Hockey India League 2024-25: Over 1000 players set to go under hammer at auction

New Delhi: Because the players auction for the 2024-25 season is scheduled to happen from October 13 to 15, over A thousand players, including global stars, set to go under hammer with a balance of domestic and international talents.

After a seven-year hiatus, HIL is making its comeback with an expanded format that features both men’s and, for the primary time ever, an exclusive females’s league, running concurrently.

With the Hockey India League restarting for men and the inaugural season for the Females’s League set to initiate this season. The men’s auction shall be held on October 13 and 14, while the historic females’s auction will happen on October 15.

Over four hundred domestic and greater than 100 and fifty foreign places men’s players, together with 250 domestic along 70 foreign females’s player will under go auction. Players are divided into three base price categories: Rs 2,00,000, Rs 5,00,000, and Rs 10,00,000, in accordance with the value they selected for themselves.

Over 600 players worldwide the Rs 2,00,000 category, greater than 250 players worldwide the Rs 5,00,000 category and over 250 players worldwide the Rs 10,00,000 category.

The men’s auction will kick off with India’s bronze medal-winning team from the Paris Olympics, featuring top stars like captain Harmanpreet Singh, vice captain Hardik Singh, and seasoned players like Manpreet Singh and Mandeep Singh, among others. Adding to the joy, former Indian hockey legends such as Rupinder Pal Singh, Birendra Lakra, and Dharamvir Singh have also registered, setting the stage for a highly anticipated event.

International hockey icons including Arthur van Doren, Alexander Hendrickx, Gonzalo Peillat, Jip Janssen, Thierry Brinkman, and Dayaan Cassiem will add global talent and flair to the boys’s league.

The females’s auction will kick off with top players, including seasoned goalkeeper Savita, Captain Salima Tete, rising celebrity and drag-flicker Deepika, the foremost-capped Indian females’s player Vandana Katariya, and Lalremsiami, among others.

Former Indian players like Yogita Bali, Lilima Minz, and Namita Toppo have also registered for the auction.

International females’s players, including Delfina Merino, Charlotte Stapenhorst, Maria Granatto, Rachael Lynch, and Nike Lorenz are set to be a component of the bidding war, adding similarly excitement to the primary-ever HIL females’s league.

Each and every team will encompass 24 players, including Sixteen Indian players (with a mandatory inclusion of Four junior players) and eight foreign places players, reflecting HIL’s vision of promoting both local and global talent.

The HIL 2024-25 will initiate on December 28 with a grand opening ceremony in Rourkela, Odisha. Matches shall be held across two iconic venues — Marang Gomke Jaipal Singh Astroturf Hockey Stadium in Ranchi and Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium in Rourkela.

The females’s league final shall be held on January 26, 2025 in Ranchi, and the boys’s final is scheduled for February 1, 2025 in Rourkela.

To ensure every match ends in a winner, the league has introduced shootouts for any matches that bring about a tie.