Teqball in Meghalaya

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Overview

Origin: Hungary
Category: Emerging
Olympic discipline: No
Paralympic discipline: No
Central pathway: None recorded
Athlete profiles on SportSupport: 0

Governance and status

Each field below is shown only where we hold a source for it; anything else reads “Not currently verified” rather than a guess. Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports recognition is granted year by year, so it is only ever shown with the year it applies to. Last reviewed: September 2026.

Indian governing/organising body: Teqball Federation of India
Ministry recognition: Not currently verified
International federation: Not currently verified
Khelo India inclusion: Not currently verified
TOPS eligibility: Not currently verified
Olympic status: Not on the Olympic programme
Paralympic status: Not a Paralympic discipline

Teqball is listed on SportSupport in the emerging category. Its recorded origin is Hungary. It is not on the Olympic programme. We list Teqball Federation of India as the Indian governing/organising body for the sport.

Teqball does not appear on the official Khelo India Games discipline list, and we hold no verified central pathway or current-year Ministry recognition record for it, so we make no Khelo India, TOPS, National Sports Development Fund or pension claim. Whatever competition exists is run by clubs, akharas, private promoters or state-level bodies. (Checked against Sports Authority of India / Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports — Discipline wise Participation in all editions of Khelo India Games (19th Edition).)

Scholarships & Funding

Central, state and private scholarships available for teqball athletes in India.

No central scholarship pathway
We hold no verified central pathway for teqball and no current-year Ministry recognition record for a national body, so we make no Khelo India, TOPS or National Sports Development Fund claim for it.

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Indian Players

No profiles yet

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Rules

Teqball is played on a curved table with a size-5 football, between two players (singles) or four (doubles). Players may touch the ball up to three times per possession, but never twice in a row with the same body part, and any part of the body except the hands and arms may be used. The ball must cross the net on each return, players may not touch the net, the table or each other, and matches are decided over sets played to 12 points with a two-point margin — best of three sets. Serves must be executed to a clean bounce on the opponent's side, with a limited number of attempts, and doubles requires the ball to be passed between partners before it is returned. Because the table is curved, ball speed and rebound angle change with the point of contact, which rewards first-touch control rather than power. FITEQ also governs para teqball under adapted rules.

Authoritative rulebook: Teqball Federation of India.

Positions

Typical roles across emerging sports. These are category-level descriptions, not a sourced teqball squad list.

Attacker / offensive role
The point-scoring position in the sport's playing format.
Defender
Prevents the opposition from scoring and controls the defensive zone.
All-rounder / substitute
Rotates through roles or comes in as a tactical substitute.

Equipment

Standard kit and infrastructure required to train and compete in teqball at a federation-recognised event.

Curved TEQ table — manufactured only under licence from the trademark holder, so tables must be imported into India
Size-5 football inflated to competition pressure
Football-style indoor shoes or bare feet depending on surface, plus standard sportswear
Net fitted to the table's centre ridge, with clear run-off space on both sides
Beach teqball variant uses the same table set on sand for open-air and beach-cup events

Governing/organising body

Body listed on SportSupport

Teqball Federation of India

Teqball Federation of India is the body we list as the Indian governing/organising body for Teqball. We hold no sourced detail on its domestic calendar, selection norms or state structure, and no current-year Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports recognition record for it.

Origin: Hungary
Olympic: No
Paralympic: No
Category: Emerging

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Major Indian Events

Domestic competitions we hold a source for in teqball.

National Teqball Championship
India's national championship is run under Teqball India, with the first senior edition organised by the Maharashtra Teqball Association under the national body's aegis. Club structures have developed alongside it, notably Teqball Mumbai, founded by Vinit Jain, the first Indian to represent the country internationally in the sport.
Governing structure
Teqball India operates as the national federation under FITEQ, the International Teqball Federation, which was founded in March 2017 and now has around 124 member federations. FITEQ was recognised by the Olympic Council of Asia and the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa by 2019 and granted full membership of the Global Association of International Sports Federations in November 2020, with a stated ambition of Olympic inclusion.

International Events

Continental and world-level competitions we hold a source for in teqball.

Teqball World Championships 2024 — India's first medal
Declan Gonsalves and Anas Baig won bronze in men's doubles at the 2024 World Championships in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam — India's first-ever medal in the sport. The event drew 221 athletes from 95 countries across five categories, and the Indian pair beat Ukraine's Shevchuk and Usichenko 2-1 in the quarter-final to make India only the 11th nation to medal that year, before losing their semi-final to Thailand.
Asia-Pacific Teqball Beach Cup
Vinit Jain became the first Indian athlete to compete internationally in the sport at the 2019 edition in Sanya, China, finishing sixth. He is a two-time national gold medallist and came to teqball from a football background, having led India's under-21 minifootball team at the 2018 World Cup in Prague.
World Championship structure
The championships began as the Teqball World Cup in Budapest in 2017 with 20 nations, expanded to 42 countries at Reims in 2018, added mixed doubles in 2019 and reached the full five-category format by 2021. Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Thailand and Brazil have dominated the medals.

Leagues

No dedicated professional league is currently catalogued for teqball. The national championship under Teqball Federation of India remains the top domestic competition.

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International Players

Globally recognised teqball athletes to know outside India.

The international federation for teqball maintains the current world ranking — check the federation site for the up-to-date top names.

Career Options

Ways to build a career in teqball — on the field, on the sidelines and behind the scenes.

Teqball has an unusual structural barrier: the name is trademarked and only the trademark holder's licensees may legally manufacture the curved TEQ table, so equipment cannot be produced locally or improvised. The inventors regard these restrictions as essential to controlling the sport's growth, but it means table access in India depends entirely on imports
The sport's crossover appeal to footballers is its main recruitment route — India's leading players have come from football, futsal and minifootball backgrounds, and top clubs worldwide use teqball tables as touch-and-control training tools
It is genuinely low-impact and non-contact: players cannot touch each other or the table, which removes the injury profile of competitive football and makes it accessible to a wider range of ages and fitness levels
Referee and coach certification runs through FITEQ's online Level-C examinations, which are open internationally and give Indian officials a direct route to accreditation without travelling
The sport was invented in Hungary — sources give the date as either 2012 or 2014 — by former footballer Gábor Borsányi, businessman György Gattyán and computer scientist Viktor Huszár, and has recruited football figures including Ronaldinho, Messi and Neymar as ambassadors, alongside sponsorship from major global brands
FITEQ also governs para teqball, giving the discipline a parallel pathway for para-athletes from its inception rather than as a later addition

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Related academies

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FAQs

Common questions about teqball in India.

Who governs Teqball in India?▾

We list Teqball Federation of India as the Indian governing/organising body for Teqball, and state associations affiliated to it run age-group and state-level competition. We hold no current-year Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports recognition record for it, so this is not a statement that it is currently a recognised national sports federation — recognition is granted year by year.

Is Teqball an Olympic sport?▾

No, Teqball is not on the Olympic programme.

What government schemes support Teqball athletes?▾

TOPS does not apply, as Teqball is outside the Olympic programme. State-government cash awards or sports-quota employment can apply where a state notifies the discipline, which varies by state. Teqball does not appear on the official Khelo India Games discipline list, so we make no Khelo India claim for it.

Teqball in every state & UT

Dedicated pages for Teqball in each Indian state and Union Territory — academies, schemes, athletes and how to start.