Sohail Abbas

Sohail Abbas, (born 9 June 1977) is a former

professional field hockey player from Pakistan who Sohail Abbas
played as a Full-back. Regarded as one of the greatest
players of all time he is the all-time second highest
goal scorer in international field hockey and highest
goal scorer in modern field hockey (artificial turf) with
348 international goals.[1] A drag-flick specialist noted
for his lethal flicks with great accuracy and speed in
front of goal from penalty corners he is widely
regarded as the 'King of the drag flick'.[2][3]

Abbas started his professional career in Pakistan and

played professional hockey in Malaysia, Netherlands,
Germany and India in his career most notably for
Dutch side HC Rotterdam. After representing Pakistan
at junior levels Abbas made his international debut in
the Test series against India in February 1998. He Abbas during the interview by BBC in 2020
scored his first senior international goal in the second Personal information
match of the series in a 2–1 win. Abbas has 315 caps Born 9 June 1977
for Pakistan and in which he scored 348 goals Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
including 21 hat-tricks an international record. He has Playing position Defender Full-back
represented his country at 1998, 2002, 2006 and 2010 Senior career
FIH Hockey World Cups and the 2000, 2004 and 2012
Years Team
Summer Olympics being the top scorer for Pakistan at
1997-2002 Habib Bank
both the World Cups and Olympics.
2002 BS Nasional HC
2003-2017 WAPDA
2003-2004 Harvestehuder THC
Early life 2005 Hyderabad Sultans

Born at Karachi's Holy Family Hospital, Soldier 2005-2009 HC Rotterdam

Bazaar on 9 June 1977,[4] Sohail is a former pupil of National team
Karachi's Habib Public School, the school of many Years Team Caps Goals
other hockey stars. In fact, it has been rightly remarked 1998-2012 Pakistan 311 (348)
that hockey is taught as a subject in this school. Last updated on: 9 August 2012

He came from a sporting family; his father, Syed Iftikhar Hussain, was a former first-class cricketer. He
represented Karachi as well as Pak Crescent Club, famous for producing Zaheer Abbas. Abbas is eldest of
three brothers. Raheel Abbas, his younger brother, is also former professional first-class cricketer. Sohail
has often said that his inspiration came from his uncle, Safdar Abbas, a left-winger who represented
Pakistan from 1973 to 1981 where he scored against Argentina during the 1973 World Cup as a 16-year-
old boy. Abbas is keen to emphasize the part played by Safdar, who, Abbas says, inspired him as a
youngster.[5]

Abbas started playing hockey for his school and later for his college. In the beginning he played as a
forward but due to his physical built and unsatisfactory performance his youth coach moved him in the
defense. Dejected by this Abbas started practicing his drag-flick abilities to keep the scoring aspect of his
game. Before him Pakistan played a brand of hockey that was known for its speedy forwards who created
goal scoring chances from their technique not penalty-corner specialists like the European style. He
started practicing solely on drag-flicks from watching old video tapes of former players and would spend
hours on drag-flicks even after match practice.[6]

Club career

Domestic

HBL
Abbas started his professional senior career in his native Pakistan playing for his departmental team
Habib Bank of his hometown Karachi in the Pakistan National Hockey Championship. Abbas helped his
domestic team to reach the final of the National Championship in 2001.

SSGC and WAPDA

After a brief stunt with SSGC Abbas continued playing in the Pakistan domestic season but this time for
WAPDA. In the season 2003 and 2004, he won the National Hockey Championship back to back with
WAPDA as captain. He returned for his departmental team in Pakistan WAPDA from Netherlands in
2009. He was top scorer in the 2009 National Hockey Championship with 16 goals and in 2010 won the
Hockey Asian Champions Club Cup. He continued playing for them in the domestic season until 2017 at
the age of 40.[7]

Abroad

Amsterdam HBC
Abbas's extraordinary talent and goal scoring prowess mean that he is a target of hockey clubs all over the
world. He joined Dutch club Amsterdam HBC in 1999 playing the 1999-2000 season for them where he
reached the semifinals, due to his commitments with the Pakistan team, Abbas only played for nine weeks
and that too in two spells. He was provided with free lodging and boarding, offered a car and paid as
much as 700 dollars per match.
Malaysia and Germany
In December 2002 he joined the Kuala Lumpur based side BS Nasional HC in Malaysia with whom he
won the TNB Cup, the domestic cup competition and in April 2003 he played a season in the top division
of Germany in the 1.Bundesliga for Harvestehuder THC of Hamburg.

