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

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
	12	5	4	0	1	18	5	+13
	11	5	3	2	0	13	7	+6
	7	5	2	1	2	10	14	–4
	5	5	1	2	2	10	10	0
	4	5	1	1	3	5	12	–7
	3	5	1	0	4	7	15	–8

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC +2)

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Pool B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
	11	5	3	2	0	12	5	+7
	11	5	3	2	0	8	5	+3
	10	5	3	1	1	16	9	+7
	6	5	2	0	3	10	10	0
	2	5	0	2	3	4	13	–9
	1	5	0	1	4	7	15	–8

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC +2)

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Ninth to twelfth place classification

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC +2)

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Eleventh and twelfth place

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC +2)

Ninth and tenth place

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC +2)

Fifth to eighth place classification

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC +2)

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Seventh and eighth place

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC +2)

Fifth and sixth place

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC +2)

First to fourth place classification

Semi finals

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC +2)

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Third and fourth place

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC +2)

Final

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC +2)

Awards

Topscorer	Player of the tournament	Most Promising Player	Best Goalkeeper	Fair Play
Taeke Taekema	Jamie Dwyer	Christopher Zeller	Ulrich Bubolz

All Star team

The 20 man squad, including two coaches, are selected as the World Cup All Star team:

Coaches	Goalkeepers	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Barry Dancer Bernhard Peters	Stephen Mowlam Ulrich Bubolz	Taeke Taekema Philipp Crone Bevan George Hayden Shaw Richard Mantell Dilip Tirkey	Teun de Nooijer Brent Livermore Kim Yong-bae Jeroen Delmee Tibor Weißenborn	Jamie Dwyer Santi Freixa Christopher Zeller Pablo Amat Shakeel Abbasi

Umpires

The International Hockey Federation has appointed 14 umpires for this tournament:

• Xavier Adell
• Christian Blasch
• Henrik Ehlers
• David Gentles
• Murray Grime
• Hamish Jamson
• Kim Hong-lae

• Satinder Kumar
• David Leiper
• Andy Mair
• Sumesh Putra
• Amarjit Singh
• Rob ten Cate
• John Wright

References

External links

• Official website from WorldHockey.org
• Official website from Deutscher Hockey Bund
• Qualification Round Official website