Australia men's national field hockey team

Australia
Nickname(s)	The Kookaburras
Association	Hockey Australia
Confederation	OHF (Oceania)
Head Coach	Colin Batch
Assistant coach(es)	Robert Hammond; Anthony Potter; David Staniforth
Manager	Melissa Gey
Captain	Aran Zalewski
Most caps	Eddie Ockenden (414)
Top scorer	Jamie Dwyer (244)
Home	Away
FIH ranking
Current	5 1 (12 March 2024)
Highest	1 (2005, 2010–2011, 2014 – January 2017, December 2017 – July 2018, June 2019 – January 2020)
Lowest	6 (2023)
First international
	New Zealand 5–4 Australia; (Palmerston North, New Zealand; 27 September 1922)
Biggest win
	Australia 36–0 Samoa ; (Stratford, New Zealand; 24 October 2015)
Biggest defeat
	Australia 1–12 India ; (Melbourne, Australia; 17 August 1935)
Olympic Games
Appearances	16 (first in 1956)
Best result	1st (2004)
World Cup
Appearances	14 (first in 1971)
Best result	1st (1986, 2010, 2014)
Oceania Cup
Appearances	11 (first in 1999)
Best result	1st (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2023)
Medal record
Olympic Games
World Cup
Oceania Cup
Champions Trophy
Commonwealth Games
Hockey World League

The Australia men's national field hockey team (nicknamed the Kookaburras) is one of the nation's most successful top-level sporting teams. They are the only Australian team in any sport to receive medals at six straight Summer Olympic Games (1992–2012). The Kookaburras placed in the top four in every Olympics between 1980 and 2012; in 2016, the Kookaburras placed sixth. They also won the Hockey World Cup in 1986, 2010 and 2014.

The Kookaburras' inability to win an Olympic gold medal despite their perennial competitiveness, led many in the Australian hockey community to speak of a "curse" afflicting the team, finally broken in 2004 with the win in Athens. However, they failed to win Gold after that after losses in subsequent Olympics including a loss to Belgium in the Gold Medal Match of 2020 Tokyo Olympics - the Kookaburras instead won the silver medal.

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