Hyderabad Sultans
In 2005 he played in the inaugural season of Indian Premier Hockey League for Hyderabad Sultans. He
was the star attraction of the tournament and his team won the title.[8]

Rotterdam HC
In May 2005 he made his second stint in the Netherlands after HC Rotterdam signed him for the
promotion-relegation play-offs. He scored in his debut for the club as his team won the promotion to the
First Division for the following season. Abbas finished as top scorer for his club with 20 goals in the
2005–06 season but his team failed to reach the finals. He again finished as top scorer for Rotterdam with
22 goals in 2006–07 season helping his team finish third and securing qualification for the inaugural
season of the Euro Hockey League. In 2007–08 season his team finished third both in the Hoofdklasse
and in the 2007-08 Euro Hockey League where he was joint top scorer with 7 goals.

According to Abbas playing in Netherlands with Rotterdam introduced him to different style of play and
technique which added to a lot to his game. During the 2005-06 as Pakistan was hit with a devastating
earthquake Abbas started a fund raising mission with the approval of his club and Rotterdam city council
for the victims of the tragedy. He organized friendly matches between Dutch and international sides
composed of international players from Australia, Germany, and India who were also playing
professional hockey in Netherlands to raise funds that were to be directly transferred to the affected
region through international relief organizations.[9]

Hong Kong
In 2013 Abbas signed for Punjab Sports Club to play in the semi-professional Hong Kong premier league
for a season.[10]

International career

Youth teams
As a young hockey player, his potential was not realized for some time. He had difficulty making an
impact on the professional hockey leagues between 1995 and 1998. Like many Pakistani hockey players,
he is a product of the Pakistan Junior Squad. An impressive performance in the 18th Junior National
Hockey U18 Championship at Quetta 1995 gained him a place in Pakistan Junior squad which drew their
home series 2–2 against Germany Juniors. He was not selected for the tour of Netherlands, Germany and
Poland, playing next for Pakistan in the third Junior Asia Cup at Singapore in 1996. He staged a return to
the Pakistan Junior side in 1997, a side which beat Germany Junior in four consecutive test matches.
Four months later, he was dropped from the Pakistan Junior squad. Pakistan Junior team manager
Samiullah Khan and coach Ayaz Mahmood were not convinced to include him for the 1997 World Cup
staged in Milton Keynes – an underwhelming squad that failed to making it to the Junior World Cup
semi-finals for the first time in the cup's 25-year history. Finally, he made his debut the following year on
the national team and has since become arguably modern hockey's most prolific goalscorer of all time.

National debut
When he made his international debut during the 20th Pakistan-India series 1998, his role was only to
come from the bench for penalty corner drills. His debut was at Peshawar's Lala S.M. Ayub Hockey
Stadium on Saturday, 28 February 1998. Pakistan manager effected a substitution midway through the tie,
but failed to make an impact. He failed to score in three penalty corners as Pakistan won 4–1. The
following day, on 1 March 1998, in the second test at Rawalpindi's Army Hockey Stadium, Abbas
announced his arrival on the international scene in dramatic fashion, scoring a drag flick from a penalty
corner which proved to be the match-winner in Pakistan's 2–1 victory.

When the rule was changed after the 1998 World Cup, he was not considered for the 1998
Commonwealth Games by coach Shahnaz Sheikh. But he staged a comeback to win silver in 1998
Hockey Champions Trophy in Lahore and bronze at the 1998 Bangkok Asian Games. Abbas struck 20
goals in 1998.

Azlan Shah triumph and record year

In 1999 Abbas was in terrific form. He started off the year being the top scorer in both the 1999 India-
Pakistan test series with 10 goals and 1999 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup with 12 goals helping Pakistan win
the title for the first time.[11] He finished top scorer of the 1999 Hockey Asia Cup with 16 goals equaling
the record of Hassan Sardar of most goals in an edition of the tournament in 1982.[12] During the match
against Sri Lanka he scored 7 goals in the 15–0 victory making him only the sixth player to have scored a
double-hattrick for Pakistan in a match. But Pakistan finished second after losing the final to South
Korea. Abbas finished the year with 60 goals breaking the record of modern hockey's most international
goals in a calendar year by Paul Litjens of Netherlands, 58.

