International Hockey Federation

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For the governing body of ice hockey, see International Ice Hockey Federation.

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. Founded in January 7, 1924 with just seven member nations (Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Spain and Switzerland), the FIH soon grew to have many members and achieve international recognition.

The FIH was founded on in Paris by Paul Léautey, who became the first president, in response to hockey's omission from the programme of the Summer Olympics.

It also 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.

1 Member Associations
2 Competitions
3 Awards
4 World ranking
5 Footnotes
6 See also
7 External links

[edit] 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	Myammar	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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] World ranking

Top 10 Men's Rankings as of September 2006
Rank	Team	Points
1	Germany	2315
2	Australia	2295
3	Spain	2193
4	Netherlands	2000
5	Pakistan	1810
6	Korea	1500
7	India	1418
8	Argentina	1275
9	England	1249
10	New Zealand	1220

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.

[edit] Footnotes

^ Though there exists a Great British hockey federation, its jurisdiction is limited to selecting Olympic sides, with regional federations within the UK retaining sole control of their respective national teams at all other times.