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Major Dhyanchand Stadium to host Phase 1 of Khelo India Women's Hockey League (U-16)

Following the success of the Khelo India Women's Hockey League (U-21), Hockey India along with SAI is organizing the U-16 Khelo India league.

CIC directed disclosure of the information, Hockey India challenged it before the Delhi High Court (Source: Hockey India)
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After CIC directed disclosure of the information, Hockey India challenged it before the Delhi High Court (Source: Hockey India) 

By

The Bridge Desk

Updated: 11 Aug 2022 5:14 PM GMT

Following the success of the Khelo India Women's Hockey League (U-21) held over three phases in New Delhi and Lucknow earlier this year, a similar league for U-16 girls is scheduled to start on August 16 at the Major Dhyanchand Stadium in the national capital.

Phase 1 of the 1st Khelo India Women's Hockey League (U-16) is scheduled from August 16 to 23 where a total of 16 teams across the country are participating.

A total of 56 matches will be played in Phase 1 and over 300 players will compete. The Sports Authority of India has allocated a total of Rs 53.72 lakhs for 3 phases of the competition, which includes Prize money of Rs 15.5 lakh.

It is another great step taken by the Khelo India and Hockey India by organising 1st Khelo India Women's Major Dhyanchand Stadium to host Phase 1 of 1st Khelo India Women's Hockey League (U-16)

Hockey League Under -16, after completion of the 1st Khelo India Women's Hockey League U-21 recently," mentioned Piyush Kumar Dubey, former coach, Indian Men's Hockey Team.

In the current scenario, there are a lot of competition/tournament exposures in place only for the Senior category, and especially in Women's Hockey at Junior and Sub Junior levels, they don't have such numbers of tournaments and competitions where they can sharpen, assess their training and capabilities.

That's why initiating such Khelo India League at Sub-junior level definitely going to play a major role in future in terms of Athletes performance and overall development and also make them learn how to handle such competition pressures," Dubey added.

The matches are scheduled to start at 6:30 am each day with the final match scheduled at 5 pm. August 19 is kept as the rest day.

Phase 1 and 2 of the Khelo India Women's Hockey League (U-16) will be in a round-robin format.

The final ranking of teams will be determined after the completion of the first 2 phases. Phase 3 will consist of classification matches where each team will play a minimum of 3 matches.

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