The Chennai Veerans are a Tier-1 level field hockey

Field hockey

Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

 team Premier Hockey League

Premier Hockey League

The now defunct Premier Hockey League was a professional league competition for field Hockey clubs in the top division of the Indian hockey system. There were seven teams in the PHL. The competition was held every year from 2005 till 2008.-History:...

 in India

India

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. In the inaugural cup in 2005, the Chennai Veerans led by Ignace Tirkey

Ignace Tirkey

Ignacious Tirkey is a member of India's hockey team. He plays as a midfielder and has captained the Indian team.He also serves the Madras Engineering Group Indian army as junior commisioned officer.He holds the rank of Subedar.-Early life:His younger brother Prabodh Tirkey also represented India...

 finished at the bottom of the group with two wins and six losses.

After finishing at the bottom of the premier division in the inaugural PHL in year 2005, Chennai Veerans were relegated to Tier-II division of PHL in 2006, where they played along with 1) Orissa Steelers 2) Lucknow Nawabs 3) Delhi Dazzlers and 4) Imphal Rangers as the 5th team. 5)Chennai Veerans. In this league Chennai Veerans finished runners-up to Orissa Steelers. But later it was decided that in 2007 no team should be relegated from Tier I. Instead 2 teams were added to the premier division [Tier-I]. So 7 teams entered the current Tier-I of 3rd PHL-2007 - 1) Sher-e-jalandhar, 2) Orissa Steelers, 3) Bangalore Lions, 4) Maratha Warriors

Maratha Warriors

The Maratha Warriors are the Premier Hockey League team from Maharashtra, led by Captain Viren Rasquinha.-Players:The squad as of December 20th 2006 is as follows....

, 5) Chennai Veerans, 6) Chandigarh Dynamos, and the Tier-II division was scrapped for the year 2007 by the IHF.

Players name for year 2005

• Ignace Tirkey
  Ignace Tirkey
  Ignacious Tirkey is a member of India's hockey team. He plays as a midfielder and has captained the Indian team.He also serves the Madras Engineering Group Indian army as junior commisioned officer.He holds the rank of Subedar.-Early life:His younger brother Prabodh Tirkey also represented India...
  
   (Captain)
• Devesh Chauhan
  Devesh Chauhan
  Devesh Singh Chauhan is a field hockey goalkeeper from India, who made his international debut for the Men's National Team in early 2000...
  
   (G.K.)
• Rajarajan (G.K)
• William Xalxo
• Nitin Kumar
• Jagath Jothi
• Vivek Gupta
• Bimal Lakra
• Prabakaran
• Jagan Senthil
• Adam Sinclair
• Venkatesh
• Raja
• Birender Lakra
• Sundeep Singh
• Dilawar Hussain (Pakistan)
• Zeeshan Ashraf
  Zeeshan Ashraf
  Zeeshan Ashraf is a field hockey player. He plays full back. He made his international debut for Pakistan in 2001, and competed in the 2006 Commonwealth Games.-Career:...
  
   (Pakistan)
• Juan Escarré
  Juan Escarré
  Juan Escarré Urueña is a Spanish field hockey player, who competed for Spain in three Summer Olympics, starting in 1996, when he captured the silver medal with his national side...
  
  (Spain)

• Harender Singh (Chief Coach)
• Rama Swamy (Asst Coach)
• Saju Joseph (Trainer)
• Venkatachalam (Stand In Manager)
• T.A. Jabaratnam (Manager)

The current team of Chennai Veerans in 2007 PHL is led by Adam Sinclair.

Their brand ambassador for the 2007 season is actor Madhavan

Results of Chennai Veerans

• 2005 - 5th place in Tier-I [Premier] division
• 2006 - 2nd place in Tier-II division
• 2007 - 6th place of Tier-I [Premier] division.