Canada men's national field hockey team

Canada
Nickname(s)	Red Caribou
Association	Field Hockey Canada
Confederation	PAHF (Americas)
Head Coach	Pasha Gademan
Assistant coach(es)	André Henning; Craig Sieben
Manager	Kelly Vanry
Captain	Scott Tupper
Most caps	Ken Pereira (348)
Top scorer	Scott Tupper (126)
Home	Away
FIH ranking
Current	12 1 (4 March 2022)
Olympic Games
Appearances	8 (first in 1964)
Best result	10th (1976, 1984, 2000, 2008)
World Cup
Appearances	6 (first in 1978)
Best result	8th (1998)
Pan American Games
Appearances	14 (first in 1967)
Best result	1st (1983, 1987, 1999, 2007)
Pan American Cup
Appearances	6 (first in 2000)
Best result	1st (2009)
Medal record
Pan American Games
Pan American Cup

The Canadian men's national field hockey team represents Canada in international men's field hockey since 1964, when it played in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.

Tournament history[]

Summer Olympics[]

Summer Olympics record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA	Squad
1908 until 1960	Did not participate
1964	Group stage	13th	7	1	0	6	5	25	Squad
1968	Did not participate
1972	Did not participate
1976	9th place game	10th	6	1	0	5	6	14	Squad
1980	Did not participate
1984	9th place game	10th	7	1	1	5	8	20	Squad
1988	11th place game	11th	7	1	2	4	6	15	Squad
1992	Did not qualify
1996	Did not qualify
2000	9th place game	10th	7	1	3	3	10	16	Squad
2004	Did not qualify
2008	9th place game	10th	6	1	1	4	10	20	Squad
2012	Did not qualify
2016	Group stage	11th	5	0	1	4	7	22	Squad
2020	Group stage	12th	5	0	1	4	9	27	Squad
Total	Best: 10th	8/24	50	6	9	35	61	159

World Cup[]

FIH World Cup record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA	Squad
1971	Did not participate
1973	Did not participate
1975	Did not qualify
1978	11th place game	11th	8	2	2	4	15	19
1982	Did not qualify
1986	9th place game	10th	7	1	1	5	6	16
1990	11th place game	11th	7	1	1	5	6	11
1994	Did not qualify
1998	7th place game	8th	7	1	3	3	16	18	Squad
2002	Did not qualify
2006	Did not qualify
2010	11th place game	11th	6	1	0	5	9	30	Squad
2014	Did not qualify
2018	Cross-over	11th	4	0	1	3	3	13	Squad
2023	Did not qualify
Total	Best: 8th	6/15	39	6	8	25	55	107

Pan American Games[]

Pan American Games record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA
1967	3rd place game	4th	9	5	2	2	14	7
1971	3rd place game	3rd	9	6	0	3	16	5
1975	Final	2nd	8	5	2	1	20	6
1979	Final	2nd	6	5	0	1	33	6
1983	Final	1st	6	6	0	0	25	4
1987	Final	1st	6	5	1	0	42	5
1991	Final	2nd	6	5	0	1	33	5
1995	Final	2nd	7	4	2	1	31	4
1999	Final	1st	7	6	1	0	29	5
2003	Final	2nd	5	4	0	1	10	5
2007	Final	1st	5	3	2	0	12	7
2011	Final	2nd	5	4	0	1	25	7
2015	Final	2nd	6	4	1	1	21	5
2019	Final	2nd	6	5	0	1	33	10
	To be determined
Total	4 titles	14/14	91	67	11	13	344	81

Pan American Cup[]

Pan American Cup record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA
2000	Final	2nd	6	4	1	1	32	6
2004	Final	2nd	6	5	0	1	29	5
2009	Final	1st	5	4	1	0	26	11
2013	Final	2nd	5	3	1	1	9	8
2017	Final	2nd	5	3	1	1	13	3
2022	3rd place game	3rd	6	4	0	2	26	11
Total	1 title	6/6	33	23	4	6	135	44

Commonwealth Games[]

Commonwealth Games record
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA
1998	Group stage	7th	4	1	2	1	11	6
2002	5th place game	6th	5	0	1	4	7	14
2006	9th place game	9th	5	1	0	4	5	16
2010	7th place game	7th	5	2	2	1	8	8
2014	5th place game	6th	5	1	0	4	8	16
2018	7th place game	8th	5	1	0	4	4	15
2022	Qualified
Total	Best: 6th	7/7	29	6	5	18	43	75

Sultan Azlan Shah Cup[]

Sultan Azlan Shah Cup record
Year	Position
1995	4th
1999	4th
2000	7th
2007	8th
2008	5th
2014	5th
2015	5th
2016	6th
2019	4th
2020	Cancelled
Best result: 4th place

Defunct competitions[]

Hockey World League[]

