Lacrosse at the 2022 World Games

Lacrosse
at the 2021 World Games
Lacrosse ; at the 2021 World Games
Venue	University of Alabama Birmingham
Location	Birmingham, United States
Dates	July 2022
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The lacrosse competition at the 2022 World Games will take place in July of 2022,^[1] in Birmingham in United States, at the University of Alabama Birmingham. Originally scheduled to take place in July 2021, the Games have been rescheduled for July 2022 as a result of the 2020 Summer Olympics postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ^[2]Women's tournament will be played as official event and men's tournament as invitational event. This will be the first time, when both men's and women's field lacrosse will be played in a six-a-side format. This will be also an absolute debut of the men's tournament in World Games programme, because in 2017 women's played for the first time in the history of this discipline in the World Games.

Qualification[]

A total of 8 teams for each gender will compete in the lacrosse event at the 2022 World Games.

Qualification for 2022 World Games was based primarily on final placement at the 2017 Women's Lacrosse World Cup and 2018 World Lacrosse Championship.^[3] The Iroquois team, who took third at the 2018 championship, were initially disqualified as the Iroquois confederacy does not have a National Olympic Committee; after the ruling was overturned, the Irish team vacated their place in their favour. Lacrosse was invented by Indigenous nations including the Iroquois or Haudenosaunee peoples, and the game has spiritual significance for them.^[4]