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{{Infobox field hockey club
|clubname = Hyderabad Sultans
|image = Hyderabad Sultans.jpg
|imagesize = 100px
|caption = Hyderabad Sultans emblem
|fullname = Hyderabad Sultans
|founded = 2005
|ground = [[Gachibowli Hockey Stadium]]<br />[[Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh|Hyderabad]]<br />India
|capacity = 8,000
|manager = {{flagicon|IND}} [[P.Kanthaiah]]
|captain = {{flagicon|IND}} [[Sardara Singh]]
|league = [[Premier Hockey League]]
|dissolved = 2008 <ref>{{cite news | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/top-stories/Dhanraj-Pillay-bats-for-hockey-league-in-India/articleshow/5451037.cms | title=Dhanraj Pillay bats for hockey league in India | first=Biswajyoti | last=Brahma | date=16 January 2010 | newspaper=The Times of India | access-date=22 February 2020 }}</ref>
|position = Premier Hockey League 3rd
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The '''Hyderabad Sultans''' is the Indian '''Premier Hockey League''' team from [[Hyderabad]] of royal lineage, mixing tradition with modernity, they are the progressive nawabs. The squad is captained by [[Sardara Singh]] since 2007–08 edition. They were winners of first [[Premier Hockey League]] in 2005.<ref name="Hyderabad Sultans win PHL">[http://www.rediff.com/sports/2005/feb/13phl.htm Hyderabad Sultans win PHL]</ref>

==History==


===Founding===

The club was formed on the back grounds of inaugural [[Premier Hockey League]] in year 2005. It started off with many host of hockey superstars from India and Pakistan. Sultans, led by ever-dependable [[Dilip Tirkey]], were crowned the champions of the inaugural PHL at home.<ref name="Hyderabad Sultans win PHL"/> At the sprawling [[Gachibowli sports complex]], Sultans came out as a surprise packet. [[Dilip Tirkey]] was at his best along with penalty corner specialist [[Sohail Abbas]] and [[Waseem Ahmad]] who helped the team score crucial wins with their combined moves in the first year. [[Sohail Abbas]], along with [[Len Aiyappa]] of Hi-Fliers, became the joint top-scorers of the league.<ref>[http://www.premierhockeyleague.com/phl/newsdetails.cmd?id=7014417 Sohail Abbas becomes joint top scorer of league]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="PHL 1 – 2005 Season Review">[http://www.premierhockeyleague.com/phl/newsdetails.cmd?id=7014417 PHL 1 - 2005 Season Review]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

===Loss of form and players exodus (2006–2007)===
In the second year too, Hyderabad Sultans played well and were in contention for the final berth even playing without star performers of 2005, [[Waseem Ahmad]] who left the team in 2006 but were edged out by [[Bangalore Lions]] on goal average. They won five out of the eight matches and had 13 points, just one less than the table toppers [[Chandigarh Dynamos]] and so Hyderabad Sultans finished third in league.<ref name="PHL 2 – 2006 Season Review">[http://www.premierhockeyleague.com/phl/newsdetails.cmd?id=7014505 PHL 2 - 2006 Season Review]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In the third year, Hyderabad Sultans failed miserably winning just one match in the new format. They also lost their skipper [[Dilip Tirkey]] and many experienced players who joined [[Orissa Steelers]] as they were promoted to the Premier Division. Sultans ended at the bottom of table that season avoiding relegation as second division was scrapped.<ref name="PHL 3 – 2007 Season Review">[http://www.premierhockeyleague.com/phl/newsdetails.cmd?id=7014507 PHL 3 - 2007 Season Review]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

