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 25 Feb 2025 ^[2]

Rank	Change	Team	Points
1		Netherlands	3688.55
2		Argentina	3203.16
3		Belgium	2918.25
4		Germany	2846.82
5		India	2918.04
6		Australia	2820.41
7		China	2684.77
8		England	2471.17
9		Spain	2422.39
10		New Zealand	2124.16
11		Japan	2063.43
12		Ireland	2028.49
13		United States	1998.39
14		Chile	1962.3
15		South Korea	1868.64
16		Scotland	1756.68
17		Canada	1657.1
18		Italy	1583.4
19	3	France	1519.14
20	1	Belarus	1503.29
*Change from 13 August 2024

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

• FIH Men's World Ranking

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. 25 Feb 2025. Retrieved 25 Feb 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.

External links

• FIH World Rankings