After a year since they last played an international match, the Indian Men’s Hockey Team will travel to Europe where they will play two matches each against the Germany and Great Britain national teams during this 17-day tour.

The 22-member squad is scheduled to leave on 21st February 2021 from Bengaluru for Krefeld, Germany where they will play the home team on 28th February and 2nd March 2021. They will then travel to Antwerp, Belgium where they are scheduled to play against Great Britain team on 6th March and 8th March 2021.

The Indian Men’s Team last participated in an International competition in February 2020 when they took on Australia during the FIH Hockey Pro League matches held in Bhubaneswar. As a result of the Indian team’s good performance, the team had climbed to 4th in the FIH world rankings, India’s highest ranking till date.

Over the past months, Hockey India has been diligently working on analysing and studying the ever-changing situation to work out a suitable training and competition schedule for the team as part of the Olympic preparations. Hockey India has been in constant touch with a number of countries to make the best of the current situation and to ensure international competitions are made available for the Indian teams as part of their preparations for the Tokyo Olympic Games which were postponed from July 2020 to July 2021 and other major international tournaments in the year 2021.

Indian Men hockey team squad for tour of Germany

Goalkeepers: PR Sreejesh (captain), Krishan Bahadur Pathak

Defenders: Amit Rohidas, Dipsan Tirkey, Gurinder Singh, Harmanpreet Singh (vice-captain), Surender Kumar, Jarmanpreet Singh, Birendra Lakra

Midfielders: Chinglensana Singh, Nilakanta Sharma, Hardik Singh, Vivek Sagar Prasad, Rajkumar Pal, Simranjeet Singh, Shamsher Singh, Akashdeep Singh.

Forwards: Gurjant Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Dilpreet Singh, Mandeep Singh, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay

Indian women Hockey Team

After their tour of Argentina where the Indian women’s hockey team played a total of 7 matches, the Rani Rampal-led squad is all set to travel to Dusseldorf, Germany to play four matches against their national squad as part of their preparations for the Tokyo Olympic Games.

The team consisting of 18 players and 7 support staff personnel will leave on Tuesday from Bengaluru where they are currently housed in SAI, the centre for the national coaching camp.

Indian women’s hockey team squad for tour of Germany

Goalkeepers: Savita Punia (vice-captain and goalkeeper), Rajani Etimarpu

Defenders: Deep Grace Ekka, Gurjit Kaur, Udita, Nisha

Midfielders: Nikki Pradhan, Monika, Neha, Lilima Minz, Sushila Chanu, Salima Tete, Navjot Kaur

Forwards: Rani Rampal (captain), Lalremsiami, Navneet Kaur, Rajwinder Kaur, Sharmila Devi

Indian women’s hockey team schedule, fixtures and India match times for German tour

Saturday, 27 February: India vs Germany – 4:30 PM IST

Sunday, 28 February: India vs Germany – 4:30 PM IST

Tuesday, 2 March: India vs Germany – 4:30 PM IST

Thursday, 4 March: India vs Germany – 4:30 PM IST

Let’s all support both the Teams….