===Current (2008–present)===
In the season of 2008 young [[Sardara Singh]] led the team. [[Saradara Singh]] along with his brother [[Didar Singh (field hockey)|Didar Singh]] were the only experienced stars in the team but it had talented youngsters in [[Bikas Toppo]] and [[Pawal Lakra]], who were capable of making inroads into any defence. They also depended on how [[K.M.Chengappa]] and Nitin Kumar help their forwards [[Didar Singh (field hockey)|Didar Singh]] and [[Sardara Singh]]. The team had an emerging drag-flicker in [[Diwakar Ram]], who carried the team's burden during the short corners. The player to watch out were upcoming [[Promod Kumar]], who was the fulcrum of the team.
[[Adnan Maqsood]] and [[Kamran Ahmed]] were the foreign players along with [[Netherlands|Dutch]] goalkeeper [[Oscar Ter Weeme]].
The team also had a new coach in [[Madhukaran]] who was assisted by [[Alphonse Lazarus]] and they finished their campiange by finishing fourth in league, qualifying for play-off where they lost to [[Chandigarh Dynamos]].<ref>[http://www.premierhockeyleague.com/phl/phl_teams.jsp PHL 4 Sultans Team] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216032909/http://www.premierhockeyleague.com/phl/phl_teams.jsp |date=2008-02-16 }}</ref><ref name="PHL 4 League Standing">[http://www.premierhockeyleague.com/phl/phl_standings.jsp PHL 4 League Standing] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080209025839/http://www.premierhockeyleague.com/phl/phl_standings.jsp |date=2008-02-09 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.premierhockeyleague.com/phl/phl_results.jsp PHL 4 Match Results] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071129232305/http://www.premierhockeyleague.com/phl/phl_results.jsp |date=2007-11-29 }}</ref>

==Gachibowli Hockey Stadium==
Gachibowli Hockey Stadium is a [[field hockey]] stadium at [[Hyderabad]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], India. It is the home of the Hyderabad Sultans of the [[Premier Hockey League]]. It has a [[seating capacity]] of 8,000 people.

==Hyderabad Sultans season by season performance==
<ref name="PHL 1 – 2005 Season Review"/><ref name="PHL 2 – 2006 Season Review"/><ref name="PHL 3 – 2007 Season Review"/><ref name="PHL 4 League Standing"/>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Season
! Played
! Won
! Draw
! Lost
! ET-W
! ET-L
! GF
! GA
! GD
! Points
! position
|-
| 2005
| 8
| 6
| 0
| 2
| -
| -
| 24
| 17
| 7
| 19
| '''Champions'''
|-
| 2006
| 8
| 5
| 0
| 3
| -
| -
| 10
| 9
| 1
| 13
| '''Third'''
|-
| 2007
| 12
| 1
| 0
| 9
| 1
| 1
| 11
| 26
| -15
| 6
| '''Seventh'''
|-
| 2008
| 6
| 3
| 0
| 2
| 1
| 0
| 11
| 7
| 4
| 11
| '''Fourth'''
|}

==Players==

===First-Team squad===
As of PHL 4 – 2008.<ref>[http://www.premierhockeyleague.com/phl/phl_teams.jsp Current Hyderabad Sultans Squard] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216032909/http://www.premierhockeyleague.com/phl/phl_teams.jsp |date=2008-02-16 }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" align=center
|-
!Name
!Country
|-
|[[Sardara Singh]] (Captain)
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|[[Dinesh Ekka]]
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|[[Samir Baxla]]
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|[[Jasbir Singh]]
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|[[Diwakar Ram]]
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|[[Johnson Ekka]]
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|[[Anand Tirkey]]
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|Nitin Kumar
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|[[Didar Singh (field hockey)|Didar Singh]]
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|[[Pramod Kumar]]
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|[[Bikas Toppo]]
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|[[Pawal Lakra]]
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|[[Veer Singh (field hockey)|Veer Singh]]
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|[[Kulbhushan]]
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|[[K.M. Chengappa]]
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|[[Kamran Ahmed]]
|{{flagicon|PAK}}
|-
|[[Adnan Maqsood]]
|{{flagicon|PAK}}
|-
|[[Oscar ter Weeme]] (Goal Keeper)
|{{flagicon|NED}}
|-
|}

Note: List of player is obtained from PHL website. The list might change in the near future.

