Australia, India, Pakistan, The Netherlands
Click on the link to your right for the history of field hockey.
I believe the UK was where it was invented.
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Australia
Well, the countries that i know that have been most successful in field hockey have been, Australia, India and Pakistan. I actually think that field hockey is a really cool sport! but awesome question.
The modern game of field hockey (which is commonly played on an artificial turf) originated in England.
It came from India and developed slower in today's modern day hockey, as for sport like ice hockey and other types of hockey's came from Canada.
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Germany
The country that won the silver medal in the men's field hockey tournament during the Rio Olympics in 2016 was the country of Belgium due to them losing the Gold Medal match to Argentina.
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There are a lot of good field hockey countries but the best for men are probably the Netherlands, Germany and Australia and the best for women are probably Argentina, the Netherlands and Australia.