Men's FIH Hockey World Cup 2023: Full schedule, Date, Time

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik during his interaction with Indian men`s hockey team, ahead of the FIH Men`s Hockey World Cup 2023.Pic/PTI

The 15th edition of the men's Hockey World Cup will be held from January 13 to 29, in Odisha. The state hosted the last edition as well in 2018.

However, this time, the tournament will be hosted by two cities in the state, Rourkela and Bhubaneswar as the second venue. Hosting the Hockey World Cup for the second time, Odisha is gearing up to witness a gala event that will announce the start of the marquee hockey tournament, in which 15 nations will be taking part.

India is currently ranked at no. 6 as per the International Hockey Federation rankings.

The members of the Indian national squad of men's world cup are: Krishna Bahadur Pathak, Sreejesh Parattu Raveendran, Jarmanpreet Singh, Surendra Kumar, Harmanpreet Singh (Captain), Varun Kumar, Amit Rohidas (Vice-Captain), Neelam Sanjeep, Manpreet Singh, Hardik Singh, Neelkant Sharma, Shamsher Singh, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Akashdeep Singh, Mandeep Singh, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Abhishek and Sukhjit Singh, Rajkumar Pal and Jugraj Singh.

POOLS:

Pool A: Australia, South Africa, France, Argentina

Pool B: Belgium, Japan, Korea, Germany

Pool C: Netherland, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand

Pool D: India, Wales, Spain, England

Match Date Venue Time(IST)

Argentina vs South Africa January 13 Bhubaneswar 1:00 PM

Australia vs France January 13 Bhubaneswar 3:00 PM

England vs Wales January 13 Rourkela 5:00 PM

India vs Spain January 13 Rourkela 7:00 PM

New Zealand vs Chile January 14 Rourkela 1:00 PM

Netherlands vs Malaysia January 14 Rourkela 3:00 PM

Belgium vs Korea January 14 Bhubaneswar 5:00 PM

Germany vs Japan January 14 Bhubaneswar 7:00 PM

Spain vs Wales January 15 Rourkela 5:00 PM

England vs India January 15 Rourkela 7:00 PM

Malaysia vs Chile January 16 Rourkela 1:00 PM

New Zealand vs Netherlands January 16 Rourkela 3:00 PM

France vs South Africa January 16 Bhubaneswar 5:00 PM

Argentina vs Australia January 16 Bhubaneswar 7:00 PM

Korea vs Japan January 17 Bhubaneswar 5:00 PM

Germany vs Belgium January 17 Bhubaneswar 7:00 PM

Malaysia vs New Zealand January 19 Bhubaneswar 1:00 PM

Netherlands vs Chile January 19 Bhubaneswar 3:00 PM

Spain vs England January 19 Bhubaneswar 5:00 PM

India vs Wales January 19 Bhubaneswar 7:00 PM

Australia vs South Africa January 20 Rourkela 1:00 PM

France vs Argentina January 20 Rourkela 3:00 PM

Belgium vs Japan January 20 Rourkela 5:00 PM

Korea vs Germany January 20 Rourkela 7:00 PM