2000 Olympics
Pakistan qualified for Sydney Olympics by taking part in 2000 Olympic Qualifiers in March 2000 in
Osaka. Pakistan finished second on the Japanese soil, with Sohail scoring 13 goals to finish as leading
marksman. Abbas was also leading scorer at the 2000 Olympic Games, Sydney, with 11 goals. Mixing his
impressive hitting abilities with drag-flicks, Abbas has proved himself to be the world's most consistent
drag-flick converter, his success rate over 65% mark. Pakistan lost the bronze medal match to hosts
Australia by 6-3 finishing fourth. This as of now was the last time Pakistan played for a medal at the
Olympics in hockey. His total goals in 2000 were 26.

Abbas scored a total of 37 goals in the 2001. Pakistan started off the year playing in an invitational
tournament in Dhaka, Bangladesh where they finished second after losing the final to India on penalty
strokes. During the tour of Europe he scored a hat-trick against South Korea in Hamburg, Germany. Later
he was top-scorer of the 2001 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup with 10 goals but Pakistan finished fourth. In the
last assignment of the year Pakistan played in the Champions Trophy in Rotterdam where he scored
another hat-trick against Germany but Pakistan again finished at fourth place

2002 World Cup

Sohail attracted worldwide attention in 2002 when he emerged as the joint highest scorer along with
Argentina's Jorge Lombi in the 10th World Cup at Kuala Lumpur. And all 10 goals that Abbas scored at
the Bukit Jalil Stadium in the Malaysian capital were off PCs. He managed 44 goals in 2002 and added
yet another feather to his cap in that year. Hasan Sardar was Pakistan's top scorer with 150 goals before
Abbas unveiled his goal-scoring prowess. During the Six-Nation Invitational tournament at Kuala
Lumpur, a month before World Cup 2002, Sohail scored his 151st international goal, becoming Pakistan's
all-time highest scorer in international hockey. He struck nine goals as Pakistan managed bronze medals
in 17th Commonwealth Games hockey tournament at Manchester. He struck hat-trick when Pakistan
routed South Africa 10–2 in bronze-decider on 4 August 2002. Later, in the 24th CT in Cologne,
Germany, Sohail played a major role and Pakistan finished third ahead of India.

Suspension and controversy

Abbas managed 28 goals in 2003 and for the sixth time running, he finished as annual leading scorer for
Pakistan. He struck five goals as Pakistan met success in Ipoh's 12th Azlan Shah Cup in March 2003 but
later on Pakistan went to Australia without him, Muhammad Nadeem and Waseem Ahmad as the trio had
defied the PHF by skipping the national training camp to play professional league in Germany. Sohail and
Waseem represented German club Harvestehuder THC of Hamburg while Nadeem played for Gladbacher
HTC. It was Abbas's third spell as pro hockey player after Dutch league 1999 and Malaysian League
2002 (he represented Bank Simpanan Nasional BSN along with Kashif Jawwad). Nadeem did return in
time for the trials for the Australia-bound squad, but he was not considered for selection and Pakistan
suffered embarrassment, finishing last in both twin 4-Nation tournaments at Perth and Sydney.[13]

Nadeem, later on, was reprimanded for his act while Abbas and Waseem were not allowed to appear in
Pakistan-China series in July. They faced an inquiry committee on 14 July 2003 during which they
regretted the mistake. Both were allowed to join the camp and seven days later were included in the team
for the 25th CT. But their inclusion only came after hefty fines of Rs. 100,000 each on the players. PHF
inquiry committee had also recommended a one-year ban on the duo. But PHF President Gen.
Muhammad Aziz Khan brought an amicable end to the controversy when he said that the under-fire
players will compete in the CT in better national interest.

