| Full name | Crescent Hockey Club Sialkot | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1960 | ||
| Ground | Sialkot Hockey Stadium Sialkot | ||
| League | Sialkot District Hockey Championship | ||
Crescent Hockey Club is a feld hockey club based in Sialkot, Pakistan. It which hosted several Pakistani Olympians. It has played in the Surjit Silver Jubilee Hockey Tournament at Jalandhar, India in 2008. [1] [2]
Sialkot is a city located in Punjab, Pakistan. It is the capital of the Sialkot District and is the 13th most populous city in Pakistan. The boundaries of Sialkot are joined with Jammu in the north east, the districts of Narowal in the southeast, Gujranwala in the southwest and Gujrat in the northwest.
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