Hockey India

Governing body of Field Hockey in India

Hockey India

Sport| Field hockey
Jurisdiction|  India
Founded| 2009; 16 years ago (2009)
Affiliation| International Hockey Federation
Affiliation date| 2017
Regional affiliation| Asian Hockey Federation
Affiliation date| 2011
Headquarters| New Delhi, India
President| Dilip Tirkey
Vice president(s)|

* Nitin Kohli

Secretary| Bhola Nath Singh
Men's coach|  Craig Fulton
Women's coach|  Harendra Singh
Replaced|

* Indian Hockey Federation
* (1925–2008)

Official website
hockeyindia.org

Hockey India plans, directs and conducts all the activities for both men's and women's field hockey in India. It is recognized by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India as the sole body responsible towards promoting the sport.[1] It was formed after the Indian Hockey Federation was dismissed in 2008.[2]

Hockey India was established on 20 May 2009 and is affiliated to the International Hockey Federation (FIH), the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF).

Hockey India, with the assistance of the Sports Authority of India and Department of Sports, trains players at sub-junior, junior and senior level. The governing body is responsible for training the coaches, as well as educating and equipping technical officials and umpires.

Hockey India launched its own logo in a ceremony on 24 July 2008. It resembles Ashok Chakra of Indian flag. It is made up of hockey sticks.[3]

Hockey India manages four squads that represent India in international field hockey: the India men's national field hockey team, the India women's national field hockey team, the India men's national under-21 field hockey team, and the India women's national under-21 field hockey team.

## Member units

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Hockey India's Member Units are divided into four separate categories, namely Permanent Members, Associate Members, Academy Members and Hockey Members.[4]

### State and UT hockey associations

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* Hockey Andaman and Nicobar
* Hockey Andhra Pradesh
* Hockey Arunachal
* Assam Hockey
* Hockey Bengal
* Hockey Bihar
* Hockey Chandigarh
* Hockey Chhattisgarh
* Dadra & Nagar and Haveli & Daman & Diu Hockey
* Delhi Hockey
* Goans Hockey
* Hockey Gujarat
* Hockey Haryana
* Hockey Himachal
* Hockey Jammu and Kashmir
* Hockey Jharkhand
* Hockey Karnataka
* Hockey Kerala
* Hockey Madhya Pradesh
* Hockey Maharashtra
* Manipur Hockey
* Hockey Mizoram
* Hockey Nagaland
* Hockey Association of Odisha
* Le Puducherry Hockey
* Hockey Punjab
* Hockey Rajasthan
* Hockey Unit of Tamil Nadu
* Hockey Telengana
* Tripura Hockey
* Uttar Pradesh Hockey
* Hockey Uttarakhand

## Competitions

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### Hockey India National Championships

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These National Championships are divided into two divisions, to ensure that participating teams are competing in a fair, equal environment, and against teams with similar level of skills.

Below is the list of National Championships that Hockey India conducts every season:

* Hockey India Senior Men National Championship
* Hockey India Senior Women National Championship
* Hockey India Junior Men National Championship
* Hockey India Junior Women National Championship
* Hockey India Sub-Junior Men National Championship
* Hockey India Sub-Junior Women National Championship
* Hockey India 5-a-side National Championship (Women)
* Hockey India 5-a-side National Championship (Men)
* Hockey India 5-a-side National Championship (Mixed)

### Leagues

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* Hockey India League

### All India Hockey Tournaments

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* Beighton Cup
* Senior Nehru Hockey Tournament
* Surjit Memorial Hockey Tournament
* All India MCC Murugappa Gold Cup Hockey Tournament
* All India Obaidullah Khan Gold Cup Hockey Tournament
* Lal Bahadur Shastri Hockey Tournament
* All India Scindia Gold Cup Hockey Tournament
* All India Swami Shradhanand Hockey Tournament
* All India Guru Teg Bahadur Gold Cup Hockey Tournament
* Mahant Raja Sarwesjwardas Memorial All India Tournament
* All India Guru Gobind Singh Gold Cup Hockey Tournament
* All India Trades Cup Hockey Tournament
* All India Police Hockey Championship
* Aga Khan Hockey Tournament
* All India K.D Singh Babu Memorial Invitation Prize Money Hockey Tournament
* Lychettira Hockey Cup/Kodava Hockey Festival
* Bombay Gold Cup
* Liberals All India Hockey Tournament

