Monday 27 January 2025
2025 Indoor Test matches CRO v NAM (M)
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24 Jan 2025 20:15 CRO v NAM 5 - 5
25 Jan 2025 18:30 CRO v NAM 5 - 4
26 Jan 2025 18:30 CRO v NAM
Women
27 Jan 2025 19:45 CRO v NAM
28 Jan 2025 17:30 CRO v NAM
29 Jan 2025 18:00 CRO v NAM
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Namibia draw series after late goal blitz
By Helge Schutz
JP Britz on the attack for Namibia against Croatia. Photo: Helge Schütz
Namibia’s men’s indoor hockey team beat Croatia 10-5 in their final test on Sunday night to draw their series 1-1.
Hockey India League 2025
All times GMT +5:30
Men
Rourkela
26 Jan 2025 was a rest day
27 Jan 2025 06:00 PM Shrachi Rarh Bengal Tigers v Delhi SG Pipers
27 Jan 2025 08:15 PM JSW Soorma Hockey Club v Vedanta Kalinga Lancers
Standings
Women
Women's Final Ranchi
26 Jan 2025 06:00 PM JSW Soorma Hockey Club v Odisha Warriors
Standings
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Odisha Warriors crowned champions of the historic Women’s Hero Hockey India League
Odisha Warriors defeated JSW Soorma Hockey Club by 2-1 to claim the title in the inaugural edition
Ranchi: The inaugural edition of the Women’s Hero Hockey India League (HIL) 2024-25 came to an end with Odisha Warriors lifting the title with a hard fought 2-1 victory over JSW Soorma Hockey Club in the Final at the Marang Gomke Jaipal Singh Munda Astro Turf Hockey Stadium in Ranchi today. Rutuja Dadaso Pisal (20’, 56’) gave the Warriors the lead in the second quarter but Penny Squibb (28’) equalised for Soorma soon after. However, Rutuja found the back of the net again as the game came to a close and sealed the victory for the Warriors.
First-ever Women’s commercial league come to a grand finish, home team clinch the title
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Home team Odisha Warriors won the first-ever women’s commercial league, the Hero Hockey India League (HIL) 2024-25, defeating fighting JSW Soorma Club 2-1 and received a bounty of INR. 1.5 Cr as prize money. In the final at the Marang Gomke Jaipal Singh Munda Astro Turf Hockey Stadium in Ranchi, amidst full stands, rising star Rutuja Dadaso Pisal struck both the lead and the winning goal. It seems she reserved her best for the final.
Odisha Warriors wins first-ever Women’s Hockey India League title
With less than five minutes left on the clock and the match headed towards a penalty shootout, Warriors’ Rutuja went through Soorma goalkeeper Savita’s legs to score the winner.
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Odisha Warriors’ Rutuja Pisal (45) celebrates after scoring her side’s opening goal against Soorma Hockey Club in the Women’s Hockey India League final at the Marang Gomke Jaipal Singh Stadium in Ranchi on Sunday. | Photo Credit: Women’s Hockey India League
The 5,000-seater Marang Gomke Jaipal Singh Stadium here was packed to the rafters on Sunday to witness history unfold as Odisha Warriors took on JSW Soorma Hockey Club in the summit clash of the inaugural season of the only commercial women’s hockey league in the world.
Odisha Warriors crowned champions of inaugural Women’s Hockey India League
Odisha Warriors defeated Soorma Hockey Club 2-1 to claim the title in the inaugural edition of Women’s HIL.
Odisha Warriors clinched the inaugural Women's Hockey India League in Ranchi on January 26, 2025. (Photo credit: HIL)
Odisha Warriors won the inaugural edition of the Women’s Hero Hockey India League (HIL) 2024-25 with a hard-fought 2-1 victory over Soorma Hockey Club in the final at the Marang Gomke Jaipal Singh Munda Astro Turf Hockey Stadium in Ranchi on Sunday.
Rutuja Pisal emerges unlikely hero as Odisha Warriors clinch title, joy for coach Janneke Schopman in Ranchi
Rutuja, who hails from the remote district of Satara in Maharashtra, scored both goals that helped the Warriors prevail 2-1 in the championship decider.
by Vinayakk Mohanarangan
Odisha Warriors players celebrate after beating Soorma Hockey Club in the Women's Hockey India League final. (Credit: Hockey India)
Odisha Warriors had scored the most number of goals from penalty corners in the league phase, but in the final, they struggled to a) create those chances and b) convert them. Soorma Hockey Club had managed to score just one goal from PCs across six matches, but their equaliser on Sunday was through a drag flick. Rutuja Dadaso Pisal, a player who had not scored a single goal in the pool stage, scored twice on the biggest night of the tournament. That the Odisha Warriors were crowned the champions of the inaugural Women’s Hockey India League doesn’t necessarily come as a surprise.
