India men's national field hockey team

India
Nickname	Men in Blue; Bharat Army
Association	Hockey India
Confederation	ASHF (Asia)
Coach	Harendra Singh
Manager	Arjun Halappa
Captain	Manpreet Singh
	Home
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FIH ranking
Current	5 (1) (July 2018)
Highest	5 (2004, June 2016, July 2018)
Lowest	12 (2007)
Summer Olympics
Appearances	20 (first in 1928)
Best result	1st (1928, 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1964, 1980)
World Cup
Appearances	14 (first in 1971)
Best result	1st (1975)
Asian Games
Appearances	16 (first in 1958)
Best result	1st (1966, 1998, 2014)
Asia Cup
Appearances	10 (first in 1982)
Best result	1st (2003, 2007, 2017)

The India national field hockey team^[1] was the first non-European team to be a part of the International Hockey Federation. In 1928, the team won its first Olympic gold medal and until 1960, the Indian men's team remained unbeaten in the Olympics, winning six gold medals in a row. The team had a 30-0 winning streak during this time, from their first game until losing in the 1960 gold medal final. India also won the 1975 World Cup. India is the most successful team ever in the Olympics, having won eight gold, one silver and two bronze medals till date.

After their gold medal win at the 1980 Olympics, the team's performance declined through the next three decades, with the team failing to win a medal at the Olympics or the World Cup. In 2016, the Indian men's team won its first ever silver medal in Champions Trophy and reached the knockout stage of the Olympics for the first time in 36 years. As of 2018, the team is ranked fifth in the world. From February 2018, the Government of Odisha has started sponsoring the Indian national field hockey team, both men and women team. In a first-of-its-kind association, the state has decided to support the India's field hockey team for next five years.^[2]

Medals table

Indian Field hockey Team at 1928 Olympics

Indian Field hockey Team at 1932 Olympics

Indian Field hockey Team at the 1936 Berlin Olympics


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Olympics	8	1	2	11
2	Sultan Azlan Shah Cup	5	2	7	14
3	Asian Games	3	9	3	15
4	Asia Cup	3	5	1	9
5	Asian Hockey Champions Trophy	2	1	0	3
6	South Asian Games	1	3	0	4
7	Hockey Champions Challenge	1	1	2	4
8	World Cup	1	1	1	3
9	Afro-Asian Games	1	0	0	1
10	Hockey Champions Trophy	0	2	1	3
11	Commonwealth Games	0	2	0	2
12	FIH Hockey World League	0	0	2	2
Totals (12 nations)		25	27	19	71

Tournament history

Summer Olympics

No	Year	Host	Position	Wins	Draws	Losses
1	1928	Amsterdam, Netherlands		5	0	0
2	1932	Los Angeles, USA		2	0	0
3	1936	Berlin, Germany		5	0	0
4	1948	London, UK		5	0	0
5	1952	Helsinki, Finland		3	0	0
6	1956	Melbourne, Australia		5	0	0
7	1960	Rome, Italy		5	0	1
8	1964	Tokyo, Japan		7	2	0
9	1968	Mexico City, Mexico		7	0	2
10	1972	Munich, West Germany		6	2	1
11	1976	Montreal, Canada	7th	4	0	3
12	1980	Moscow, USSR		4	2	0
13	1984	Los Angeles, USA	5th	5	1	1
14	1988	Seoul, South Korea	6th	3	1	3
15	1992	Barcelona, Spain	7th	3	0	4
16	1996	Atlanta, USA	8th	2	2	3
17	2000	Sydney, Australia	7th	3	2	2
18	2004	Athens, Greece	7th	2	1	4
	2008	Beijing, China	DNQ
19	2012	London, UK	12th	0	0	6
20	2016	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	8th	2	1	3
21	2020	Tokyo, Japan
			Totals	76	14	33

World Cup

No	Year	Host	Position
1	1971	Barcelona, Spain
2	1973	Amstelveen, Netherlands
3	1975	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
4	1978	Buenos Aires, Argentina	6th
5	1982	Bombay, India	5th
6	1986	London, UK	12th
7	1990	Lahore, Pakistan	10th
8	1994	Sydney, Australia	5th
9	1998	Utrecht, Netherlands	9th
10	2002	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	10th
11	2006	Mönchengladbach, Germany	11th
12	2010	New Delhi, India	8th
13	2014	The Hague, Netherlands	9th
14	2018	Bhubaneswar, India	Q

World League

FIH Hockey World League
Year	Round
India 2012–13	6th
India 2014–15
India 2016–17

Champions Trophy

No	Year	Host	Position
1	1980	Karachi, Pakistan	5th
2	1982	Amstelveen, Netherlands
3	1983	Karachi, Pakistan	4th
4	1985	Perth, Australia	6th
5	1986	Karachi, Pakistan	5th
6	1989	Berlin, West Germany	6th
7	1995	Berlin, Germany	5th
8	1996	Madras, India	4th
9	2002	Cologne, Germany	4th
10	2003	Amstelveen, Netherlands	4th
11	2004	Lahore, Pakistan	4th
12	2005	Chennai, India	5th
13	2012	Melbourne, Australia	4th
14	2014	Bhubaneswar, India	4th
15	2016	London, UK
16	2018	Breda, Netherlands

