The International Hockey Federation (FIH) declared another yearly worldwide home and away association, to be propelled in 2019 including the world's driving hockey countries, which will supplant Hockey World League (HWL) Semi-Finals and Finals and the Champions Trophy.
FIH additionally chose that Champions Trophy held once in two years since 1978 will be scrapped and the 2018 version in Amsterdam will be the last competition.
"Intended to give a standard logbook of must-see occasions played in pressed stadia over the world consistently, another yearly worldwide home and away alliance including the world's driving hockey countries will supplement the Hockey World Cup and Olympic Games competitions," FIH said in an announcement.
"This framework will see worldwide groups play against rivals once at home and once away every year in this class. Taking after a while of rivalry, the top positioned groups will then fit the bill for a stand-alone thousand finale competition which will decide the champs of the opposition. This will shape part of a three level framework, indistinguishable for both the men's and ladies' amusement," it included.
Groups taking an interest in the new home and away association will be picked in light of a plainly characterized set of capability criteria intended to keep up the nature of the alliance and elevated expectation occasions.
"These have been produced around the three primary goals of the new occasion portfolio to create an enormous change in TV and media scope for hockey; make huge, intense, pressed and noisy occasions and roll out a stage improvement to expand future incomes," FIH expressed.
For those countries not in the home and away association, the following level of rivalry will stay like the present Hockey World League Round 1 and 2 occasions, played more than two year cycles.
This configuration will in any case allows groups to go the distance to the World Cup or Olympics. Indeed, even the littlest hockey-playing countries have the chance to compose their own section in hockey's history books as they advance all through the rounds of rivalry into these leader occasions.
While Hockey World Cup capability will stay like the present framework, Olympic capability will change, pending endorsement of the International Olympic Committee's Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games capability criteria.
These proposition were affirmed by the FIH Executive Board in Lausanne, Switzerland prior this month. The choice was made after over year and a half of interview, innovative work between a quantities of partners, supervised by an uncommonly shaped working gathering for this anticipate.
"This is a notable choice for the game of hockey a distinct advantage! Over a year of work and more than 700 individuals have built up this new arrangement of occasions.
Moving from a competition based arrangement to a home and away association will impressively build the estimation of our game," said FIH CEO Kelly Fairweather.
"Fans will be presented to more universal hockey consistently, with numerous more home matches for them to appreciate. This, alongside changes to the levels underneath, will significantly affect the game over all levels, shielding its future for a long time to come," he included.
FIH President Leandro Negre said the progressions were made with a point of making hockey a worldwide amusement.
"When we dispatched our procedure year and a half prior we realized that exceptional measures were required to upset the game. This is an energizing open door for hockey. A considerable measure of diligent work has as of now been embraced, yet this is just the begin.
"We require the hockey family to grasp this change now to guarantee we achieve our 10-year point of making hockey a worldwide diversion that motivates the people to come. This will positively be an amazing stride for the game as we take it to the following level," said Negre.
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