India women's national field hockey team

The Indian women's national field hockey team (nicknamed the Nabhvarna) represents India in international field hockey, and is governed by Hockey India. Nabhvarna are currently ranked 7th in the FIH World Rankings, and are ranked as the best team in Asia. They have won the gold medals at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and 1982 Asian Games. They have also won the Women's Asia Cup twice, i.e. in 2004 and 2017. They also won the Asian Champions Trophy in 2016. India at the 2020 Summer Olympics,[5] for the first time ever, reached the semi-final in the Women's Hockey Olympic event but failed to bag any medal after they lost to Argentina[6] in the semifinal and then to Great Britain[7] in Bronze medal match.

This article is about the women's team. For the men's team, see India men's national field hockey team.

India
Nickname(s)
  • "Nabhvarna"
AssociationHockey India
ConfederationASHF (Asia)
Head CoachJanneke Schopman
Assistant coach(es)Ankitha BS
ManagerTushar Khandekar
CaptainRani Rampal
Home
Away
FIH ranking
Current 7 1 (2 May 2022)[1]
Highest7 (August 2021)
First international
Scotland  6–1  India
(Folkestone, England; 30 September 1953)[2]
Biggest win
India  24–0    Nepal
(Guwahati, India; 7 February 2016)[3]
Biggest defeat
England  18–0  India
(Sydney, Australia; 23 May 1956)[4]
Olympic Games
Appearances3 (first in 1980)
Best result4th (1980, 2020)
World Cup
Appearances7 (first in 1974)
Best result4th (1974)
Asian Games
Appearances10 (first in 1982)
Best result1st (1982)
Asia Cup
Appearances9 (first in 1989)
Best result1st (2004, 2017)
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Asian Games 1 2 3
Asia Cup 2 2 3
Asian Champions Trophy 1 2 1
Commonwealth Games 1 1 0
Total 5 7 7
Asian Games
1982 New DelhiTeam
1998 BangkokTeam
2018 Jakarta & PalambangTeam
1986 SeoulTeam
2006 DohaTeam
2014 IncheonTeam
Asia Cup
2004 New Delhi
2017 Kakamigahara, Gifu
1999 New Delhi
2009 Bangkok
1993 Hiroshima
2013 Kuala Lumpur
2022 Muscat
Asian Champions Trophy
2016 Singapore
2018 Donghae
2013 Kakamigahara
2010 Busan
Commonwealth Games
2002 ManchesterTeam
2006 MelbourneTeam

Performance history

The team's breakthrough performance came at the Women's Hockey World Cup at Mandelieu in 1974, where it finished in 4th place. Their best performance in the Olympic Games was at 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics (where they came in 4th), when a women's event was held for the first time in Olympic history. The team also won the Gold medal at the inaugural 1982 Asian Games held in New Delhi, defeating Korea in the finals. Captain Suraj Lata Devi led the team to the Gold for three consecutive years at different events- during the 2002 Commonwealth Games,[8] the 2003 Afro-Asian Games, and the 2004 Women's Hockey Asia Cup. Team members were referred to as the "assi (Jasjeet) jaisi koi nahi" or the "Golden Girls of Hockey," after the 2004 win.[9] The team earned a 3rd-place finish at the 2013 Women's Hockey Asia Cup at Kuala Lumpur defeating China in a shootout.[10] At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, it finished in 5th place but at 2014 Asian Games, Incheon stunned Japan 2-1 in a tight match to clinch their third bronze medal at the Asian Games.[11] During the summer of 2015, the team hosted the Round 2 of the 2014–15 Women's FIH Hockey World League and finished on top to qualify for the next stage. At the World League Semifinals held in Antwerp the team finished in the fifth place beating higher ranked Japan in classification match.[12] The Indian woman's national field hockey team qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics[13][14] for the first time since the 1980 Summer Olympics.[13][15] They were eliminated in the group stage, however, where they placed 6th.

