FIH Hockey Pro League season 5 schedule, dates announced

The champions of the next season will earn direct qualification to the FIH Hockey World Cup 2026.

The fifth season of the FIH Hockey Pro League – celebrating ‘Hockey at its Best’ – will start in December 2023 in Santiago del Estero, Argentina. Indeed, the competition dates for Season 5 – which will include seven “mini-tournaments” running from the end of 2023 to mid-2024 – have been confirmed today as follows:

• Santiago del Estero, Argentina (6-11 December 2023)
• Buenos Aires, Argentina (14-19 February 2024)
• Rourkela, India (10-25 February 2024)
• Antwerp, Belgium (23 May-2 June 2024)
• Lee Valley, Great Britain (1-12 June 2024)
• Utrecht, Netherlands (22-25 June 2024)
• Amsterdam, Netherlands (22-30 June 2024)

With the relegation/promotion principle applied - for the first time - to the FIH Hockey Pro League, Season 5 will welcome two teams that have qualified through the first edition of the FIH Hockey Nations Cup played last year, namely India (women) and Ireland (men). Consequently, the bottom-placed team of Season 4, in the women’s as well as the men’s League, will be relegated.

Furthermore, winning the FIH Hockey Pro League will come with a new and substantial “bonus” since the Champions of Season 5 will gain direct qualification for the Women’s and Men’s FIH Hockey World Cup 2026!

The participating teams of each mini-tournament, as well as the match schedules and final timings, will be confirmed at the end of the current season.