India beat China to lift their 3rd Women’s Asian Champions Trophy

The defending champion Indian women's hockey team defeated the 2024 Paris Olympic silver medalist China to win the 8th Women’s Asian Champions Trophy 2024. With this win, India has equalled South Korea's record of winning the Trophy three times. India has previously won the title in 2016 and 2023.

The final of the Women’s Asian Champions Trophy 2024 was played at the Rajgir Hockey Stadium in Bihar on November 20, 2024.

The 8th Women’s Asian Champions Trophy 2024 was organised by the Asian Hockey Federation and hosted by Hockey India and the Bihar government from 11-20 November 2024. 

Incidentally, India hosted the 7th Women’s Asian Champions Trophy 2023 at Ranchi, Jharkhand, which India won.

Deepika Scores the winning goal 

The only goal in the final match was scored by the Indian player Deepika, which turned out to be the match-winning goal. 

Despite missing a penalty stroke, Deepika scored in the third quarter of the match to put India 1-0 up. The Indian defence held its ground during the remaining period of the match despite continuous counterattacks by the Chinese team.

The win puts the India team in the same league as South Korea, the most successful team in the tournament, with three titles each.

India defeated Japan 2-0 in the semifinal, and China defeated Malaysia 3-1.

8th Women’s Asian Champions Trophy 2024 Participants

• The Women's Asian Champions Trophy is played using the same format as the Men’s Asian Champions Trophy. The top six ranked Asian women's hockey teams participate in the Women’s Asian Champions Trophy Hockey Tournament.
• This year, teams from India, Japan, China, Thailand, Malaysia, and South Korea participated in the tournament.

Women’s Asian Hockey Champions Trophy 

The first Women’s Asian Champions Trophy hockey tournament was held in 2010. 

Since the third Women's Asian Hockey Championship, the men’s and women’s Asian Champions Trophy hockey tournaments are held in the same year.

South Korea and India are the most successful teams, having won it three times each, followed by Japan, which has won it twice.

The Indian team has reached the finals of the tournament five times.

Asian Hockey Federation

Members: 31 Countries  

Headquarters: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

President: Dato Fumio Ogura