Shahabad Markanda Indian team colours. It has got the epithet of Sansarpur former Indian woman player Bhupinder Kaur {Rail coach Factory}, Sandeep Kaur {Indian Railways}. She played for World Cup, Olympics & Asia Cup too. She played as a captain of Indian Woman Hockey Team for 7 consecutive years. Current national team representatives from Shahabad are: Suman Bala, Nutan, Meenakshi, Simarjeet Kaur, Balwinder Kaur, Kiran Bala, Gurpreet Kaur, Jasjeet Kaur, Rajni Bala, Rajwinder, Gagandeep Kaur and Surinder Kaur. Beside Hockey Shahabad also excels in other Sports too, Narender Singh of Bibipur block, Shahbad, have climbed Mount Everest and created a new record
India national football team 60,000 capacity Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi during India's victory in the 2011 SAFF Championship over Afghanistan. In June 2018, supporters filled the Mumbai Football Arena for India's Intercontinental Cup match against Kenya after a plea from India's captain Sunil Chhetri went viral on social media. Since independence, there have been twenty-nine different head coaches for the India national team, out of which, eleven being foreign coaches. The most successful head coach for India was Syed Abdul Rahim, who lead India to gold in both the 1951 and 1962 Asian Games while also achieving a fourth-place finish during the 1956