Men Hockey World Cup 2018 Bhubaneswar India Update: Pakistan men’s hockey team have become the latest team to qualify for the Hockey Men Hockey World Cup 2018 Bhubaneswar India.
The Green Shirts, currently ranked 14th in the International Hockey Federation (FIH ) world rankings, finished in seventh position in the Hero Hockey World League Semi-final in London, meaning they faced an anxious wait to see if that was good enough to earn them qualification to the blue riband event that takes place in India next year from November 28th to December 16th 2018.
On this occasion Federation of International Hockey tweet via its Twitter account and congratulate the Pakistani hockey team.
Pakistan is the 13th team which has qualified for the Men Hockey World Cup 2018 Bhubaneswar India. There are still three more places left to be filled in.
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The results at the Euro Hockey Championships, which are currently taking place in Amsterdam, have gone very much in favour of Pakistan, with all four of the semi-finalists having already qualified for the World Cup via the Hockey World League route.
Under FIH regulations, the team that wins its continental qualifier automatically qualifies for the Men Hockey World Cup 2018 Bhubaneswar India.
However, the semi-finals of the European continental qualifier will be contested by Germany, England, Netherlands and Belgium, teams that have already achieved World Cup qualification, thanks to top five finishes in the Hockey World League Semi-Finals.
This means that the Men Hockey World Cup 2018 Bhubaneswar India ticket goes to the highest placed finisher from the Hockey World League Semi-Finals that has not already achieved World Cup qualification.
Pakistan are the higher ranked of the two seventh place finishers from the Hockey World League Semi-Final events that took place in London and Johannesburg, with 16th ranked France next in line for that all-important Men Hockey World Cup 2018 Bhubaneswar India ticket.
Pakistan is the only team to have won the World Cup title four times. Nevertheless, Pakistan didn’t make it to the Rabobank Hockey World Cup 2014, which was an unfortunate news, not just for Pakistan but for the world hockey as well.
Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, Germany, Ireland, Malaysia, Netherlands, Spain and New Zealand have already qualified. They have qualified for the World Cup along with the host nation India. The host team automatically qualifies for the event.
The final three men’s World Cup qualification places will be decided by the outcomes of the upcoming Continental Championship events in Oceania (9-15 October 2017), Asia (17-22 October 2017), and Africa (19-29 October 2017).
About Men Hockey World Cup 2018
The 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup will be the 14th edition of the Hockey World Cup field hockey tournament. It is scheduled to be held from November 24 to December 16, 2018, at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, India.
Source: Mehran Post
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