Japan’s men’s national team, the Samurai Japan (World Ranking: WR15), defeated Ukraine (WR29) 5-2 in the second round of the 33rd Olympic Games (Paris, 2024) Hockey Final Qualifying Tournament (Valencia, 2024) in Valencia, Spain. The team won 5-2 and improved to 1-1 (3 points).

The third match will be played against Ireland (WR13) on January 18 at 3:15 p.m. (Japan Standard Time, January 17 at 27:15 a.m.).

FIH World Ranking as of January 12

The tournament will be streamed live on Watch Hockey. (* Free account registration is required.)

Official match record of the 2nd game [Updated: 2024.1.16].

Score

• 18th min PC – #10 MF Takuma Niwa (Gifu Asahi Club)
• 23rd min FG – #7 FW Kentaro Fukuda (Gifu Asahi Club)
• 29th min PC – #15 DF Ken Nagayoshi (LIEBE Tochigi)
• 29th min FG – #1 FW Koji Yamasaki (BlueSticks SHIGA)
• 37th min FG – #7 FW Kentaro Fukuda (Gifu Asahi Club)

Related Information

• Japan Men’s National Team Samurai Japan “33rd Olympic Games (2024/Paris) Hockey – Final Qualifying Tournament (2024/Valencia)
• FIH “The 33rd Olympic Games (2024/Paris) Hockey – Final Qualifying Tournament (2024/Valencia)” Official Website
• FIH – The 33rd Olympic Games (2024/Paris) – Hockey – Final Qualifying Tournament (2024/Valencia) Official Site
• FIH – TMS official site
• Watch.Hockey [Hockey Video Streaming Site]
• FIH Official Social Media [Facebook, X, Instagram, YouTube] 
• Japan Women’s National Team “Samurai Japan”