The men's field hockey tournament at the 1952 Summer Olympics was the seventh edition of the field hockey event for men at the Summer Olympics.

Each country was allowed to enter a team of 18 players and they all were eligible for participation.

The Austrian Hermann Knoll, the Belgian Jean-Jacques Moucq and the Polish Tadeusz Adamski did, according to the report itself, not compete in the main tournament.

A total of 144(*) field hockey players from 12 nations competed at the Helsinki Games: (*) NOTE: There are only players counted, which participated in the main tournament in one game at least.

However, the teams are listed in order of the results of this consolation round.