New Delhi: India will play in the 34th Men’s Championship Trophy to be held at Melbourne, Australia from December 1-9, 2012. The tournament will be played at the State Netball Hockey Centre, the same venue that also hosted 2009 edition of the Men's FIH Champions Trophy.

This tournament will be the first top level international event after the Olympics. Along with India the other participating nations include the host Australia, Belgium,Germany, Netherlands and New Zealand with the field of participants set to grow to 8 in total after the London Olympic Games. We are issuing this release on the basis of the information updated at International Hockey Federation (FIH) website on 19 July 2012 and here is the link- http://www.fih.ch/en/news-3808-men-s-champions-trophy-tickets-on-sale.

Last time India played Champions Trophy in 2005 as the hosts in Chennai and they finished5th in that edition.