Current season, competition or edition: 2025–26 Women's FIH Pro League | |
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| Formerly | Hockey World League |
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| Sport | Field hockey |
| Founded | 2017; 8 years ago (2017) |
| First season | 2019 |
| No. of teams | 9 |
| Continent | International (FIH) |
| Most recent champion |  Netherlands (5th title)(2024–25) |
| Most titles | Netherlands (5 titles) |
| Relegation to | FIH Hockey Nations Cup |
| Official website | fihproleague.com |
TheWomen's FIH Pro League is an international women'sfield hockey competition organized by theInternational Hockey Federation (FIH), which replaces theWomen's FIH Hockey World League. The competition also serves as a qualifier for theHockey World Cup and the first edition also did for theOlympic Games.[1]
The first edition was started in 2019. Nine teams secured their places for four years.
Nine teams will compete in around-robin tournament with home and away matches, played from January to June, with the top four teams advancing to the grand final at a pre-determined location.[2] In July 2017,Hockey India decided to withdraw both themen's andwomen's national teams from the competition as they estimated the chances of qualifying for theSummer Olympics to be higher when participating in theHockey Series. Hockey India also cited lack of clarity in the ranking system.[3][4] The International Hockey Federation subsequently invitedBelgium instead.[5]
On 17 September 2021, both, New Zealand and Australia, withdrew from the 2021–22 season due to theCOVID-19 pandemic and the travel restrictions coming with it.[6][7] They were replaced by India and Spain on 8 October 2021.[8] For the 2023–24 season, New Zealand withdraw and was replaced by the United States.[9]
India (relegated from 2024–25 season)
New Zealand (withdrew for the 2025–26 season)
United States (relegated from 2023–24 season)For the 2020 edition, the home and away principle is kept but this principle will now be split over two consecutive seasons and work according to the following example:[10]
Also this new format removes the grand final event, held in the previous edition.
From 2022 onwards the bottom team at the end of the season will be relegated and will be replaced by the winner of a new competition called theWomen's FIH Hockey Nations Cup.[11]
The home and away principle will be kept, however the season will be divided into date blocks. To assist with competition planning, international and national, several teams will gather in on venue to contest "mini-tournaments", wherein they each play two matches against one another.
| Edition | Season | Final | Third place match | Teams GS /FR | |||||||
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| Champions | Score | Runners-up | Third place | Score | Fourth place | ||||||
1 | 2019 | Netherlands | 2–2 (4–3p.s.o.) |  Australia |  Germany | 1–1 (3–1 p.s.o.) |  Argentina | 9 / 4 | |||
2 | 2020–21 | Netherlands | RR | Argentina |  Great Britain | RR | Germany | 9 | |||
3 | 2021–22 | Argentina | RR | Netherlands | India | RR |  Belgium | 9 | |||
4 | 2022–23 | Netherlands | RR | Argentina | Australia | RR | Belgium | 9 | |||
5 | 2023–24 | Netherlands | RR | Germany | Argentina | RR | Belgium | 9 | |||
6 | 2024–25 | Netherlands | RR | Argentina | Belgium | RR |  China | 9 | |||
7 | 2025–26 | RR | RR | 9 | |||||||
| Team | Winners | Runners-up | Third place | Fourth place |
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| Netherlands | 5 (2019*, 2020–21 , 2022–23 , 2023–24, 2024–25) | 1 (2021–22) | ||
| Argentina | 1 (2021–22) | 3 (2020–21, 2022–23, 2024–25) | 1 (2023–24) | 1 (2019) |
| Germany | 1 (2023–24) | 1 (2019) | 1 (2020–21 | |
| Australia | 1 (2019) | 1 (2022–23) | ||
| Belgium | 1 (2024–25) | 3 (2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24) | ||
| Great Britain | 1 (2020–21) | |||
| India | 1 (2021–22) | |||
| China | 1 (2024–25) |
| Team | 2019 | 2020–21 | 2021–22 | 2022–23 | 2023–24 | 2024–25 | 2025–26 | Total |
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| Argentina | 4th | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 2nd | Q | 7 |
| Australia | 2nd | 5th | WD | 3rd | 6th | 5th | Q | 6 |
| Belgium | 5th | 7th | 4th | 4th | 4th | 3rd | Q | 7 |
| China | 7th | 8th | 8th | 7th | 5th | 4th | Q | 7 |
 England | Part of GB | 7th | Part of GB | 8th | Q | 3 | ||
| Germany | 3rd | 4th | 6th | 5th | 2nd | 7th | Q | 7 |
| Great Britain | 8th | 3rd | – | 6th | 7th | – | – | 4 |
| India | – | – | 3rd | – | 8th | 9th | – | 3 |
 Ireland | – | – | – | – | – | – | Q[a] | 1 |
| Netherlands | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | Q | 7 |
| New Zealand | 6th | 6th | WD | 8th | WD[b] | – | WD[a] | 3 |
 Spain | – | – | 5th | – | – | 6th | Q | 3 |
| United States | 9th | 9th | 9th | 9th | 9th[b] | – | – | 5 |
| Total | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | |
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