2014–15 Women's FIH Hockey World League
# 2014–15 Women's FIH Hockey World League

The 2014–15 Women's FIH Hockey World League was the second edition of women's field hockey national team league series. The tournament started in June 2014 in Singapore and finished in December 2015 in Rosario, Argentina.

The Semifinals of this competition also served as a qualifier for the 2016 Summer Olympics as 7 highest placed teams apart from the five continental champions qualified.

Argentina won the tournament's Final round for the first time after defeating New Zealand 5–1 in the final. Germany won the third place match by defeating China 6–2.

## 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, 51 teams were announced to compete.

The 11 teams ranked between 1st and 11th in the FIH World Rankings current at early 2013 received an automatic bye to the Semifinals while the 8 teams ranked between 12th and 19th received an automatic bye to Round 2. Scotland would have qualified as the nineteenth ranked team but will compete as Great Britain as in every Olympic Qualifying Tournament, giving its berth to twentieth ranked Russia. Those nineteen teams, shown with qualifying rankings, were the following:

* Netherlands (1)
* Argentina (2)
* New Zealand (3)
* Great Britain (4)
* Germany (5)
* Australia (6)
* China (7)
* South Korea (8)
* Japan (9)
* United States (10)
* South Africa (11)
* India (12)
* Belgium (13)
* Ireland (14)
* Spain (15)
* Azerbaijan (16)
* Italy (17)
* Chile (18)
* Russia (20)

## Schedule

### Round 1

| Dates | Location | Teams | Round 2 Quotas | Round 2 Qualifier(s) |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 21–26 June 2014 | Singapore | Hong Kong Kazakhstan Malaysia Myanmar Singapore Sri Lanka Thailand | 4 | Malaysia Kazakhstan Thailand Singapore |
| 27–29 June 2014 | Šiauliai, Lithuania | Belarus Lithuania Poland Ukraine | 3 | Belarus Ukraine Lithuania |
| 5–7 September 2014 | Hradec Králové, Czech Republic | Austria Czech Republic France Turkey | 3 | France Austria Czech Republic |
| 5–7 September 2014 | Nairobi, Kenya | Ghana Kenya Tanzania | 1 | Kenya |
| 11–14 September 2014 | Guadalajara, Mexico | Canada Guatemala Mexico Peru | 2 | Canada Mexico |
| 30 September–5 October 2014 | Kingston, Jamaica | Barbados Dominican Republic Jamaica Puerto Rico Trinidad and Tobago | 2 | Trinidad and Tobago Dominican Republic |
| 6–11 December 2014 | Suva, Fiji | Fiji Papua New Guinea Samoa Vanuatu | 1 | Fiji |

### Round 2

| Dates | Location | Teams Qualified | Teams Qualified | Teams Qualified | Semifinals Quotas | Semifinals Qualifiers |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dates | Location | Host | By Ranking | From Round 1 | Semifinals Quotas | Semifinals Qualifiers |
| 14-22 February 2015 | Montevideo, Uruguay | Uruguay | Azerbaijan Italy | Dominican Republic France Kenya Mexico Trinidad and Tobago | 3 | Italy Uruguay Azerbaijan |
| 7–15 March 2015 | New Delhi, India | India | Russia | Ghana Kazakhstan Malaysia Poland Singapore Thailand | 2 | India Poland |
| 14–22 March 2015 | Dublin, Ireland | Ireland | Chile | Austria Belarus Canada Lithuania Turkey Ukraine | 2 | Ireland Canada |

    ^1 – The Czech Republic withdrew from participating and Turkey took their place.

### Semifinals

| Dates | Location | Teams Qualified | Teams Qualified | Teams Qualified | Final Quotas | Final Qualifiers |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dates | Location | Host | By Ranking | From Round 2 | Final Quotas | Final Qualifiers |
| 10–21 June 2015 | Valencia, Spain | Spain | Argentina China Germany Great Britain South Africa United States | Canada Ireland Uruguay | 4 | Great Britain China Germany Argentina |
| 20 June–5 July 2015 | Antwerp, Belgium | Belgium | Australia Japan Netherlands New Zealand South Korea | France India Italy Poland | 4 | Australia Netherlands New Zealand South Korea |

    ^2 – Azerbaijan withdrew from participating and France took their place.

### Final

| Dates | Location | Teams Qualified | Teams Qualified |
| - | - | - | - |
| Dates | Location | Host | From Semifinals |
| 5–13 December 2015 | Rosario, Argentina | Argentina | Australia China Germany Great Britain Netherlands New Zealand South Korea |

## Final ranking

Reference:

* Argentina
* New Zealand
* Germany
* China
* Netherlands
* Australia
* Great Britain
* South Korea
* United States
* India
* Spain
* Japan
* Belgium
* South Africa
* Ireland
* Italy
* Canada
* Poland
* Uruguay
* France
* Chile
* Malaysia
* Belarus
* Thailand
* Mexico
* Not specified
* Russia
* Austria
* Kazakhstan
* Trinidad and Tobago
* Lithuania
* Ukraine
* Dominican Republic
* Ghana
* Kenya
* Singapore
* Turkey
* Azerbaijan
