The Hockey India League returns with a historic public sale from October 13-15, that includes over 1,000 gamers, together with home and worldwide stars, because it launches an unique girls’s league alongside the lads’s competitors.
New Delhi: Because the gamers public sale for the 2024-25 season is scheduled to happen from October 13 to fifteen, over 1000 gamers, together with international stars, set to go beneath hammer with a steadiness of home and worldwide skills.
After a seven-year hiatus, HIL is making its comeback with an expanded format that features each males’s and, for the primary time ever, an unique girls’s league, working concurrently.
With the Hockey India League restarting for males and the inaugural season for the Ladies’s League set to start out this season. The lads’s public sale might be held on October 13 and 14, whereas the historic girls’s public sale will happen on October 15.
Over 400 home and greater than 150 abroad males’s gamers, together with 250 home alongside 70 overseas girls’s participant will beneath go public sale. Gamers are divided into three base value classes: Rs 2,00,000, Rs 5,00,000, and Rs 10,00,000, based mostly on the worth they chose for themselves.
Over 600 gamers within the Rs 2,00,000 class, greater than 250 gamers within the Rs 5,00,000 class and over 250 gamers within the Rs 10,00,000 class.
The lads’s public sale will kick off with India’s bronze medal-winning group from the Paris Olympics, that includes high stars like captain Harmanpreet Singh, vice captain Hardik Singh, and seasoned gamers like Manpreet Singh and Mandeep Singh, amongst others. Including to the joy, former Indian hockey legends equivalent to Rupinder Pal Singh, Birendra Lakra, and Dharamvir Singh have additionally registered, setting the stage for a extremely anticipated occasion.
Worldwide hockey icons together with Arthur van Doren, Alexander Hendrickx, Gonzalo Peillat, Jip Janssen, Thierry Brinkman, and Dayaan Cassiem will add international expertise and aptitude to the lads’s league.
The ladies’s public sale will kick off with high gamers, together with seasoned goalkeeper Savita, Captain Salima Tete, rising star and drag-flicker Deepika, the most-capped Indian girls’s participant Vandana Katariya, and Lalremsiami, amongst others.
Former Indian gamers like Yogita Bali, Lilima Minz, and Namita Toppo have additionally registered for the public sale.
Worldwide girls’s gamers, together with Delfina Merino, Charlotte Stapenhorst, Maria Granatto, Rachael Lynch, and Nike Lorenz are set to be a part of the bidding struggle, including additional pleasure to the first-ever HIL girls’s league.
Every group will encompass 24 gamers, together with 16 Indian gamers (with a compulsory inclusion of 4 junior gamers) and eight abroad gamers, reflecting HIL’s imaginative and prescient of selling each native and international expertise.
The HIL 2024-25 will start on December 28 with a grand opening ceremony in Rourkela, Odisha. Matches might be held throughout two iconic venues — Marang Gomke Jaipal Singh Astroturf Hockey Stadium in Ranchi and Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium in Rourkela.
The ladies’s league closing might be held on January 26, 2025 in Ranchi, and the lads’s closing is scheduled for February 1, 2025 in Rourkela.
To make sure each match ends in a winner, the league has launched shootouts for any matches that finish in a tie.