The 2023 Men’s FIH hockey World Cup will be held in Bhubaneswar and Rourkela.
During an event at the Kalinga Stadium here on Wednesday, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announced that Bhubaneswar and Rourkela would host the tournament.
Patnaik also laid foundation-stone for a state-of-the-art high-performance hockey centre at the Kalinga Stadium.
FIH president Narinder Dhruv Batra said Bhubaneswar has become the sports capital of India.
This is the second consecutive time that India would host the tournament and the fourth time overall. India had hosted the World Cup in 1982 and 2010 before 2018.
An FIH release also stated that the 2022 women’s hockey World Cup would be hosted jointly by Spain and the Netherlands.
The men’s World Cup is slated to be held from January 13 to 29, 2023 while the women’s World Cup would be held from July 1-17, 2022.