2014 Hockey India League players' auction

2014 Hockey India League Players' Auction or HIL Closed Bid was the mini auction/closed bid of players for the second season of the professional field hockey tournament, Hockey India League. The auction took place on 22 November at Lalit Hotel in New Delhi.

A total of 154 players were auctioned out of which 95 were Indian players and 59 were foreign players from 14 countries. The base price for the players varied from US$2,600 to US$25,000. The salary cap available to each franchise for the auction was increased from US$650,000 (₹4 crores) to US$725,000 (₹4.46 crores) as per the requests of the franchises. The players were signed for the term of two years. During the closed bid, Kalinga Lancers, the new franchise of the Hockey India League, bought its 24 players while rest of the five franchises bought players due to the permanent withdrawals to complete their squads.

Transfers
Transfer window for second season of HIL was open from 19 August to 30 September.

Auction
Following is the list of players bought in the auction:

Replacement signings
Franchises can sign players after the HIL auction, as replacement of contracted players who are not available to play due to injuries and national commitments. Under HIL rules, the replacements have to be chosen from the pool of players who went unsold in the auction.

Unsold players
Following unsold players were added to the reserve pool (according to their base price):


 * $25,000
 * 🇰🇷 Seo Jong-Ho
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 George Pinner
 * $22,000
 * 🇦🇷 Juan Martín López
 * $20,000
 * 🇨🇿 Filip Neusser
 * $18,000
 * 🇪🇸 Gabriel Dabanch
 * $15,000
 * 🇦🇺 Andrew Charter
 * Azlan Misron
 * Clinton Panther
 * Firhan Ashaari
 * Fitri Saari
 * 🇦🇷 Guillermo Schickendantz
 * 🇦🇷 Juan Ignacio Gilardi
 * 🇦🇷 Juan Manuel Vivaldi
 * 🇩🇪 Oliver Korn
 * Rhett Halkett
 * $12,000
 * 🇮🇳 Deepak Thakur
 * 🇮🇳 Didar Singh
 * 🇮🇳 Syed Muhammad Zaheer
 * $10,000
 * 🇳🇿 Arun Panchia
 * 🇨🇦 Jagdish Singh Gill
 * 🇨🇦 Mark Pearson
 * Miguel Da Graca
 * Rassie Pieterse
 * 🇦🇷 Satiago Miguel Montelli
 * Thornton McDade
 * $7,500
 * 🇦🇷 Guido Martin Barreiros Lopez


 * $7,000
 * 🇮🇳 Inderjeet Singh
 * $6,000
 * 🇮🇳 Baljit Singh
 * $5,200
 * 🇮🇳 Ajmer Singh
 * 🇮🇳 Prabhdeep Singh Powar
 * $5,000
 * 🇮🇹 Ignacio Jose Manes
 * 🇮🇹 Ignacio Santiago Salas
 * 🇦🇷 Juan Tubio
 * Julian Allen Hykes
 * 🇦🇷 Marcos Tubio
 * 🇮🇹 Martin Zalatel
 * 🇦🇷 Pedro Budeisky
 * $2,600
 * 🇮🇳 Abhinav Kumar Pandey
 * 🇮🇳 Aiyappa Ranjan Paradanda
 * 🇮🇳 Anand Lakra
 * 🇮🇳 Arumugam Subramani
 * 🇮🇳 Arun Rawat
 * 🇮🇳 Baljit Singh
 * 🇮🇳 Biddappa K.D.
 * 🇮🇳 Birsu Bhengra
 * 🇮🇳 Captain Singh
 * 🇮🇳 Dayananda Singh Chanamthabam
 * 🇮🇳 Deepak Kishor Ekka
 * 🇮🇳 Gurpreet Singh
 * 🇮🇳 Gurvinder Singh
 * 🇮🇳 Harmandeep Singh
 * 🇮🇳 Harmanpreet Singh
 * 🇮🇳 Harpreet Singh
 * 🇮🇳 Jagdeep Dayal
 * 🇮🇳 Jaspreet Singh Rehal
 * 🇮🇳 Jitender Saroha


 * $2,600
 * 🇮🇳 Joga Singh
 * 🇮🇳 Lovedeep Singh
 * 🇮🇳 Lovepreet Singh
 * 🇮🇳 Manish Bishnoi
 * 🇮🇳 Manikanta Venkatesshwarlu
 * 🇮🇳 Manish Sharma
 * 🇮🇳 Manish Yadav
 * 🇮🇳 Manjinder Singh Boparai
 * 🇮🇳 Mohammed Riyazuddin
 * 🇮🇳 Mohan Muthanna Bollachanda
 * 🇮🇳 Mohit Singh Thakur
 * 🇮🇳 Mucketira Gannapathy Poonacha
 * 🇮🇳 Muddappa Kariappa Maletira
 * 🇮🇳 Nadeem Uddin
 * 🇮🇳 Nanak Singh
 * 🇮🇳 Narinder Pal Singh Dhillon
 * 🇮🇳 Naveen Antil
 * 🇮🇳 Naveen Kumar Prasad
 * 🇮🇳 Nikhil Saroha
 * 🇮🇳 Owais Ahmed
 * 🇮🇳 Prabhjot Singh Jr,
 * 🇮🇳 Pradeep Raj Kumar
 * 🇮🇳 Raju Pal
 * 🇮🇳 Rana Pratap
 * 🇮🇳 Rinel Singh Khadangbam
 * 🇮🇳 Sagar Harale
 * 🇮🇳 Sandeep Kumar Singh
 * 🇮🇳 Sanjay Paswan
 * 🇮🇳 Sanjib Dung Dung
 * 🇮🇳 Sarin Edavakath
 * 🇮🇳 Simranjit Singh Chahal
 * 🇮🇳 Subodh Tirkey
 * 🇮🇳 Sumit Chauhan
 * 🇮🇳 Tarandeep Singh
 * 🇮🇳 Vikas Choudhary