The 36th FIH Hero Champions Trophy witnessed a high dose of hockey action with India winning their first-ever silver medal, improving on their bronze-medal effort in the 1982 edition at Amstelveen, going down to world champions Australia 1-3 in a penalty shootout in an intriguing summit clash.
The premier tournament saw a slew of upsets with India toppling Great Britain 2-1, South Korea overcoming Belgium 2-0 among others. The end-to-end stuff is most matches gave spectators their money’s worth. Let us take a look at the premier tourney from the statistical point of view.
- India’s Vokkaliga Raghunath scored the tournament’s first goal against Germany off a penalty corner
- Number of penalty corner goals scored: 28
- Matches with all field goals: 3 – India beat Korea 2-1, Australia beat Belgium 2-0 and Germany beat Great Britain 1-0
- Team conceding most goals in Champions Trophy: Korea (17)
- First yellow card of Champions Trophy: Germany’s Tom Grambusch
- Biggest victory margin: Germany beat Korea 7-0
- Most penalty corners awarded in a quarter: 52 short corners in Q2
- First green card of Champions Trophy: Danish Mujtaba of India
- Most cards handed out in a match: 8 (5 yellow and 3 green cards) Australia vs Germany
- First upset of Champions Trophy: Korea beat Belgium 2-0
- Only unbeaten team of Champions Trophy: Australia
- Team receiving most cards: Australia (17)
- First field goal of Champions Trophy: Mandeep Singh
- Total number of goals scored in Champions Trophy: 78 goals
- Team scoring most goals in Champions Trophy: Germany (18)
- First penalty corner goal of Champions Trophy: Vokkaliga Raghunath (India)
- Top goal-scorer in Champions Trophy: Marco Miltkau (Germany) – 4 goals
- Most circle penetrations in a quarter: 165 circle penetrations in Q3
- Total matches played in Champions Trophy: 18 matches
- First penalty stroke goal of Champions Trophy: Jonas Gomoll (Germany)
- Players to get most cards in Champions Trophy: 3 cards each by Jung Maniae (Korea), Tom Grambusch (Germany) and Ogilvie Flynn (Australia)
- Player receiving two cards in one match – Blake Govers (Australia) vs Germany and Emmanuel Stockbroekx (Belgium) vs Great Britain
- First draw of Champions Trophy: India drew Germany 3-3
- Only red card of Champions Trophy: Emmanuel Stockbroekx (Belgium) vs Great Britain
- Most goals scored in one match: 8 – Belgium drew Australia 4-4
- First come-from-behind win: Australia beat Germany 4-3 after trailing 0-2 and 2-3 at one stage
