The EY Hockey League season is coming to its climax this weekend with the last four of the Champions Trophy for both Men and Women. Banbridge are the hosts with all matches taking place on the main pitch at Havelock Park. The action begins on Saturday at 10:30am with the first of the two Women’s Champions Trophy semi-finals. Loreto, who are the current holders of the Champions Trophy and the recently crowned EYHL Division 1 winners, take on 2023 EYHL Division 1 winners UCD. In 2018, UCD won the EYHL Women’s League elite Division and Loreto denied them the Champions Trophy defeating UCD en rou ..read more

Back In a gesture of camaraderie and admiration within the realm of international sports, Mr. Fumio Ogura, President of the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF), extends his warmest congratulations to Mr. Lee Sang-hyun, President of the Korean Hockey Federation, on his recent appointment as the Deputy Chef De Mission for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. As Deputy Chef De Mission, Mr. Lee will assume a pivotal position in guiding and inspiring athletes as they prepare to represent their respective nations on the grand stage of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. President Ogura expresses his unwavering confide ..read more

Back In a ground-breaking initiative, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today launched the Olympic AI Agenda. The initiative was introduced during an interactive event held at Lee Valley VeloPark at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, home of the Olympic and Paralympic Games London 2012. The Olympic AI Agenda is the third in a trilogy of strategy documents launched under the leadership of IOC President Thomas Bach. It follows Olympic Agenda 2020, launched in December 2014, and Olympic Agenda 2020+5, launched in March 2021. It sets out the envisioned impact that Artificial Intelligence (AI) c ..read more

Back The International Hockey Federation, FIH, is delighted to unveil a new Instagram takeover series: “Follow your Olympic Stars”, poised to elevate the thrill of hockey fandom to new heights. In the electrifying build-up to the Olympic Games Paris 2024, we’re bringing you an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the lives and training regimens of six dynamic hockey athletes, representing six nations and five continents, on our Instagram channel: @fihockey. From the electric reflexes of PR Sreejesh, India’s long serving goalkeeper and reigning men’s bronze medalist, to the gracef ..read more

Pakistan hockey team. – PHF KARACHI: The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has written a letter to the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) amid yet another wave of uncertainty in the country’s national sport. The letter highlighted the issue of parallel bodies within Pakistan Hockey Federation which could affect the national team’s participation in future events. The FIH asked for clarity over who are the correct and officially recognised representatives of PHF. It must be noted that one of the parallel bodies is led by Tariq Bugti, while Shehla Raza is in charge of the other. Meanwhile, in ..read more

It was another twist in the tale of a burgeoning rivalry between the Hockeyroos and China, as China’s never-say-die attitude saw them claim victory in the second half of the sides’ final meeting in the Perth International Festival of Hockey. Earlier in the day, Australia A’s 2 – 1 victory over Japan made the top of the table clash between the two unbeaten sides a major factor in determining who would be lifting the Perth Women’s Cup at the end of the series on Sunday. The Hockeyroos looked to have the better of China in a first quarter that went relatively absent of goal scoring chances, but ..read more

The countdown to the Olympic Games Paris 2024 has hit double digits and the excitement continues to mount within the global hockey community. With all 12 men’s and women’s teams now qualified and placed into their respective pools, we are taking a look at how each team secured their spot in the Olympics.   Men’s Pool A  Netherlands: Since missing out on the medal positions in the previous edition of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, Netherlands have been a side on a steady rise and qualified for Paris 2024 by winning the gold medal at the EuroHockey Championships 2023 which gained them ..read more

~ Ropni was recently named among the 33-member National Women’s Team Core group that is training at the SAI Centre in Bengaluru ~   New Delhi, 24th April 2024: Ropni Kumari, Indian Women’s Hockey Team defender, looked back on the previous year and explained how consistent opportunities to play with the Indian Junior Women’s Hockey Team have contributed to her development. The 19-year-old was part of the team that claimed the Gold medal at the Women’s Junior Asia Cup 2023 and also travelled with the team to Dusseldorf, Germany for the 2023 4 Nations Junior Women’s Invitatio ..read more

Der Club an der Alster and Mannheimer HC topped their respective pools in the German women’s Bundesliga to set themselves up as the teams to beat as their season enters the playoff phase. For Alster, they had a 10-point lead over Rot-Weiss Köln in their section as they cruised to a 4-0 win over Uhlenhorst Mülheim last Sunday with Linda Cobano striking on the double. It puts them through to a quarter-final date with UHC Hamburg who ended up fourth in Pool A and ended their regular season with a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Grossflotbekker THGC. The winner of Alster and UHC will then go on to fac ..read more

~ The former Indian defender is a part of the program targeted at nurturing young drag-flickers and goalkeepers across India ~   New Delhi, 23rd April 2024: Former India Women’s Hockey Team player Jaspreet Kaur was part of the group of former drag-flickers who underwent intensive training under the tutelage of High-Performance Director Herman Kruis at SAI Bengaluru, earlier this month. The training session was a part of Hockey India’s novel initiative aimed at standardizing coaching methodologies across the nation and nurturing the next generation of hockey talent.   ..read more