Argentina, Korea and Canada, Spain's rivals in the Women's Field Hockey World Cup

Field hockey is coming home.

The Women's World Cup will be held from July 1 to 17 in Terrassa and in the Dutch city of Amstelveen.

Both cities will share the group stage and will share the matches of the "cross over" round, in which the second and third of each group will play a round prior to the quarterfinals, where the best classified will wait.

The semifinals and the final will be played at the Olympic stadium in Terrassa.

The Spanish team wants to get there, which seeks to improve the bronze achieved in 2018 and the image offered in Tokyo last summer, where it fell in the quarterfinals.

Three decades after the Olympic gold of the 'Red Sticks' in Barcelona 92, and after that third place achieved in the last edition of the Women's World Cup, the Royal Spanish Field Hockey Federation (RFEH) wants this event to be a turning point for Spanish women's hockey, in the same stadium where Spain achieved the greatest success of this sport in our country, as explained by the president of the RFEH, Santí Deó.

"This event does nothing more than endorse our commitment to women's sports," added the president.

In the group presentation and draw ceremony held this Thursday, Spain ended up paired in a group whose biggest rival and predictably more complicated will be Argentina, second in the world ranking and silver in the last Olympic Games.

Korea and Canada should be duels of a lower caliber for the group led by Adrián Lock and captained by Georgina Oliva.

In case of not achieving direct classification, the

, who will always play in Terrassa, would face each other with the second or third group D, where the women's teams of Australia, Belgium, Japan and South Africa have been grouped.

In group A are the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland and Chile, while in group B are England, New Zealand, India and China.

These last two groups will be the ones that will play the preliminary phase at the Amstelveen venue.

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