'''Other important team personnel'''
;
* {{flagicon|IND}} [[Madhukaran]] (Chief Coach)
* {{flagicon|IND}} [[Alphonse Lazarus]] (Asst Coach)
* {{flagicon|IND}} [[CR Bheem Singh]] (Physical Trainer)
* {{flagicon|IND}} [[P.Kanthaiah]] (Manager)

===Former players===
<ref name="PHL 1 – 2005 Season Review"/><ref name="PHL 2 – 2006 Season Review"/><ref name="PHL 3 – 2007 Season Review"/><ref name="PHL 4 – 2008 Season Sultans Team">[http://www.premierhockeyleague.com/phl/phl_teams.jsp PHL 4 - 2008 Season Sultans Team] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216032909/http://www.premierhockeyleague.com/phl/phl_teams.jsp |date=2008-02-16 }}</ref>

{|class="wikitable sortable" align="right" style="text-align: center;"
|+'''Former players'''
|-
!class="unsortable"|Name
!class="unsortable"|Career
!class="unsortable"|Country
|-
|align="left"|[[Dilip Tirkey]]
|2005–2006
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|[[S Rajasekhar]]
|2005
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Inderjeet Singh Chadha]]
|2005
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Ajitesh Rai]]
|2005–2007
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Harsha Vardhan (field hockey)|Harsha Vardhan]]
|2005
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Chandan Singh (field hockey)|Chandan Singh]]
|2005
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Suresh (field hockey)|Suresh]]
|2005
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Lazarus Barla]]
|2005–2006
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Sameer Dad]]
|2005–2006
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Cyril Ekka]]
|2005
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Sreejesh]]
|2005
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Nitya Jayanand]]
|2005–2006
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Susan Topno]]
|2005
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Devesh Chauhan]]
|2006–2007
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|Nitin Kumar
|2006 – present
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Johnson Ekka]]
|2006 – present
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|}

{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;"
|+'''Former players'''
|-
!class="unsortable"|Name
!class="unsortable"|Career
!class="unsortable"|Country
|-
|align="left"|[[Prabhakar Singh]]
|2006
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Amit Srivastava]]
|2006
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Vikram Pillay]]
|2006–2007
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Veer Singh (field hockey)|Veer Singh]]
|2006 and 2008
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|[[M A Aleem]]
|2006
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Devender Pal Singh]]
|2006
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Pekrelo]]
|2007
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|[[M. Nagraj]]
|2007
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Saranjeet Singh]]
|2007
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Didar Singh (field hockey)|Didar Singh]]
|2007–present
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Sardara Singh]]
|2007 – present
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Vivek Gupta (field hockey)|Vivek Gupta]]
|2007
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Rajinder Singh (field hockey)|Rajinder Singh]]
|2007
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Maryland Amir Hayat]]
|2007
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Diwakar Ram]]
|2007 – present
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Baljit Singh Chandi]]
|2007 – present
|{{flagicon|IND}}
|}

===Goal keepers===
<ref name="PHL 1 – 2005 Season Review"/><ref name="PHL 2 – 2006 Season Review"/><ref name="PHL 3 – 2007 Season Review"/><ref name="PHL 4 – 2008 Season Sultans Team"/>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Dates
! Name
! Country
|-
| 2005
| [[Suresh (field hockey)|Suresh]]
| {{flagicon|IND}}
|-
| 2005
| [[Ahmed Alam]]
| {{flagicon|PAK}}
|-
| 2006
| [[Salman Akbar]]
| {{flagicon|PAK}}
|-
| 2006–2007
| [[Devesh Chauhan]]
| {{flagicon|IND}}
|-
| 2007
| [[Pfkerlo]]
| {{flagicon|IND}}
|-
| 2008
| [[Oscar ter Weeme]]
| {{flagicon|NED}}
|}

