Junior Women's Hockey World Cup

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For other hockey World Cups, see World Cup (hockey).

The Junior Women's Hockey World Cup, is an international field hockey competition organised by the International Hockey Federation (FIH). The tournament has an age restriction of Under 21 as at December 31st the year before the tournament. The tournament was started in 1989. It is held every four years.

The 2009 tournament will be held at Harvard University, Boston, United States.^[1]

1 History
2 Format
- 2.1 Qualification
- 2.2 Final tournament
3 Results
- 3.1 Summaries
- 3.2 Successful national teams
4 References
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] History

The FIH decided that the inaugural Junior World Cup would be held in 1989. After which the tournament would be held every 4 years.

In the 5 tournaments so far there have been 4 different winners, with Korea the most successful with 2 titles.

[edit] Format

The Hockey World Cup consists of a qualification stage and a final tournament stage. The format for each stage is the same.

[edit] Qualification

The qualification stage has been adapted in March 2006. The tournament will consist of 16 teams. Each continent shall be represented by one of its teams.

Quotas as follow:

Africa:2
Asia: 3
Europe: 6
Oceania: 2
Americas: 3

[edit] Final tournament

The final tournament features the continental champions and other qualified teams. The teams divide into pools once more and play a round robin tournament. The composition of the pools is determined using the current world rankings.

Pool Stage

Each team will play every other team in its Pool once (three matches), before the top three progress to the next phase. The fourth-placed teams in each Pool will play off for 13th-16th position.

At this stage, the four Pools will combine to form two Groups of six. Teams will take forward the points earned against the other qualified teams from their Pool and then play the remaining teams not from their original Pool to complete five preliminary round matches.

Knockout Stage

The top two teams in each six-team Group at the end of this phase of the competition will progress to the semi-finals. The winners of the semi finals will contest the final.

[edit] Results

[edit] Summaries

Year	Host	Final			Third Place
Year	Host	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third Place	Score	Fourth Place
1989	Ottawa, Canada	West Germany		Korea	Soviet Union		Netherlands
1993	Terrassa, Spain	Argentina		Australia	Germany		Korea
1997	Seongnam, South Korea	Netherlands	2–0	Australia	Argentina	3–1	Germany
2001	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Korea	2–2 (4–3) on penalties	Argentina	Australia	2–0	Netherlands
2005	Santiago, Chile	Korea	1–0	Germany	Netherlands	2–1	Australia
2009	Boston, United States

[edit] Successful national teams

Team	Titles	Runners-up	Third-place	Fourth-place
Korea	2 (2001, 2005)	1 (1989)		1 (1993)
Germany#	1 (1989)	1 (2005)	1 (1993)	1 (1997)
Argentina	1 (1993)	1 (2001*)	1 (1997)
Netherlands	1 (1997)		1 (2005)	2 (1989, 2001)
Australia		2 (1993, 1997)	1 (2001)	1 (2005)
Soviet Union			1 (1989)