This includes the establishment of several newly-created bodies, such as the International Relations and Olympic Solidarity Panel, an Event Portfolio Implementation Panel, the Home and Away League Management Panel and the Commercial and Broadcast Panel.

The HR and Governance Panel has been split into an HR and Remuneration Panel and a stand-alone Governance Panel.

Groups such as the the Masters Panel and the High Performance and Coaching Panel have been axed and all membership of the committees and panels abolished, with the exception of the Athletes’ Committee, Judicial Commission and Disciplinary Commissioner.

The FIH are now calling for nominations on each of the committees, with the organisation putting an emphasis on gender equality.

All membership is then set to be approved by the FIH Executive Board at a meeting in June.

It comes amid plans from the FIH to refresh their governance under President Narinder Batra, elected in November, and new chief executive Jason McCracken, who began his role last month.

"We are grateful to all of those who have given up their time to support our sport through panels and committees over the past years," Batra said. 

"Their contributions have helped the sport reach great heights. 

"However, with the new event portfolio now in implementation mode we took the decision to refresh this structure at what is a crucial time for our sport. 

"I am confident that these changes will help our sport continue to grow over the coming years. 

"We look forward to receiving nominations over the coming months and announcing the new committee and panel membership after the June Executive Board meeting.”

The move comes as part of the "Hockey Revolution" strategic plan, deemed to be critical for the sport after hockey narrowly avoided being cut from the Olympic programme after London 2012. 

Among features of the development road-map is an updated competition system, including the home and away league.

The league, which is controversially replacing the Champions Trophy as well as the Hockey World League Semi-Finals and Final, will feature between seven and nine teams.

The men’s and women’s sides involved will play home and away against the other teams each year, with matches held in Southern and Northern Hemisphere rounds to ensure the best possible weather conditions.

Following the completion of the league phase, the top four countries will compete in a standalone grand final to crown the overall winner.

"It was critical that the FIH aligned our Committee and Panel structure to support the Hockey Revolution," said McCracken. 

"With this new structure in place we are moving quickly to implement the new event portfolio, build our commercial and broadcast proposition while focusing on athlete and officials’ welfare. 

"We are excited about the new structure and now the hard work begins to find the very best people, who share our vision, to join the new committee and panels as we move to the implementation phase of the new event portfolio.”