List of host of every FIH Men's Hockey World Cup so far

India will be hosting the quadrennial mega event for the fourth time in history in 2023.

The Men's Hockey World Cup was first held in the year 1971 in Barcelona, Spain. Since then the World Cup has been held after a gap of every four years. The 1986 edition was a historic World Cup as it was the first time a major hockey tournament was played on astroturf. But the 1976 Montreal Olympics was the first tournament time a hockey match was held in astroturf. India will be hosting the quadrennial megaevent for the fourth time the highest followed by the Netherlands with three.

Let's take a look at the hosts of all the FIH Men's Hockey World Cup so far:

List of Hosts of Men's Hockey World Cup:

Year	Host	Winner	Runner-up
1971	Barcelona, Spain	Pakistan	Spain
1973	Amstelveen, Netherlands	Netherlands	India
1975	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	India	Pakistan
1978	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Pakistan	Netherlands
1982	Bombay, India	Pakistan	West Germany
1986	London, England	Australia	England
1990	Lahore, Pakistan	Netherlands	Pakistan
1994	Sydney, Australia	Pakistan	Netherlands
1998	Utrecht, Netherlands	Netherlands	Spain
2002	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Germany	Australia
2006	Monchengladbach, Germany	Germany	Australia
2010	New Delhi, India	Australia	Germany
2014	The Haque, Netherlands	Australia	Netherlands
2018	Bhubaneshwar, India	Belgium	Netherlands
2023	Bhubaneshwar-Rourkela, India	-	-

India will be hosting the Men’s World Cup for the third time within a span of 12 years (2010, 2014, and 2023). Also, India, for the first time, will be hosting matches in two different cities, Bhubaneshwar and Rourkela, both in Odisha. In the 2018 edition, all the matches were held in Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneshwar whereas this time matches will also be held at the Birsa Munda International stadium in Rourkela.

Overall Europe has hosted the World Cup six times, Asia six times and South America and Oceania once each. Historically, hosts have done well in the World Cup and India will hope that they better their previous outing of 2018 in which the Men in Blue bowed out in the quarter-finals against the Netherlands.