[1] The home and away principle was kept but this principle was split over two consecutive seasons from this season onwards and worked according to the following example:[1] Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, Hockey Australia decided to suspend all international travels for its national teams until further notice in early March.

[3] Once declared as a pandemic on 11 March, the FIH and all participating National Associations involved in the competition decided to put all the matches scheduled until 15 April on hold.

Furthermore, it was agreed that the current edition is maintained, no matches will be played after the Olympic Games and depending on the evolution of the situation and the decisions of the public authorities, every match which can be organized between late April and before the Olympics, shall be played.

[4] On 19 March, it was announced by the FIH that all the matches scheduled to play until 17 May were put on hold.

[9] Nine teams competed in a round-robin tournament, being played from January to June.