## Executive board members

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The following are the members of the executive board of Hockey India.[5][6][7]

| Name  | Position

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Dilip Tirkey | President
Asima Ali  | Vice president
SVS Subramanya Gupta  | Vice president
Bhola Nath Singh  | Secretary general
Sekar J. Manoharan  | Treasurer
Arti SIngh  | Joint secretary
Sunil Malik  | Joint secretary
Arun Kumar Saraswat  | Executive board member
Asrita Lakra | Executive board member
Gurpreet Kaur  | Executive board member
V Sunil Kumar  | Executive board member
Tapan Kumar Das  | Executive board member

### Officers and employees

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The following are the officers and employees of Hockey India.[8]

* Vacant – CEO
* Cdr R. K. Srivastava – Director General
* B. N. Bhushan – Director
* Ranjit Gill – Director
* Kuldeep Singh – Joint Director
* Rakesh Kumar – Joint Director
* Ahad Azim – Joint Director
* Mahender Singh Negi – Assistant Manager - Purchase & administration
* Bhupender Singh – Assistant manager coordination
* Ankit Walia – Assistant manager coordination
* Priyanka Yadav – P.A. to CEO
* Vaishali Rathore – Senior officer coordination
* Bhagyashree Das – Officer coordination
* Vishal Sengar – Officer coordination
* Akash Choubey – Officer coordination
* Amit Rai – IT Executive
* Manohar Lal – Office assistant
* Davender Kumar Sharma – Project manager - CSR

## Past office bearers

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### Presidents

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The following is a list of presidents of Indian Hockey Federation[9][10] and Hockey India:[11]

Presidents | Tenure

|

Indian Hockey Federation (1925–2008)
Col. Bruce Turnbull[12] | 1925 – 1927
Major Ian Burn-Murdoch[12] | 1927 – 1930
R. E. Powell | 1930 – 1931
A. M. Hayman | 1931 – 1934
Joseph William Bhore[13] | 1934 – 1935
Kunwar Jagdish Prasad | 1935 – 1936
N. N. Sircar | 1936 – 1938
Mohd. Zaffurullah Khan | 1938 – 1939
Khawaja Nazimuddin | 1939 – 1944
Azizul Haque | 1944 – 1946
Naval Tata | 1946 – 1958
Ashwini Kumar[14] | 1958 – 1974
M. A. M. Ramaswamy | 1974 – 1980
I. M. Mahajan | 1980 – 1983
Raja Bhupinder Singh | 1983 – 1985
M. A. M. Ramaswamy | 1985 – 1987
R. Prasad | 1987 – 1994
K. P. S. Gill | 1994 – 2008
Hockey India (since 2009)
A. K. Mattoo | 2009 – 2010
Vidya Stokes | 2010
Narinder Dhruv Batra (interim) | 2010
Mariamma Koshy | 2010 – 2014
Narinder Dhruv Batra | 2014 – 2016
Mariamma Koshy | 2016 – 2018
Rajinder Singh (Interim) | 2018
Mohd Mushtaque Ahmad | 2018 – 2020
Gyanendro Ningombam | 2020 – 2022
Dilip Tirkey  | 2022 - Incumbent

## Hockey India Awards

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Hockey India instituted the Hockey India Awards from 2014 for recognition of hockey players for promoting field hockey as a sport on the national and international platform.[15]

### Major Dhyan Chand Lifetime Achievement Award

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* 2014: Balbir Singh Sr.
* 2015: Shankar Lakshman
* 2019: Harbinder Singh
* 2022: Amit Singh Bakshi
* 2023: Gurbux Singh

### Balbir Singh Sr. Award for Player of the Year (Men)

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* 2014: Birendra Lakra
* 2015: P. R. Sreejesh
* 2019: Manpreet Singh
* 2022: Harmanpreet Singh
* 2023: Hardik Singh

### Balbir Singh Sr. Award for Player of the Year (Women)

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* 2014: Vandana Katariya
* 2015: Deepika Thakur
* 2019: Rani Rampal
* 2022: Savita Punia
* 2023: Savita Punia

### Jugraj Singh Award for Upcoming Player of the Year (U21 Men)

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* 2014: Harmanpreet Singh
* 2015: Harjeet Singh
* 2019: Vivek Sagar Prasad
* 2022: Sanjay Rana
* 2023: Uttam Singh

