Hockey India League Points Table on January 18: Men’s HIL 2024/25 Season Standings Ahead of Phase 2

Hockey India League Points Table on January 18: Tamil Nadu Dragons remained on top of HIL men's standings despite loss to Hyderabad Toofans, who leapfrogged Rarh Bengal Tigers and Vedanta Kalinga Lancers to take the second spot on Saturday (January 18).

UP Rudras also claimed a narrow win over Team Gonasika to climb to third spot on Saturday (January 18) at the Jaipal Singh Stadium in Ranchi, where Hyderabad Toofans thumped the table-toppers Tamil Nadu Dragons earlier in the day.

Kalinga Lancers and Rarh Bengal Tigers will aim to climb back up the standings when phase 2 begins on Sunday (January 19). The Kalinga Lancers will take on bottom-placed Delhi SG Pipers in the first match of phase 2.

In HIL 2024/25, each team will battle every other team in the first phase of the tournament, before the eight teams are divided into two groups of four teams each in the second phase, where each team will play the other team of their respective group once to decide the top four, who will play the knockout rounds.

In total, each team will be playing 10 matches each in the league stage of the tournament with the top four after the two phases heading into the knockout round that includes the semi-finals followed by the third-place playoff and the title clash.

The league phase, which started on December 28, 2024, will conclude on January 29, 2025 before the knock out round kicks off on January 31 with the two semi-finals followed by the third-place playoff and the final on February 1, 2025. Here is a look at the results followed by points table as of January 18:

Hockey India League Results

December 28: Team Gonasika 2-2 Delhi SG Pipers (DSGP won penalty shootout 2-4)
December 29: Hyderabad Toofans 2-3 Rarh Bengal Tigers
December 29: Soorma Hockey Club 1-1 Tamil Nadu Dragons (SHC won penalty shootout 4-1)
December 30: UP Rudras 3-1 Kalinga Lancers
December 31: Delhi SG Pipers 2-2 Hyderabad Toofans (HYDT won penalty shootout 5-4)
January 1: Rarh Bengal Tigers 2-1 Team Gonasika
January 2: Soorma Hockey Club 0-3 UP Rudras
January 3: Tamil Nadu Dragons 2-2 Kalinga Lancers (TMLD won penalty shootout 6-5)
January 4: Delhi SG Pipers 1-4 Rarh Bengal Tigers
January 4: Hyderabad Toofans 1-3 Team Gonasika
January 5: Kalinga Lancers 3-4 Soorma Hockey Club
January 5: Tamil Nadu Dragons 2-0 UP Rudras
January 6: Soorma Hockey Club 2-2 Delhi SG Pipers (SHC won penalty shootout 3-1)
January 7: Kalinga Lancers 6-0 Rarh Bengal Tigers
January 8: Team Gonasika 5-6 Tamil Nadu Dragons
January 8: UP Rudras 0-3 Hyderabad Toofans
January 9: Kalinga Lancers 2-1 Team Gonasika
January 10: Rarh Bengal Tigers 1-2 Tamil Nadu Dragons
January 11: Hyderabad Toofans 1-1 Soorma Hockey Club (HYDT won penalty shootout 4-3)
January 11: Delhi SG Pipers 1-3 UP Rudras
January 12: Kalinga Lancers 1-5 Hyderabad Toofans
January 13: Tamil Nadu Dragons 3-2 Delhi SG Pipers
January 14: Team Gonasika 2-1 Soorma Hockey Club
January 15: UP Rudras 3-5 Rarh Bengal Tigers
January 16: Delhi SG Pipers 1-5 Kalinga Lancers
January 18: Hyderabad Toofans 4-0 Tamil Nadu Dragons
January 18: Team Gonasika 0-1 UP Rudras

Hockey India League Points Table - Men's HIL 2024/25 Standings on January 18

Position	Team	MP	W	D	L	SO W	SO L	GF	GA	GD	Points
1	Tamil Nadu Dragons	7	4	2	1	1	1	16	15	+1	15
2	Hyderabad Toofans	7	3	2	2	2	0	18	10	+8	13
3	UP Rudras	7	4	0	3	0	0	13	12	+1	12
4	Rarh Bengal Tigers	6	4	0	2	0	0	15	15	0	12
5	Kalinga Lancers	7	3	1	3	0	1	20	16	+4	10
6	Soorma Hockey Club	6	1	3	2	2	1	9	12	-3	8
7	Team Gonasika	7	2	1	4	0	1	14	15	-1	7
8	Delhi SG Pipers	7	0	3	4	1	2	11	21	-10	4

* MP - Matches Played, W - Won, L - Lost, D - Draw, GF - Goals For, GA - Goals Against, GD - Goals Difference, SO W - Shoot-out Wins, SO L - Shoot-out Lost. Note: Top four head into knockout round.