3 December 2020 Lausanne, Switzerland: Under the chairmanship of FIH President Dr Narinder Dhruv Batra, the Executive Board (EB) of the International Hockey Federation (FIH) conducted today, via online conference, its last meeting of the year. Discussing the allocation of quotas per continent for the upcoming FIH Women’s and Men’s World Cups, to be played
3 December 2020 Lausanne, Switzerland: With a piece of extraordinarily bright news in a year that has been devoid of too much joy, the Special Olympics has announced that Hockey for those with Intellectual Disabilities, which is known as either ParaHockey ID or Hockey ID, will be included in the 2023 Special Olympics World Games
Africa Hockey News | 19 Oct. 2020: Blantyre, Malawi 🇲🇼 Inauguration of the Pablo Negre Turf in presence of Minister of Youth & Sports Mr. Ulemu Msungama and the African Hockey Federation President & FIH EB member Mr. Seif Ahmed. ACCC 2020 to be postponed from Dec. 2020 to take place in Malawi during 2021.
In 2016, FIH awarded Malawi the prestigious Pablo Negre Award, therefore helping the African nation to get a new artificial turf hockey pitch. Turf was supplied by FIH Partner Polytan and lighting by Musco Lighting, a Supplier to the Pablo Negre Award. The brand-new facility was inaugurated last Sunday in attendance of Minister of Youth
24 September 2020 Lausanne, Switzerland: Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic still going on, the International Hockey Federation (FIH) and the Belgian Hockey Association have jointly decided to postpone the upcoming FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup – initially scheduled to be played in February 2021 – to 2-6 February 2022, in order to maximise the
16 September 2020 The International Hockey Federation (FIH) and NAGRA launch the Watch.Hockey app to create the digital “home of hockey” for 30 million fans and players New app kicks off the new digital “home of hockey” for the global hockey community, available on September 17th, 2020. Launch coincides with the gradual resumption of sports
7 September 2020 Lausanne, Switzerland: The International Testing Agency (ITA) welcomes the International Hockey Federation (FIH) as its newest partner in the fight for clean sport. The ITA will manage the entire anti-doping program of the Olympic team sport, the FIH will retain results management. The FIH has decided to have its entire anti-doping programme
While thousands of hockey clubs and sporting facilities around the world are fortunate enough to have synthetic turf surfaces dedicated almost solely to the purpose of playing hockey, there are many places where that simply isn’t possible. This is a challenge frequently faced by schools and community sports centres, where the necessity to cater for
May 19, 2020 As National Associations start to make plans for a safe return to hockey activities after the necessary restrictions imposed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the FIH has produced a document to help and support Continental Federations, National Associations and clubs through the process. The guidelines, which are aligned to those issued by
30 March 2020 Lausanne, Switzerland: “On behalf of the International Hockey Federation (FIH), I would like to thank the International Olympic Committee, the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee, the Government of Japan and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government for having confirmed the new dates of next year’s Olympics so swiftly. The international hockey community fully supports this
