Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament


The women's field hockey tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics will be the eleventh edition of the field hockey event for women at the Summer Olympic Games. It will be held from 24 July to 6 August 2021. All games will be played at the Oi Hockey Stadium in Tokyo, Japan.
It was originally scheduled to be held from 25 July to 7 August 2020, but on 24 March 2020, the Olympics were postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Competition schedule

Competition format

The twelve teams in the tournament will be divided into two groups of six, with each team initially playing round-robin games within their group. Following the completion of the round-robin stage, the top four teams from each group advance to the quarter-finals. The two semi-final winners meet for the gold medal match, while the semi-final losers play in the bronze medal match.

Qualification

Each of the Continental Champions from five confederations received an automatic berth. Japan as the host nation qualified automatically. The other teams qualified through the 2019 Women's FIH Olympic Qualifiers.

Umpires

On 11 September 2019, 14 umpires were appointed by the FIH.
The pools were announced on 23 November 2019.
All times are local.

Group A






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Group B








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Knockout stage

Bracket

Quarter-finals



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Semi-finals



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Bronze medal match


Gold medal match