2019 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup

International field hockey tournament

The 2019 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup was the 28th edition of the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup. It was held in Ipoh, Malaysia from 23 until 30 March.

The number of teams for this year's cup is the same as last year's tournament where six teams competed. India, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Poland, and South Korea participated in this edition of the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup.

South Korea won the tournament for the third time after defeating India 4–2 on penalties, after the match ended in a draw at 1–1, in the final.^[1]

Teams

Argentina, Australia, and England who competed in the past tournament did not participate this year due to the 2019 Men's FIH Pro League. Canada, Japan, and South Korea are the teams replacing them.

Ireland withdrew from the tournament a month before it began. Poland was invited to replace South Africa (the team planned to replace Ireland), who were not able to finance flight tickets.^[2][3]

Results

All times are local, MYT (UTC+8).

Pool

Source: FIH
(H) Hosts

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Classification round

Fifth and sixth place

Third and fourth place

Final

Statistics

Final standings

1.  South Korea
2.  India
3.  Malaysia
4.  Canada
5.  Japan
6.  Poland

Goalscorers

There have been 96 goals scored in 18 matches, for an average of 5.33 goals per match.

7 goals

• Mandeep Singh
• Jang Jong-hyun

6 goals

• Faizal Saari
• Lee Nam-yong

5 goals

• Varun Kumar

4 goals

• Razie Rahim

3 goals

• Gordon Johnston
• Simranjeet Singh
• Kentaro Fukuda
• Kazuma Murata
• Hirotaka Wakuri

2 goals

• Fin Boothroyd
• Devohn Noronha-Teixeira
• Mark Pearson
• James Wallace
• Amit Rohidas
• Nilakanta Sharma
• Sumit Kumar
• Vivek Prasad
• Ryosei Kato
• Aiman Rozemi
• Firhan Ashaari
• Fitri Saari
• Jung Man-jae

1 goal

• Brenden Bissett
• Adam Froese
• James Kirkpatrick
• Balraj Panesar
• Matthew Sarmento
• Surender Kumar
• Sumit
• Suguru Hoshi
• Kota Watanabe
• Shota Yamada
• Koji Yamasaki
• Ashran Hamsani
• Azrai Abu Kamal
• Tengku Ahmad Tajuddin
• Mikolaj Gumny
• Joseph Hillyer
• Michal Kasprzyk
• Jacek Kurowski
• Chu Suk-hoon
• Kim Jung-hoo

Source: FIH

Awards

Five awards were awarded during the tournament, they were:

• Fairplay:  Japan
• Best Player: Surender Kumar
• Man of the Match (Final): Jang Jong-hyun
• Best Goalkeeper: Kim Jae-hyeon
• Top Scorer: Mandeep Singh & Jang Jong-hyun (7 goals each)

See also

• 2019 Sultan of Johor Cup

References

1. Singh, Jugjet. "Korea upset India for third Azlan Shah Cup crown". www.nst.com.my. Retrieved 30 March 2019.
2. Avineshwaran, T. "Hockey: South Africa withdraw from SultanAzlan Shah Cup | The Star Online". www.thestar.com.my. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
3. "Sultan Azlan Shah Cup 2019 : Poland confirms participation". thedragflick.com. Archived from the original on 1 December 2020. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
4. "Teams". tms.fih.ch. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 23 March 2019.