India have been topped the Asia Cup Rajgir, Bihar 2025 winners after they convincingly beat Korea 4-1 on the Rajgir Sports activities Advanced on Sunday with the stadium packed to the brim as locals turned up in massive numbers to cheer the house group. With this win, India have ended the eight-year wait to regain title. With this win, India have certified for the FIH Males’s Hockey World Cup 2026 within the Netherlands and Belgium. Targets have been scored by Dilpreet Singh (28′,45′), Sukhjeet Singh (1′) and Amit Rohidas (50′).
The final time they gained the Asia Cup was in 2017, Dhaka. They’ve now gained the Asia Cup title 4 occasions general, behind solely South Korea’s complete of 5. Pakistan are the one different group to win the match, as they clinched the primary three gold medals, beating India in 1982, 1985 and 1989.
India have reached the Asia Cup finals most quantity occasions; this was their ninth look within the title conflict in all as they completed 2nd within the first three editions after which in 1994 and 2013. Korea have been within the finals 7 occasions whereas Pakistan have 6 to their identify. Pakistan, it’s price noting, didn’t journey to India this time. Earlier within the day, Malaysia completed third to clinch bronze for the second time, to go along with 2017. Malaysia have been left heartbroken by Korea on Saturday as they have been minutes away from sealing their first go to to the ultimate however crumbled from 3-1 forward to lose 3-4. However on Sunday they prevailed in opposition to China, who have been one of many shock packages of the match early on however faltered within the final two matches to complete a creditable fourth.
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“You study from each match. As I stated, the plus and minus are at all times there. However how quickly you analyse it, work on it, apply issues, that issues. So, I feel as a group defence, we have now executed very effectively. And the scoring we’re seeing is excellent. I feel defence. If we see, the final matches we performed, we gave powerful competitors to the opponents,” Harmanpreet Singh informed ANI after the match.
Harmanpreet hailed the forwards, saying, “They did an amazing job. They have been changing all of the alternatives within the objective. So, this mixture is nice. We’ll proceed it.”
Following the hosts’ win, Hockey India introduced INR 3 lakh every to gamers and INR 1.5 lakh to the help workers.
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Variety of males’s Asia Cup titles:
South Korea: 5
India 4:
Pakistan: 3
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Previous Asia Cup winners and runners-up:
1982: Pakistan beat India
1985: Pakistan beat India
1989: Pakistan beat India
1994: Korea beat India
1999: South Korea beat Pakistan
2003: India beat Pakistan
2007: India beat South Korea
2009: South Korea beat Pakistan
2013: South Korea beat India
2017: India beat Malaysia
2022: South Korea beat Malaysia
2025: India beat South Korea