The 2022 Women's FIH Hockey World Cup was the 15th edition of the Women's FIH Hockey World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for women's national field hockey teams organized by the International Hockey Federation. It was held from 1 to 17 July 2022 at the Estadi OlÃÂmpic de Terrassa in Terrassa, Spain and at the Wagener Stadium in Amstelveen, the Netherlands.
Defending champions the Netherlands won the tournament for a record ninth time after defeating Argentina 3âÂÂ1 in the final. Australia won the third place match by defeating Germany 2âÂÂ1.
The International Hockey Federation announced in December 2018 that the 2022 FIH Hockey World Cups will be held either in July 2022 or January 2023. The FIH received the following final five bids for the Women's 2022 World Cup. In November 2019, it was announced that Spain and the Netherlands would host the tournament in July 2022.
For the preferred time window 1âÂÂ17 July 2022:
For the preferred time window 13âÂÂ29 January 2023:
Just as in 2018, 16 teams competed in the tournament. Alongside the hosts, Spain and the Netherlands, the five continental champions received an automatic berth. After the postponement of the 2020 Summer Olympics the quota of places available through continental championships including the World Cup hosts was increased from six to sixteen.
Following is a list of all venues and host cities.
The draw took place on 17 February 2022.
As the hosts, Netherlands and Spain played in their countries until the quarter-final. Therefore, they were allocated in different sides of the pools but in the rows corresponding to their World Ranking. Based on that ranking, Netherlands was positioned as A1 and Spain as C2. The top four teams according to the world ranking and qualified to the event were allocated in the first row as the headers of each pool.
On 29 November 2021, 18 umpires were appointed by the FIH for this tournament.
The match schedule was announced on 3 December 2020.
All times are local (UTC+2).
The awards were announced on 17 July 2022.