The 2012–13 Women's FIH Hockey World League was the inaugural edition of the women's field hockey national team league series. The tournament started in August 2012 in Prague, Czech Republic and finished in December 2013 in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina.

The Semifinals of this competition also served as a qualifier for the 2014 Women's Hockey World Cup as the 6 highest placed teams apart from the host nation and the five continental champions qualified.

The Netherlands won the tournament's Final round for the first time after defeating Australia 5–1 in the final match. England won the third place match by defeating host nation Argentina 4–2 on a penalty shootout after a 1–1 draw.

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. However, for different reasons, the final count of participating teams was 45.

The 8 teams ranked between 1st and 8th in the FIH World Rankings current as of April 2011 received an automatic bye to the Semifinals while the 8 teams ranked between 9th and 16th received an automatic bye to Round 2. Those sixteen teams, shown with qualifying rankings, were the following:

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16)

Schedule

Round 1

DatesLocationTeamsRound 2QuotasRound 2Qualifier(s)14–19 August 2012Prague, Czech Republic47–9 September 2012Accra, Ghana114–16 September 2012Kuantan, Malaysia218–23 September 2012Vienna, Austria411–17 November 2012Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago38–15 December 2012Suva, Fiji1

Round 2

DatesLocationTeams QualifiedSemifinalsQuotasSemifinalsQualifiersHostBy RankingFrom Round 121–27 January 2013Cape Town, South Africa218–24 February 2013New Delhi, India225 February – 3 March 2013Valencia, Spain24–10 March 2013Rio de Janeiro, Brazil2 – Ukraine and Canada withdrew from participating.

Semifinals

DatesLocationTeams QualifiedFinalQuotasFinalQualifiersHostBy RankingFrom Round 213–22 June 2013Rotterdam, Netherlands422–30 June 2013London, England3

Final

DatesLocationTeams QualifiedHostFrom Semifinals30 November – 8 December 2013San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina

Final ranking FIH issued a final ranking to determine the world ranking. The final ranking was as follows:

References