This yr’s occasion, organized by Hockey India and the Bihar authorities, will happen on the newly-developed Rajgir Hockey Stadium.
Defending champions India, together with groups from China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, and Thailand, are anticipated to compete.
Extending a heat welcome to the groups set to take part within the continental occasion, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar stated, “I’m very completely satisfied and delighted to increase the help of Bihar Authorities to host the eighth Ladies’s Asian Champions Trophy. We lengthen a really heat welcome to the worldwide groups collaborating within the prestigious occasion.
“We hope the hockey groups, officers and hockey followers travelling for this occasion will benefit from the hospitality of our individuals, we’ll guarantee no stone is left unturned in making this occasion a grand success.”
Dato Fumio Ogura, president of Asian Hockey Federation stated, “I lengthen my profound gratitude to Hockey India for taking over the duty to host this marquee occasion after efficiently internet hosting the lads’s and girls’s Asian Champions Trophy in India final yr.
“I’m assured that the occasion in Rajgir, Bihar shall be an enormous success just like the earlier version held in Ranchi, Jharkhand.”
Hockey India president Dilip Tirkey stated, “It is a historic second for hockey as that is the primary time a global hockey match is being held in Bihar. We’re grateful to Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) and the Bihar Authorities for the unimaginable alternative and help to host the occasion.”
