National Day Hockey 5s Festival Results and Overview

Bahrain Hockey - National Day Hockey 5s Festival Results and Overview

    • National Day Hockey 5s is 2 day field hockey festival hosted and organised by Bahrain Hockey on December 16-17 at St Christopher Senior School Bahrain
    • Sponsored by the UK Embassy and Aqua Cool
    • First turf Hockey 5s format in the Gulf in accordance with international rules and regulations of FIH (International Hockey Federation)
    • December 16 was an open adults tournament day and Dec 17 was free kids coaching and Junior Hockey 5s tournament
    • Guest of Honour – Sam Ward, Team GB & England Hockey forward – 49 caps and 18 goals, He is also a Rio 2016 Olympian
    • December 16 tournament consisted of 10 teams as below
      • Ministry of Interior Bahrain
      • Bahrain Hawks
      • Naqi Strikers KSA
      • Al Arab Hockey KSA
      • KSA Field Hockey
      • Kuwait Expats Hockey Association (KEHA)
      • Don Bosco Kuwait
      • Oman Hockey Association – Oman Veterans
      • Bahrain Hockey Developmental squad
      • Young Stars Hockey Club Bahrain
        Bahrain Hockey Committee presenting a special memento to Sam Ward

        Results

      • Semifinal 1  – Don Bosco 4 ( Savio 3 Goals/Sarfaraz  1 Goal) beat Oman Hockey Association Oman Veterans 2 ( Adil 1 Goal / Tahir 1 Goal)
      • Semifinal 2 – Naqi Strikers 5 ( Qaisar 1 Goal / Juned Coutinho 4 Goals) beat Young Stars Hockey Club Bahrain 3 ( Mudassar 2 Goals / Mushtaque 1 Goal)
      • Final – Naqi Strikers KSA 7 ( Ali 3 Goals / Juned 4 Goals) beat Don Bosco Kuwait 1 ( Sneddon 1 Goal)
    • December 17 activities
      • Free Coaching Clinics for all children supervised by Sam Ward
      • Junior Tournament
  • Sam Ward presenting Runners Up of Junior Hockey 5s to Baboons


    – Panthers     beat Baboons to win the Junior Hockey 5s tournament

Salim Elias , President of Bahrain Hockey, thanked all teams for coming to the tournament and congratulated the winners and  runners up of the competition
  • Salim Elias presented a special memento to Sam Ward and thanked him for his support for the event
  • General Secretary Jude D’Souza presented a special memento to HE Mr Abdulrahman Askar, General Secretary of Bahrain Olympic Committee for his support of Bahrain Hockey and the National Day 5s Tournament.
Jude D’Souza, Secretary General of Bahrain Hockey with Sam Ward