2002 Commonwealth Games and Chak De! India (2007)

The 2002 Commonwealth Games Squad, led by Captain Suraj Lata Devi, competed in the 2002 Commonwealth Games. The team entered the finals after defeating the New Zealand women's national field hockey team.[16] and placed first, winning the Gold after they beat the English women's hockey team.[8][17][18]

This event served as the inspiration for the 2007 Bollywood film about women's field hockey, Chak De! India starring Shah Rukh Khan (after screenwriter Jaideep Sahni read a short article about it).[19] Sahni began to model the character of Kabir Khan on hockey coach Maharaj Krishan Kaushik.[20] After hearing the storyline, Kaushik suggested that Sahni meet hockey player Mir Ranjan Negi (who faced accusations of throwing the match against Pakistan during the 1982 Asian Games).[21][22][23] Sahni has stated that he was unaware of Negi's tribulations while writing the script and that the resemblance with Negi's life was entirely coincidental.[24] Negi affirmed this point stating that he didn't "want to hog the limelight. This movie is not a documentary of Mir Ranjan Negi's life. It is in fact the story of a team that becomes a winning lot from a bunch of hopeless girls".[25] In response to the fact that the media equated Kabir Khan with Negi, Sahni said that "Our script was written a year and a half back. It is very unfortunate that something, which is about women athletes, has just started becoming about Negi."[20]

Medal table
Tournament Gold Silver Bronze Total
Commonwealth Games1102
Asian Games1236
Hockey Asia Cup2237
Asian Champions Trophy1214
Hockey Champions Challenge0011
Afro-Asian Games1001
FIH Hockey Series1001
South Asian Games1001
Total87823

Tournament record

Summer Olympics
No Year Host Position
11980 Moscow, USSR
4th
22016 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
12th
32020 Tokyo, Japan
4th

World Cup
No Year Host Position
11974 Mandelieu, France
4th
21978 Madrid, Spain
7th
31983 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
11th
41998 Utrecht, Netherlands
12th
52006 Madrid, Spain
11th
62010 Rosario, Argentina
9th
72018 London, England
8th
82022 Amstelveen, Netherlands
Valencia, Spain
Qualified

Commonwealth Games
No Year Host Position
11998 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
4th
42002 Manchester, England
22006 Melbourne, Australia
32010 New Delhi, India
5th
42014 Glasgow, Scotland
5th
52018 Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
4th

Asian Games
No Year Host Position
11982 New Delhi, India
21986 Seoul, South Korea
31990 Beijing, China
4th
41994 Hiroshima, Japan
4th
51998 Bangkok, Thailand
62002 Busan, South Korea
4th
72006 Doha, Qatar
82010 Guangzhou, China
4th
92014 Incheon, South Korea
102018 Jakarta, Indonesia
112022 Hangzhou, China
Qualified

Asia Cup
No Year Host Position
11989 Hong Kong
4th
21993 Hiroshima, Japan
31999 New Delhi, India
42004 New Delhi, India
52007 Hong Kong
4th
62009 Bangkok, Thailand
72013 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
82017 Kakamigahara, Gifu, Japan
92022 Muscat, Oman

Asian Champions Trophy
No Year Host Position
1 2010 Busan, South Korea
2 2011 Ordos, China
4th
3 2013 Kakamigahara, Japan
4 2016 Singapore
5 2018 Donghae City, South Korea
6 2021 Donghae City, South Korea Withdrew

World League
No Year Final Host Position
12012–13 San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina
14th
22014–15 Rosario, Argentina
10th
32016–17 Auckland, New Zealand
16th

Champions Challenge
No Year Host Position
1 2002 Johannesburg, South Africa
2 2011 Dublin, Ireland
7th
3 2012 Dublin, Ireland
7th
4 2014 Glasgow, Scotland
8th

