On November 7, 2025, India will be celebrating 100 years of Indian Hockey, where the first administration body of hockey was opened in the country in 1925. In this historic milestone, the Hockey Federation of India has decided to host over 1000 hockey games in the entire country in one day, with the aim of getting its name listed in the Guinness World Records.
As part of keeping with this venture, the Chhattisgarh Hockey Association has already started making arrangements to organize concurrent matches in every 27 districts of the state at 8 a.m. on November 7. This will be a mega event in which the state sports department will not be involved directly in conducting the event, but it will be done by the Hockey Association. District-level officials have been instructed to arrange matches based on local arrangements with their capabilities and resources.
International player Mrinal Chaubey has been given the responsibility of organizing the whole event. He explained that, as matches will be taking place nationwide, every district association has been requested to give a list of men’s and women’s teams that will be involved in the event. According to these lists, the state association will hold another review meeting where logistics and participation details shall be finalized on November 1.
Mrinal Chaubey pointed out the importance of the date, November 7, 1925, when the first hockey body in India was created. After three years, in 1928, the Indian team won the first Olympic gold medal in Amsterdam against the Netherlands. India has also won eight gold medals in hockey in the Olympic Games, the highest number owned by any country. The golden era of Indian hockey is recalled to be the 1928 to 1959, and in the 1980s and 1990s, the sport was at its downfall before it started gaining momentum in the late 1990s.
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