Worldwide hockey in 2025 delivered a relentless calendar of top-flight motion — from the FIH Hockey Professional League battles to Nations Cup and Nations Cup 2 drama together with Continental Championships throughout all continents — sparking notable shifts within the FIH World Rankings. Throughout each the lads’s and ladies’s sport, acquainted powers consolidated their positions whereas rising groups made significant positive factors.
Within the girls’s rankings, Netherlands (3809) who began the 12 months within the high spot, maintained their stranglehold all year long, with one other stellar season the place they added extra trophies to their cupboard with championship runs on the Professional League and the EuroHockey Championships, whereas Argentina (3326), Belgium (3109) and China (2977) with nice continental championship and Professional League campaigns proceed within the second, third and fourth locations respectively, the place they began the 12 months.
Spain (2777) are amongst the largest gainers of the 12 months among the many top-10 rankings, as they discover themselves within the fifth spot, having began the 12 months in eighth! Spain’s climb comes on the expense of Australia (2758), Germany (2734) and England (2510) who’ve all dropped one place from the place they began the 12 months, ending it in sixth, seventh and eighth spots.
New Zealand (2319) who received the Ladies’s FIH Hockey Nations Cup and the Oceania Cup in 2025 have climbed to ninth place above India (2315), who suffered Professional League relegation in 2025. Japan (2186) and United States (2172) are up two locations into eleventh and twelfth on the expense of Eire (2030) and Chile (1999) who’re all the way down to thirteenth and fifteenth, with Scotland (2015) in fourteenth. Korea (1864) stay in sixteenth, adopted by France (1742) whose triumph on the FIH Hockey Nations Cup 2 noticed them climb three spots up. Italy (1737), Uruguay (1736) and South Africa (1670) spherical out the top-20, with Canada (1668) and Malaysia (1667) simply outdoors!
Within the males’s rankings, Netherlands (3376) and Belgium (3225) proceed to carry the highest two spots, however there are many shake-ups beneath in comparison with the beginning of the 12 months! Germany (3116) are up one spot into third following a profitable EuroHockey marketing campaign, adopted by Argentina (3022) who’re as much as fourth after beginning the 12 months in eighth spot! Australia (3007) and Spain (2995) are up one spot every in fifth and sixth, adopted by England (2864) and India (2845) who suffered the largest drops, having began the 12 months in third and fifth spots respectively.
France (2371) stay within the ninth, whereas New Zealand (2254) and Eire (2246) have swapped locations with one another because the begin of the 12 months. South Africa (2127) and Malaysia (2097) stay regular in twelfth and thirteenth. Following their promotion to the FIH Hockey Professional League, Pakistan (2034) are up one place in fourteenth, adopted by Wales (1989) and Korea (1981). Egypt (1956) who had a stellar debut on the FIH Hockey Nations Cup 2, are massive movers for the 12 months, discovering themselves in seventeenth. Japan (1982), Canada (1863) and Scotland (1843) spherical out the top-20, with Austria (1805), Chile (1727), China (1723), Poland (1694) and United States (1690) occupying the subsequent 5 spots.
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The rankings calculations mannequin that FIH launched on 1st January 2020 moved away from the earlier tournament-based rankings system to a dynamic, match-based technique the place opposing groups change factors in official, FIH sanctioned video games. The variety of factors exchanged will depend on the results of the match, the relative rating of the groups and the significance of the match. Extra details about the brand new rankings mannequin may be discovered beneath.
How the FIH World Rankings work:
The variety of factors exchanged will depend on the results of the match, the relative rating of the groups and the significance of the match.
FIH World Rankings defined:
Based mostly on the Elo ranking system, which is used as the premise of many different sports activities rating programs
When two nations play in opposition to one another, a variety of rating factors are exchanged between them
In each match, the variety of factors gained by one workforce is precisely matched by the variety of factors misplaced by the opposite
Groups will win extra factors for beating groups ranked above them, and subsequently groups will lose extra factors for dropping to a workforce ranked beneath them
Groups will win much less factors for beating groups ranked beneath them, and subsequently groups will lose much less factors for dropping to a workforce ranked above them
If a draw happens, the decrease ranked workforce will achieve a small variety of factors and the upper ranked workforce will lose the identical variety of factors
The variety of factors exchanged depends on the results of the match (win, lose, shootout win/loss or draw), the significance of the match (a part of a serious event, or a take a look at collection for instance), and the relative distinction in rating factors between the groups earlier than the match.
Extra particulars in regards to the method used within the algorithm, weightings of matches and different components may be discovered HERE along with a Continuously Requested Questions doc HERE.
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