Hockey Series
No Year Host Position
1 2018-19 Hiroshima, Japan

Afro-Asian Games
No Year Host Position
1 2003 Hyderabad, India

South Asian Games
No Year Host Position
1 2016 Guwahati, India

Results and fixtures

2022
21 January 2022 2022 Asia Cup India  9–0  Malaysia Muscat, Oman
20:00 Vandana  8', 34'
Ekka  10'
Sushila  15', 27'
Lalremsiami  38'
Monika  40'
Sharmila  46', 59'		 Report Stadium: Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex
23 January 2022 2022 Asia Cup Japan  2–0  India Muscat, Oman
19:00 Nagai  2'
S. Tanaka  42'		 Report Stadium: Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex
24 January 2022 2022 Asia Cup India  9–1  Singapore Muscat, Oman
19:00 Monika  6', 17'
Vandana  8'
G. Kaur  8', 37', 48'
Kujur  10'
Jyoti  43', 58'		 Report Toh  43' Stadium: Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex
26 January 2022 2022 Asia Cup South Korea  3–2  India Muscat, Oman
16:30 Cheon  31'
Lee S.  45'
Cho  47'		 Report Neha  28'
Lalremsiami  54'		 Stadium: Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex
28 January 2022 2022 Asia Cup India  2–0  China Muscat, Oman
16:30 Sharmila  13'
Gurjit  19'		 Report Stadium: Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex
31 January 2022 2021–22 FIH Pro League China  1–7  India Muscat, Oman
15:00 Deng  43' Report Navneet  5'
Neha  12'
Vandana  40'
Sushila  47', 52'
Sharmila  48'
Gurjit  50'		 Stadium: Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex
1 February 2022 2021–22 FIH Pro League China  1–2  India Muscat, Oman
15:00 Wang  39' Report Gurjit  3', 49' Stadium: Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex
26 February 2022 2021–22 FIH Pro League India  2–1  Spain Bhubaneswar, India
17:00 Jyoti  20'
Neha  52'		 Report Segú  18' Stadium: Kalinga Stadium
27 February 2022 2021–22 FIH Pro League India  3–4  Spain Bhubaneswar, India
17:00 Sangita  10'
Salima  22'
Namita  49'		 Report B. Garcia  4'
M. García  15'
Iglesias  24'
Giné  60'		 Stadium: Kalinga Stadium
12 March 2022 2021–22 FIH Pro League India  1–1
(1–2 p)		  Germany Bhubaneswar, India
17:00 Navneet  4' Report Sippel  5' Stadium: Kalinga Stadium
Penalties
Sharmila
Navneet
Neha
Lalremsiami
Monika 		Fleschütz
Heinz
Strauss
Wiedermann
Nolte
13 March 2022 2021–22 FIH Pro League India  1–1
(3–0 p)		  Germany Bhubaneswar, India
17:00 Nisha  40' Report Wiedermann  29' Stadium: Kalinga Stadium
Penalties
Salima
Sangita
Sonika 		Stoffelsma
Frerichs
Strauss
8 April 2022 2021–22 FIH Pro League India  2–1  Netherlands Bhubaneswar, India
19:30 Neha  11'
Sonika  28'		 Report Jansen  40' Stadium: Kalinga Stadium
9 April 2022 2021–22 FIH Pro League India  1–1
(1–3 p)		  Netherlands Bhubaneswar, India
15:30 Rajwinder  1' Report Jansen  54' Stadium: Kalinga Stadium
Penalties
Jyoti
Neha
Navneet
Rajwinder 		Jansen
Fortuin
Morgenstern
Barentsen

Players

Current squad
Team roster

The squad was announced on 5 April 2022.[26]

Caps updated as of 9 April 2022, after the match against Netherlands.

