Hockey Champions Challenge

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The Hockey Champions Challenge is an international field hockey tournament, played every two years. It was introduced in 2001 by the International Hockey Federation (FIH) in order to broaden hockey's competitive base at world level.

The tournament traditionally features the teams ranked seventh to twelfth in the world as determined by finishes in the most recent Olympic Games (and Olympic Qualifying Tournament) or World Cup (and World Cup Qualifier). In addition to an automatic spot for the host nation, the tournament field also includes the team ranked sixth and last at the previous Champions Trophy.

The Champions Challenge can be considered as the Champions Trophy for the so called B-nations. The winner of the event will participate in the Champions Trophy in the following year.

[edit] Men

Year	Host	Final			Third Place Match
Year	Host	Champion	Score	Runner-up	Third Place	Score	Fourth place
2001 Details	Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)	India	2–1	South Africa	Argentina	4–2	Malaysia
2003 Details	South Africa (Johannesburg)	Spain	7–3	Korea	South Africa	2–2 (5–4) on penalties	New Zealand
2005 Details	Egypt (Alexandria)	Argentina	5–2	Korea	Belgium	6–5	England
2007 Details	Belgium (Boom)	Argentina	3–2 after extra time	New Zealand	India	4–3	England

[edit] Women

Year	Host	Final			Third Place Match
Year	Host	Champion	Score	Runner-up	Third Place	Score	Fourth place
2002 Details	South Africa (Johannesburg)	England		Korea	India		South Africa
2003 Details	Italy (Catania)	Germany		Spain	Japan		New Zealand
2005 Details	United States (Virginia Beach)	New Zealand	0–2	South Africa	Japan	1–2	England
2007 Details	Azerbaijan (Baku)	China	2–1	Korea	England	2–1	USA