Hockey India League (HIL) will return after a seven-year break later this yr, it was confirmed on Friday (four October). The HIL 2024-25 version will characteristic eight males’s groups and 6 ladies’s groups. Each the lads’s and girls’s leagues will run concurrently – males’s in Rourkela and girls’s in Ranchi – and keep away from conflict with the worldwide calendar.
The lads’s league will run from 28 December till 1 February whereas the ladies’s competitors will conclude on 26 January.
“A transparent 35-40 day window will allow most participation from international gamers in HIL, thus making it some of the aggressive leagues on the earth and in addition signifies the significance of HIL” stated Hockey India president and former participant Dilip Tirkey on the announcement occasion in Delhi.
HI secretary Bhola Nath Singh clarified that the worldwide physique (FIH) has opened the December-February window for the HIL to be performed for the subsequent 5 years.
“I thank the FIH for giving us a window for the subsequent 5 years, from December 28 to February 5 every year,” he stated.
The lads’s groups have been registered in Chennai, Lucknow, Punjab, Kolkata, Delhi, Odisha, Hyderabad and Ranchi. The ladies’s franchises have been allotted for Haryana, Kolkata, Delhi, Odisha and two extra are but to be finalised.
Of the franchises, JSW Sports activities (Punjab and Haryana), Shrachi Sports activities (Kolkata), SG Sports activities and Leisure (Delhi), Vedanta Restricted (Odisha) and Navoyam Sports activities Ventures Non-public Restricted (Ranchi and Odisha) have taken the rights for each women and men groups.
Mahesh Bhupathi, co-owner of Delhi women and men franchises, stated on the announcement occasion, “We hope to reside as much as the expectations, work laborious and construct hopefully a profitable franchise. The ladies’s a part of it is vitally necessary, ladies sports activities is on the rise in India.”
After all of the groups are finalised, the participant’s public sale will probably be held between 13 and 15 October in Delhi. Three slabs have been set for each males’s and girls’s gamers – Rs. 2 lakh, Rs. 5 lakh and Rs. 10 lakh. The gamers who put their identify within the public sale pool, additionally talked about their base value in the course of the registration course of.
HIL was run between 2013 and 2017 earlier than being dropped from the calendar resulting from monetary losses.
HIL Males’s groups:
Chennai (franchise homeowners: Charles Group)
Lucknow (Yadu Sports activities)
Punjab (JSW Sports activities)
Kolkata (Shrachi Sports activities)
Delhi (SG Sports activities and Leisure)
Odisha (Vedanta Restricted)
Hyderabad (Resolute Sports activities)
Ranchi (Navoyam Sports activities Ventures Non-public Restricted)
HIL Ladies’s groups (confirmed to date):
Haryana (JSW Sports activities)
Kolkata (Shrachi Sports activities)
Delhi (SG Sports activities and Leisure)
Odisha (Navoyam Sports activities Ventures Non-public Restricted)