Field hockey was one of 26 sports featured at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics from August 16–23, 2010 at Sengkang Hockey Stadium in Singapore.

[1] Each winner of five continental qualification tournaments gained automatic entry.

The hosts Singapore were limited to fielding just one team.

[2] Singapore chose to field a boys' team, and the extra unused quota in the girls' tournament was allocated to Europe.

The full list of qualified teams is as below:[3]