Commonwealth Games

No	Year	Host	Position
1	1998	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	4th
2	2006	Melbourne, Australia	6th
3	2010	New Delhi, India
4	2014	Glasgow, Scotland
5	2018	Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia	4th

Asian Games

yes	Year	Host	Position
1	1958	Tokyo, Japan
2	1962	Jakarta, Indonesia
3	1966	Bangkok, Thailand
4	1970	Bangkok, Thailand
5	1974	Tehran, Iran
6	1978	Bangkok, Thailand
7	1982	New Delhi, India
8	1986	Seoul, South Korea
9	1990	Beijing, China
10	1994	Hiroshima, Japan
11	1998	Bangkok, Thailand
12	2002	Busan, South Korea
13	2006	Doha, Qatar	5th
14	2010	Guangzhou, China
15	2014	Incheon, South Korea
16	2018	Jakarta, Indonesia

Asian Cup

No	Year	Host	Position
1	1982	Karachi, Pakistan
2	1985	Dhaka, Bangladesh
3	1989	New Delhi, India
4	1994	Hiroshima, Japan
5	1999	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
6	2003	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
7	2007	Chennai, India
8	2009	Kuantan, Malaysia	5th
9	2013	Ipoh, Malaysia
10	2017	Dhaka, Bangladesh

Asian Champions Trophy

No	Year	Host	Position
1	2011	Ordos, China
2	2012	Doha, Qatar
3	2013	Kakamigahara, Japan	5th
4	2016	Kuantan, Malaysia

Sultan Azlan Shah Cup

No	Year	Host	Position
1	1983	Malaysia
2	1985	Malaysia
3	1991	Malaysia
4	1995	Malaysia
5	1999	Malaysia	5th
6	2000	Malaysia
7	2001	Malaysia	5th
8	2004	Malaysia	7th
9	2005	Malaysia	5th
10	2006	Malaysia
11	2007	Malaysia
12	2008	Malaysia
13	2009	Malaysia
14	2010	Malaysia
15	2011	Malaysia	6th
16	2012	Malaysia
17	2013	Malaysia	5th
18	2015	Malaysia
19	2016	Malaysia
20	2017	Malaysia
21	2018	Malaysia	5th

Champions Challenge

No	Year	Host
1	2001	Kuala Lumpur
2	2007	Boom
3	2009	Salta
4	2011	Johannesburg

Afro-Asian Games

No	Year	Host	Position
1	2003	Hyderabad

South Asian Games

No	Year	Host
1	1995	Madras, India
2	2004	Islamabad, Pakistan
3	2010	Dhaka, Bangladesh
4	2016	Guwahati, India

Team

* denotes players part of the 2018 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy squad.
Caps as of 3 July 2018 as per FIH.

Current roster

Players who are part of the 33-member core squad for 2018:^[3]

