Junior Hockey World Cup

The Junior 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 31 the year before the tournament. The tournament was started in 1979. It is held every four years.

The 2009 tournament will be co-host by Malaysia and Singapore, with the tournament will be expanded from previous 16 to 20 teams. [cite web|url=http://www.justhockey.com.au/index.php?newsID=3571 |title=2009 Junior Hockey World Cup: Malaysia, Singapore co-host |accessdate=2006-12-06]

History

The FIH decided that the inaugural Junior World Cup would be held in 1979. After which the tournament would be held every three years. The FIH decided to change the Junior Hockey World Cup to every four years, the decision was made to match the timelines of the other major tournaments.

In the 8 tournaments so far there have been six different winners, with Germany the most successful with 4 titles.

Format

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

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: 4
*Europe: 6
*Oceania: 2
*Pan America: 2

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 StageEach 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 thirteenth to sixteenth 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 StageThe 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.

Results

ummaries

uccessful national teams

:* "host":# "include West Germany"

References

ee also

*Hockey World Cup
*Women's Hockey World Cup
*Junior Women's Hockey World Cup

External links

* [http://in.rediff.com/sports/menjwc01.htm Junior Hockey World Cup 2001]
* [http://worldhockey.org/vsite/vcontent/page/custom/0,8510,1181-167319-184537-36063-178039-custom-item,00.html Hockey Junior World Cup 2005]