International Hockey Federation

International Hockey Federation
Abbreviation	FIH
Formation	7 January 1924
Type	Sports federation
Headquarters	Lausanne, Switzerland
Region served	Worldwide
Membership	127 member federations
President	Leandro Negre
Website	http://worldhockey.org/

Member nations

The International Hockey Federation (Fédération Internationale de Hockey sur Gazon, or FIH) is the global governing body for the sport of field hockey, which is known simply as hockey in many countries.

The FIH was founded in January 7, 1924 in Paris by Paul Léautey, who became the first president, in response to hockey's omission from the programme of the 1924 Summer Olympics. The seven founding members were Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Spain and Switzerland. The FIH soon grew to have many members and achieve international recognition. In 1982, the FIH merged with the IFWHA (International Federation of Women's Hockey Associations), which had been founded in 1927 by Australia, Denmark, England, Ireland, Scotland, South Africa, the United States and Wales.

The organisation is based in Lausanne since 2005, having moved from Brussels. The current president is Leandro Negre from Spain, who was elected on November 29, 2008 in Los Angeles, California.^[1]

Member associations

The FIH consists of five continental associations and 127 member associations, in cooperation to promote and develop the sport. Geographically, there are 17 from Africa, 30 from Asia, 45 from Europe, 9 from Oceania and 26 from the Americas.

Africa
Botswana	Egypt	Ghana	Kenya	Libya
Malawi	Morocco	Namibia	Nigeria	Seychelles
South Africa	Sudan	Tanzania	Togo	Uganda
Zambia	Zimbabwe
Asia
Afghanistan	Bangladesh	Brunei	Cambodia	China
Chinese Taipei	Hong Kong	India	Indonesia	Iran
Japan	Kazakhstan	Korea	Korea (DPR)	Macau
Malaysia	Mongolia	Myanmar	Nepal	Oman
Pakistan	Philippines	Qatar	Singapore	Sri Lanka
Tadjikistan	Thailand	Turkmenistan	United Arab Emirates	Uzbekistan
Europe
Armenia	Austria	Azerbaijan	Belarus	Belgium
Bulgaria	Croatia	Cyprus	Czech Republic	Denmark
England	Estonia	Finland	France	Georgia
Germany	Gibraltar	Greece	Great Britain[2]	Hungary
Ireland	Israel	Italy	Latvia[2]	Lithuania
Luxembourg	Macedonia	Malta	Moldova	Netherlands
Norway	Poland	Portugal	Romania	Russia
Scotland	Serbia	Slovakia	Slovenia	Spain
Sweden	Switzerland	Turkey	Ukraine	Wales
Oceania
American Samoa	Australia	Fiji	Papua New Guinea	New Zealand
Solomon Islands	Tonga	Vanuatu	Western Samoa
Pan American
Argentina	Bahamas	Barbados	Bermuda	Brazil
Canada	Cayman Islands	Chile	Costa Rica	Cuba
Dominican Republic	Ecuador	El Salvador	Guatemala	Guyana
Jamaica	Mexico	Netherlands Antilles	Panama	Paraguay
Peru	Puerto Rico	Trinidad & Tobago	United States	Uruguay
Venezuela

Competitions

The FIH organises the five major international field hockey events, including the Indoor World Cup which was introduced in 2003:

• Olympic Games in cooperation with International Olympic Committee
• Hockey World Cup
• Hockey Junior World Cup
• Champions Trophy
• Champions Challenge
• Indoor Hockey World Cup

Awards

Like football, there are two hockey awards given annually from 1998, men and women. From 2001, another two awards were introduced for junior players (under-21) for men and women, named Young Men and Young Women.

Year	Men	Women	Young Men	Young Women
1998	Stephan Veen	Alyson Annan
1999	Jay Stacy	Natascha Keller
2000	Stephan Veen	Alyson Annan
2001	Florian Kunz	Luciana Aymar	Tibor Weißenborn	Angie Skirving
2002	Michael Green	Cecilia Rognoni	Jamie Dwyer	Agustina García
2003	Teun de Nooijer	Mijntje Donners	Grant Schubert	Maartje Scheepstra
2004	Jamie Dwyer	Luciana Aymar	Santi Freixa	Agustina García
2005	Teun de Nooijer	Luciana Aymar	Robert van der Horst	Maartje Goderie
2006	Teun de Nooijer	Minke Booij	Christopher Zeller	Park Mi-hyun
2007	Jamie Dwyer	Luciana Aymar	Mark Knowles	Maike Stoickel
2008	Pol Amat	Luciana Aymar	Eddie Ockenden	Maartje Paumen

World ranking

Top 10 Men's Rankings as of September 01, 2009[3]
Rank	Team	Points
1	Germany	2580
2	Australia	2365
3	Spain	2195
4	Netherlands	2108
5	Korea	2003
6	England	1765
7	Pakistan	1710
8	New Zealand	1488
9	Belgium	1263
10	Argentina	1147

Top 10 Women's Rankings as of October 20, 2009[4]
Rank	Team	Points
1	Netherlands	2190
2	Argentina	1980
3	China	1810
4	Germany	1780
5	Australia	1728
6	Japan	1553
7	Spain	1408
8	England	1405
9	New Zealand	1333
10	USA	1213

The world ranking is used to determined the seeded entries for the international field hockey tournaments including qualification tournament, and the previous four years' international results are used in the points calculation.

Below are the tournaments whose results are used for the points calculation:

• Olympic Games
• World Cup
• Champions Trophy
• Champions Challenge
• Continental federation Championships

If the main tournament has a qualification tournament, its results will also be used in the ranking:

• 25 percent of total points won in year one
• 50 percent of total points won in year two
• 75 percent of total points won in year three
• 100 percent of total points won in year four
• Continental championships based on the final placing

For continental championships points, because Asian, European and Oceania have a higher overall standard of competition, they awarded 500 points for the first place finisher as opposed to African and Pan American which are only awarded 375 points for first place finisher. Lower places may also receive different numbers of ranking points.

See also

• Hockey Rules Board

Footnotes

External links

• Official website

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