Junior Women's Hockey Team Qualifies For Asia Cup Finals

India's junior women's hockey team is currently competing in the Women's Junior Asia Cup 2023 which is being held in Japan. The team competed with the host team Japan in the semi-finals and won on Saturday, moving to the finals.

The Indian women's junior hockey team made India proud once again by defeating Japan in the semi-finals of the current Junior Asia Cup. The teams had an intense clash as both sides focused on attacking and none of them could score in the first three quarters. It was in the fourth quarter that India's Sunelita Toppo scored a goal making the score 1-0 and the team defended efficiently to keep the score from changing in Japan's favour.

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India Junior Women's Hockey

Junior Asia Cup 2023 serves as the qualifier for the Junior World Cup 2023 which will be held from November 29 to December 10 in Chile's Santiago. The top three teams in the Asia Cup were to qualify for the women's Junior World Cup and now that India has entered the finals after defeating Japan, it has confirmed its place in the world cup. The Indian team will be facing China or Korea in the finals of the Asia Cup which will be played on June 11.

While the junior women's hockey team is gearing up for the World Cup 2023, the senior women's hockey team of India is preparing for its tour to Germany and Spain. The team will be training in Frankfurt for a few days next month before participating in the invitation tournament of test matches against China and Germany from July 12 to July 19. Post that, the team will be heading to Spain.

Hockey Kit

For the senior team, the 2023 Asian Games will serve as a qualifier for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Recently, the International Hockey Federation made important changes in the kits for the women's hockey teams and allowed members of the same team to choose between shorts, skorts and skirts as long as they were of the same colour and design as the team's official jersey. Earlier, if skirt or skort was chosen as the jersey, all members had to wear a skirt or skort respectively. However, now different members of the same team can wear different lowers.