===Club captains===
<ref name="PHL 1 – 2005 Season Review"/><ref name="PHL 2 – 2006 Season Review"/><ref name="PHL 3 – 2007 Season Review"/><ref name="PHL 4 – 2008 Season Sultans Team"/>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Dates
! Name
! Country
|-
| 2005–2006
| [[Dilip Tirkey]]
| {{flagicon|IND}}
|-
| 2007
| [[Devesh Chauhan]]
| {{flagicon|IND}}
|-
| 2008 – present
| [[Sardara Singh]]
| {{flagicon|IND}}
|}

===International players===
<ref name="PHL 1 – 2005 Season Review"/><ref name="PHL 2 – 2006 Season Review"/><ref name="PHL 3 – 2007 Season Review"/><ref name="PHL 4 – 2008 Season Sultans Team"/>

{|class="wikitable sortable" align="right" style="text-align: center;"
|+'''International Players'''
|-
!class="unsortable"|Name
!class="unsortable"|Career
!class="unsortable"|Country
|-
|align="left"|[[Waseem Ahmad]]
|2005
|{{flagicon|PAK}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Ahmed Alam]]
|2005
|{{flagicon|PAK}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Sohail Abbas]]
|2005
|{{flagicon|PAK}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Salman Akbar]]
|2006
|{{flagicon|PAK}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Jorge Lombi]]
|2006
|{{flagicon|ARG}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Shakeel Abbasi]]
|2006–2007
|{{flagicon|PAK}}
|}

{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center;"
|+'''International Players'''
|-
!class="unsortable"|Name
!class="unsortable"|Career
!class="unsortable"|Country
|-
|align="left"|[[Ramón Alegre]]
|2007
|{{flagicon|ESP}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Sebastian Westerhout]]
|2007
|{{flagicon|NED}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Tariq Aziz (field hockey, born 1984)|Tariq Aziz]]
|2007
|{{flagicon|PAK}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Kamran Ahmed]]
|2008
|{{flagicon|PAK}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Adnan Maqsood]]
|2008
|{{flagicon|PAK}}
|-
|align="left"|[[Oscar ter Weeme]]
|2008
|{{flagicon|NED}}
|}

==Club officials==

===Coaching and medical staff===
<ref name="PHL 4 – 2008 Season Sultans Team"/>
;
* Manager: [[P.Kanthaiah]] {{flagicon|IND}}
* Chief Coach: [[Madhukaran]] {{flagicon|IND}}
* Asst Coach: [[Alphonse Lazarus]] {{flagicon|IND}}
* Physical Trainer: [[CR Bheem Singh]] {{flagicon|IND}}

===Chief Coach history===
<ref name="PHL 1 – 2005 Season Review"/><ref name="PHL 2 – 2006 Season Review"/><ref name="PHL 3 – 2007 Season Review"/><ref name="PHL 4 – 2008 Season Sultans Team"/>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Dates
! Name
! Country
|-
| 2005
| [[Narendra Pal Singh]]
| {{flagicon|IND}}
|-
| 2006
| [[Madhukaran]]
| {{flagicon|IND}}
|-
| 2007
| [[Mukesh Kumar N]]
| {{flagicon|IND}}
|-
| 2008 – present
| [[Madhukaran]] Second Time
| {{flagicon|IND}}
|}

==Honours==

* [[Premier Hockey League]] Titles: 1
** 2005<ref name="Hyderabad Sultans win PHL"/>

==See also==

* [[Premier Hockey League]]
* [[Larkana Bulls]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Premier Hockey League}}

{{Hyderabad topics}}

[[Category:Indian field hockey clubs]]
[[Category:Premier Hockey League teams]]
[[Category:Sports clubs in India]]
[[Category:Sport in Telangana]]
[[Category:2005 establishments in Andhra Pradesh]]

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