Lausanne, Switzerland: The Govt Board (EB) of the Worldwide Hockey Federation (FIH) held its first assembly of the yr on 14 and 15 March on the FIH workplace in Lausanne, Switzerland, underneath the chairmanship of FIH President Tayyab Ikram who opened the assembly with congratulatory phrases to the EB members and the Nationwide Associations (NAs) for a really profitable 2024.
Certainly, this fairly distinctive yr included the Centenary of FIH, the Paris 2024 Olympics, the very first FIH Hockey5s World Cup, the forty ninth FIH Congress, the NA Summits in addition to quite a few growth actions and different occasions organized by hockey’s world governing physique.
The success of the Paris 2024 Olympic tournaments was particularly underlined by IOC President Thomas Bach himself to President Ikram throughout their private interplay held final week on the Olympic Home in Lausanne.
The assembly continued with an in depth assessment of the preparations for the subsequent version of the FIH Hockey World Cup for Ladies and Males that shall be hosted by Belgium and the Netherlands in 2026. A delegation from the co-hosts met with the FIH Workforce on the FIH workplace final week to debate the principle strategic and operational subjects of the occasion.
The EB members additionally regarded again with numerous satisfaction on the just lately accomplished FIH occasions.
The FIH Hockey Professional League has simply reached its “half-time” with all groups having performed their first eight matches throughout thrilling phases held in Argentina, Australia, China, India and the Netherlands. The season will resume in June.
The FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup held in Poreč, Croatia, was the primary FIH occasion to be performed in 2025. Croatia have been internet hosting their first-ever FIH World Cup and it was a real success.
Then, the inaugural version of the FIH Hockey Males’s Nations Cup 2 was performed in Oman. This new occasion, enabling groups ranked after the Nations Cup groups to play a high-level world event and, for the profitable workforce, to be promoted into the Nations Cup, confirmed how a lot the choice to create it was proper.
Final however not least on this intense month of February for worldwide hockey, the third version of the FIH Hockey Ladies’s Nations Cup was performed in Chile. One other glorious occasion, with a vibrant crowd creating an unforgettable ambiance and expertise for all athletes.
Detailed updates got to the Board concerning the upcoming occasions, specifically the FIH Hockey Males’s Nations Cup Malaysia 2024-25 (Kuala Lumpur, 15-21 June), the FIH Hockey Ladies’s Nations Cup 2 Poland 2024-25 (Walcz, 16-22 June), the FIH Hockey Ladies’s Junior World Cup Chile 2025 (Santiago, 1-13 December) and the FIH Hockey Males’s Junior World Cup that shall be performed within the cities of Chennai and Madurai, India, from 28 November to 10 December 2025.
When it comes to hockey growth, the most recent details about the FIH Empowerment and Engagement Technique was shared, together with the event grants for Nationwide Associations (NAs), as permitted by the Empowerment & Engagement Committee. Grants have been awarded to NAs from all 5 continents. They deal with a various vary of growth tasks, together with college hockey initiatives, nationwide workforce coaching and competitors, schooling for coaches, umpires and technical officers, in addition to ladies empowerment tasks. Additionally, an in depth software and analysis course of for NAs to profit from a Hockey5s court docket has been launched.
The EB welcomed ASOIF and FEI President Ingmar de Vos in addition to IOC Sports activities Director Package McConnell, who’s just lately been appointed as Brisbane 2032 Chief Sport Officer. It was an amazing interplay with key members of the Olympic motion. The FIH President thanked them for his or her steering and assist, and reminded how important it’s for hockey to be a powerful and lively member of the Olympic motion, exactly.
Concluding the assembly, FIH President Tayyab Ikram mentioned: “I’m significantly happy with the way in which the assembly went, the knowledge shared and the spirit that prevails inside this Govt Board, with everybody contributing to creating our organisation and our sport on daily basis higher and greater. I’d like to increase particular because of Ingmar de Vos and Package McConnell for visiting us and offering their assist to the event and success of hockey. 2024 was a really profitable yr for hockey. That is very encouraging and an amazing motivation to pursue our relentless efforts to develop the sport.”
The following EB assembly shall be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on 13-14 June.
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