FIH Women's World Ranking

The FIH Women's World Rankings is a ranking system for 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]

Current rankings

Women's Top 20 Rankings as of 4 July 2025[2]
Rank Change Team Points
1  Netherlands 3681.77
2  Argentina 3220.83
3  Belgium 3026.59
4  China 2813.01
5  Australia 2724.34
6  Germany 2630.99
7  Spain 2584.6
8  England 2480.51
9  India 2242.62
10  New Zealand 2176.62
11  Ireland 2105.07
12  Chile 2033.26
13  Japan 2029.56
14  United States 1958.57
15  Scotland 1813.36
16  South Korea 1793.33
17 2  France 1606.63
18 1  Italy 1577.76
19 1  Canada 1549.4
20  Belarus 1503.29
*Change from 4 March 2025

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 the World Cup.[3]

Calculation method

Overview

All of the FIH-recognised, including qualifying and continental matches played in 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 tabulation below:

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

Continental championships method

FIH had set allocated ranking points for all the continental tournaments. However, a different percentage of points for every continent raised questions about the system. Only Europe had full 100% points allocation for all classifications while the others had only several finishers with full points allocation. Africa was the sole continent with neither men's or women's tournaments having full points allocation regardless of the classifications.

New calculation method

From 2020 onwards, the FIH rolled out a new match-based world rankings system similar to the ones being used in rugby union and association football.[4]

Rank leaders

Women's at the end of each year
Year Team
Present  Netherlands
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011  Argentina
2010
2009  Netherlands
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003  Argentina
Women's Leaderboard
Team Years
 Netherlands 19
 Argentina 3

See also

References

  1. ^ "FIH to introduce world rankings". The Hindu. 2 September 2003. Archived from the original on 24 September 2004. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
  2. ^ "FIH Outdoor World Hockey Rankings". FIH. 4 July 2025. Retrieved 4 July 2025.
  3. ^ "FIH World Ranking System" (PDF). International Hockey Federation. FIH.ch. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
  4. ^ "FIH creates Hockey5s World Cup". fih.ch. International Hockey Federation. 11 November 2019. Retrieved 14 November 2019.
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