Hockey India

Hockey India
Sport	Field hockey
Jurisdiction	India
Founded	2009; 15 years ago
Affiliation	International Hockey Federation
Affiliation date	2011
Regional affiliation	Asian Hockey Federation
Affiliation date	2011
Headquarters	New Delhi, India
President	Dilip Tirkey
Vice president(s)	Asima Ali; Subramanya Gupta;
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

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

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

Hockey India National Championships

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

Hockey India League

All India Hockey Tournaments

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

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

Name	Position
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

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

Vacant – CEO
Cdr R. K. Srivastava – Executive director
B. N. Bhushan – Joint director
Ranjit Gill – Joint director
Kuldeep Singh – Sr. Manager – protocol
Rakesh Kumar – Sr. manager – purchase and administration
Ahad Azim – Sr. manager – coordination
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

Presidents

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dhanraj Pillay Award for Forward of the Year

Ajit Pal Singh Award for Midfielder of the Year

Pargat Singh Award for Defender of the Year

Baljit Singh Award for Goalkeeper of the Year

Jaman Lal Sharma Award for Invaluable Contribution

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

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

2022: Harkirat Singh Sokhi
2023: Mohammad Moghul Muneer

Hockey India President award for Umpire / Umpire Manager

2022: Raghuprasad RV
2023: Gurinder Singh Sangha

References

^ "Hockey India Gets Recognition". Archived from the original on 7 July 2023. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
^ "Indian Hockey Federation suspended after bribery scandal". Archived from the original on 7 October 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
^ "Hockey India League Logo Launch". 28 September 2012. Archived from the original on 7 October 2021. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
^ "Member Units Detail". Hockey India. Archived from the original on 11 February 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
^ "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.
^ "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.
^ "Dilip Tirkey elected new Hockey India president". The Telegraph. 23 September 2022. Archived from the original on 23 September 2022. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
^ "Officers and Employees". Hockey India. Archived from the original on 24 September 2022. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
^ D'Mello, Anthony (1959). Portrait Of Indian Sport. Macmillan. p. 83. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
^ "About Us - History". indiahockey.org. Archived from the original on 23 January 2009. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
^ "HOCKEY INDIA OFFICER BEARERS SINCE FORMATION". Hockey India. Archived from the original on 8 October 2022. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
^ ^a ^b "How The Indian Hockey Federation Was Formed". Bharatiya Hockey. Archived from the original on 24 September 2022. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
^ "The World's Hockey Champions 1936". Bharatiya Hockey. Archived from the original on 12 April 2021. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
^ Bala, Vijayan (27 December 2020). "A sports lover's century". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 28 September 2022. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
^ "Hockey India Annual Awards". Hockey India. Archived from the original on 4 September 2022. Retrieved 4 September 2022.

[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.

[bh-12] "How The Indian Hockey Federation Was Formed". Bharatiya Hockey. Archived from the original on 24 September 2022. Retrieved 24 September 2022.

[13] "The World's Hockey Champions 1936". Bharatiya Hockey. Archived from the original on 12 April 2021. Retrieved 24 September 2022.

[14] Bala, Vijayan (27 December 2020). "A sports lover's century". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 28 September 2022. Retrieved 24 September 2022.

[15] "Hockey India Annual Awards". Hockey India. Archived from the original on 4 September 2022. Retrieved 4 September 2022.

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v t e 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

v t e 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