In Hockey, a total of 29 teams will fight it out to lift the trophy at the 12th Hockey India Sub Junior Men National Championship 2022 which starts in Goa today. Eight days of pool matches will be followed by Quarter-Finals on May 12, the Semi-Finals on May 14, and the Medal matches are scheduled for May 15.
The participating teams are divided into eight pools. Teams in Pool A are Hockey Jharkhand, Hockey Gujarat, and Hockey Uttarakhand, while Pool B features Hockey Haryana, Hockey Karnataka, and Chhattisgarh Hockey. Pool C consists of Uttar Pradesh Hockey, Hockey unit of Tamil Nadu, and Hockey
Bengal, while Pool D features Manipur Hockey, Hockey Rajasthan, Hockey Himachal, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, and Daman & Diu Hockey. Hockey Association of Odisha, Hockey Andhra Pradesh, Kerala Hockey, and Hockey Mizoram are in Pool E, while Hockey Punjab, Delhi Hockey, Le Puducherry Hockey, and Goans Hockey have been slotted in Pool F.
The teams in Pool G are Hockey Bihar, Hockey Arunachal, Telangana Hockey, and Hockey Jammu & Kashmir, while Pool H features Hockey Chandigarh, Hockey Maharashtra, Hockey Madhya Pradesh, and Assam Hockey.