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.

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. Those twenty teams, shown with qualifying rankings, were the following:

• 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

Main article: 2016–17 Women's FIH Hockey World League 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

Main article: 2016–17 Women's FIH Hockey World League 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

Main article: 2016–17 Women's FIH Hockey World League 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

Main article: 2016–17 Women's FIH Hockey World League Final

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