LAHORE, Feb 21: Technical officials for the preliminary and the final rounds of the 49th National Hockey Championship have been announced.

The preliminary round for provincial teams and Islamabad will be held at the Hockey Club of Pakistan (HCP) Stadium. Karachi. Two teams from each province will be take part in the competition. The departmental teams will play at the POF Sports Complex, Wah Cantt. 

The teams have been divided into the following two pools:

Pool “A”: Customs, WAPDA, Habib Bank, Allied Bank, PTCL, Navy, UGC, POF.

Pool “B”: Police, PAF, Army, National Bank, PIA, Railways.

The final round will be played at the National Hockey Stadium (NHS), Lahore from March 29 to April 7.

Following are the panels of technical officials:

Inter-provincial competition:

Tournament director: Dr A. Majeed .

Umpires manager: Rashid Ali Khan.

Umpires: Mohsin Ali Khan (Karachi), Tanveer Arshad (Karachi), Nauman Zaidi (Karachi), Zulfiqar Bhutto (Karachi), Farid Ansari (Quetta), Takreem Iftikhar (Hyderabad), Anwar Kamal (PIA), Khalid Iqbal (Faisalabad), Iftikhar Ahmad (Bahawalpur), Rana Liaqat (Lahore).

Inter-department contest:

Tournament director: Rana Liaqat Ali.

Umpires manager: Sheikh Abdul Majeed.

Tournament officer: Mirza Riaz Baig.

Umpires: Faiz Muhammad Fiazi (Peshawar), Jamil Butt (Army), Dilawar Bhatti (WAPDA) Haider Rasool (Allied Bank), Kamran Shah (Kohat), Muhammad Asif (Peshawar), Mahmood Dar (Gujranwala), Ehsan Babar (Rawalpindi), Zulfiqar Haider (Police), Nigar Husain (Peshawar), Munawwar (PTCL).

FINAL ROUND:

Tournament director: Dr Tariq Aziz.

Umpires manager: Muhammad Iqbal Bali.

Tournament officer: Akhlaq Usmani.

Umpires: Rashad Butt (Railways), Faiz Muhammad Faizi (Peshawar), Muhammad Asif (Peshawar), Iftikhar Ahmad (Bahawalpur), Jamil Butt (Army), Zulfiqar Haider (Police), Haider Rasool (Allied Bank), Shahzad Mahmood (Navy), Zulfiqar Husain (Sukkur), Kamran Shah (Kohat), Mahmood Dar (Gujranwala), Farid Ansari (Quetta), Nauman Zaidi (Karachi), Dilawar Bhatti (WAPDA), Rana Liaqat (Lahore), Ubaid-ur-Rahman (Lahore).