St Thomas Hospital Hockey Team

Winners of U.H.H.C. six a side tournament

1959 - 60

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St Thomas Hospital Hockey Team

Winners of United Hospitals Cup

1960 - 61

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St Thomas Hospital Hockey Team

Winners of U.H.H.C. six a side tournament

1960 - 61

University of London

1961 - 62 season

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Indian Students Touring Club

1962

University of London

1963 - 64 season

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University of London

1964 - 65 season

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Belgrave Hockey Club

1975

Metropolitan Police Hockey Club

1976

London Indians Hockey Club
Barcelona International Tournament 1977

Sitting (L - R): Kulbir Bhaura; Clive Osborn; Tochi Panesar (Captain); Shaffiq Amin; Tochi Marwaha; Badar Butt

Standing (L - R): Jimmy James (President); Harvinder Sibia; Nirmal Sehmi; Cliff; Garry Grewal; Jinder Panesar (Manager); Dishi Sharma; Ralph Thomas; Shahid Khan

Slough Hockey Club
Winners of B & H National Club Championship 1977

Back Row (L - R): S. Khehar; P. Saini; D. Maidmant; S. Benwara; R. Kullar; J. Brindley; D. Jackson; I. Taylor; D. Eari; A. Churcher

Front Row (L - R): J. Murdoch; S. Partington; M. Parris; J. Allen (Captain); S. Collins; B. Saini

London Indians Hockey Club

1979

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Kent County Hockey Team

County Champions

1978/9

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Slough Hockey Club

National Indoor Champions

1979

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Slough Hockey Club

Winners of European Cup in Barcelona 1980

Army Hockey Team

1980

Sikh Union South London Hockey Club

1984

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Lusitainans Hockey Club

1985

Sitting (L - R): Laly Plaha; Tochi Panesar; Moni Kalsi; Peter Obero; Badar Butt; Pindhi Plaha; Arthur Soares

Standing (L - R): Albert D'Souza; .....; Satish Dosaj; Dave Dixon; Inderjit Rehency; Imitiaz Shiek; Polu Kalsi; Tony Gill; Navin Vadgamma;....

Surrey County Hockey Team

County Champions 1985

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School of Electronic Engineering

1986

Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

1986

Army Team

1987

Combined Services

1987

Spencer Hockey Club

Pizza Express London League Team of the month

January 1987

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Middlesex County Hockey Club

County Championship Winners

1988

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Hounslow Hockey Club

Hockey Association Cup Winners

1989/90

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Barford Tigers Hockey Club

1990

Sitting (L - R): Jagdeep Soor; Satpal Degun; Mohammed Mohammed; Amarjit Degun; Hafiz Mohammed; Jasbir Purewal

Standing (L - R): Gurmukh Shoker; Jatinder Matharu; Vidhu Mayor; Alan Gilbert; Sarjit Somal; Manjit Degun (Captain); Malcolm Challoner (Chairman)

British Police Hockey Club

1990

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Cannock Hockey Club

1990

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Army Hockey Club

1991

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England National League Umpires

1991

(L - R): Bawa Singh, Charan Singh & Jim Patel

Metropolitan Police Hockey Club

1993

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West Midlands Police Hockey Club

1996

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Indian Gym Hockey Club

Veterans Team 1998

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Cannock Hockey Club

1998

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Spencer Supervets Team
2008

Winners of London Supervets League 2006 - 07; 2007 - 08 & 2008 - 09

Sitting (L - R): Richard Fowells; Shahid Ghauri; Amrish Patel; Nirmal Singh Phalore; Rajinder Singh Bharij; Rashid Khockar; Hardev Singh Soorae

Standing (L - R): Anthony Dunball; Harbajan Singh; Bhupinder Singh Plaha (Vive Captain); Raghbir Singh Sahota; Tarlochan Singh Panesar (Captain); Parminder Singh Kalsi; Davinder Singh Kalsi; Timothy Anderson; Kuljeet Singh Rihal (Umpire)

Spencer Hockey Club

27 April 2010

Club Captain Tochi Panesar receiving the London League Club of the Year Award from League Sponsor Richard Higgins (right), and Robert Watson (left), founder of London League.

Barford Tigers Hockey Club

Barford Boys
In the early nineteen-sixties, a number of Birmingham secondary schools, motivated partly by the influx of pupils from India and Pakistan, began to put out hockey teams.

One of these was Barford Boys' School, a small Secondary Modern, situated just off the main Dudley Road in the Ladywood / Winson Green area of the City.

Barford's P.E. teacher, Henry da Silva, by dint of seeking fixtures whenever and wherever they were available, often against girls' schools, and as far a field as Redditch, built up a keen and creditable skilful side.

By 1965-66, the last year of the school's existence, a full role was being played in the competitions and administration of the fledgling Birmingham Schoolboys' Hockey Association. The Semi-final of the Under 16's Cup competition was reached and boys were selected for the Association's representative team.

At Christmas that year, Mr da Silva moved to a new post in Leicester and the team was taken over by Malcolm Challoner, his successor as P.E. teacher. Most of the team were now in their final school year and they expressed a strong wish to continue playing after leaving.

Keen to help out, Malcolm wrote to all the Birmingham hockey clubs advising them of this pool of talent looking for a hockey home, but not surprisingly, given the structure of the game at the time, received no response.

The next step, then, was for the boys, led by the captain, Gurnam Atkhar, and vice-captain, Asif Ali, to decide to form their own club.

