2006 Men's Hockey World Cup

The 2006 Hockey World Cup for men is the 11th edition of the Hockey World Cup. It held from September 6 to September 17, 2006 in Mönchengladbach, Germany.

Germany won for second consecutive time after beating Australia 4–3 while Spain emerged as third place winner after defeating Korea.

Venue

• Warsteiner HockeyPark

Qualification

The qualification round took place in Changzhou, China from April 12 to April 23, 2006. The final rankings in the tournament are as listed below, with qualifying teams emboldened.

Participating nations

The five continental champions, the European vice-champion and the host country are starting entitled, and make up the final line-up alongside the five nations from the qualifying tournament.

All twelve teams are listed in seeded order below:

• (Oceanian champion)
• (European runner-up)
• (Host and defending champion)
• (European champion)
• (Asian champion)
• (American champion)
• (African champion)

Squads

Preliminaries

Pool A

<small>All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC +2)</small>

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Pool B

<small>All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC +2)</small>

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Ninth to twelfth place classification

<small>All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC +2)</small>

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Eleventh and twelfth place

<small>All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC +2)</small>

Ninth and tenth place

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