2016–17 Women's FIH Hockey World League

2016–17 Women's
FIH Hockey World League

Tournament details
Venue(s)	13 (in 13 host cities)
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The 2016–17 Women's FIH Hockey World League will be the third edition of the FIH Hockey World League field hockey championship for women. The tournament started in April 2016 in Singapore and is scheduled to finish in November 2017 in Auckland, New Zealand.^[1]

The Semifinals of this competition will also serve as a qualifier for the 2018 Women's Hockey World Cup as the 10/11 highest placed teams apart from the host nation and the five continental champions qualify.

Qualification

Each national association member of the International Hockey Federation (FIH) had the opportunity to compete in the tournament, and after seeking entries to participate, several teams were announced to compete.

The 11 teams ranked between 1st and 11th in the FIH World Rankings current at early 2015 received an automatic bye to the Semifinals while the 9 teams ranked between 12th and 20th received an automatic bye to Round 2.^[2] Those twenty teams, shown with qualifying rankings, were the following:^[3]

Netherlands (1)  Australia (2)  Argentina (3)  New Zealand (4)  United States (5)  Germany (6)  China (7)  England (8)  South Korea(9)  Japan (10)  South Africa (11)

Belgium (12)  India (13)  Ireland (14)  Spain (15)  Italy (16)  Scotland (17)  Belarus (18)  Azerbaijan (19)  Canada (20)

Schedule

Round 1

Dates	Location	Teams	Round 2 Quotas	Round 2 Qualifier(s)
9–17 April 2016	Singapore	Brunei  Cambodia  Hong Kong  Kazakhstan  Singapore  Sri Lanka  Thailand	3	Thailand  Kazakhstan  Singapore
30 August–4 September 2016	Prague, Czech Republic	Czech Republic  Lithuania  Poland  Turkey  Ukraine
9–11 September 2016	Accra, Ghana	Ghana  Kenya  Namibia  Nigeria
13–18 September 2016	Douai, France	Austria  France  Russia   Switzerland  Wales
27 September–2 October 2016	Salamanca, Mexico	Barbados  Guatemala  Jamaica  Mexico  Panama  Trinidad and Tobago
1–9 October 2016	Chiclayo, Peru	Brazil  Chile  Paraguay  Peru  Uruguay  Venezuela
TBC	Oceania

Round 2

Dates	Location	Teams Qualified			Semifinals Quotas	Semifinals Qualifiers
		Host	By Ranking	From Round 1
14–22 January 2017	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Malaysia	Ireland  Italy
4–12 February 2017	Valencia, Spain	Spain	Azerbaijan  Scotland
25 March–2 April 2017	Vancouver, Canada	Canada	Belarus  India

Semifinals

Dates	Location	Teams Qualified			Final Quotas	Final Qualifiers
		Host	By Ranking	From Round 2
28 June–9 July 2017	Belgium	Belgium
19–30 July 2017	TBC

Final

Dates	Location	Teams Qualified
		Host	From Semifinals
18–26 November 2017	Auckland, New Zealand	New Zealand

References

1. "FIH unveils event hosts for 2015-2018 cycle". FIH. 2013-11-08. Retrieved 2013-11-08.
2. "Hockey World League 2016 / 2017" (PDF). FIH. November 2015. Retrieved 2016-04-04.
3. "FIH WOMEN'S WORLD RANKINGS - MARCH 2015" (PDF). FIH. March 2015. Retrieved 2016-04-14.