Field hockey in India refers to two teams, the India men’s national field hockey team and the India women’s national field hockey team. In Juof Indian state Odisha wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to declare field hockey as the national sport of India. The state government of Odisha has been supporting India’s national field hockey team from February 2018 till next five years. The 2018 Men’s Hockey World Cup was held in the Odisha capital Bhubaneswar between November 28 and December 16 and culminated with Belgium as World Champions defeating Netherlands in the finals. Field hockey was formerly India’s National sportbut this is no longer the case as the country now has no national sport

Performance of Indian Hockey Team in All World Cups

Year	Rank	Venue
1971	3rd Place	Barcelona, Spain
1973	Runner Up	Amstelveen, Netherlands
1975	Winner	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
1978	6th Place	Buenos Aires, Argentina
1982	5th Place	Bombay, India
1986	12th Place	London, England
1990	10th Place	Lahore, Pakistan
1994	5th Place	Sydney, Australia
1998	9th Place	Utrecht, Netherlands
2002	10th Place	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2006	21th Place || Monchengladbach, Germany
2010	8th Place	New Delhi, India
2014	9th Place	The Hague, Netherlands
2018	6th Place	Bhubaneswar, India

The Indian Olympic Association appointed a new five-member national selection committee. This panel will work in conjunction with the International Hockey Federation in managing field hockey in India. The panel was headed by Aslam Sher Khan, a former MP and former hockey captain and includes Ashok Kumar, Ajit Pal Singh, Zafar Iqbal and Dhanraj Pillay. Aslam Sher Khan has now been replaced by Ajit Pal Singh as the chairman of the national selection committee. Aslam Sher Khan was highly displeased by this decision, though he remained as a selector

World Ranking FIH World Rankings as of 30 June 2019

Rank	Change	Team	Points
3		Netherlands	2205
4		Argentina	1988
5		India	1823
6	1	England	1779
7	1	Germany	1770