2013 Hockey India League players' auction for an Indian player was 2,800 and for overseas player was 5,000 under which franchise owners could not bid. 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. Sandeep Singh was bought by
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