The Chilean Field Hockey Federation ( es, Federación Chilena de Hockey Sobre Césped), is the governing body of

field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ci ...

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

. It is based in

Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...

, was founded in 1981 by Rodolfo Westendarp, however, since 1962 field hockey in Chile was practiced at events in the city of

Viña del Mar Viña del Mar (; meaning "Vineyard of the Sea") is a city and commune on central Chile's Pacific coast. Often referred to as ("The Garden City"), Viña del Mar is located within the Valparaíso Region, and it is Chile's fourth largest city w ...

by British immigrants. The president is Andrés De Witt Hepp. It also runs the

national teams for

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and

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Federación Chilena Hockey Sobre Céspedhttps://web.archive.org/web/20111023005626/http://2011.chilehockey.cl/institucion/directorio/
{{DEFAULTSORT:Federacion Chilena de Hockey Sobre Cesped Sports governing bodies in Chile Field hockey in Chile National members of the Pan American Hockey Federation

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