Women's World Field Hockey Championship 1990

7th World Cup 1990
Ladies
Number of nations	12
World Champion	Netherlands
Association	FIH
venue	Sydney
opening	May 2, 1990
Endgame
Number of games	42
Number of goals	126  (Ø 3 per game)
Top scorer
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The 1990 Women's Field Hockey World Championship was the seventh edition of the World Cup . It began on May 2, 1990 and took place in Sydney , Australia. The Dutch women secured their fifth and, for the next 16 years, last world championship title.

Preliminary round

Group A

rank	country	Games	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1	Australia	5	3	2	0	8: 2	8th
2	England	5	3	2	0	4-0	8th
3	BR Germany	5	3	1	1	9: 4	7th
4th	China	5	0	3	2	4: 9	3
5	Japan	5	0	2	3	1: 6	2
6th	Argentina	5	0	2	3	2: 7	2

Date / time	Team 1	Team 2	Result
May 1990	Argentina	China	0: 2
May 1990	Australia	Argentina	1: 1
May 1990	Germany	Argentina	3: 1
May 1990	England	Japan	1-0
May 1990	England	Germany	0-0
May 1990	Australia	Japan	2-0
May 1990	China	Japan	1: 1
May 1990	Australia	China	3-0
May 1990	Germany	China	3: 1
May 1990	England	Argentina	1-0
May 1990	Argentina	Japan	0-0
May 1990	Australia	England	0-0
May 1990	Germany	Japan	2-0
May 1990	Australia	Germany	2: 1
May 1990	England	China	2-0

Group B

rank	country	Games	S.	U	N	Gates	Points
1	Netherlands	5	4th	1	0	11: 0	9
2	South Korea	5	3	1	1	17: 1	7th
3	New Zealand	5	2	1	2	8: 6	5
4th	Spain	5	2	1	2	7:12	5
5	Canada	5	1	1	3	2: 7	3
6th	United States	5	0	1	4th	3:22	1

Date / time	Team 1	Team 2	Result
May 1990	Spain	United States	3: 1
May 1990	New Zealand	United States	6: 1
May 1990	South Korea	United States	9-0
May 1990	Netherlands	United States	3-0
May 1990	Canada	United States	1: 1
May 1990	South Korea	Canada	1-0
May 1990	Netherlands	South Korea	0-0
May 1990	Canada	Spain	3-0
May 1990	Netherlands	New Zealand	3-0
May 1990	Netherlands	Spain	3-0
May 1990	New Zealand	Spain	1: 1
May 1990	South Korea	New Zealand	0: 1
May 1990	Netherlands	Canada	2-0
May 1990	Canada	New Zealand	1-0
May 1990	Spain	South Korea	0: 7

Placement games

Play for 9-12 place

Argentina

- USA

4-0

Canada

- Japan

1-0

Game for 11th place

Japan

- USA

3: 1

Play for 9th place

Argentina

- Canada

1: 1, 4: 2 after seven meters

Play for places 5-8

BR Germany	- Spain	1: 2
New Zealand	- China	0: 0, 4: 5 after seven meters

Game for 7th place

BR Germany

- New Zealand

1: 4

Play for 5th place

Spain

- China

1-0

Semifinals

Netherlands	- England	5-0
Australia	- South Korea	1: 1, 2: 1 n.v.

3rd place match

England

- South Korea

2: 3

final

Australia

- Netherlands

1: 3

Final ranking

space	country
1	Netherlands
2	Australia
3	South Korea
4th	England
5	Spain
6th	China
7th	New Zealand
8th	BR Germany
9	Argentina
10	Canada
11	Japan
12	United States

Web link

• World Cup 1990 on FIH.ch