The match schedule for the preliminary rounds of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games (GC2018) Hockey competition has been announced at the Gold Coast Hockey Centre.
Sanctioned by the International Hockey Federation (FIH), the 10 competing nations for both mens and womens competitions are divided into two pools of five based on their FIH World Rankings.
Teams have been allocated in a snaking pattern from the top-seeded nation down to the 10th in order to evenly spread competing nations across both pools.
The New Zealand Men are joined in Pool A by trans-Tasman rivals Australia as well as Canada, South Africa and Scotland.
Meanwhile, the New Zealand Women are included in Pool B along with Australia, Scotland, Canada and Ghana.
Each team will play every other team within their pool during the preliminary round matches from April 5-11 before the top two teams in each pool advance to the semi-final and medal matches from April 12-14.
Each team will comprise a maximum of 18 athletes, with a total of 360 athletes participating the GC2018 hockey competition.
GC2018 HOCKEY POOLS - MEN
POOL A
Australia
New Zealand
Canada
South Africa
Scotland
POOL B
India
England
Malaysia
Pakistan
Wales
GC2018 HOCKEY POOLS - WOMEN
POOL A
England
India
South Africa
Malaysia
Wales
POOL B
Australia
New Zealand
Scotland
Canada
Ghana
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- This story has been automatically published using a media release from Hockey NZ
Schedule confirmed for Gold Coast 2018
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