2013 Hockey India League Players' Auction

2013 Hockey India League Players' Auction was the auction of players for the first season of the franchise-based field hockey tournament, Hockey India League. Auction was conducted by International Auctioneer Bob Hayton and took place on 16 December at The Lalit Hotel in New Delhi.

A total of 246 players were available for the auction out of which 93 were foreign player and 153 local. Each franchise had a purse of 650,000 to spend in the auction on 24 players (14 Indian and 10 overseas) for a term of 3 years. Minimum base price for an Indian player was 2,800 and for overseas player was 5,000 under which franchise owners could not bid.

Marquee players

The franchise owners made silent bids for each of the five marquee players before the actual auction begun. Hockey India then revealed which marquee player will lead which franchise based on the maximum bids by all the owners. Each team's marquee player got a contract worth at least 115 per cent of the highest successful bid for a player of that team in the auction if the silent bid is not worth more than this amount.

:^115% 115% of the top paid player of the team
Sandeep Singh was bought by Mumbai Magicians at his base price ($27,800) but Mumbai bought Australian Joel Carroll for $56,000 which raises Sandeep's annual purse to $64,400 due to the 115% rule. Similarly, Jamie Dwyer will fetch $78,200 (115% of Jaap Stockmann with $68,000) and Moritz Fürste will earn $83,950 (115% of Ashley Jackson's $73,000). Dutchman Teun de Nooijer's annual purse is the highest of the league i.e. $87,400 (115% of V.R. Raghunath's winning bid of $76,000) whereas Sardar Singh's annual purse is the highest among Indian players ($78,000).

Auction

Each round of main auction involved bidding for 10 defenders, 10 forwards and 10 midfielders. 25 goalkeepers were auctioned all together in the first round.

: Player replaced.

2nd round

After the main auction, the teams who had not completed their quota of 24 players (14 Indians and 10 overseas) could bid for the unsold players in the main auction.

Replacement signings

Franchises can sign players after the HIL auction, as replacement of contracted players who are not available to play due to injuries and national commitments. Under HIL rules, the replacements have to be chosen from the pool of players who went unsold in the auction.

Unsold players

Following unsold players were added to the reserve pool (according to their base price):

*$25,000
** Oliver Korn
** Muhammad Imran
** Ramón Alegre
** Pol Amat
*$20,000
** Phil Burrows
*$18,000
** Nathan Burgers
*$15,000
** Juan Manuel Vivaldi
** Tristan Clemons
** Francois Scheefer
** Muhammad Razie
** Tengku Ahmad Tajuddin
** Hugo Inglis
** Shea McAleese
** Abdul Haseem Khan
** Muhammad Waqas
** Mirosław Juszczak
** Clinton Panther
** Erasmus Pieterse
** Lloyd Madsen
** Xavier Trench
*$10,000
** Azlan Misron
** Hamish McGregor
** Imran Shah
** Muhammad Umar Bhutta
** Michal Nowakowski
** Miguel Da Graca
** Rhett Halkett
** Thornton McDade
*$5,600
** Mucketira Gannapathy Poonacha
*$5,000
** Pedro Budeisky
** Tomas Kuhl
** Benjamin Read
** Ali Shan
** Oriol Fabregas
** Lewis Jon Valentine Prosser

*$2,800
** Anjum Tarik
** Dinesh Mann
** K. Laldintluanga
** Kalu Ram
** Keerthi Mallesh Gowda
** Nanak Singh
** Naveen Kumar
** Phirembam Bisham Singh
** R. Aravindan
** Shamsher Singh Kullar
** Subodh Tirkey
** Tariq Mohammad
** Tharun Thamanna Kalmadanda
** Abhijith B.
** Balin Boro
** Gaurav Chandrasen Bhonsle
** Birsu Bhengra
** Kabir Sharma
** R. Ashok Kumar
** Nadeem Uddin
** Mohan Muthanna Bollachanda
** Amit Kumar Malik
** Avtar Singh Mann
** Baljit Singh
** Captain Singh
** Deepak Aasanbhai Ramvani
** Dilbag Singh
** Suresh Kumar Ganeshan
** Gurpreet Singh Randhawa
** Jaskaran Singh
** Naocha Singh Konjengbam
** Laishram Laiba Loko
** Manish Bishnoi
** Prashant
** S. Paulsesu
** Saroj Barla
** Ramesh Setti
** Lowrance
** Kanchan Lochan Rajbhar
** Jatinder Singh
** Ratul Ansary
** Anil Xaxa
** S. Arumugam

*$2,800
** Prakash Singh Rawat
** K.D. Bidappa
** Dattesh Tulsidas Priolkar
** Deepak Kishor Ekka
** Harsahib Singh
** Keisham Hera
** Kiran Kumar Thockchom
** Joychandra Singh Lisham
** Lovepreet Singh Momi
** Manjinder Singh
** Manoj Singh Rawat
** Mohammed Riyazuddin
** Mikhail Barla
** Mohammed Iqbal Irshad Mirza
** Mohit Singh Thakur
** Muhammed Murthala P.K.
** Munish Rana
** N. Kamala Kannan
** Nitin Kumar Nandanoori
** Narad Dhaniram Bahadur
** Naveen Antil
** Ningombam Abung
** Dhamu Parthasarthy
** Pawan Singh Chauhan
** Prabhjot Singh
** Ravendra Shiv Kumar
** Rituraj Boro
** Sandeep Raju Sammeta
** Sanjeet Singh Chauhan
** Sarvjeet Singh Bhalru
** Sikander Pal Singh
** Vijay Indra Singh Thapa
** Vijay Thapa
** Vikas Choudhary
** Vinit Kamble

References

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