### Asunta Lakra Award for Upcoming Player of the Year (U21 Women)

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* 2014: Namita Toppo
* 2015: Preeti Dubey
* 2019: Lalremsiami
* 2022: Salima Tete
* 2023: Mumtaz Khan

### Dhanraj Pillay Award for Forward of the Year

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* 2014: Akashdeep Singh
* 2015: Rani Rampal
* 2019: Mandeep Singh
* 2022: Vandana Katariya
* 2023: Vandana Katariya

### Ajit Pal Singh Award for Midfielder of the Year

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* 2014: Manpreet Singh
* 2015: Ritu Rani
* 2019: Neha Goyal
* 2022: Manpreet Singh
* 2023: Sushila Chanu

### Pargat Singh Award for Defender of the Year

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* 2014: Deepika Thakur
* 2015: Kothajit Singh
* 2019: Harmanpreet Singh
* 2022: Deep Grace Ekka and Amit Rohidas
* 2023: Harmanpreet Singh

### Baljit Singh Award for Goalkeeper of the Year

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* 2014: P. R. Sreejesh
* 2015: Savita Punia
* 2019: Krishan Pathak
* 2022: P. R. Sreejesh
* 2023: Krishan Pathak

### Jaman Lal Sharma Award for Invaluable Contribution

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* 2014: Harendra Singh
* 2015: Baldev Singh
* 2019: Sports Authority of India
* 2022: BG Joshi
* 2023: Pritam Rani Siwach

### Hockey India President's Award for Outstanding Achievement

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* 2014: One Thousand Hockey Legs
* 2015: Madhya Pradesh Hockey Academy
* 2019: Department of Sports & Youth Services, Government of Odisha
* 2022: Vandana Katariya
* 2023: Hockey Ace Foundation

### Hockey India President Award for Technical Official

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* 2022: Harkirat Singh Sokhi
* 2023: Mohammad Moghul Muneer

### Hockey India President award for Umpire / Umpire Manager

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* 2022: Raghuprasad RV
* 2023: Gurinder Singh Sangha

## Hockey India League

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Main article: Hockey India League

## References

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1. ^ "Hockey India Gets Recognition". Archived from the original on 7 July 2023. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
2. ^ "Indian Hockey Federation suspended after bribery scandal". Archived from the original on 7 October 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
3. ^ "Hockey India League Logo Launch". 28 September 2012. Archived from the original on 7 October 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
4. ^ "Member Units Detail". Hockey India. Archived from the original on 11 February 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
5. ^ "Elections of Office Bearers and Members of the Executive Board, 2022" (PDF). Hockey India. 23 September 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 September 2022. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
6. ^ "Dilip Tirkey becomes first player-president of Hockey India". The Times of India. 23 September 2022. Archived from the original on 24 September 2022. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
7. ^ "Dilip Tirkey elected new Hockey India president". The Telegraph. 23 September 2022. Archived from the original on 23 September 2022. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
8. ^ "Officers and Employees". Hockey India. Archived from the original on 24 September 2022. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
9. ^ D'Mello, Anthony (1959). Portrait Of Indian Sport. Macmillan. p. 83. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
10. ^ "About Us - History". indiahockey.org. Archived from the original on 23 January 2009. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
11. ^ "HOCKEY INDIA OFFICER BEARERS SINCE FORMATION". Hockey India. Archived from the original on 8 October 2022. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
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13. ^ "The World's Hockey Champions 1936". Bharatiya Hockey. Archived from the original on 12 April 2021. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
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Field hockey in India

Hockey India

National teams|

| Men|

* Men
* U21

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Women|

* Women
* U21

League competitions|

* Senior National Hockey Championship
* Hockey India League
* Calcutta Hockey League

Cup competitions|

* Beighton Cup
* Bombay Gold Cup
* Surjit Memorial Hockey Tournament
* Kodava Hockey Festival
* Agha Khan Hockey Tournament
* MCC Murugappa Gold Cup
* Obaidullah Khan Gold Cup
* Senior Nehru Hockey Tournament
* Lal Bahadur Shastri Hockey Tournament
* Scindia Gold Cup
* Gurmeet Memorial Hockey Tournament
* Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji Hockey Tournament
* Swami Shradhanand Hockey Tournament
* Liberals Hockey Tournament
* Guru Tegh Bahadur Gold Cup
* Mahant Raja Sarwesjwardas Memorial Tournament
* Jaipal Singh Gold Cup
* K.D Singh Babu Memorial Hockey Tournament
* Captain Roop Singh Hockey Gold Cup
* Police Hockey Championship
* Lakshmi Ammal Memorial Hockey Tournament
* Trades Cup Hockey Tournament
* Aluminium Cup Hockey Tournament
* Inter Railway Women's Hockey Championship

