Australia and New Zealand withdrew from the competition due to COVID-19 related issues. New Zealand was initially replaced by Canada, however they withdrew after six weeks, being substituted by France.
References edit
- ^ "FIH Hockey Pro League 2021–2022: Match schedule confirmed". FIH. 30 April 2021. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
- ^ "Executive Board approves 2020 and 2021 FIH Pro League match schedule principles". fih.ch. International Hockey Federation. 16 April 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
- ^ "Hockey Australia announces absence from FIH tournaments". hockey.org.au. 17 September 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
- ^ "Hockey New Zealand unable to participate in FIH events in late". hockeynz.co.nz. 17 September 2021. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
- ^ "South Africa and Canada to join Men's FIH Hockey Pro League". fih.ch. 8 December 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
- ^ Butler, Lynn. "South Africa temporary joins Men's Hockey Pro League". News24.
- ^ "Field Hockey Canada Statement Regarding Pro League". 17 January 2022. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
- ^ "France to join Men's FIH Hockey Pro League". fih.ch. International Hockey Federation. 25 January 2022. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
- ^ "Frankrijk nieuwe tegenstander Oranje in Pro League". hockey.nl (in Dutch). 25 January 2022. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
- ^ "FIH Pro League Regulations Season 3" (PDF). fih.ch. International Hockey Federation. October 2021.
- ^ "Pro League: Deutsche Hockey-Nationalmannschaft der Herren reist nicht nach Indien". knhb.nl. 12 March 2022. Retrieved 12 March 2022.