(Hoceky news) From 28 June to 1 July, the best women’s Hockey5s teams from Europe will gather in Walcz, Poland for the EuroHockey5s Championship 2023, and the top three spots in the championship will be qualified for the inaugural FIH Hockey5s Women’s World Cup Oman 2024.

A total of 10 teams will be in action at the championship, which will further split into two pools of 5 teams in the initial round. Georgia, Poland, Switzerland, Turkey, and Wales are placed in Pool A, whereas Austria Netherlands, Slovakia, Sweden, and Ukraine will compete in Pool B. The competition gets a start on 28 June at 10 am local time Central Europian Summer Time (CEST) with Ukraine taking on Sweden in the Pool A encounter.  

Each team in the pool stage will face the other teams in their pool once. The top two teams in both pools will qualify for the semi-finals. Teams placed third and fourth in the pool stage will compete in 5-8 place classification while the bottom-placed teams in both pools will fight for 9th place. Following the semi-finals, the losing teams will play in the bronze medal match. The two finalists and the bronze medalist will qualify for the FIH Hockey5s Women’s World Cup 2024. 

The inaugural edition of the FIH Hockey5s World Cup 2024 will be played in Muscat, Oman from 24-31 January 2024, with 16 teams competing in both men’s and women’s tournaments. In the men’s competition Netherlands, Poland, and Switzerland from Europe, and Egypt, Kenya, and Nigeria from Africa have qualified for the World Cup. USA, Trinidad & Tobago, and Jamaica have qualified from the Americas alongside hosts Oman. 

In the women’s competition Namibia, South Africa, and Zambia from Africa and USA, Uruguay, and Paraguay from the Americas have qualified for the World Cup, alongside hosts Oman. Apart from the three qualifiers from Europe, three more teams from Oceania and Asia will also qualify for the World Cup.

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