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.

Contents 1 Member Associations 2 Competitions 3 Awards 4 World ranking 5 See also 6 Footnotes 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	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

[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.

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

[edit] World ranking

Top 10 Men's Rankings as of December 10, 2007[2]
Rank	Team	Points
1	Germany	1921
2	Australia	1898
3	Netherlands	1743
4	Spain	1689
5	Korea	1435
6	Pakistan	1353
7	Argentina	1115
8	England	1092
9	India	1078
10	New Zealand	1020

Top 10 Women's Rankings as of September 18, 2007 [3]
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.

[edit] See also

• Hockey Rules Board

[edit] Footnotes

[edit] External links

• Official Website

International field hockey v • d • e
FIH | World Cup | Women's World Cup | Junior World Cup | Junior Women's World Cup Champions Trophy | Champions Challenge | Olympics | 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