Following Nice Britain’s loss in opposition to Belgium within the FIH Hockey Professional League match in the present day, Australia have certified for the FIH Hockey Males’s World Cup 2026 to be held in Belgium and Netherlands!
In the beginning of the 2023/24 season of the FIH Hockey Professional League, a brand new incentive was added to the occasion, with the title winners incomes direct qualification to the upcoming FIH Hockey World Cups 2026. As per the principles, within the occasion of Belgium or Netherlands successful both of the lads’s or ladies’s title, the crew ending within the highest place behind them would achieve direct entry. Australia, presently positioned first within the males’s desk with 34 factors, have already accomplished their 16 matches. With Nice Britain dropping factors in the present day, the utmost factors they’ll now obtain is 31, leaving them out of the title competition.
Whereas Netherlands, presently on 26 factors with 4 video games to go of their season, stay within the hunt for the title, Australia are actually assured to complete both as title winners or in second place behind Netherlands, with each situations guaranteeing them a spot within the FIH Hockey Males’s World Cup 2026.
Within the ladies’s FIH Hockey Professional League 2023/24 season, the Dutch ladies’s crew secured the title final night with a win over Germany. Argentina presently stand second within the desk with 34 factors, however Germany, on 28 factors, can eclipse that complete over the approaching days, having 3 video games left to play this season, leaving the qualification battle for the upcoming FIH Hockey Ladies’s World Cup 2026 nonetheless open.
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