Rajgir Hockey Stadium in Bihar will host it’s second worldwide event as Hockey India awarded the Bihar State Sports activities Authority the internet hosting rights for the Males’s Asia Cup 2025.
The event comprising of eight groups will probably be performed from twenty ninth August to seventh September on the newly developed Sports activities Complicated in Rajgir.
Pakistan, Malaysia, South Korea, Japan, China together with hosts India will make the six groups within the twelfth version of the continental event. The remaining two groups will safe their berth within the event through qualifying event, the AHF Cup.
The event will function the qualifiers for the 2026 Hockey World Cup set to be hosted within the Netherlands and Belgium. The winner of the event will immediately qualify for Hockey WC.
South Korea stands as essentially the most profitable staff within the historical past of the Males’s Asia Cup with 5 titles (1994, 1999, 2009, 2013, and 2022), adopted carefully by India (2003, 2007, and 2017) and Pakistan (1982, 1985, and 1989), who’ve every gained the event 3 times.
That is the second worldwide event on the Rajgir Hockey Stadium because the venue hosted the 2024 version of the Girls’s Asian Champions Trophy the place Indian girls’s staff defeated Olympic silver medallists China to clinch the title.
The hockey stadium is a part of the bigger state-of-the-art Sports activities College which is able to cater to 25 totally different sports activities – together with hockey, soccer, kabaddi, volleyball, swimming, and wrestling, amongst others, as soon as accomplished.
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After signing the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), B Rajendra, Extra Chief Secretary, Division of Sports activities, Bihar, mentioned, “The signing of the MoU between Hockey India and the Bihar State Sports activities Authority marks a major step in Bihar’s journey in direction of changing into a premier sporting vacation spot.”
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