Asian hockey clubs to slug it out in Singapore  x5
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May 11, 2004 
The Times of India
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Asia's top hockey clubs will face off in Singapore in October in the Asian Club Champions Cup, which has been resurrected after an eight-year hiatus.
The Asian Hockey Federation's competitions committee, at its meeting in Karachi on April 28, approved the Singapore Hockey Federation's bid to host the third edition of the tournament from October 6-10.
League champions from across the region will be eligible to take part in the competition, which is likely to include some of the superstars of world hockey from India, Pakistan, and South Korea.
Professional club or company teams from Japan, Malaysia, China, Taiwan and Bangladesh are also expected to sign up, as are the domestic amateur champions from Hong Kong, Singapore and Sri Lanka.
The last Asian Club Champions Cup was held in the Pakistani city of Lahore in 1996. The inaugural event took place in Kuala Lumpur.
Sarinder Dillon, a member of the regional federation's competitions committee, said the eight-year break was because of a lack of funding.
"The gap is very simple. No country wanted to host it because of the expense. It was not because of a lack of effort on the part of the Asian Hockey Federation," he said.
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