India has a rich history of playing Hockey and dominating the world of Hockey for long years. The Indian Men`s Hockey team was founded in 1928 and it was the first non-European team to be a part of the International Hockey Federation (FIH). The team started showing its talent and excellence on the Hockey field from that year, when it participated in the Olympic Games for the fist time. India was totally an unknown opponent to all the other teams in the championship. As the Indian players were extremely talented and full of confidence, the other teams found it quite difficult to play against the Indians. The Indian team dominated all its opponents throughout the tournament and won every match to clinch the Gold medal. The team did not concede even a single goal in the entire tournament.

After the extraordinary performance in the 1928 Olympic Games, the Indian Men`s Hockey team became famous in all over the world. The team continued its wonderful run in the Olympics for a long period and it won six straight Olympic Gold medals from 1928 to 1956. During this period, the Indian team won 24 matches in Olympics and conceded only 7 goals. However, this extraordinary run came to an end in the 1960 Olympic Games, when it was defeated by the Pakistan team in the finals. The Indian team`s performance in the Olympic Games never got even closer to that of the golden era again and it won only two Olympic Gold medals in 1964 and 1980, after its dominating run was over. The Indian Men`s Hockey team has so far won 8 Gold medals, 1 Silver medal and 2 Bronze medals in the Olympic Games.

Apart from the Olympic Games, the Indian team has shown its excellence and expertise in some other prestigious international Hockey tournaments, as well. The Indian team has participated and played well in the tournaments like the World Cup, Asian Games, Asia Cup, Champions Trophy, Champions Challenge, Commonwealth Games, Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament etc. It won several medals and trophies from these tournaments so far. India has produced numerous legendary Hockey players, who have stunned the world of Hockey with their extraordinary talent. They always played well for the Indian Men`s Hockey team and helped the team in becoming and remaining one of the super powers of Hockey. Some of the legendary Indian Hockey players include Dhyan Chand, Adam Sinclair, Adrian D Souza, Ajit Pal Singh, Arjun Halappa, Baljit Singh Dhillon, Bir Bahadur Chettri, Dhanraj Pillay, K. D. Singh, Dilip Tirkey, Leslie Claudius etc.