The Men's field hockey Qualifying Tournament for the 2008 Summer Olympics were qualification tournaments to determine the final three spots for the 2008 Summer Olympics. The qualifying tournaments, which involved 18 teams divided into three groups, with three separate qualifying tournaments, were held in New Zealand, Chile and Japan, at different times in 2008. Only the winners of each qualifying tournament earned a berth in the 2008 Summer Olympics.

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Qualifying Tournaments for the 2008 Summer Olympics

Tournament details
Dates	2 February – 13 April 2008
Teams	18 (from 4 confederations)
Venue(s)	3 (in 3 host cities)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	54
Goals scored	341 (6.31 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Felipe Montegu (11 goals)
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Below is the list of 18 teams who participated in these qualifying tournaments:^[1]

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Date	Event	Location	Quotas	Qualifier(s)
4–14 December 2006	2006 Asian Games	Doha, Qatar	3	Japan  India  Malaysia  Bangladesh[lower-alpha 1]
14–22 July 2007	2007 African Olympic Qualifier	Nairobi, Kenya	0	Egypt[lower-alpha 2]
15–25 July 2007	2007 Pan American Games	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	3	Argentina  Chile  Trinidad and Tobago  Cuba[lower-alpha 3]
19–26 August 2007	2007 EuroHockey Championship	Manchester, England	4	Germany  Great Britain  France  Ireland  Czech Republic [lower-alpha 4]
9–16 September 2007	2007 EuroHockey Nations Trophy	Lisbon, Portugal	3	Switzerland  Austria  Poland
11–16 September 2007	2007 Oceania Cup	Buderim, Australia	1	New Zealand

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In addition, International Hockey Federation also named four reserve teams after four of the above teams are failed to make it in this qualifying tournament, two of them already confirmed to be in the reserve list:^[2][3]

1.  United States (replace Cuba in Qualifying 1)
2.  Mexico (replace Egypt in Qualifying 2)
3.  Russia (replace Bangladesh in Qualifying 2)^[4]
4.  Italy (replace Czech Republic in Qualifying 3)^[5]