India to host Champions Trophy in 2011

The Executive Board of the International Hockey Federation (FIH) has allocated the FIH Champions Trophies for 2011. The men’s event will be played in India, while the women’s is scheduled to be held in The Netherlands.

After the success of the Hero Honda FIH World Cup in March this year, the FIH has decided to return to India in 2011. The men’s FIH Champions Trophy is scheduled for December 2011 and it will be the third time in hockey history that India will host the FIH flagship event after Chennai in 2005 and Madras in 1996.

Olympic and World champion The Netherlands will host the women’s FIH Champions Trophy next year, with the tournament being completed by the end of June 2011. The Netherlands hosted the women’s FIH Champions Trophy five times before.

For both FIH Champions events, the exact dates and place will be decided in the coming weeks. The FIH will allocate its other World-level events for 2011 and the tournament from 2012 onwards in the coming months.