FIH World Rankings

Men's Top 25 Rankings as of December 2015 Rank Team Points 1 ( ) Australia 2253 2 ( ) Netherlands 2095 3 ( ) Germany 1783 4 ( ) England 1658 5 ( 2) Belgium 1630 6 ( ) Argentina 1629 7 ( 1) India 1609 8 ( 1) New Zealand 1496 9 ( ) South Korea 1313 10 ( ) Pakistan 1235 11 ( ) Spain 1123 12 ( ) Ireland 1115 13 ( ) Malaysia 1096 14 ( ) Canada 983 15 ( ) South Africa 934 16 ( ) Japan 860 17 ( ) France 840 18 ( ) Poland 668 19 ( ) China 665 20 ( ) Russia 611 21 ( ) Egypt 598 22 ( ) Austria 565 23 ( ) Czech Republic 464 24 ( ) Chile 425 25 ( ) Ukraine 395 Complete rankings at FIH.ch

Women's Top 25 Rankings as of December 2015 Rank Team Points 1 ( ) Netherlands 2188 2 ( 1 ) Argentina 2063 3 ( 1) Australia 2003 4 ( ) New Zealand 1820 5 ( ) China 1678 6 ( ) England 1608 7 ( ) United States 1585 8 ( 1) Germany 1558 9 ( 1) South Korea 1534 10 ( ) Japan 1260 11 ( ) South Africa 1166 12 ( ) Belgium 1099 13 ( ) India 1084 14 ( ) Spain 969 15 ( ) Ireland 790 16 ( ) Italy 753 17 ( ) Scotland 684 18 ( ) Belarus 569 19 ( ) Canada 568 20 ( ) Malaysia 550 21 ( ) Chile 529 22 ( ) Poland 508 23 ( ) Azerbaijan 493 24 ( ) France 440 25 ( ) Uruguay 435 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.

A points system is used, with points being awarded based on the final classification of all FIH-recognised tournaments. Rankings are based on a team's performance over the last four years, and will update once a major tournament finished.

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.

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.

Year	Points percentage included
Year 4	100%
Year 3	75%
Year 2	50%
Year 1	25%
Total points

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 2013–15 Australia 2012 Germany 2010–11 Australia 2006–09 Germany 2005 Australia 2002–04 Germany

Women's at the end of each year Year Team 2012–15 Netherlands 2010–11 Argentina 2004–09 Netherlands 2002–03 Argentina 2000–01 Netherlands

External links

• FIH Men's and Women's World Ranking