Field hockey - Men's Hockey World Cup - Statistics

• Summary by team since 1971

  Team	Victories	First Victory	Last Victory
  Pakistan	4	1971	1994
  Netherlands	3	1973	1998
  Australia	3	1986	2014
  Germany	2	2002	2006
  Belgium	1	2018	2018
  India	1	1975	1975

• Winners and finalists since 1971

  Team	Winners	Finalists
  Pakistan	4	2
  Netherlands	3	4
  Australia	3	2
  Germany	2	1
  India	1	1
  Belgium	1	0
  Spain		2
  West Germany		1
  England		1
  Argentina

• Various statistics since 1971
  
  

  Number of appearances

  1	India	14
  2	Netherlands	14
  3	Spain	14
  4	Argentina	13
  5	Australia	13
  6	England	13
  7	Pakistan	13
  8	New Zealand	10
  9	Malaysia	8
  10	West Germany	8

  Number of matches

  1	Netherlands	100
  2	India	95
  3	England	94
  4	Spain	94
  5	Australia	92
  6	Pakistan	89
  7	Argentina	88
  8	New Zealand	67
  9	West Germany	57
  10	Malaysia	54

  Games per appearance

  1	Cuba	9
  2	Poland	7.5
  3	Belgium	7.2
  4	England	7.2
  5	Australia	7.1
  6	Netherlands	7.1
  7	West Germany	7.1
  8	Belarus	7
  9	Ghana	7
  10	Italy	7

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  Wins

  1	Australia	69
  2	Netherlands	61
  3	Pakistan	51
  4	England	44
  5	Spain	44
  6	India	40
  7	Argentina	33
  8	West Germany	29
  9	Germany	27
  10	New Zealand	22

  Number of wins in games played

  1	Australia	75 %
  2	Germany	68 %
  3	Netherlands	61 %
  4	Pakistan	57 %
  5	West Germany	51 %
  6	England	47 %
  7	Spain	47 %
  8	France	44 %
  9	India	42 %
  10	Argentina	38 %

  Drawn matches

  1	Spain	18
  2	Netherlands	16
  3	India	14
  4	West Germany	14
  5	Argentina	12
  6	England	12
  7	New Zealand	11
  8	South Africa	11
  9	Pakistan	10
  10	Malaysia	9

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  Losses

  1	Argentina	43
  2	India	41
  3	England	38
  4	New Zealand	34
  5	Malaysia	33
  6	Spain	32
  7	Poland	29
  8	Pakistan	28
  9	Canada	25
  10	Belgium	23

  Number of losses in games played

  1	Belarus	100 %
  2	Cuba	100 %
  3	Ghana	100 %
  4	Italy	86 %
  5	Ireland	72 %
  6	Canada	64 %
  7	Kenya	64 %
  8	Poland	64 %
  9	Malaysia	61 %
  10	South Africa	55 %

  Number of ties in games played

  1	China	50 %
  2	South Africa	29 %
  3	West Germany	25 %
  4	U.S.S.R.	24 %
  5	Ireland	22 %
  6	Canada	21 %
  7	Republic of Korea	19 %
  8	Spain	19 %
  9	Malaysia	17 %
  10	Netherlands	16 %

• All time table since 1971

  (Based on W=2 pts, D=1 pts and L=0 pts)

  	Team	S	Firs	Best	Pts	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	diff
  1	Australia	13	1971	1st	145	92	69	7	16	304	105	+199
  2	Netherlands	14	1971	1st	138	100	61	16	23	267	148	+119
  3	Pakistan	13	1971	1st	112	89	51	10	28	235	147	+88
  4	Spain	14	1971	2nd	106	94	44	18	32	177	146	+31
  5	England	13	1973	2nd	100	94	44	12	38	175	173	+2
  6	India	14	1971	1st	94	95	40	14	41	199	183	+16
  7	Argentina	13	1971	3rd	78	88	33	12	43	154	182	-28
  8	West Germany	8	1971	2nd	72	57	29	14	14	123	81	+42
  9	Germany	6	1998	1st	60	40	27	6	7	113	59	+54
  10	New Zealand	10	1973	-	55	67	22	11	34	114	151	-37
  11	Republic of Korea	6	1994	4th	36	42	14	8	20	82	89	-7
  12	Belgium	6	1973	1st	34	43	14	6	23	86	115	-29
  13	Malaysia	8	1973	4th	33	54	12	9	33	74	142	-68
  14	Poland	6	1975	-	27	45	11	5	29	70	128	-58
  15	South Africa	6	1994	-	23	38	6	11	21	58	122	-64
  16	Japan	4	1971	-	22	28	9	4	15	37	66	-29
  17	Canada	6	1978	-	20	39	6	8	25	55	107	-52
  18	U.S.S.R.	3	1982	4th	19	21	7	5	9	27	41	-14
  19	France	3	1971	-	18	18	8	2	8	21	29	-8
  20	Kenya	2	1971	4th	8	14	3	2	9	14	24	-10
  21	Ireland	3	1978	-	6	18	1	4	13	18	48	-30
  22	China	1	2018	-	2	4	0	2	2	3	15	-12
  23	Italy	1	1978	-	2	7	1	0	6	3	29	-26
  24	Belarus	1	1994	-	0	7	0	0	7	4	17	-13
  25	Ghana	1	1975	-	0	7	0	0	7	5	36	-31
  26	Cuba	1	2002	-	0	9	0	0	9	8	43	-35

General Informations

• First edition : 1971
• Editions : 14 (including 2018)
• Official name : Hockey World Cup
• Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_World_Cup
• Organiser : International Hockey Federation (FIH)
• Official website : http://www.fih.ch/events/world-cup/world-cup-2018/hockey-world-cup-bhubaneswar-2018-m/
• First winner : Pakistan
• Most wins : Pakistan (4)
• Most recent winner : Belgium