13th Hockey India National Championship 2023: Schedule, Teams, Pools, Dates, Timings in IST & Venue

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The 13th Hockey India Senior Men National Championship will commence on November 17 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The tournament will see twenty-nine teams, divided into eight pools, vying to make it to the Final on November 28.

Pool A will consist of defending Champions Hockey Haryana, Chhattisgarh Hockey, and Hockey Gujrat. Hockey Unit of Tamil Nadu, Hockey Himachal and Assam Hockey are placed in Pool B.

Pool C will feature Hockey Karnataka, Hockey Bihar, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu Hockey. Pool D comprises Hockey Maharashtra, Hockey Punjab, Hockey Uttarakhand, and Tripura Hockey.

Hockey Bengal, Hockey Madhya Pradesh, Hockey Jammu & Kashmir, and Manipur Hockey will battle it out in Pool E. Pool F will see Hockey Jharkhand go up against Hockey Chandigarh, Hockey Andhra Pradesh, and Goans Hockey.

Pool G is made up of Uttar Pradesh Hockey, Le Puducherry Hockey, Kerala Hockey, and Hockey Rajasthan. Meanwhile, Pool H will feature Delhi Hockey, the Hockey Association of Odisha, Telangana Hockey, and Hockey Arunachal.

The table topper from each pool will qualify for the Quarter-Finals, the victors of which will advance to the Semi-Finals, scheduled for 27th November. The winners of the Semi-Finals will go toe to toe in the Final on 28th November.

A total of 47 matches, including the knock out stage, will be held across 12 days in a single venue at at the Mayor Radhakrishnan Hockey Stadium, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, the same venue that saw the Indian team clinch the Hero Asian Champions Trophy Chennai 2023 earlier this year.

A total of 31 players from the National Core Group will be participating in this tournament. Indian Men's Hockey Team Captain Harmanpreet Singh, Dilpreet Singh, Shamsher Singh, Sukhjeet Singh, Simranjeet Singh, Akashdeep Singh, Krishan B Pathak, Jarmanpreet Singh, Jugraj Singh, and Gurinder Singh will represent Hockey Punjab.

Meanwhile, the Hockey Association of Odisha will be represented by Amit Rohidas, Nilam Sanjeep Xess, Dipsan Tirkey, and Shilanand Lakra. Uttar Pradesh Hockey will register the services of Lalit Kumar Upadhyay, Rajkumar Pal, Pawan Rajbhar, and Prashant Kumar Chauhan.

Hockey Haryana will look to defend their title with Sumit, Sanjay, Abhishek, Mandeep Mor, Pawan Malik, Yashdeep Siwach, and Manjeet while Vivek Sagar Prasad will take the field for Hockey Madhya Pradesh.

Nilakanta Sharma will play for Manipur Hockey, Mohd Raheel Mouseen will represent Hockey Karnataka, Suraj Karkera will feature for Hockey Maharashtra, Maninder Singh will represent Hockey Chandigarh while local boy S. Karthi will lead the line for last year's runners-up, Hockey Unit of Tamil Nadu.

Here is all you need to know about the 13th Hockey India Senior Men's National Championship tournament from pool details to the full schedule with Indian Standard Time (IST):

Hockey National Championship 2023 Pools

• Pool A: Hockey Haryana, Chhattisgarh Hockey, Hockey Gujarat
• Pool B: Hockey Unit of Tamil Nadu, Hockey Himachal, Assam Hockey
• Pool C: Hockey Karnataka, Hockey Bihar, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu Hockey
• Pool D: Hockey Maharashtra, Hockey Punjab, Hockey Uttarakhand, Tripura Hockey
• Pool E: Hockey Bengal, Hockey Madhya Pradesh, Hockey Jammu & Kashmir, Manipur Hockey
• Pool F: Hockey Jharkhand, Hockey Chandigarh, Hockey Andhra Pradesh, Goans Hockey
• Pool G: Uttar Pradesh Hockey, Le Puducherry Hockey, Kerala Hockey, Hockey Rajasthan
• Pool H: Delhi Hockey, Hockey Association of Odisha, Telangana Hockey, Hockey Arunachal

Hockey National Championship 2023 Schedule - Fixtures with timings in IST