2004 Olympics and world record

Sohail started 2004 in whirlwind fashion and won the top scorer award in 13th Azlan Shah Cup at Bukit
Jalil Complex. He struck ten goals with the help of two hat tricks against India and Germany. He
managed one double hat trick and 21 hat tricks in international modern hockey so far: a record unmatched
in international field hockey. Sohail recorded 59 goals in 2004 and was well poised to break his own
world record of most goals in calendar year (60 in 1999) before retirement. Sohail was the key figure
when Pakistan won a place at the 2004 Summer Olympics by finishing third at the 2004 Olympic
Qualifiers in Madrid on 13 March 2004. Three times Olympic Champion Pakistan also qualified Sohail
was also leading marksman at Madrid with nine goals. Four of these nine goals were against India in
league encounter when he converted four out of four penalty
corners. At Athens, he became the record Pakistani goalscorer in a
single Olympiad, beating the 10-goal record of centre-forward
Hassan Sardar, created at the Los Angeles Olympiad twenty years
beforehand. Only Sohail, Sardar and Abdul Rashid Jr. have topped
the goal scoring-chart in Olympics hockey.

Abbas scored his 267th international goal during the Champions

Trophy in Amritsar, India to equal the 22-year-old record of Dutch
Abbas (left) challenging for the ball
penalty corner specialist Paul Litjens on 4 October 2004 and then
against Argentina at a tri nation
on 8 October he broke the Dutchman's record.[14][15] He retired in tournament in Alacalá la Real, Spain
December 2004, just after the Champions Trophy in Lahore along in 2004
with another Pakistani great Waseem Ahmad, when he was only
27 years of age but on 4 July 2006, he decided to return to the
international hockey.[16] Since the summer of 2005 he and Waseem have both played for Dutch club
Rotterdam. He struck his 33rd goal to break Mark Hager's 9-year-old record. His 33rd goal emerged from
penalty-mark when he converted 66th-minute penalty-stroke against India in Pakistan's 2–1 win on fourth
day of 26th Champions Trophy. The Australian striker had registered 32 goals from 1985 to 1995. He
took 11 editions for his 32 goals while Sohail did the needful in his 6th CT and added another on 12
December tie to make his final Champions' Trophy total 34. Abbas immediately after the end of 2004
announced his retirement from international hockey saying he wants to retire while at his best form while
keeping to option to come back if the national team needs him for major tournaments.[17]

Coming out of retirement and 2006 World Cup

After retiring form the national team he missed all of the 2005 campaigns even the 2006 World Cup
qualification in China but he was recalled for the tour of Europe and the 2006 Champions Trophy before
the World Cup. Pakistan finished a disappointing sixth at the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

Comeback year and 2010 World Cup

After remaining out of national setup for two years and missing the 2008 Beijing Olympics Abbas was
called back into the national squad for the 2009 Hockey Asia Cup where Pakistan lost the final to South
Korea. Abbas helped secure qualification for the 2010 World Cup by winning the qualifiers in Lille,
France, and later finished silver in the Hockey Champions Challenge I in Argentina. Despite good
performances in the test series with Netherlands in previous months Pakistan finished their worst 12th at
the 2010 World Cup in New Delhi managing to win just a match. Abbas first Major Gold Medal was in
2010 Asian Games held in China. Abbas's finest moment for Pakistan continued to be the 2010 Asian
Games as he was part of the team which beat South Korea 4–3 on penalty strokes. Abbas however missed
his penalty. Malaysia defeated India 4–3 and played Pakistan in the final. On 25 November 2010 the
Malaysia v Pakistan final started during the 28th minute of the match Abbas scored a penalty corner to
give Pakistan a 1–0 lead. Rehan Butt scored a goal 4 minutes after half time to extend the lead to 2–0.
Malaysia failed to score and the whistle blew with Pakistan winning the 2010 Asian Games Hockey
Tournament. This became Pakistan's first victory at the Asian Games since 1990 and their first victory in
a major international tournament since the 1994 Champions Trophy. The 16-year drought ended and
Pakistan and Sohail Abbas put a poor World Cup and Commonwealth Games behind them to give their
country their first major trophy in 16 years.[18]
Captaincy and 2012 Olympics
Abbas remained part of the team setup with the Olympics in mind. In 2011 he scored 19 goals for
Pakistan. After serving Pakistan for almost 14 years, Abbas was awarded the captaincy of the national
hockey side for the first time in the Azlan Shah Cup and London Olympics 2012.[19] Abbas's side ended
7th (last) in the Azlan Shah 2012 tournament. Similarly, they ended the Olympics at the 7th position
despite starting off with a draw against Spain. Sohail was dropped from the team after the Olympics.[20]
Later he announced his retirement from the national side.

