International Hockey Federation
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| International Hockey Federation | |
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| Abbreviation | FIH |
| Motto | FairPlay Friendship Forever |
| Formation | 7 January 1924 |
| Type | Sports federation |
| Headquarters | Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Region served | Worldwide |
| Membership | 127 member federations |
| President |  Leandro Negre |
| Website | www.fih.ch |
The International Hockey Federation (Fédération Internationale de Hockey sur Gazon, or FIH) is the global governing body of field hockey. Its headquarters are located in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The FIH was founded on January 7, 1924 in Paris by Paul Léautey, who became the first president, in response to field 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]
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[edit] History
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[edit] 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.
[edit] Competitions
The FIH organises the five major international field hockey events, including the Indoor World Cup which was introduced in 2003:
Outdoor games:
- Olympic Games in cooperation with International Olympic Committee
- Hockey World Cup
- Women's Hockey World Cup
- Hockey Junior World Cup
- Women's Hockey Junior World Cup
- Hockey Champions Trophy
- Hockey Champions Challenge
- Hockey Champions Challenge II
- Hockey Confederations Cup
- Hockey World Clubs Championships
Indoor games:
[edit] Awards
Like football, there are two field 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.
[edit] World ranking
| Top 10 Women's Rankings as of October 30, 2011[3] |
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| Rank | Team | Points |
| 1 |  Netherlands |
2063 |
| 2 |  Argentina |
2030 |
| 3 |  Germany |
1765 |
| 4 |  England |
1696 |
| 5 |  China |
1675 |
| 6 |  New Zealand |
1615 |
| 7 |  Australia |
1548 |
| 8 |  Korea |
1423 |
| 9 |  Japan |
1318 |
| 10 |  United States |
1233 |
| Top 10 Men's Rankings as of December 12, 2011[4] |
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| Rank | Team | Points |
| 1 | Australia |
2188 |
| 2 | Germany |
1988 |
| 3 | Netherlands |
1855 |
| 4 | England |
1662 |
| 5 | Spain |
1650 |
| 6 | Korea |
1490 |
| 7 | New Zealand |
1395 |
| 8 |  Pakistan |
1315 |
| 9 | Argentina |
1292 |
| 10 |  India |
1288 |
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
- Men's World Cup
- Men's Junior World Cup
- Women's World Cup
- Women's Junior World Cup
- Hockey Confederations Cup
- Champions Trophy
- Champions Challenge 1
- Champions Challenge 11
- Continental federation Championships & Games
- Hockey Club World Championships
- Indoor Hockey World Cup
- Indoor Hockey Club World Cup
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 & games based on the final placing
For continental championships points, because Asia, Europe and Oceania have a higher overall standard of competition, they awarded 500 points for the first place finisher as opposed to Africa and the Americas which are only awarded 375 points for first place finisher. Lower placing nations also receive different amounts off points in each continent.
[edit] See also
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ "Leandro Negre elected as FIH President". FIH. 2008-11-29. http://worldhockey.org/vsite/vcontent/content/transnews/0,10869,1181-18543-19728-15688-292028-14316-5039-layout169-19693-news-item,00.html. Retrieved 2008-12-04.
- ^ a b Adherent members in International Hockey Federation
- ^ "ABN AMRO WorldHockey Team Rankings - Women". FIH. http://www.fih.ch/files/Sport/World%20Ranking/FIHWomensWorldRankings30October2011.pdf.
- ^ "ABN AMRO WorldHockey Team Rankings - Men". FIH. http://www.fih.ch/en/fih/events/worldranking.
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