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AHF chief confirms "plan B" hockey tournament for Paris 2024 qualification if Asian Games not staged

  • Hangzhou 2022

Dato Tayyab Ikram, the chief executive and secretary general of the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF), has

Hockey is among the sports to offer a direct route to the Olympics at the Asian Games with the winners

of the men’s and women’s hockey event progressing.However, the ability for this to happen has been put

still have enough time in hand," Ikram commented during a virtual press conference prior to the Men’s Hockey


Citi named founding partner of new IPC programme to boost Para ice hockey

  • Para Ice Hockey News

Banking giant Citi has been announced as the founding partner of the International Paralympic Committee’s (IPC) new PARA SPORT programme.

Para ice hockey is set to be benefit from the agreement, with Citi sponsoring the first-ever Women’s

World Challenge in the United States.Citi is partnering with World Para Ice Hockey to develop the new

manager Michelle Laflamme hailed this as the "most exciting time in the history of Para ice hockey".

The Citi partnership promises to turbocharge female engagement in Para ice hockey, as we will be able

to offer repeated sanctioned events in women’s Para ice hockey for the first time."






Ukrainian refugees to receive ice hockey equipment thanks to NHLPA and IIHF

  • Ice Hockey

Young Ukrainian ice hockey players forced to flee their war-torn country are set to receive helmets,

gloves, sticks and skates to ensure they can keep playing after the National Hockey League Players’ Association

(NHLPA) joined forces with International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) to support a donation scheme.

Ice hockey equipment worth $100,000 (£80,500/€95,250,000) is set to be donated courtesy of the "NHLPA

Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Romania and Switzerland.A total of 100 sets of Bauer hockey

helmets, gloves and sticks are due to be sent out as well as 200 pairs of skates, NHLPA tracksuits and hockey

Players strongly support the meaningful work the IIHF is doing to assist displaced Ukrainian youth hockey

NHLPA.Helmets are among a number of pieces of equipment due to be delivered to young Ukrainian ice hockey






IIHF Life President Fasel warned by Finland he is not welcome at World Championship

  • Ice Hockey

René Fasel has been warned to stay away from the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championship

Board after he reportedly took up a lucrative consultancy role with the Russian-funded Kontinental Hockey

All in all, the Russian war is a very sad event, and it has a lot of negative effects on hockey, other

sports and certainly Fasel," Matti Nurminen, chief executive of the Finnish Ice Hockey Association,

me".Finland’s former Prime Minister Alexander Stubb had called Fasel "a disgrace to the global ice hockey

He is a disgrace to the global ice-hockey family.


FIH opens broadcast rights bidding process for major hockey events

  • Hockey

Broadcast rights for a series of major hockey events, including Olympic qualifiers and the inaugural

The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has announced that the tender process has started for key competitions

is also looking to secure bidders for the Olympic qualifiers in 2023 and 2024, the men’s and women’s Hockey

World Cup in 2026 and the Hockey Indoor World Cup, planned to be staged in 2023 and 2025.Broadcasters

have until June 24 to submit their bids to the International Hockey Federation ©Getty ImagesOther events

Pro League as well as the men’s and women’s Hockey Nations Cup from 2023 to 2026.The tender process