Australia men's national field hockey team


The Australia men's national field hockey team is one of the
nation's most successful top-level sporting teams. They are the only Australian team in any sport to receive medals at the last six Summer Olympic Games. The Kookaburras placed in the top four in every Olympics between 1980 and 2012; in 2016, the Kookaburras placed sixth. They also won the Hockey World Cup in 1986, 2010 and 2014.
The Kookaburras' inability to win an Olympic gold medal despite their perennial competitiveness, led many in the Australian hockey community to speak of a "curse" afflicting the team, finally broken in 2004 with the win in Athens.

History

Australia's first men's team competed in an international match in 1922.
The first major competition won by the national team was the 1983 World Championships held in Karachi.

Participations

Australia's first men's team competed at the Olympics in field hockey at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Australia did not medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics or the 1988 Summer Olympics.
At the 1992 Summer Olympics, Australia earned a silver medal, losing gold to Germany.
At the 1996 Summer Olympics, Australia finished third, earning a bronze medal.
The team won their first Olympic gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Barry Dancer coached the side.
Should Australia win the gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics they will become the first national team in field hockey history to hold all four international titles available to them simultaneously. They would hold titles in the 2012 Olympics, 2010 World Cup, 2011 Champions Trophy and their continental championship at the same time. Along with those four titles Australia also holds the Commonwealth Games title from the 2010 championships.

Tournament records

Team

Current squad

The following 18 players represented Australia during the FIH Pro League match against Great Britain on 2 February 2020, in Sydney, Australia.
Caps and goals are current as of 2 February 2020 after the match against the Great Britain.
The remainder of the 2020 national squad is as follows:

Notable players

2020 Fixtures & Results

FIH Pro League

2020 Goalscoring Table

Family

/Brent Dancer and Ric Charlesworth/Jonathan Charlesworth are two pairs of father as coach and son as player while both were affiliated with the national team in those positions.

Recognition