Hockey World League record
Season	Position	Round	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA
2012–13	18th	Round 2	5	3	0	2	16	13
2014–15	8th	Round 2	6	4	0	2	17	7
		Semifinal	7	2	1	4	7	22
		Final	5	0	0	5	6	26
2016–17	10th	Round 2	6	5	0	1	26	7
2016–17	10th	Semifinal	7	3	1	3	20	16
Total	Best: 8th	Final	36	17	2	17	92	91

Champions Challenge I[]

Champions Challenge I record
Year	Position	Pld	W	D*	L	GF	GA
2001 until 2007	Did not participate
2009	8th	5	1	0	4	6	13
2011	8th	6	1	0	5	10	20
2012	6th	6	1	1	4	12	20
2014	2nd	6	2	2	2	14	17
Total	Best: 2nd	23	5	3	15	42	70

Team[]

Current squad[]

The following 19 players were named on 18 January 2022 for the 2022 Men's Pan American Cup in Santiago, Chile from 20 to 30 January 2022.^[4]

Caps updated as of 30 January 2022, after the match against the United States.

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club
31	GK	Antoni Kindler	(1988-05-16) 16 May 1988 (age 33)	112
32	GK		(2001-04-24) 24 April 2001 (age 20)	2	West Vancouver

16	DF	Gordon Johnston	(1993-01-30) 30 January 1993 (age 29)	193	HGC
24	DF	James Kirkpatrick	(1991-03-29) 29 March 1991 (age 30)	114	West Vancouver
26	DF		(1999-02-23) 23 February 1999 (age 23)	12	UBC Thunderbirds
29	DF	Taylor Curran	(1992-05-19) 19 May 1992 (age 29)	194	West Vancouver

9	MF		(2000-08-03) 3 August 2000 (age 21)	7	Vancouver Hawks
11	MF	Balraj Panesar	(1996-03-16) 16 March 1996 (age 25)	80	East Grinstead
13	MF	Brendan Guraliuk	(2000-05-14) 14 May 2000 (age 21)	21	Club an der Alster
27	MF	Sukhi Panesar	(1993-12-26) 26 December 1993 (age 28)	164

1	FW	Floris van Son	(1992-02-05) 5 February 1992 (age 30)	47	Hurley
2	FW		(1999-01-16) 16 January 1999 (age 23)	7
5	FW	Devohn Noronha-Teixeira	(1989-02-09) 9 February 1989 (age 33)	103
8	FW	Oliver Scholfield	(1993-09-11) 11 September 1993 (age 28)	85
10	FW	Keegan Pereira	(1991-09-08) 8 September 1991 (age 30)	195
17	FW	Brenden Bissett	(1993-01-28) 28 January 1993 (age 29)	151
20	FW	Fin Boothroyd	(1999-03-09) 9 March 1999 (age 23)	36	East Grinstead
21	FW	Matthew Sarmento	(1991-06-23) 23 June 1991 (age 30)	134	Vancouver Hawks
23	FW	Iain Smythe	(1985-06-02) 2 June 1985 (age 36)	205

Recent call-ups[]

The following players have been called up for the team in the last 12 months.

Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Caps	Club	Latest call-up
GK		(2000-05-01) 1 May 2000 (age 21)	0	West Vancouver	v. United States, 19 December 2021

DF	John Smythe	(1989-08-31) 31 August 1989 (age 32)	129		v. United States, 19 December 2021

MF		(1997-08-14) 14 August 1997 (age 24)	7	India Club	v. United States, 19 December 2021

FW		(1998-10-18) 18 October 1998 (age 23)	1	India Club	v. United States, 19 December 2021

Famous players[]

Patrick Burrows
David Bissett
Alan Brahmst
Pat Caruso
Paul Chohan
Ken Goodwin
Christopher Ingvaldson
Ken Pereira
Reg Plummer
Trevor Porritt
Ross Rutledge
Nick Sandhu
Lee Wright

References[]

^ "All-Time Cap Leaders". fieldhockey.ca. Field Hockey Canada. May 2021. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
^ "Captain Scott Tupper retires from Men's National Team Program". fieldhockey.ca. Field Hockey Canada. 16 December 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
^ "FIH Men's and Women's World Ranking". FIH. 4 March 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
^ "2022 Pan American Cup [MEN]". fieldhockey.ca. Field Hockey Canada. 18 January 2022. Retrieved 31 January 2022.

External links[]

[1] "All-Time Cap Leaders". fieldhockey.ca. Field Hockey Canada. May 2021. Retrieved 11 February 2022.

[2] "Captain Scott Tupper retires from Men's National Team Program". fieldhockey.ca. Field Hockey Canada. 16 December 2021. Retrieved 17 December 2021.

[FIH_World_Rankings-3] "FIH Men's and Women's World Ranking". FIH. 4 March 2022. Retrieved 4 March 2022.

[4] "2022 Pan American Cup [MEN]". fieldhockey.ca. Field Hockey Canada. 18 January 2022. Retrieved 31 January 2022.

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