The Fédération Internationale de Hockey (English: International Hockey Federation), usually known by the abbreviation FIH, is the global administering group of field hockey and indoor field hockey. Its base camp are in Lausanne, Switzerland and the president is Narinder Dhruv Batra. FIH is answerable for field hockey's significant global competitions, remarkably the Hockey World Cup. FIH was established on 7 January 1924 in Paris by Paul Léautey, who turned into the main president, because of field hockey's exclusion from the program of the 1924 Summer Olympics. First individuals complete to join the seven establishing individuals were Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Spain, and Switzerland. In 1982, the FIH converged with the International Federation of Women's Hockey Associations (IFWHA), which had been established in 1927 by Australia, Denmark, England, Ireland, Scotland, South Africa, the United States, and Wales. The association has been situated in Lausanne, Switzerland beginning around 2005, having moved from Brussels, Belgium. Because of the 2022 Russian intrusion of Ukraine, the FIH restricted Russia from the 2022 Women's FIH Hockey Junior World Cup, and prohibited Russian and Belarusian authorities from FIH events.