Junior competitions|

* Junior National Hockey Tournament
* Sub-junior National Hockey Tournament
* Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Inter School Hockey Tournament

Defunct competitions|

* Premier Hockey League
* World Series Hockey

International|

| Lists|

* Olympic captains
* International players

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Record|

* Malaysia
* Pakistan

Test series|

* Pakistan

Others|

* Indian Hockey Federation
* Indian dribble

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Sports governing bodies of India

Major bodies|

* Indian Olympic Association
* Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
* Paralympic Committee of India
* Special Olympics Bharat
* Sports Authority of India

Summer Olympic
sports|

* Aquatics
* Archery
* Athletics
* Badminton
* Basketball
* Baseball
* Boxing
* Canoeing
* Cycling
* Dancesport
* Equestrian
* Fencing
* Field hockey
* Football
* Golf
* Gymnastics
* Handball
* Judo
* Modern Pentathlon
* Rowing
* Rugby
* Sailing
* Shooting
* Skateboarding
* Surfing
* Table Tennis
* Taekwondo
* Tennis
* Triathlon
* Volleyball
* Weightlifting
* Wrestling

Winter Olympic sports|

* Ice hockey
* Ice skating

IOC recognized sports|

* Air sports
* Automobile sport
* Bandy
* Billiard sports
* Bowling
* Bridge
* Chess
* Cricket
* Karate
* Kickboxing
* Mountaineering and climbing
* Netball
* Polo
* Powerboating
* Roller sports
* Softball
* Squash
* Surfing
* Tug of war
* Wushu

Other sports|

* Arm Wrestling
* Ball badminton
* Carrom
* Futsal
* Kabaddi
* Kho Kho
* Yachting

Parasports|

* Blind chess
* Blind cricket
* Powerlifting

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National members of the International Hockey Federation

AfHF (Africa)|

* Algeria
* Botswana
* Burkina Faso
* Burundi
* Cameroon
* Ivory Coast
* Egypt
* Eswatini
* The Gambia
* Ghana
* Kenya
* Libya
* Malawi
* Mauritius
* Morocco
* Namibia
* Nigeria
* Seychelles
* Sierra Leone
* South Africa
* Sudan
* Tanzania
* Togo
* Uganda
* Zambia
* Zimbabwe

PAHF (Americas)|

* Argentina
* Bahamas
* Barbados
* Bermuda
* Brazil
* Canada
* Cayman Islands
* Chile
* Costa Rica
* Cuba
* Dominican Republic
* Ecuador
* El Salvador
* Guatemala
* Guyana
* Jamaica
* Mexico
* Panama
* Paraguay
* Peru
* Puerto Rico
* Trinidad and Tobago
* United States
* Uruguay
* Venezuela

AsHF (Asia)|

* Afghanistan
* Bangladesh
* Brunei
* Cambodia
* China
* Hong Kong
* India
* Indonesia
* Iran
* Japan
* Kazakhstan
* North Korea
* South Korea
* Macau
* Malaysia
* Mongolia
* Myanmar
* Nepal
* Oman
* Pakistan
* Philippines
* Qatar
* Singapore
* Sri Lanka
* Chinese Taipei
* Tajikistan
* Thailand
* Turkmenistan
* United Arab Emirates
* Uzbekistan

EHF (Europe)|

* Armenia
* Austria
* Azerbaijan
* Belarus
* Belgium
* Bulgaria
* Croatia
* Cyprus
* Czech Republic
* Denmark
* England
* Estonia
* Finland
* France
* Georgia
* Germany
* Greece
* Gibraltar
* Great Britain
* Hungary
* Ireland
* Israel
* Italy
* Latvia
* Lithuania
* Luxembourg
* Macedonia
* Malta
* Moldova
* Netherlands
* Norway
* Poland
* Portugal
* Romania
* Russia
* Scotland
* Serbia
* Slovakia
* Slovenia
* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Turkey
* Ukraine
* Wales

Former members: Soviet Union

OHF (Oceania)|

* Australia
* Fiji
* Papua New Guinea
* New Zealand
* Samoa
* Solomon Islands
* Tonga
* Vanuatu

Former members: American Samoa
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