It is hockey’s own premier International event and there is plenty of ways to watch, read and be part of the World Cup no matter where you are located. Follow your nation of choice
The format of the tournament sees the 12 teams in each competition (men’s and women’s) divided into two pools of six teams. Teams play a round-robin format of one match against each of the other five teams in their pool with the top two nations in each pool progressing to the semi-finals. The bottom four teams in each pool will play off against the corresponding finisher in the opposite pool for classification places. 
International press will be there in numbers
The event schedule can be downloaded here
In all, the combined tournaments will feature 76 matches with 100,000 tickets already sold for the 16 day event (31st May-15th June).
In Australia, ABC will broadcast coverage of the Hockeyroos’ and Kookaburras’ World Cup campaigns while the FIH will live stream the tournament through its YouTube channel.
In total, 1735 minutes of action will be beamed into Australian households with a combination of live matches, matches on delay, extended and edited highlights, and a half hour nightly studio show hosted by Stephanie Brantz and Olympic gold medallist Grant Schubert.
The nightly highlights show on ABC 1 will bring fans the top action from each day’s play, including edited highlights of Australia’s games and the best of the rest from around the tournament. Then it’s over to ABC 2 for live coverage of one of the Australian teams in action plus, at minimum, highlights of the other Aussie team’s match.
Live matches during the pool phase will be shown live in AEST states only with those games shown on delay in SA, NT and WA.
In acknowledgement of the restrictions on fans in SA, NT and WA, the ABC has agreed not to geo-block the FIH YouTube streaming of those games it shows live in Eastern states. Online coverage will be available at www.youtube.com/fihockey. The women’s and men’s semi finals will be shown live across the country in all states with Australia’s final games, subject to their progress, also set to be beamed live across the country.
The ABC TV coverage dates and times can be downloaded here
In New Zealand, SKY Sport have you covered for the Hockey World Cup with all Black Sticks Men’s and Women’s game broadcast live and delayed.
The SKY Sport broadcast schedule can be downloaded here
Around the World TV coverage
Rabobank Hockey World Cup 2014
Location
Network
Details
Australia
ABC
Australia games live or tape delay; semis and finals live across the country. All this and a "prime time" daily highlights show will be available to everyone in Australia.
Belgium
Telenet / VRT, BeTV / RTBF15
Belgium games and finals live on VRT and Telenet in Flemish and on BeTV and RTBF in French
China
CCTV
All China pool play matches, plus possibility of semi-finals and finals
England, Ireland
Sky Sports
All England games, semi-finals, finals and much more live on UK’s premium sports channel
Germany, Central Europe
SPORT1
33 matches live including Germany games, semi-finals and finals broadcast to Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Austria
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
TEN Sports
Live coverage of 38 men’s matches, plus pre-game show for all of India’s matches
Malaysia, Singapore
ASTRO
46 games live on #1 sports network in Malaysia
Netherlands
NOS
2 live games per day including the Dutch matches on NOS
Netherlands
Omroep West
All other World Cup games live on this cable channel, covering 80% of Holland
New Zealand
Sky Sports
New Zealand games live, semi and finals live, New Zealand’s premium sports channel
Spain
TVE (Teledeportes)
All Spain matches broadcast live
South America
ESPN Sur
All Argentina games plus semi-finals and finals live. Others games on cable channel, covers Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Peru, Columbia, Ecuador, Brazil
South Africa, Africa
Supersport
All 76 games live on Supersport, covers over 53 countries in Sub Saharan Africa.
USA
ESPN3
Online streaming to over 92 million households in USA
INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY FEDERATION
Visit the International Hockey Federation website to keep track of the 2014 Rabobank World Cup. Here you will find the world rankings, competing teams, qualifications, tournament schedules etc to read before match one at The Hague. Also the FIH have a number of avenues by which you can watch or read about the World Cup progress whether through face book or twitter or via their hockey app you can download via itunes or watch via You Tube live streaming.
At the event itself, media interest will be higher than ever before with 250 accredited journalists on site, not including the 140 members of TV crew who will also be present. Of the 250 expected journalists, 150 will journey from outside of Holland and include all forms of media including print, online, TV and radio.
The two-stadium event is expected to sell out with Kyocera Stadium holding 15,000 fans, while GreenFields is equipped for 5,000 meaning that over the 15 competition days 250,000 ticket holders will file through the venue.
“On TV, at the venue, online or on a mobile device, the Rabobank Hockey World Cup will be the most highly covered and easily accessible hockey event ever seen before,” said Kelly Fairweather, FIH CEO.
Finally you can access the latest news articles being updated daily by International sports writers attending the event. They can be accessed via the news feed on www.gohockey.com
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