'66 and all that
A historic first meeting was held at the School on 7th June 1966, when a simple Constitution and rules were agreed on, and 'officers' were elected Gurnam (Captain), Asif (vice-Captain) and Malcolm Challoner (Secretary / Treasurer), with Jinder Singh and David Brotherton as additional committee members.

At this, Malcolm again circulated local clubs, this time with more success, asking for games, and a skeleton fixture list of Saturday matches for 1966-67 was achieved.

There still remained, however, the major hurdles of finding a home ground and of finance to be overcome.

At this point fortune smiled. A chance conversation at an evening institute class put Malcolm in touch with Birmingham's Commonwealth Liaison Officer, Mr L.A. Gibbs.

He lent the Club £13 to buy a set of shirts and some match balls, and made the first enquiry about hiring a pitch at Rowheath, the Cadbury's Sports Ground in Bournville.

In the autumn of 1966, when the first 'away' matches had optimistically been played, Cadbury's agreed to hire Tigers a pitch on Saturday afternoons at a cost of £1 per match.

This was a crucial step in the establishment of the Club.

Pitches at Rowheath, in those days, were beautifully maintained, with excellent changing and refreshment facilities.

Season One
The Club was now able to play its home fixtures, and hired a coach, at a typical cost of £4, for a local journey to travel to the away fixtures.

The inaugural season was completed with the following final results:
Played - 17. : Won - 5. : Drew - 3. : Lost - 9. : For- 31. : Against - 52.
Opponents included Rubery Owen, Bham Municipal, Kynoch 2nd, Halesowen Grammar School, Old Halesowenians 2nd, Dudley College of Education, Bournville 3rd, Bham University Wanderers, Bham Schools U-16, Old Wulfrunians 4th, West Bromwich 2nd, Pickwick Nomads XI, to name but a few.

During the next few years, the Tigers grew in strength. The fixture list filled out and the playing record improved season by season.

Success
The Club's first tournament success came in 1970 when Cannock Under - 23 Festival was won (and again in 1972).

The Birmingham Municipal Hockey Club Festival was won for the first of many times in 1971 and, most significantly, the final of the Worcestershire Clubs Championship was reached in the 1972-73 season.

Barford School, meanwhile, had been closed and was merged with a nearby girls' school to form Stanmore School in a brand new building just down the road in Edgbaston.

Malcolm Challoner also moved to the new school, where hockey thrived. Stanmore teams were regular winners of Birmingham Schoolboys' Hockey Association competitions and provided numerous players for the Association's representative teams, as well as a steady flow of talented newcomers to the Tigers' ranks.

Barford Tigers HC website

Khalsa Hockey Cub is renowned as a very sociable and successful Hockey Team.

Leamington Spa and Warwick Asian boys after leaving School continued to play hockey for local clubs and in summer got together to play in festivals and tour in Europe.

With the support of the Asian community in 1973 they decided to form Khalsa Hockey club and Sukhdev Singh Dhesi was tasked to enter the club in the Midland league at its inauguration in 1974/75.

Within a short time span the club established itself as one of the leading Hockey Club in Warwickshire and has had many successful years in the Midland Premier League. Khalsa are in the process of rebuilding the first team and just won promotion from Midlands Division one.

Over the years the club has pursued a successful integration policy and has involved players from all backgrounds.

The emphasis on skills have produced international players the like of Soma Singh and Andy Grimes, Adrian Simons, Emlyn Evans and Amratpal Atwal (u16) and few others on their way to gaining that status.

Several years back, the old boys and friends put their hands in their pockets to purchase a derelict building in the middle of Leamington Spa, with (late) Harbajan Singh Nagra’s hard work this has become the home of hockey for players and umpires in Leamington Spa and Warwick area.

We currently run three teams, as well as running a veterans and a youth side. Players of all abilities are welcome to join Khalsa Hockey Club.

Khalsa are very active in supporting hockey in the Warwickshire, Lakhbir Singh Atwal under 16 coach, Sukhdev Singh Dhesi Director of Coaching for 14 to 18 and under 21 coach (2001 to 2006) and Gurdial Singh Randhawa County senior Coach and under 21 Midlands manager.

Recent successes:
The veteran’s were winners in 1997 and runners up in 2000 and the Vintage boy’s reached the quarter finals for the last five years and runners up 2006.

First team promotion to Midland Premier League 2008.

Sikh Union Coventry Hockey Club

In 1968, a number of college students formed the Sikh Union Hockey Club.

They trained on a regular bases, at the Morris Park. The main aim was to play in the Indian tournaments all over the country e.g. Shaheed Udham Singh tournament, Guru Nanak cup etc. From 1986 to 1992 the club became well established and held its position at the top level of the league table.

In 1981 the club affiliated to the Hockey Association and decided to enter into the Midlands League.

They entered into the 5th division. At that time all the established players were playing for the big clubs. So the club struggled for the first year to build a strong first team. Most of the players were students and hockey was an expensive game.

In 1983, the club progressed into the second division by winning for three consecutive years. In that period the club won many major titles i.e. summer league, Indoors league; Warwickshire Championship etc.

Currently the club has 4 teams. The first team gained promotion to the East Midland premier Division and the seconds also got promotion to the West Midlands Division 1. The firsts narrowly missed out on winning the summer leagues premier division.

Sikh Union Coventry website

Sikh Union Nottingham

Sikh Union Nottingham website