2016–17 Women's FIH Hockey World League

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]

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
28 June–2 July 2016	Suva, Fiji	Fiji  Papua New Guinea  Solomon Islands  Tonga	1	Fiji
30 August–4 September 2016	Prague, Czech Republic	Czech Republic  Lithuania  Poland  Turkey  Ukraine	3	Czech Republic  Poland  Ukraine
9–11 September 2016	Accra, Ghana	Ghana  Kenya  Nigeria	1	Ghana
13–18 September 2016	Douai, France	Austria  France  Russia   Switzerland  Wales	3	Russia  Wales  France
27 September–2 October 2016	Salamanca, Mexico	Guatemala  Mexico  Trinidad and Tobago	2	Mexico  Trinidad and Tobago
30 September–8 October 2016	Chiclayo, Peru	Brazil  Chile  Paraguay  Peru  Uruguay	2	Uruguay  Chile

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	Fiji  Kazakhstan  Singapore  Thailand  Wales
4–12 February 2017	Valencia, Spain	Spain	Scotland  Azerbaijan	Czech Republic  Ghana  Poland  Russia  Ukraine
1–9 April 2017	West Vancouver, Canada	Canada	Belarus  India	Chile  France  Mexico  Trinidad and Tobago  Uruguay

Semifinals

Dates	Location	Teams Qualified			Final Quotas	Final Qualifiers
		Host	By Ranking	From Round 2
21 June–2 July 2017	Brussels, Belgium	Belgium	Netherlands  Australia  New Zealand  China  South Korea
8–23 July 2017	Johannesburg, South Africa	South Africa	England  Argentina  United States  Germany  Japan

Final

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

References

International field hockey
FIH World Cup Men Women Men Junior Women Junior World League Champions Trophy Olympics Youth Olympics World Rankings Achievements by nation
Africa	AFHF – African Cup for Nations
Americas	PAHF – Pan American Cup Pan American Junior Championship
Asia	ASHF – Asia Cup Junior Asia Cup
Europe	EHF – Nations Championship EuroHockey Nations Challenge EuroHockey Nations Trophy
Oceania	OHF – Oceania Cup
Games	All-Africa Games Asian Games Commonwealth Games Friendship Games Pacific Games Pan American Games
Others	Pannonia Cup Sultan Azlan Shah Cup Champions Challenge I (defunct) Champions Challenge II (defunct)