All You Want to Know About Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup

• Ottawa hosted the inaugural Women’s Junior Hockey World Cup in 1989 and then West Germany (now Germany) were the inaugural champions

• Satwinder Singh Walia was India’s coach in their maiden Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup appearance in 2001

• Australia have never won the Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup

• India’s Adeline Kerketta was second top goal-scorer at the 2001 Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup with 7 goals behind South Korea’s Kim Yun-Mi, who scored 12 goals

• Lieke van Wijk (Netherlands) and Wang Jiuyan (China) hold the record of scoring most goals in a single edition of Women’s Junior Hockey World Cup- 14 goals each in the 2013 and 1997 editions

• India did not feature in the first three editions of Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup held at Ottawa in 1989, Terrassa in 1993, and Seongnam in 1997

• China and Canada featured in the first match of the inaugural 1989 Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup, where China won 1-0

• Argentina have made the most final appearances in the Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup – 5 times – twice champions and thrice runners-up

• India’s 10-1 win over Russia in the 2013 Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup is their biggest win ever

• Most individual goals in a match – Netherlands’ Paumen Maartje Paumen – 5 Goals vs Zimbabwe in the 2005 edition

• Vandana Katariya was India’s top goal-scorer at the 2013 Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup with 5 Goals

• South Korea’s Kim Yun-mi is the only player to score four individual goals twice in the Women’s Junior Hockey World Cup vs Russia and Canada in the 2001 edition at Buenos Aires

• India lost to the Netherlands 0-1 in the 2001 edition – a match they missed several sitters and were done in by a late Dutch (five minutes from the final hooter)

• Two girls from Manipur captained India at the Women’s Junior Hockey World Cup – Ranjita Devi Thokchom in the 2009 edition and Sushila Chanu in the 2013 edition

• Argentina’s 3-0 win over the Netherlands in the 2009 edition at Boston is the biggest victory margin in Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup any final

• India have featured in four Junior Women’s Hockey World Cups so far (2001, 2005, 2009, and 2013)

• Two instances of Women’s Junior Hockey World Cup final heading into shootouts – South Korea Beating Argentina 4-2 (2-2) in the 2001 edition, and Netherlands beating Argentina 4-2 (1-1) in the 2013 edition

• Mamta Kharab captained India in its maiden Women’s Junior Hockey World Cup appearance in 2001

• Chile is the only nation to host the Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup twice in 2005 and 2016

• India have scored a total of 70 Goals in four Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup appearances

• Netherlands won the Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup on most occasions – three times in 1997, 2009, and 2013

• India finished 9^th on their maiden Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup appearance at Buenos Aires in 2001

• Soviet Union appeared only once at the inaugural 1989 Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup and won a bronze

• Saba Anjum was India’s top goal-scorer at the 2005 Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup with 5 Goals

• Netherlands have scored most goals in the Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup – 224 Goals

• Biggest winning margin in the Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup – Argentina beating USA 15-0 at the 1997 edition at Seongnam

• Teams India faced on most occasions in the Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup – Chile and New Zealand – 3 times each

• India came from behind to score three second half goals to pip mighty Australia 3-2 at the 2009 edition in Boston

• South Korea and Netherlands are the only two countries to win back-to-back Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup – South Korea in 2001 and 2005 and Netherlands in 2009 and 2013

• Rani Rampal Katariya was India’s top goal-scorer at the 2009 Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup with 7 Goals

• USA have conceded most goals in a single Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup – 58 Goals at the 1997 edition

• MK Kaushik was the only Indian to be coach at the Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup twice in 2005 and 2009

• A total of 32 countries have played in the Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup so far across eight editions

• One team India faced twice in the Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup – Scotland in the 2005 edition – drew 1-1 in pool phase and won 3-1 in the classification tie

• Five Nations have featured in every edition of the Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup – Netherlands, Argentina, Germany, South Korea, and England
  

• Argentina have been runners-up in the Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup most times (thrice)

• Only Four Nations have won the Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup – Netherlands, Argentina, South Korea and West Germany

• Australian Neil Hawgood was the coach when India won a bronze at the 2013 Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup at Monchengladbach

• Nations that played in the Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup only once – Austria, Ireland, Lithuania, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Trinidad & Tobago, Soviet Union, Uruguay

• India’s biggest defeat is a 1-6 loss to Australia in the 2013 Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup

• Two Indians have scored hat-tricks in the Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup – Rani Rampal vs Belarus in 2009 and Vandana Katariya vs Russia in 2013

• Jasjeet Kaur Handa was India’s captain in the 2005 Junior Women’s Hockey World Cup at Santiago