Odisha Warriors take first title amid Yibbi Jansen bounty
Odisha Warriors won the inaugual women's HIL title PIC: Hockey India
Ranchi — Familiar as she is in the orange colours of Odisha as she is the Oranje of the Dutch team with her trademark headband, Yibbi Jansen was for once upstaged by an Indian team-mate, 22-year-old Rutaja Pisal, who thrust herself into the spotlight as Odisha Warriors won the inaugural Women’s Hockey India League.
Dutch star Yibbi Jansen on why she started doing drag flicks when she was 12
Yibbi, the 2024 FIH women's player of the year, has also been central to the Netherlands' success in international hockey, having scored 75 goals in 86 matches so far.
by Vinayakk Mohanarangan
Odisha Warriors brought in Yibbi Jansen for her drag flicking expertise. (Photos: HIL)
When Yibbi Jansen was around 12 years old, she had a conversation with her father Ronald – a two-time Olympic champion with the Netherlands in 1996 and 2000 – that would play a significant role in her career.
From Netherlands to India via Germany: Pasha Gademan and the pursuit of the next ‘sporting high’ in hockey
Currently the head coach of HIL table-topper Hyderabad Toofans, Pasha Gademan has previously worked with the German men’s team during its triumphant campaign at the World Cup in 2023.
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Pasha Gademan (right), head coach of the Hyderabad Toofans in the Hockey India League 2024-25. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
“You could say I’m addicted to it [sports]. You start consuming it at a young age, more and more and then at some point, it’s like now you need it, and you’re at that point where you can’t live without it anymore,” Pasha Gademan puts it philosophically, when asked about what lies ahead for him.
England Hockey Super 6s: East Grinstead women, Old Georgians men defend titles
East Grinstead proved class act PIC: England Hockey
Old Georgians proved a cut above as they defended their men’s Super Sixes title following a 7-4 win over Wimbledon.
Monkstown, Cork C of I, and Portrane make winning starts in EY Hockey League Division 2, as Railway Union progress in AIG Irish Senior Cup
The opening weekend of the EYHL2 certainly didn’t disappoint with five exhilarating matchups surviving the carnage of Storm Eowyn.
Tenaga coach disappointed despite win in MHL
By Aftar Singh
Tenaga Nasional (in red) in action against UiTM during Sunday’s MHL match at the National Hockey Stadium in Bukit Jalil PIC FROM HOKITA
KUALA LUMPUR: Tenaga Nasional outclassed Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) 4-2 to register their fourth win in the Malaysia Hockey League (MHL) at the National Hockey Stadium in Bukit Jalil on Sunday.
KLHA now a shadow of its former self
By Aftar Singh
Maninderjit Singh. - NSTP FILE PIC
KUALA LUMPUR: The Kuala Lumpur Hockey Association (KLHA) was once regarded as one of the leading sports bodies in Malaysia, but it has since fallen from grace.
Inverleith victorious at Scottish U18 Boys Indoor Final
U18 Boys Indoor Finals
Inverleith capped off a fantastic weekend for the club by prevailing in the Boys U18 Indoor Cup at the PEAK.
On this day: 130 years ago, Ireland won the first ever Men’s International Hockey Match.
On Saturday, January 26th 1895, exactly 130 years ago today, the first-ever international field hockey match took place marking a historic moment for the sport. The match was played between Ireland and Wales in the town of Rhyl, located in North Wales. This pioneering encounter laid the foundation for the global development of field hockey as an organized sport.
Hockey in Vizag awaits a much needed 'forward pass'
The sport is struggling for momentum in the port city despite earnest intent.
By Arjun Mylvahanan
Deprived of a turf pitch, players in Vizag use ground like the Vizag Steel Hockey Field to hone their skills. (Photo credit: Rajkumar Jalli)
There is a growing buzz around hockey in India, thanks to success of the national team in the 2021 Tokyo and 2024 Paris Olympics, and other continental events.