Japan Men’s National Team: Samurai Japan: 33rd Olympic Games (2024/Paris) Hockey – Final Qualifying Tournament (2024/Valencia) 7th Place Game Result [Japan 6-2 Ukraine] – 7th in This Tournament

Japan’s men’s national team, the Samurai Japan (World Ranking: WR15), finished in seventh place at the 33rd Olympic Games (2024/Paris) Hockey Final Qualifying Tournament (2024/Valencia) in Valencia, Spain, after a 6-2 win over Ukraine (WR29) in the final match for seventh place. Japan finished 7th in the tournament with a 6-2 win against Ukraine (WR29) in the 7th place playoff.

Player of the Match was #5 MF Seren Tanaka (Gifu Asahi Club).

The top three teams from each venue (Valencia, Spain and Muscat, Oman) will qualify for the Paris Olympics.

FIH World Ranking as of January 12

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

Game №.17　Estadio Betero 18:00 Start
Japan		vs	Ukraine
		6 – 2

Official match record of the 7th place game [Updated: 2024.1.21].

Score

6th min FG – #15 DF Ken Nagayoshi (LIEBE Tochigi)
9th min FG – #1 FW Koji Yamasaki ((BlueSticks SHIGA)
34th min PS – #15 DF Ken Nagayoshi (LIEBE Tochigi)
44th min FG – #19 FW Ryoma Ooka (Meiji University)
45th min FG – #1 FW Koji Yamasaki (BlueSticks SHIGA)
58th min PC – #14 DF Raiki Fujishima (ALDER Hanno)

Final Result

	Team	World Ranking Before the Games	World Ranking After the Games	Gr
Champion	Belgium	2nd	2nd	A
2nd	Spain (Host)	8th	8th	B
3rd	Ireland	13rd	11st	A
4th	Korea	10th	12nd	B
5th	Egypt	20th	18th	B
6th	Austria	19th	20th	B
7th	Japan	15th	16th	A
8th	Ukraine	29th	31st	A