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The Fédération Internationale de Hockey (International Hockey Federation), commonly known by the . FIH, is the international governing body of field hockey and indoor field hockey . Its headquarters are in Lausanne, Switzerland and the president is Narinder Batra. FIH is responsible for field hockey's major international tournaments, notably the World Cup.

FIH was founded on 7 January 1924 in Paris  by Paul Léautey, who became the first president, in response to field hockey's omission from the programme of the 1924 summer Olympics First members complete to join the seven founding members were Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Spain and Switzerland.

In total, there are 138 member associations within the five confederations recognised by FIH