2014 Hockey World Cup Days 1+2

The men's and women's tournaments are split in to two pools of six.

Australia are ranked No.1 in the world in the men's game and are the 2010 World Cup holders. Germany and the Netherlands are ranked third and fourth with England the fourth best in the world.

MEN POOL A
Australia, Belgium, England, Malaysia, Spain and India.

MEN POOL B
Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand, Korea, Argentina and South Africa.

Argentina are ranked second and won the cup from top seed the Netherlands in 2010, with third-ranked England beating Germany to third spot. Australia and New Zealand aren't many points behind England in fourth and fifth in the world's best.

WOMEN POOL A
Australia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Korea, Japan and Belgium.

WOMEN POOL B
England, Argentina, Germany, China, USA and South Africa.

FIXTURES
Pool teams play each other once. The winner of the Pool A will play the runner-up of Pool B and vice versa in the semi-finals.

Remaining teams play-off for final positions, for example, sixth place in both groups will play to determine who finished 11th and 12th respectively.

GAMES
- Each game is made up of two 35 minute halves with a ten minute interval at half-time.

- Teams can make as many substitutions as they wish but not during penalty corners or pending video referral decisions.

- If scores are level at full-time in knock-out stage games outcome will be decided by a penalty shoot-out.

Saturday 31 May

Group A
09:30 Men, Australia 4-0 Malaysia
12:00 Women, New Zealand 4-3 Belgium
13:30 Women, Australia 3-2 South Korea
15:00 Men, Belgium 2-2 India
16:30 Men, England 1-1 Spain
18:45 Netherlands 6-1 Japan

Sunday 1 June

Group B
09:30 Men, Germany 4-0 South Africa 
12:00 Women, England 1-2 United States
13:30 Women, Germany 1-1 China
15:00 Men, Netherlands 3-1 Argentina
16:30 Men, New Zealand 2-1 South Korea
18:45 Women, Argentina 4-1 South Africa