No.	Pos.	Name	Birthdate	From	Caps	Latest call-up
2	GK	Akash Chikte	(1992-07-24) 24 July 1992	Yavatmal, Maharashtra	48	2017 Hockey World League Final
13	GK	Suraj Karkera	(1995-10-14) 14 October 1995	Mumbai, Maharashtra	23	2018 Commonwealth Games
16	GK	P. R. Sreejesh	(1986-05-08) 8 May 1986	Ernakulam, Kerala	189	2018 Asian Champions Trophy
19	GK	Krishan Pathak	(1997-04-24) 24 April 1997	Kapurthala, Punjab	8	2018 Asian Champions Trophy
1	DF	Harmanpreet Singh	(1996-01-06) 6 January 1996	Amritsar, Punjab	74	2018 Asian Champions Trophy
3	DF	Rupinder Pal Singh	(1990-11-11) 11 November 1990	Faridkot, Punjab	192	2018 Asian Games
4	DF	Gurinder Singh	(1995-01-01) 1 January 1995	Ropar, Punjab	25	2018 Asian Champions Trophy
6	DF	Surender Kumar	(1993-11-23) 23 November 1993	Karnal, Haryana	87	2018 Asian Champions Trophy
12	DF	Dipsan Tirkey	(1998-10-15) 15 October 1998	Sundergarh, Odisha	24	2018 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
22	DF	Varun Kumar	(1995-07-25) 25 July 1995	Jalandhar, Punjab	43	2018 Asian Champions Trophy
23	DF	Nilam Sanjeep Xess	(1998-11-07) 7 November 1998	Bargarh, Odisha	10	2018 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
26	DF	Birendra Lakra	(1990-02-03) 3 February 1990	Sundergarh, Odisha	160	2018 Asian Games
30	DF	Amit Rohidas	(1993-05-10) 10 May 1993	Sundergarh, Odisha	59	2018 Asian Games
5	MF	Kothajit Singh	(1992-08-17) 17 August 1992	Imphal East, Manipur	180	2018 Asian Champions Trophy
7	MF	Manpreet Singh	(1992-06-26) 26 June 1992	Jalandhar, Punjab	222	2018 Asian Champions Trophy
10	MF	Simranjeet Singh	(1996-12-27) 27 December 1996	Batala, Punjab	14	2018 Asian Games
15	MF	S. K. Uthappa	(1993-12-02) 2 December 1993	Kodagu, Karnataka	138	2018 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
17	MF	Sumit	(1996-12-20) 20 December 1996	Sonipat, Haryana	43	2018 Asian Champions Trophy
18	MF	Nilakanta Sharma	(1995-05-02) 2 May 1995	Imphal East, Manipur	19	2018 Asian Champions Trophy
21	MF	Harjeet Singh	(1996-01-02) 2 January 1996	Tarn Taran, Punjab	50	2018 Four Nations Inv., New Zealand
25	MF	Satbir Singh	(1993-10-22) 22 October 1993	Gurdaspur, Punjab	64	2018 Four Nations Inv., New Zealand
29	MF	Chinglensana Singh	(1991-12-02) 2 December 1991	Imphal East, Manipur	184	2018 Asian Champions Trophy
9	FW	Gurjant Singh	(1995-01-26) 26 January 1995	Amritsar, Punjab	30	2018 Asian Champions Trophy
10	FW	Armaan Qureshi	(1995-01-01) 1 January 1995	Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh	13	2018 Four Nations Inv., New Zealand
11	FW	Mandeep Singh	(1995-01-25) 25 January 1995	Jalandhar, Punjab	109	2018 Asian Champions Trophy
14	FW	Lalit Upadhyay	(1993-12-01) 1 December 1993	Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh	73	2018 Asian Champions Trophy
20	FW	Talwinder Singh	(1994-01-01) 1 January 1994	Jalandhar, Punjab	69	2018 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
24	FW	S. V. Sunil	(1989-05-06) 6 May 1989	Kodagu, Karnataka	240	2018 Asian Games
27	FW	Akashdeep Singh	(1994-12-02) 2 December 1994	Tarn Taran, Punjab	158	2018 Asian Champions Trophy
28	FW	Sumit Kumar	(1997-05-11) 11 May 1997	Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh	6	2018 Champions Trophy^INJ
30	FW	Affan Yousuf	(1994-12-29) 29 December 1994	Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh	21	2017 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
31	FW	Ramandeep Singh	(1993-04-01) 1 April 1993	Gurdaspur, Punjab	124	2018 Champions Trophy

Reserves

Other players who were part of the squad in 2018:^[4]

No.	Pos.	Name	Birthdate	From	Caps	Latest call-up
4	DF	Mandeep Mor	(1999-03-16) 16 March 1999	Narwana, Haryana	5	2018 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
4	DF	Jarmanpreet Singh	(1996-07-18) 18 July 1996	Amritsar, Punjab	6	2018 Asian Champions Trophy
	DF	Hardik Singh	(1998-09-23) 23 September 1998	Jalandhar, Punjab	0	2018 Asian Champions Trophy
30	MF	Vivek Prasad	(2000-02-25) 25 February 2000	Hoshangabad, Madhya Pradesh	20	2018 Asian Games
12	FW	Dilpreet Singh	(1999-11-12) 12 November 1999	Amritsar, Punjab	20	2018 Asian Champions Trophy
32	FW	Shilanand Lakra	(1999-05-05) 5 May 1999	Sundergarh, Odisha	6	2018 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup

Support staff

Head coach: Harendra Singh
Assistant coaches: Jugraj Singh (drag-flick)]
Analytical coach: Chris Ciriello^[5]
High-performance director: David John
Scientific advisor: Scott Conway

Notable former players

References

↑ "Hockey India". Retrieved 7 January 2015.
↑ "Odisha to sponsor Indian hockey teams for next five years". The Times of India. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
↑ "Hockey India names 33-member squad for 2018 season". The Times of India. 3 January 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
↑ "Goalkeeper PR Sreejesh named in India hockey squad for New Zealand tour". Deccan Chronicle. 8 January 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
↑ "Ciriello roped in as analytical coach of Indian men's hockey team". The Times of India. 16 January 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.

External links

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[1] "Hockey India". Retrieved 7 January 2015.

[2] "Odisha to sponsor Indian hockey teams for next five years". The Times of India. Retrieved 15 February 2018.

[3] "Hockey India names 33-member squad for 2018 season". The Times of India. 3 January 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.

[4] "Goalkeeper PR Sreejesh named in India hockey squad for New Zealand tour". Deccan Chronicle. 8 January 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.

[5] "Ciriello roped in as analytical coach of Indian men's hockey team". The Times of India. 16 January 2018. Retrieved 20 January 2018.

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