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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

Member Associations

Competitions

Awards

World ranking

Footnotes

See also

External links

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

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 Junly 30 2007
Rank	Team	Points
1	Germany	1878
2	Australia	1845
3	Spain	1781
4	Netherlands	1663
5	Pakistan	1523
6	Korea	1225
7	Argentina	1209
8	India	1180
9	New Zealand	1065
10	England	1059

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

1. 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.

See also

★ Hockey Rules Board

External links

★ Official Website