- Match schedules for ladies’s and males’s hockey at Birmingham 2022 unveiled
- England’s males’s and girls’s groups will each face Ghana of their opening match and have group video games in opposition to India, Canada and Wales
- Reigning males’s champions, Australia, will face New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan and Scotland within the group stage
- Reigning girls’s champions, New Zealand, face Australia, Kenya, Scotland and South Africa of their group
Following the Worldwide Hockey Federation’s (FIH) affirmation final week of the groups collaborating within the competitors, Birmingham 2022 has unveiled the total match schedule for the boys’s and girls’s tournaments.
Each the ladies’s and the boys’s competitions will start on Friday 29 July, with the opening session of the ladies’s event that includes reigning champions New Zealand in opposition to Kenya and South Africa taking part in Scotland. Hosts, England, will face Ghana within the first match of the boys’s competitors with New Zealand dealing with Scotland in the identical session.
There can be a house nations conflict on 31 July, when England’s males’s crew takes on Wales and each England groups, who every gained bronze medals on the Gold Coast in 2018, can be taking up India within the group phases, with the boys’s crew dealing with them on 1 August and the England girls’s match in opposition to India going down the next day.
The boys’s reigning champions, Australia, will tackle Scotland of their opening match and can then face New Zealand on 1 August – a repeat of the Gold Coast 2018 males’s hockey closing.
The ultimate of the ladies’s occasion can be held on Sunday 7 August and can be a part of an excellent Sunday for ladies’s sport on the Video games, with the ultimate of the netball event and the ultimate of the primary ever Commonwealth Video games girls’s cricket T20 event being held on the identical day.
The boys’s closing can be performed on Monday 8 August, only a few hours earlier than the Closing Ceremony.
It’s going to be an thrilling event with a powerful line-up of groups
MATT KIDSON, DIRECTOR OF SPORT AT BIRMINGHAM 2022
There can be 54 hockey matches in complete, with 40 group video games, six classification matches, 4 semi-finals, 4 medal matches and all of those matches can be performed on the College of Birmingham, the official competitors venue for hockey on the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Video games.
The 20 hockey groups collaborating within the Video games will even use the College of Birmingham’s world-class hockey amenities for coaching till competitors will get underway after which the groups will have the ability to make use of the newly upgraded pitch at Wyndley Leisure Centre in Sutton Coldfield for coaching.
Matt Kidson, Director of Sport for Birmingham 2022, stated: “We’re excited to be unveiling the official hockey match schedule right this moment because it brings us one other step nearer to the beginning of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Video games. It’s going to be an thrilling event with a powerful line-up of groups, that includes the entire medallists from the final version of the Commonwealth Video games.
“Tickets have already been promoting properly for hockey and now the group matches have been revealed, we anticipate to see an upsurge in gross sales to hockey followers who’ve been eagerly awaiting the discharge of this schedule.”
FIH CEO, Thierry Weil, stated: “After the reveal of the taking part groups final week, the publication of the match schedule is one other actually vital milestone on the highway to the upcoming Commonwealth Video games! On behalf of FIH, I encourage all followers to purchase tickets early to verify they are going to attend the matches from the sumptuous Birmingham 2022 venue!”
In complete there are 28 classes of hockey and tickets have been promoting quick. Classes for the group phases embody two matches and tickets begin at simply £8 for beneath 16s and £15 for adults.
Hockey Match Schedules
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