The 36th FIH Men's Champions Trophy in hockey took place in London , United Kingdom between June 10 and 17, 2016 . The tournament was originally planned to be held in Argentina, but the Argentine Association returned the hosting role. The winner of the tournament is Australia .
In contrast to the previous editions, there were again six participants instead of eight. The host, the winner of the 2012 Olympic tournament , the winner of the 13th World Cup 2014 , the winner of the FIH Hockey World League 2014–15 , the winner of the FIH Champions Challenge 2014 were eligible to participate . Another nation was invited by the FIH Executive Committee. In the event that nations meet more than one of the above criteria, the Executive Committee invited additional nations. The Netherlands were actually invited to this edition, but they declined the invitation for financial and time reasons. This resulted in the following participants for this tournament: