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April 26, 2025

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5 Reasons on how Indian Hockey can Improve Further?

Indian Hockey has found their Mojo Back and credit should be given to all stakeholders who have worked hard behind the scenes to make this entity extremely successful.

When it comes to Men’s Hockey they have successfully clinched Bronze medal on two occasions, in two distinct Olympics- Tokyo and Paris respectively.

Several stars in forward, midfield and defence have risen up in occasions to make the most out any opportunity in the crunch phase of the game.

Women’s Hockey is still lacking behind, as they have certainly failed to win Olympic medals on two occasions where Men were able to clinch medals but female couldn’t.

However even in Men’s Hockey lot of improvement still needs to be done which would eventually make our Hockey team an absolute champion of the game.

Here in this article we will reveal 5 Possible reasons on how Indian Hockey can improve further in times to come to be shared in the below format:

5. Indian Hockey Infrastructure and Funding: When it comes to Indian Hockey, there are most areas where they are lacking Infrastructure and funding wise which include- lack of proper Infrastructure, especially astroturf surfaces on which this game is played as playing on grass surface doesn’t help you out more as player as it become difficult for you to adapt your game at astroturf when you switch to actual tournaments.

Funding plays a pivotal role as lack of funding can dampen the spirit of players to great extent as money plays a prominent role in player’s training, equipment’s and miscellaneous factors in detail.

4. Hockey India League Improvements:

Hockey India League might have restarted after several year hitaus, but the league is similarly based on the concept of IPL or PKL where top Indian and Overseas Players plays for the same franchise and compete against the best in the business for the prestigious title.

There are improvements required in this league to be shared in the below format:

Marketing: Marketing strategy implemented by Hockey India League could have been done better, so that people knows more about this league.

Referring and Broadcasting Standards: Improving Umpiring standards is the key and reducing errors is an important factor that will play an important role in uplifting any league.

League Schedule and Auction Purses: When it comes to deciding fix schedule for Hockey India League its not fixed unlike IPL which is held in the month of April- May every year

When it comes to Auction Purses, the amount should substantially grow so that most indian and International players could be approached to take part in this league.

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3. Grassroot Development and Enhanced Investment:

If you really want to see Indian Hockey flourishing in two distinct domain- Male and Female Category Grassroot development should be enhanced so that robust policies should be developed and implemented with enhanced investment where right talent can be identified and best in the business can compete against each other so that highly skilled players can up their ranks, and make name in Indian U-15,U-17 &U-19 teams and subsequently making at to Indian National team.

2. Management and Player Development Scheme:

For any player to flourish from grassroot to higher level a proper management led system should be developed, welfare scheme with robust 360 degree plan should be implemented by all stakeholders belonging to Indian Hockey Federation should be implementing these plans so that athletes proper care in terms of skills and development and exposure as player should be executed as soon as possible.

These managerial policies is not only good for players who understand the hierachy on how they have to approach their playing graph from the beginning.

Good Managerial policy is always good for any player as it generates trust and clear transparency among players from the beginner stage to India level.

1. Private Sponsors Involvement:

In order for Hockey to grow in India across both domain- Male and Female, Hockey India Business Development team should focus on including more private stakeholders who can be sponsor distinct Hockey India Leagues also stakeholders only will be empaneled once they have clarity that this league will be organized in this record time and star players will be involved in this altercation.

Hockey India needs these serious revamp changes in order to make our Hockey team an absolute champion in the making.