World Series Hockey

A joint initiative between the Indian Hockey Federation (“IHF”) and Nimbus Sport, World Series Hockey™ was conceived with the objective of reinvigorating the sport of Hockey in India and creating a financially self sustaining ecosystem for Hockey to thrive and grow to become the “sport of choice” for young Indians.

An annual event, World Series Hockey™ will feature “city–based” teams playing against each other in a “home and away” league, culminating into a multi header playoff to determine the World Series Hockey™ Champion.

Some of the key features of the Event are:
  • A league featuring the finest players of India and from across the world.
  • Multi-city league on a franchisee-based model, beginning with 8 teams from across India.
  • Players to be allocated to teams based on a ‘Draft’ system, modelled successfully by various other sporting leagues globally.
  • 200 players from India and across the world are expected to participate in the inaugural edition of the Event
  • Each World Series Hockey™ match will be produced LIVE for broadcast
  • The Event will be televised LIVE across 30 countries on multiple media platforms.

Team Karnataka Lions

Sporting Ace (a part of the Zentrum Group) owns the Karnataka Lions franchisee. Sporting Ace Private Limited is a part of the rapidly growing Zentrum Group and has acclaimed bollywood action hero Suniel Shetty as the Chief Mentor. Zentrum Group is a global player in the field of Energy, Chemicals, Education, Sports, Information Technology, Consulting, Media, & Outsourcing and work extensively with the world’s leading corporate houses, governments, and institutions.

The Karnataka Lions have managed to rope in XAGE Mobile as their Title & Platinum Sponsor, NICE as the Gold Sponsor,Slazenger as their Kit & Equipment partner. Kyazoonga.com is the official ticketing partners and Radio City the radio partners. RVR16 is the Digital Partner who manages the Social Media Marketing, Facebook, Twitter, Website and other Digital marketing forms.Fluid Media manages the creative duties for the team and Highlight Advertising has been responsible for all on ground activations.Sporting Ace has in-house managed all the media marketing campaign.

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