# Field hockey at the 2006 Asian Games

The field hockey tournament at the 2006 Asian Games was held from 2 to 14 December 2006 in Al-Rayyan Hockey Field.
In this event, 10 teams participated in men's field hockey events and 7 teams in the women's events. China and South Korea became champions in the men's and women's field hockey events, respectively.

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men details | South Korea Ko Dong-sik Lee Seung-il Kim Chul Kim Yong-bae Lee Nam-yong Seo Jong-ho Kang Seong-jung Yoon Sung-hoon You Hyo-sik Yeo Chang-yong Cha Jong-bok Lee Myung-ho Hong Eun-seong Hong Sung-kweon Yeo Woon-kon Jang Jong-hyun | China Luo Fangming Ye Peng Jiang Xishang Lu Fenghui Li Wei Song Yi Meng Xuguang Liu Xiantang Hu Liang Meng Jun Yu Yang Na Yubo Pei Zuopeng Su Rifeng Hu Huiren | Pakistan Salman Akbar Zeeshan Ashraf Ihsanullah Khan Imran Khan Yousafzai Adnan Maqsood Sajjad Anwar Tariq Aziz Rashid Imran Shakeel Abbasi Rehan Butt Muhammad Zubair Nasir Ahmed Imran Ali Warsi Muhammad Imran Muhammad Waqas Muhammad Mudassar |
| Women details | China Nie Yali Chen Zhaoxia Ma Yibo Mai Shaoyan Huang Junxia Fu Baorong Li Shuang Gao Lihua Tang Chunling Zhou Wanfeng Sun Zhen Zhang Yimeng Li Hongxia Ren Ye Chen Qiuqi Bao Ejing | Japan Rie Terazono Ikuko Okamura Mayumi Ono Keiko Miura Chie Kimura Yukari Yamamoto Rika Komazawa Sakae Morimoto Kaori Chiba Tomomi Komori Toshie Tsukui Yuko Kitano Sachimi Iwao Akemi Kato Miyuki Nakagawa Misaki Ozawa | India Dipika Murthy Suman Bala Rajwinder Kaur Asunta Lakra Binita Xess Surinder Kaur Mamta Kharab Marita Tirkey Joydeep Kaur Ritu Rani Jasjeet Kaur Handa Jyoti Sunita Kullu Pushpa Pradhan Saba Anjum Karim Binita Toppo Subhadra Pradhan |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | South Korea | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | Japan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | India | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | Pakistan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (5 entries) | Totals (5 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |

## Qualification

Top 6 Asian teams, South Korea, India, Pakistan, Japan, China and Malaysia could enter the men's competition directly. For the next four spots a qualification tournament was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 11 to 20 May 2006.
Women's qualification tournament was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 5 to 9 June 2006. All four teams qualified for the Asian Games but later Pakistan withdrew.
| Rank | Team |
| 1 | Bangladesh |
| 2 | Oman |
| 3 | Chinese Taipei |
| 4 | Hong Kong |
| 5 | Singapore |
| 6 | Sri Lanka |
| 7 | Iran |
| Rank | Team |
| 1 | Malaysia |
| 2 | Chinese Taipei |
| 3 | Hong Kong |
| 4 | Pakistan |

## Draw

The teams were distributed according to their position at the FIH World Rankings using the serpentine system for their distribution.

## Final standing
### Men

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L |
| | South Korea | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| | China | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| | Pakistan | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 4 | Japan | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 5 | India | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | Malaysia | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 7 | Bangladesh | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 8 | Chinese Taipei | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 10 | Oman | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |

### Women

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | D | L |
| | China | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| | Japan | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| | India | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | South Korea | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | Malaysia | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 6 | Chinese Taipei | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 7 | Hong Kong | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 |