The draw of pools for the FIH Hockey Men’s Junior World Cup Tamil Nadu 2025 will take place at the FIH Office in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 24 June (1pm CEST) in attendance of FIH President Tayyab Ikram. For the first-time ever, 24 teams – an increase of 8 teams compared to the last editions – will participate in this year’s edition of the Junior World Cup, where so many hockey stars were revealed.

For the draw, the participating teams have been allocated as follows, with the top-ranked teams seeded:

• Seeded teams: Germany (Pool A), India (Pool B), Argentina (Pool C), Spain (Pool D), Netherlands (Pool E) and France (Pool F)
• Pot 1: Belgium, Australia, Pakistan, South Africa, Malaysia and New Zealand
• Pot 2: Korea, Canada, Egypt, England, Japan and Chile
• Pot 3: Austria, Bangladesh, Ireland, Switzerland, China and Namibia

There will be 6 pools of 4 teams each. Every pool will include one seeded team as well as one team from each Pot.

The competition formula is available here.

The FIH Hockey Men’s Junior World Cup Tamil Nadu 2025 will be played in Chennai and Madurai, India, from 28 November to 10 December.

All details about the event are available on FIH.hockey.

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Source: FIH.hockey