FIH World Rankings

Men's Top 20 Rankings as of July 2017 Rank Team Points 1 ( )  Argentina 1845 2 ( )  Australia 1825 3 ( )  Germany 1700 4 ( )  Netherlands 1683 5 ( )  Belgium 1640 6 ( )  India 1461 7 ( )  England 1357 8 ( )  New Zealand 1214 9 ( 1)  Spain 1178 10 ( 1)  Ireland 1143 11 ( )  Canada 1015 12 ( 2)  Malaysia 930 13 ( 1 )  South Korea 898 14 ( 1)  Pakistan 895 15 ( )  South Africa 733 16 ( 1 )  France 720 17 ( 1 )  Japan 711 18 ( )  China 658 19 ( )  Egypt 613 20 ( )  Poland 542 Complete rankings at FIH.ch

Women's Top 20 Rankings as of July 2017 Rank Team Points 1 ( )  Netherlands 1935 2 ( )  England 1793 3 ( )  Argentina 1683 4 ( 2 )  United States 1626 5 ( 1 )  Australia 1625 6 ( 1 )  New Zealand 1603 7 ( )  Germany 1540 8 ( )  China 1256 9 ( )  South Korea 1194 10 ( )  Spain 1070 11 ( )  Japan 1005 12 ( )  India 948 13 ( )  South Africa 903 14 ( )  Belgium 825 15 ( 1)  Italy 698 16 ( 1)  Ireland 688 17 ( )  Scotland 636 18 ( )  Poland 543 19 ( )  Canada 538 20 ( )  Chile 530 Complete rankings at FIH.ch

The FIH World Ranking is a ranking system for men's and women's national teams in field hockey. The teams of the member nations of International Hockey Federation (FIH), field hockey's world governing body, are ranked based on their game results. The rankings were introduced in October 2003.^[1]

Uses of the rankings

The rankings were introduced to overcome the criticism of fixing when drawing the pools for each tournament. It also determines the quotas for tournaments such as the Olympic Games and also the World Cup.^[2]

Calculation method

Overview

All of the FIH-recognised, including qualifying and continental tournaments for last four years are included in ranking points calculation. However, the past results will be deducted by the percentage set by the FIH as shown by the tabulated below.

Continental championships

FIH had set the total allocated points for continental tournament. However, a different percentage was set to differ the standard of regional field hockey. Currently, only Europe had full 100% points allocation for all classification while the others had only several finishers with full points allocation. Africa is the sole continent with neither men's or women's tournament had full points allocation.

Rank Leaders

Men's at the end of each year Year Team Present  Argentina 2016  Australia 2015 2014 2013 2012  Germany 2011  Australia 2010 2009  Germany 2008 2007 2006 2005  Australia 2004 2003 2002 2001  Pakistan 2000

Women's at the end of each year Year Team Present  Netherlands 2016  Netherlands 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011  Argentina 2010 2009  Netherlands 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003  Argentina 2002 2001  Netherlands 2000

References

External links

• FIH Men's and Women's World Ranking