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FIBA Asia Cup
The FIBA Asia Cup, formerly the Asian Basketball Championship and first held in Manila in 1960, is the top men's basketball tournament for national teams across Asia and Oceania.
FIBA Basketball World Cup
FIBA Basketball World Cup, formerly the World Championship: quadrennial men's national team tournament first held 1950 in Buenos Aires; 32 teams; Germany reigning champion; 2027 edition in Doha, Qatar.
FIBA Europe
FIBA Europe, the European basketball federation under FIBA (also FIBA Europe e.V., Munich), governs 50 national federations, runs the FIBA Europe Cup, EuroLeague Women, and EuroCup Women, and sits in the FIBA-EuroLeague dispute.
FIBA Men's World Ranking
FIBA Men's World Ranking, presented by Nike: FIBA's official game-based rating of men's national basketball teams, launched 2017 and revised November 2025 to an accumulative points model with 0.66 pre-event discounts; used for draw seedings.
Fibonacci Nim
Fibonacci Nim: a take-away game where each move may be at most twice the previous one and the first player cannot take all; the second player wins exactly when the pile size is a Fibonacci number, via the Zeckendorf representation.
Fidchell
Fidchell (fithcheall, fidhcheall; Welsh gwyddbwyll) was the principal board game of early medieval Ireland, a skill-only battle game with equal sides and custodial capture, likely derived from Roman ludus latrunculorum; its rules are lost and all modern versions are reconstructions.
FIDE
FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs), the International Chess Federation, founded 1924 in Paris, headquartered in Lausanne; world governing body of chess regulating competitions, ratings, and titles, with 204 member federations and IOC recognition since 1999.
FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship 2026
The FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship 2026 was the first official Freestyle Chess (Chess960) world championship, staged at Weissenhaus, Germany, and won by Magnus Carlsen, who defeated Fabiano Caruana 2.5–1.5 in the final.
FIDE Grand Prix 2022
FIDE Grand Prix 2022: three 16-player knockout-pool chess tournaments in Berlin and Belgrade, February-April 2022. Hikaru Nakamura won the series, Richard Rapport was runner-up; both qualified for the 2022 Candidates Tournament in Madrid.
FIDE titles
FIDE titles: permanent designations by the International Chess Federation, including GM, IM, FM, CM and women's WGM–WCM player titles earned via norms, ratings, or direct titles, plus FIDE Arbiter and International Arbiter titles.
Fidel Edwards
Fidel Henderson Edwards (born 1982, Barbados), nicknamed Castro, is a West Indian right-arm fast bowler with a slingy action; five-wicket Test debut 2003, career-best 7/87, 165 Test wickets, later Hampshire and T20 franchise career.
Fidelis Gadzama
Fidelis Gadzama, Nigerian 400m sprinter born 1979, won Olympic gold in the 4x400m relay at Sydney 2000 after the USA's disqualification; personal best 45.59.
Fieke Boekhorst
Fieke Boekhorst (Josephine Francisca Maria Boekhorst, born 1957, Helmond) is a Dutch field hockey defender, 1984 Olympic gold medalist, World Cup winner 1978 and 1983, and Netherlands record scorer with 128 goals in 116 caps until 2013.
Field goal
Field goal: 3-point scoring kick in American and Canadian football, kicked above the crossbar and between uprights. NFL crossbar 18 ft 6 in, 10 ft high; success rose from 54% (1965) to 84.5% (2015); record 68 yards, Cam Little, 2025.
Field goal (basketball)
Field goal (basketball): a scoring shot from the floor, worth 2 or 3 points by release position, distinct from free throws; measured by FG%, 3P%, and effective field goal percentage, and protected by goaltending rules.
Field handball
Field handball (outdoor handball), the original 11-a-side form of team handball codified in Germany by Max Heiser and Carl Schelenz, played at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and displaced by indoor handball after 1972.
Field hockey
Field hockey is an 11-a-side stick-and-ball team sport on a 91.40 m by 55.00 m pitch, with modern rules formed in the UK in 1876.
Field hockey at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Men's Olympic field hockey tournament, London 1948, 31 July–13 August. India won its fourth straight gold, beating Great Britain 4-0 in the final at Wembley; Netherlands took bronze over Pakistan via a 4-1 replay.
Field hockey at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Field hockey at Rio 2016, 6–19 August at the Deodoro Olympic Hockey Centre; 12 teams per gender, four 15-minute quarters, shootouts instead of extra time. Argentina won men's gold, Great Britain women's gold, Germany two bronzes.
Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics (Tokyo 2020): men's and women's 12-team tournaments at Oi Hockey Stadium, 24 July to 6 August 2021 after COVID-19 postponement; Belgium and Netherlands won gold, India and Great Britain bronze.
Field hockey at the 2026 Asian Games – Women's tournament
Women's field hockey tournament at the 20th Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya 2026, 19 September to 4 October. India beat China 1–0 for gold, its first since 1982; Japan took bronze; Deepika led scoring with 21 goals.
Field hockey at the Summer Olympics
Field hockey at the Summer Olympics, also called Olympic hockey tournament, men's event since 1908 London and women's since Moscow 1980; 12 teams each, India leads with 8 men's golds, Netherlands dominant in women's hockey.
Field hockey in India
Field hockey in India: eight men's Olympic golds 1928–1980, 1975 World Cup, governed by Hockey India (2009), Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 bronzes, revived Hockey India League, Odisha patronage.
Field hockey pitch
Field hockey pitch: the FIH-standard 91.40 m × 55.00 m outdoor playing surface with 75 mm white lines, 23 m lines, circles, and penalty spots; usually water-based synthetic turf since Montreal 1976.
Field lacrosse
Field lacrosse is the outdoor full-field form of lacrosse: men's is full-contact 10-a-side on a 110 x 60 yard field (Beers rules, 1867); women's is 12-a-side on 120 x 70 yards, with its own 1890s rules.
Field of Dreams
Field of Dreams (1989): Phil Alden Robinson fantasy-drama adapted from W. P. Kinsella's Shoeless Joe, starring Kevin Costner, Best Picture nominee, filmed in Dyersville, Iowa, later home of MLB at Field of Dreams games.
Field of Dreams (Dubuque County, Iowa)
Field of Dreams Movie Site, Dyersville, Dubuque County, Iowa: the real 1989 film diamond and farmhouse, now a Dyersville Events nonprofit attraction hosting youth tournaments and MLB games in 2021, 2022, and 2026.
Field target
Field target (FT), outdoor precision airgun sport begun in Sussex, England in 1980; shooters knock down metal silhouette targets at 9–50 m with 15–40 mm kill zones, governed internationally by the WFTF with a 12 ft-lb limit.
Fielding (cricket)
Fielding (cricket): the defensive work of a cricket side's eleven players. Covers Laws and 30-yard fielding restrictions, T20I powerplays, catching mechanics, positional demands, fielding metrics and the 2025 boundary-catch law change.
Fielding H. Yost
Fielding H. Yost (1871–1946), 'Hurry Up' Yost, Michigan Wolverines football coach 1901–26 and athletic director 1921–41; Point-a-Minute teams went 55-1-1, won six national titles, built Michigan Stadium.