2021 Women's Asian Champions Trophy

2021 Women's Asian Champions Trophy
Donghae Women's Asian Champions Trophy 2021
Tournament details
Host countrySouth Korea
CityDonghae
Dates5–11 December
Teams4 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)Donghae City Sunrise Stadium
Final positions
Champions Japan (2nd title)
Runner-up South Korea
Third place China
Tournament statistics
Matches played9
Goals scored50 (5.56 per match)
Top scorer(s)India Gurjit Kaur (5 goals)
Best playerSouth Korea Cheon Eun-bi
Best young playerSouth Korea Kim Seo-na
Best goalkeeperThailand Siraya Yimkrajang
2018 (previous) (next) 2023

The 2021 Women's Asian Champions Trophy was the sixth edition of the Women's Asian Champions Trophy, a biennial field hockey tournament for the six best Asian women's national teams organized by the Asian Hockey Federation.

The tournament was held at the Donghae City Sunrise Stadium in Donghae, South Korea and it was originally scheduled from 14 to 21 June 2020.[1] South Korea were the defending champions.[1]

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the tournament was postponed on 26 March 2020.[2] In September 2020 the new dates were announced and the tournament would be held from 31 March to 6 April 2021.[3] In January 2021 the tournament was postponed again [4] and in October was postponed further to 5 to 12 December 2021.[5]

  1. ^ a b Ikram, Ali (3 February 2020). "AHF 2020 Road map". asiahockey.org. Asian Hockey Federation. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
  2. ^ "Announcement: Postponement of the Bangabandhu Al-Arafah Islami Bank Junior Asia Cup Dhaka 2020 & the Women's Asian Champions Trophy Donghae 2020". asiahockey.org. Asian Hockey Federation. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  3. ^ "AHF Announces Dates for 6th Edition of Women's Asian Champions Trophy Donghae 2020. (Dates Approved by FIH)". asiahockey.org. Asian Hockey Federation. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  4. ^ "Men's Asian Champions Trophy Dhaka 2021 & Women's Donghae Asian Champions Trophy 2021 to be postponed". asiahockey.org. Asian Hockey Federation. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  5. ^ "Women's Asian Champions Trophy 2021 hockey to start in December". Olympics.com. Retrieved 2021-10-21.