Pakistan men's national field hockey team

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search
Pakistan
180px
Nickname Green Shirts
Association Pakistan Hockey Federation
Coach Vacant
Captain Muhammad Imran
FIH ranking 10
Team colours Team colours Team colours
Team colours
Team colours
　
First kit
Team colours Team colours Team colours
Team colours
Team colours
　
Second kit

The Pakistan National Field Hockey Team (Urdu: پاكِستان قومى ہاكى ٹِيم‎), also known as the Green Shirts represent the Pakistan in international field hockey competitions.[1]

Field Hockey is the national sport of Pakistan. Pakistan has been one of the most successful teams in international competitions, having won a world record four Hockey World Cup titles.They were the dominant side along with India for decades.But lost their glory in hockey.With 338 goals, Pakistan's Sohail Abbas holds the current world record for most international goals scored by a player in the history of international field hockey.[2]

Tournament History

File:2008 Olympic field hockey team Pakistan.JPG
The Pakistani field hockey team at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Medal table

Competition Gold Silver Bronze Total
Olympic 3 3 2 8
World Cup 4 2 0 6
Champions Trophy 3 7 7 17
Asian Games 8 3 3 14
Asia Cup 3 3 2 8
Azlan Shah Hockey Cup 3 6 2 11
Commonwealth Games 0 1 1 2
Asian Hockey Champions Trophy 2 1 0 3

Summer Olympics

  • Pakistan has won Gold in the Summer Olympics a total of three times in 1960, 1968, and 1984. Pakistan has also won three silver and two bronze medals.
Olympics Games record
Year Round Position Pld W D L
United Kingdom 1908 Did not participate
Sweden 1912 Not Held
Belgium 1920 Did not participate
France 1924 Not Held
Netherlands 1928 Did not participate
United States 1932
Germany 1936
United Kingdom 1948 Semifinals 4th 6 4 0 2
Finland 1952 Semifinals 4th 4 2 0 2
Australia 1956 Semifinals 2nd 5 3 0 2
Italy 1960 Champions 1st 6 6 0 0
Japan 1964 Runner-up 2nd 8 7 0 1
Mexico 1968 Champions 1st – – – –
Germany 1972 Runner-up 2nd 9 6 1 2
Canada 1976 Third place 3rd 6 4 1 1
Soviet Union 1980 Did not participate
United States 1984 Champions 1st 7 4 3 0
Korea 1988 Playoff 5th 6 5 0 2
Spain 1992 Third place 3rd 7 6 0 1
United States 1996 Playoff 6th 7 3 1 3
Australia 2000 Semifinals 4th 7 2 3 2
Greece 2004 Playoff 5th 7 5 0 2
People's Republic of China 2008 Playoff 8th 6 2 0 4
United Kingdom 2012 Playoff 7th 6 3 1 2
Brazil 2016 Did Not Qualify
Total 3 Titles 16/22 - - - -

Hockey World Cup

  • Pakistan has been the most successful team in the World Cup having won 4 golds in 1971, 1978, 1982 and 1994. They have come in second place twice.[3]
World Cup record
Year Round Position Pld W D L
Spain 1971 Champions 1st 6 4 1 1
Netherlands 1973 Semifinals 4th 7 4 1 2
Malaysia 1975 Runner-up 2nd 7 4 2 1
Argentina 1978 Champions 1st 8 8 0 0
India 1982 Champions 1st 7 7 0 0
United Kingdom 1986 Playoff 11th 6 2 0 4
Pakistan 1990 Runner-up 2nd 7 4 1 2
Australia 1994 Champions 1st 7 6 0 1
Netherlands 1998 Playoff 5th 7 5 0 2
Malaysia 2002 Playoff 5th 9 6 0 3
Germany 2006 Playoff 6th 7 2 2 3
India 2010 Playoff 12th 6 1 0 5
Netherlands 2014 Did not qualify
Total 4 Titles 12/13 84 53 7 24

<templatestyles src="Div col/styles.css"/>

3

Current Squad

A match between Pakistan and Argentina

WORLD HOCKEY LEAGUE 2015 squad:

  • Muhammad Imran (captain)
  • Ali Shan
  • Rashid Mahmood
  • Waqas Sharif
  • Muhammad Azfar
  • Muhd Kashif Ali
  • Shakeep Butt Ammad
  • Dilbar Hussain
  • Rizwan Junior
  • Mashar Abbas
  • Muhammad Tauseeq
  • Fareed Ahmad
  • Syed Kashif
  • Imran Butt
  • Muhammad Irfan
  • Rizwan Snr
  • Shafqat Rasool
  • Umar Bhutta

Squad restructure

After a poor performance at the 2010 Hockey World Cup, coach Shahid Ali Khan was sacked along with several other senior personnel, with the entire squad also announcing their voluntary retirement. However the PHF President refused to accept their resignations and the players continued to play. It also emerged that the squad had been forced to announce their retirement by Asif Bajwa, a senior official.[4] Former Pakistani hockey player, Shahbaz Ahmad, announced that he would be willing to coach the team for free and that he had been approached by the PHF. He also mentioned that he would not take the position unless Asif Bajwa was sacked.[5][6] Following this, the restructured squad has seen somewhat of a resurgence with a 5–5 draw against the mighty Australians who won the 2010 Hockey World Cup.[7] They also thrashed Egypt 6–2.[8]
The PHF was on the hunt for a foreign coach and had temporarily given the assignment of coaching to Khawaja Junaid.[9] German coach Paul Lissek along with Australian Barry Dancer and Dutch coach Michel van den Heuvel were on the list but the current security situation rendered this not possible.[10] The Dutch coach Michael van den Heuvel landed in Pakistan to come to an agreement with the hockey federation for a possible coaching stint with the team.[11] While a deal was being planned, Khawaja Junaid had returned to coaching the junior team, while Manzoor Hussain had been appointed as the temporary coach of the team.[12] A few days later the Pakistan Hockey Federation announced that Michel van den Heuvel has been appointed as Pakistan's hockey coach,[13] with a pay of 10,000 euros.[14]

Notable players

<templatestyles src="Div col/styles.css"/>

3

*Imran Khan

Domestic hockey teams of Pakistan

See also

References

<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />

Cite error: Invalid <references> tag; parameter "group" is allowed only.

Use <references />, or <references group="..." />

External links

Script error: The function "top" does not exist.

Template:Pakistan FH Squad 1990 World Cup Template:Pakistan FH Squad 1992 Summer Olympics Template:Pakistan FH Squad 1994 World Cup

Script error: The function "bottom" does not exist.

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ Azlan Shah Cup big challenge for team: Abbas Dawn 14 May 2012. Retrieved 14 May 2012
  3. ↑ Pakistan Hockey Federation
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ [1][dead link]
  7. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  8. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  9. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  11. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. ↑ http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/sport/07-phf-names-manager-assistant-coaches-for-national-team-ha-09
  13. ↑ http://thenews.jang.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=246098
  14. ↑ http://thenews.jang.com.pk/daily_detail.aspid=246099
Retrieved from "https://infogalactic.com/w/index.php?title=Pakistan_men%27s_national_field_hockey_team&oldid=1766552"