Field hockey at the 1976 Summer Olympics

The Field Hockey competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics, which was held in the Molson Stadium at the McGill University, on an artificial surface for the first time. Only a men's competition occurred.

Preliminary round

Group A

	TEAM	PTS	P	W	D	L	GF	GA
1	Netherlands	10	5	5	0	0	11	3
2	Australia	6	5	3	0	2	14	6
3	India	6	5	3	0	2	12	9
4	Malaysia	4	5	2	0	3	3	7
5	Canada	2	5	1	0	4	4	11
6	Argentina	2	5	1	0	4	4	12

• Sunday July 18, 1976

India	4-0 (2-0)	Argentina
Australia	2-0 (1-0)	Malaysia

• Monday July 19, 1976

India	1-3 (0-1)	Netherlands
Australia	3-0 (1-0)	Canada

• Tuesday July 20, 1976

Netherlands	2-0 (0-0)	Malaysia
Argentina	1-3 (0-2)	Canada

• Wednesday July 21, 1976

India	1-6 (1-3)	Australia
Malaysia	2-0 (0-0)	Argentina

• Thursday July 22, 1976

India	3-0 (1-0)	Canada
Australia	1-2 (0-2)	Netherlands

• Friday July 23, 1976

Netherlands	1-0 (1-0)	Argentina
Malaysia	1-0 (0-0)	Canada

• Saturday July 24, 1976

India	3-0 (2-0)	Malaysia
Australia	2-3 (1-1)	Argentina

• Sunday July 25, 1976

Netherlands	3-1 (0-1)	Canada

• Monday July 26, 1976 — Replay

Australia	1-1 (1-1)	India

Australia wins after penalty strokes (5-4)

Group B

POS	TEAM	PTS	P	W	D	L	GF	GA
1	Pakistan	7	4	3	1	0	16	6
2	New Zealand	4	4	1	2	1	6	8
3	Spain	4	4	1	2	1	9	7
4	West Germany	3	4	1	1	2	10	10
5	Belgium	2	4	1	0	3	5	15

• Sunday July 18, 1976

Pakistan	5-0 (1-0)	Belgium
West Germany	1-1 (0-0)	New Zealand

• Monday July 19, 1976

Pakistan	2-2 (1-1)	Spain

• Tuesday July 20, 1976

Spain	1-1 (1-0)	New Zealand

• Wednesday July 21, 1976

Pakistan	4-2 (2-1)	West Germany
New Zealand	2-1 (1-0)	Belgium

• Thursday July 22, 1976

West Germany	1-4 (1-3)	Spain

• Friday July 23, 1976

Spain	2-3 (1-1)	Belgium

• Saturday July 24, 1976

Pakistan	5-2 (4-1)	New Zealand
West Germany	6-1 (3-1)	Belgium

• Monday July 26, 1976 — Replay

Spain	0-1 (0-0)	New Zealand

Classification Round

Play-offs

• Wednesday July 28, 1976 — Ninth to twelfth place

Belgium	3-2 (1-1)	Argentina
Canada	bye	—

• Thursday July 29, 1976 — Ninth place

Canada	2-3 (1-0)	Belgium

• Thursday July 29, 1976 — Eleventh place

Argentina	bye	—

• Thursday July 29, 1976 — Fifth to eighth place

Spain	2-1 (1-0)	Malaysia
India	2-3 (1-0)	West Germany

• Friday July 30, 1976 — Seventh place

India	2-0 (0-0)	Malaysia

• Friday July 30, 1976 — Fifth place

Spain	1-9 (0-2)	West Germany

Semi finals

• Wednesday July 28, 1976

Pakistan	1-2 (1-1)	Australia
Netherlands	1-2 (1-1)	New Zealand

Bronze medal match

• Friday July 30, 1976

Netherlands	2-3 (1-1)	Pakistan

Final

• Friday July 30, 1976

New Zealand	1-0 (0-0)	Australia

Final ranking

1. New Zealand
2. Australia
3. Pakistan
4. Netherlands
5. West Germany
6. Spain
7. India
8. Malaysia
9. Belgium
10. Canada
11. Argentina

Top scorers

Pos.	Player	Goals	FG	PS	PC	LC
1	Paul Litjens (NED)	11	0	1	6	4
2	Juan Amat (ESP)	7	0	0	6	1
–	Ronald Riley (AUS)	7	7	0	0	0
–	Wolfgang Strödter (FRG)	7	0	0	5	2
5	Munawwaruz Zaman (PAK)	6	0	0	3	3
6	Serge Dubois (BEL)	4	0	0	3	1
–	Manzoor Hussain (PAK)	4	4	0	0	0
–	Tony Ineson (NZL)	4	0	0	3	1
–	Surjit Singh (IND)	4	0	0	4	0

Medal winners

GOLD	New Zealand Paul Ackerley, Jeff Archibald, Arthur Borren, Alan Chesney, John Christensen, Greg Dayman, Tony Ineson, Barry Maister, Selwyn Maister, Trevor Manning, Alan McIntyre, Neil McLeod, Arthur Parkin, Mohan Patel, Ramesh Patel, and Les Wilson.
SILVER	Australia David Bell, Greg Browning, Rick Charlesworth, Ian Cooke, Barry Dancer, Douglas Golder, Robert Haigh, Wayne Hammond, Jim Irvine, Malcolm Poole, Robert Proctor, Graeme Reid, Ronald Riley, Trevor Smith, and Terry Walsh.
BRONZE	Pakistan Munawwaruz Zaman, Qamar Zia (gk), Shahnaz Sheikh, Saleem Sherwani (gk), Iftikhar Syed, Saleem Nazim, Abdul Rasheed Jr (captain), Hanif Khan, Samiullah Khan, Arshad Mahmood, Islahuddin (vice-captain), Manzoorul Hasan, Manzoor Hussain, Akhtar Rasool, Arshad Ali Chaudry, and Mudassar Asghar.

References

• Official Report