International Hockey Federation

 

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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 7 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 FIH works in cooperation with regional governing bodies, African Hockey Federation, Asian Hockey Federation, European Hockey Federation, Oceania Hockey Federation and Pan American Hockey Federation to promote and develop the sport.

The organisation is based in Lausanne since 2005, having moved from Brussels.

Member Associations

Today, the FIH consists of five continental associations and 116 member associations. Geographically, there are 16 from Africa, 30 from Asia, 40 from Europe, 8 from Oceania and 22 from the Americas.

Africa
Botswana	Egypt	Ghana	Kenya	Libya
Malawi	Morocco	Namibia	Nigeria	Seychelles
South Africa	Sudan	Tanzania	Uganda	Zambia
Zimbabwe
Asia
Afghanistan	Armenia	Azerbaijan	Bangladesh	Brunei
Cambodia	China	Chinese Taipei	Hong Kong	India
Indonesia	Iran	Japan	Kazakhstan	Korea
Korea (DPR)	Macau	Malaysia	Myanmar	Nepal
Oman	Pakistan	Philippines	Singapore	Sri Lanka
Tadjikistan	Thailand	Turkmenistan	Uzbekistan	United Arab Emirates
Europe
Austria	Belarus	Belgium	Bulgaria	Croatia
Cyprus	Czech Republic	Denmark	England	Finland
France	Georgia	Germany	Gibraltar	Greece
United Kingdom [1]	Hungary	Ireland	Israel	Italy
Latvia	Lithuania	Luxembourg	Malta	Moldova
Netherlands	Norway	Poland	Portugal	Romania
Russia	Scotland	Slovakia	Slovenia	Spain
Sweden	Switzerland	Turkey	Ukraine	Wales
Oceania
American Samoa	Australia	Fiji	Papua New Guinea	New Zealand
Solomon Islands	Tonga	Western Samoa
Pan American
Argentina	Bahamas	Barbados	Bermuda	Brazil
Canada	Cayman Islands	Chile	Cuba	Dominican Republic
Guyana	Jamaica	Mexico	Netherlands Antilles	Paraguay
Panama	Peru	Puerto Rico	United States	Uruguay
Trinidad & Tobago	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.

Men 1998 – Stephan Veen 1999 – Jay Stacy 2000 – Stephan Veen 2001 – Florian Kunz 2002 – Michael Green 2003 – Teun de Nooijer 2004 – Jamie Dwyer 2005 – Teun de Nooijer 2006 – Teun de Nooijer Young Men 2001 – Tibor Weißenborn 2002 – Jamie Dwyer 2003 – Grant Schubert 2004 – Santi Freixa 2005 – Robert van der Horst 2006 – Christopher Zeller

Women 1998 – Alyson Annan 1999 – Natascha Keller 2000 – Alyson Annan 2001 – Luciana Aymar 2002 – Cecilia Rognoni 2003 – Mijntje Donners 2004 – Luciana Aymar 2005 – Luciana Aymar 2006 – Minke Booij Young Women 2001 – Angie Skirving 2002 – Agustina García 2003 – Maartje Scheepstra 2004 – Agustina García 2005 – Maartje Goderie 2006 – Park Mi-hyun

World ranking

Top 10 Men's Rankings as of September 18 2007
Rank	Team	Points
1	Australia	1658
2	Germany	1621
3	Netherlands	1518
4	Spain	1494
5	Korea	1225
6	Pakistan	1188
7	Argentina	1175
8	India	1078
9	England	1059
10	New Zealand	1020

Top 10 Women's Rankings as of September 18 2007 [2]
Rank	Team	Points
1	Netherlands	2044
2	Argentina	1809
3	Germany	1733
4	Australia	1591
5	China	1411
6	Japan	1375
7	New Zealand	1201
8	Spain	1200
9	Korea	1065
10	England	1043

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.

Footnotes

See also

• Hockey Rules Board

External links

• Official Website

International field hockey
FIH | World Cup | Women's World Cup | Champions Trophy | Champions Challenge | Junior World Cup | Indoor World Cup | Olympic Games | Commonwealth Games | Asian Games | Pan American Games | Teams
Asia: ASHF – Asia Cup      Africa: AFHF – African Cup of Nations      Americas: PAHF – Pan American Cup      Oceania: OHF – Oceania Cup      Europe: EHF – Nations Championship

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