News reports in Malaysia before and after we had defeated Poland to finish 5th at the Champions Challenge I indicated that we had secured a place in the next Champions Challenge I in 2012.
However looking at the criteria, it is obvious that reports were misleading.
Read on and understand better...
Qualification Criteria for Champions Trophy and Champions Challenges 2012
Champions Trophy (8 teams)
The teams qualified for the FIH Champions Trophy 2012 will be as follows
T1 The host
T2 The teams placed 1st – 5th in the FIH Champions Trophy 2011
T3 The winners of the FIH Champions Challenge 1 2011
T4 One or two places to be nominated by the FIH Executive Board
Champions Challenge 1 (8 teams)
The teams qualified for the FIH Champions Challenge 1 2012 will be as follows
C1.1 The host
C1.2 The teams placed 6th – 8th in the FIH Champions Trophy 2011
C1.3 The winners of the FIH Champions Challenge 2
C1.4 The teams that finish 2nd – 4th in the FIH Champions Challenge 1 2011
C1.5 Should the host qualify by virtue of criteria C1.2, C1.3 or C1.4 above, the additional place will be allocated to the team that finished 5th in the FIH Champions Challenge 1 2011.
C1.6 Should a team(s) qualify for the FIH Champions Trophy 2012 under T1 or T4 above and having finished 6th, 7th or 8th at the FIH Champions Trophy 2011, the additional place(s) in Champions Challenge 1will be allocated to the team(s) that finished 5th (in the case of one Executive board nomination) or 5th and 6th in the case of two Executive Board nominations. If that/those team(s) qualifies under C1.1 above, the additional place(s) will be allocated to the team(s) that finished 6th or/and 7th respectively in the FIH Champions Challenge 1 in 2011.
Champions Challenge 2 (8 teams)
The teams qualified for the FIH Champions Challenge 2 2012 will be as follows
C2.1 The host
C2.2 The teams placed 5th – 8th in the FIH Champions Challenge 1 2011
C2.3 The team that finishes 2nd in the FIH Champions Challenge 2 2011.
C2.4 The 2 highest ranked teams in the FIH World Ranking at the completion of the 2011 Champions Trophy and Champions Challenge tournaments that did not play in any of those tournaments in 2011.
C2.5 Should the host qualify by virtue of criteria C2.2, C2.3 or C2.4 above, the additional place will be allocated to the team that finished 3rd in the FIH Champions Challenge 2 2011.
C2.6 Should a team(s) qualify for the FIH Champions Trophy 2012 under T1 or T4 above and having finished 6th, 7th or 8th at the FIH Champions Trophy 2011, with the consequent allocation of additional places to the FIH Champions Challenge 1 2012 under C1.6 above, those additional place(s) will be allocated to the team(s) that finished 3rd (in the case of one Executive Board nomination) or 3rd and 4th (in the case of two Executive Board nominations) at the FIH Champions Challenge 2 2011
C2.7 If the team(s) that finished 3rd or/and 4th at the FIH Champions Challenge 2 2011 has qualified under C2.5 and/or C2.6 above, the available additional place(s) will allocated to the team(s) that finished 5th and/or 6th in the FIH Champions Challenge 2 in 2011
C2.8 The teams that finish 7th and 8th in the FIH Challenge 2 2011 will not take part in the FIH Champions Challenge 1 or 2 2012 irrespective of their World Ranking position.
C2.9 If for any reason the Champions Challenge 2 is not played in 2012, the teams that will qualify to the next time the tournament is played will the 8 highest placed National Associations in the FIH World Ranking at the end of 2012 and not qualified for the Champions Trophy and Champions Challenge 1 in that year.
