The results of all the Men’s Hockey World Cups

The Hockey World Cup was first conceived by Pakistan’s Nur Khan who proposed his idea to the FIH through Patrick Rowley, the first editor of World Hockey magazine. Their idea was approved on October 26, 1969, and adopted by the FIH Council at a meeting in Brussels on April 12, 1970. The FIH decided that the inaugural World Cup would be held in October 1971, in Spain, at the Real Club de Polo of Barcelona.