Field hockey at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament

The **women's field hockey tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics** was the 9th version of the field hockey tournament at the Summer Olympics.
It began on 29 July, and ended on 10 August. The Netherlands won the tournament over Argentina.

## Teams

|Teams|Qualified from the||
| --- | --- | --- |
||align="center"|_Host_|
||align="center" rowspan="2"|2010 Asian Games|
|Netherlands|align="center" rowspan=2|2011 Women's EuroHockey Nations Championship|
||align="center" rowspan="2"|2011 Oceania Cup|
||align="center"|2011 Pan American Games|
||align="center" rowspan="3"|Olympic Qualification Tournament 1,2 and 3|
||align="center"|Invited|

### Pool A

|width=200|Team|width=20 abbr="Played"|Pld|width=20 abbr="Won"|W|width=20 abbr="Drawn"|D|width=20 abbr="Lost"|L|width=20 abbr="Goals for"|GF|width=20 abbr="Goals against"|GA|width=20 abbr="Goal difference"|GD|width=20 abbr="Points"|Pts|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|Netherlands|5|5|0|0|12|5|+7|**15**|||||||||
|align=left||5|3|0|2|14|7|+7|**9**|||||||||
|align=left||5|2|1|2|6|3|+3|**7**|||||||||
|align=left||5|2|0|3|9|13|–4|**6**|||||||||
|align=left||5|1|1|3|4|9|–5|**4**|||||||||
|align=left||5|0|2|3|2|10|–8|**2**|||||||||

### Pool B

|width=200|Team|width=20 abbr="Played"|Pld|width=20 abbr="Won"|W|width=20 abbr="Drawn"|D|width=20 abbr="Lost"|L|width=20 abbr="Goals for"|GF|width=20 abbr="Goals against"|GA|width=20 abbr="Goal difference"|GD|width=20 abbr="Points"|Pts|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left||5|3|1|1|12|4|+8|**10**|||||||||
|align=left||5|3|1|1|9|5|+4|**10**|||||||||
|align=left||5|3|1|1|5|2|+3|**10**|||||||||
|align=left||5|2|1|2|6|7|–1|**7**|||||||||
|align=left||5|1|0|4|9|14|–5|**3**|||||||||
|align=left||5|1|0|4|4|13|–9|**3**|||||||||

### Team rankings

|width=20|Rank|width=200|Team|width="20"||width="20"||width="20"||width="20"||width="20"||width="20"||width="25"||width="25"||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|style="text-align:left;"|Netherlands|7|6|1|0|16|7|+9|**19**||||||||||
|2|style="text-align:left;"||7|4|1|2|14|7|+7|**13**||||||||||
|3|style="text-align:left;"||7|4|0|3|18|10|+8|**12**||||||||||
|4|style="text-align:left;"||7|3|2|2|12|10|+2|**11**||||||||||
|colspan="11"|**Eliminated in the First round**|||||||||||||||||||
|5|align=left||5|3|1|1|5|2|+3|**10**||||||||||
|6|align=left||5|2|1|2|6|3|+3|**7**||||||||||
|7|align=left||5|2|1|2|6|7|–1|**7**||||||||||
|8|align=left||5|2|0|3|9|13|–4|**6**||||||||||
|9|align=left||5|1|1|3|4|9|–5|**4**||||||||||
|10|align=left||5|1|0|4|9|14|–5|**3**||||||||||
|11|align=left||5|1|0|4|4|13|–9|**3**||||||||||
|12|align=left||5|0|2|3|2|10|–8|**2**||||||||||

## Other websites

- Results on olympic.org

## Infobox (international football competition)

- **tourney name**: Women's field hockey
at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- **image**: Womens hockey final teams - 2012 Olympics (1).jpg
- **size**: 250px
- **caption**: Netherlands v. Argentina in the final.
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **city**: London
- **dates**: 29 July – 10 August
- **num teams**: 12
- **champion other**: Netherlands women's national field hockey team, Netherlands
- **count**: 4
- **matches**: 38
- **goals**: 118
- **top scorer**: Crista Cullen
 Alex Danson
(5 goals each)
- **prevseason**: 2010 FIFA World Cup, 2010
- **nextseason**: 2018 FIFA World Cup, _2018_