Head coach: Janneke Schopman

No. Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps GoalsClub
11 GK Savita Punia (Captain) (1990-07-11) 11 July 1990 223 0 Hockey Haryana
13 GK Rajani Etimarpu (1990-09-06) 6 September 1990 96 0 Railway Sports Promotion Board
2 DF Gurjit Kaur (1995-10-25) 25 October 1995 108 76 Railway Sports Promotion Board
3 DF Deep Grace Ekka (Vice–Captain) (1994-06-03) 3 June 1994 222 14 Railway Sports Promotion Board
8 DF Nikki Pradhan (1993-12-08) 8 December 1993 121 2 Railway Sports Promotion Board
18 DF Udita Duhan (1998-01-14) 14 January 1998 53 4 DoSYA, Haryana
68 DF Mahima Choudhary (1999-12-06) 6 December 1999 1 0 Railway Sports Promotion Board
70 DF Suman Devi Thoudam (1999-07-16) 16 July 1999 12 0 Madhya Pradesh Hockey Academy
DF Rashmita Minz (1997-12-16) 16 December 1997 13 0 Odisha Police
1 MF Navjot Kaur (1995-03-07) 7 March 1995 191 18 Railway Sports Promotion Board
4 MF Monika Malik (1993-11-05) 5 November 1993 172 12 Central Railways
27 MF Sushila Chanu (1992-02-25) 25 February 1992 203 6 Railway Sports Promotion Board
32 MF Neha Goyal (1995-11-15) 15 November 1995 97 16 Railway Sports Promotion Board
15 MF Nisha Warsi (1995-07-09) 9 July 1995 31 1 Railway Sports Promotion Board
5 MF Sonika Tandi (1997-03-20) 20 March 1997 41 4 Income Tax
19 MF Namita Toppo (1995-06-04) 4 June 1995 168 6 Odisha Mining Corporation
28 FW Rani Rampal (1994-12-04) 4 December 1994 249 117 Hockey Haryana
24 FW Jyoti (1999-11-12) 12 November 1999 25 4 Railway Sports Promotion Board
25 FW Navneet Kaur (1996-01-26) 26 January 1996 101 30 Railway Sports Promotion Board
9 FW Rajwinder Kaur (1998-11-19) 19 November 1998 4 2 Hockey Punjab
12 FW Mariana Kujur (1999-04-20) 20 April 1999 8 1 Railway Sports Promotion Board
36 FW Aishwarya Chavan (1997-10-18) 18 October 1997 1 0 Hockey Maharashtra

Recent call-ups

These players were called-up in the last 12 months.

Pos. Player Date of birth (age) Caps Goals Club Latest call-up
GK Bichu Devi Kharibam (2000-12-03) 3 December 2000 1 0 Madhya Pradesh Hockey Academy 2021–22 Pro League
DF Ishika Chaudhary (2000-04-15) 15 April 2000 8 0 Madhya Pradesh Hockey Academy 2021–22 Pro League
DF Akshata Dhekele (2001-11-02) 2 November 2001 2 0 Hockey Maharashtra 2021–22 Pro League
MF Reena Khokhar (1993-04-10) 10 April 1993 45 1 Railway Sports Promotion Board 2020 Summer Olympics
MF Salima Tete (2001-12-27) 27 December 2001 48 1 Hockey Jharkhand 2021–22 Pro League
FW Vandana Katariya (1992-04-15) 15 April 1992 258 73 Railway Sports Promotion Board 2021–22 Pro League
FW Sharmila Devi (2001-10-10) 10 October 2001 28 7 Hockey Himachal 2021–22 Pro League
FW Lalremsiami (2000-03-30) 30 March 2000 83 25 Railway Sports Promotion Board 2021–22 Pro League
FW Sangita Kumari (2001-12-24) 24 December 2001 3 1 Railway Sports Promotion Board 2021–22 Pro League
FW Deepika (2000-06-12) 12 June 2000 4 0 Hockey Haryana 2021–22 Pro League

Awards
Summer Olympics
Hockey World Cup
Hockey Champions Challenge
Dhyan Chand Award
Arjuna Awards

The following is a list of recipients for the Arjuna award in hockey recipients (by year):

See also

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