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Dutch Retain Top Spots, India Men Suffer Sharp Drop -- A Look At How FIH World Rankings Shook Things Up In 2025

By IANS News December 23, 2025 • 17:34 PM View: 155

FIH Hockey Pro League: The Netherlands men and women teams maintained their top positions, winning trophies and titles to keep chasers at bay as the FIH World Rankings experienced many upheavals in a crucial year before the 2026 World Cups.

International hockey in 2025 delivered a relentless calendar of top-flight action — from the FIH Hockey Pro League battles to Nations Cup and Nations Cup 2 drama, along with Continental Championships across all continents—sparking notable shifts in the World Rankings, the sport's global governing body reported on its official website on Tuesday.

As the year wound to a close, across both the men’s and women’s games, familiar powers consolidated their positions while emerging teams made meaningful gains.