Twelve teams qualified for the women's field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics . Each of the Continental Champions from five confederations received an automatic berth. Japan as the host nation qualified automatically. In addition, the remaining six nations will be determined by an Olympic qualification event. As hosts Japan also won the Asian Games title, a seventh quota place was added to the Olympic qualification event.
Table
– Japan qualified both as the hosts and the continental champions, therefore that quota is added to the FIH Olympic Qualifiers rather than going to the runners-up of the tournament.
2018 Asian Games
The champion of the women's field hockey tournament at the 2018 Asian Games qualifies for the Olympics. If Japan is the winner, the quota place is added to the qualification events rather than going to the runner-up.
Qualified teams
Preliminary round
Pool A
Pool B
Final round
Final ranking
2019 Pan American Games
Qualified teams
Preliminary round
Pool A
Pool B
Classification round
2019 African Olympic Qualifier
Teams
Pool
2019 EuroHockey Championship
Qualified teams
Preliminary round
Pool A
Pool B
Final round
Final ranking
2019 Oceania Cup
Pool
Olympic qualifying events
Originally, twelve teams were to take part in the Olympic Qualifiers. These teams were to be drawn into six pairs; each pair playing a two-match, aggregate score series. The winner of each series qualified for the Olympics. As Japan won the 2018 Asian Games (thereby qualifying twice, once as host and once as Asian champions), there were 14 teams, seven of whom qualified.