The 2014–15 Men's FIH Hockey World League was the second season of the men's field hockey national team league series. The tournament started in July 2014 in Sveti Ivan Zelina, Croatia and finished in December 2015 in Raipur, India.
The Semifinals of this competition also served as a qualifier for the 2016 Summer Olympics as the 6 highest placed teams apart from the host nation and the five continental champions qualified.
Australia won the tournament's Final round for the first time after defeating Belgium 2–1 in the final match. India won the third place match by defeating the Netherlands 3–2 on a penalty shootout after a 5–5 draw in regular time.
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, 56 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. Those nineteen teams, shown with qualifying rankings, were the following:
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17) (18) (19)
Schedule Round 1
DatesLocationTeamsRound 2QuotasRound 2Qualifier(s)1–6 July 2014Sveti Ivan Zelina, Croatia22–7 September 2014Hradec Králové, Czech Republic35–7 September 2014Dhaka, Bangladesh15–7 September 2014Muscat, Oman2 5–7 September 2014Nairobi, Kenya112–14 September 2014Guadalajara, Mexico212–14 September 2014Lousada, Portugal21–5 October 2014Kingston, Jamaica16–11 December 2014Suva, Fiji0
Round 2
DatesLocationTeams QualifiedSemifinalsQuotasSemifinalsQualifiersHostBy RankingFrom Round 117–25 January 2015Singapore328 February – 8 March 2015San Diego, United States37–15 March 2015Cape Town, South Africa3
– Fiji and Sri Lanka withdrew from participating and Oman and Ukraine took their place.
Semifinals
DatesLocationTeams QualifiedFinalQuotasFinalQualifiersHostBy RankingFrom Round 23–14 June 2015Buenos Aires, Argentina420 June–5 July 2015Antwerp, Belgium3
Final
DatesLocationTeams QualifiedHostFrom Semifinals28 November–6 December 2015Raipur, India
Final ranking FIH issued a final ranking to determine the world ranking. The final ranking was as follows:
References