Post-retirement
Despite multiple coaching offers from PHF Sohail declined taking part in any program working under the
Pakistan Hockey management and kept a low profile. In October 2024 he took his first coaching role as
an assistant coach for penalty corners for the Malaysia national team.[21][22]

Player profile
Sohail can easily be regarded as the best short corner expert in world hockey. Argentina's Jorge Lombi
and Netherlands's Taeke Taekema are second in line. He is a natural short corner expert with a very strong
wrist, a powerful drag flick and a perfected dummy "body dodge" action. He was Pakistani candidate for
the FIH Player of the Year award in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2004.

"Sohail Abbas is the king of penalty corner because of his goal scoring record. He scored the most
goals from penalty corners, so definitely he is the best in the world,"

Taeke Taekema – Dutch drag-flick specialist

Time spent in Netherlands him tone his skills and he pays warm tribute to the club boss Jons Hanset, who
helped make his stay enjoyable.

Twelve goals in 5 matches and helped his team qualify for the play-offs was no mean feat and he has no
hesitation in stating that Netherlands remains his favorite country to visit. Close to his mother, he
describes her as "my greatest supporter. I credit her with all I have achieved."

Many of Sohail's contemporaries were in awe of his performances. Former India goal keeper, Jude
Menezes recalls that Abbas was so confident of his ability that he could tell his opposing number which
section of the goal he would target, and still make the shot.[23]

Records
Sohail Abbas holds the following records in field hockey:

WORLD RECORDS:

Highest goals scorer in modern field hockey with 348 goals.

Highest number of goals in modern field hockey in a calendar year: 60 goals in 1999
Fastest to score 100 goals in modern international hockey: two years six months and 18
days.
Fastest to score 200 goals in modern international hockey: five years five months and 16
days.
Highest number of goals in a single edition of Asia Cup
He has scored a record 21 modern field hockey international hat tricks including one double
hat trick.
Career statistics

Club

Domestic

League
Club Season Ref
Division Apps Goals
1997 - -

1998 - -

Habib Bank 1999 National Hockey Championship - -

2001 - -

2002 - -
WAPDA 2003 National Hockey Championship - -

SSGC 2004 National Hockey Championship - -

2004 - -
2009 - -

2010 - -

2011 - -
2012 - -
WAPDA National Hockey Championship
2013 - -

2014 - -
2015 - -

2016 - -

2017 - -
Abroad

League
Club Season Ref
Division Apps Goals

Amsterdam HBC 1999 Hoofdklasse 24 14 [24]

BS Nasional HC 2002 Malaysia Hockey League 8 7

Hyderabad Sultans 2005 Indian Premier Hockey League 7 7

HC Rotterdam 2004-2005 Overgangsklasse 2 1

2005-2006 22 20 [25]
Hoofdklasse
2006-2007 27 22 [26]

Hoofdklasse 25 22 [27]
2007-2008
Euro Hockey League 7 7
2008-2009 Hoofdklasse 26 19 [28]
 Euro Hockey League 6 2

International

Pakistan

Year Caps Goals

1998 31 20
1999 36 60

2000 21 26

2001 29 37
2002 36 44

2003 21 30

2004 50 59
2006 16 14

2009 15 17

2010 14 10
2011 26 21

2012 16 10

Total 311 348

See also
Pakistan Hockey Federation
List of Pakistani field hockey players
List of men's field hockey players with 100 or more international goals

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External links
Sohail Abbas (http://www.pakistan-hockey.com/sohail-abbas.php)
Sohail Abbas (https://tms.fih.ch/people/10468) at the International Hockey Federation
Sohail Abbas (https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/91735) at Olympedia
Sohail Abbas (https://web.archive.org/web/20220101/https://thecgf.com/results/athletes/472
78) at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)

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