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Muhammad Umar Bhutta

field hockey player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ6932764 ↗
Source-derived summary

Muhammad Umar Bhutta (Urdu: محمد عمر بھُٹہ; born 24 December 1992 in Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan) is a Pakistani field hockey player.

Career

Domestic leagues

In the Malaysia Hockey League, Bhutta played five seasons with the Kuala Lumpur Hockey Club.

International

Bhutta was included in the Pakistan hockey team squad for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, UK.

In 2012, he was named captain of the Pakistan junior hockey team for the 7th Junior Asia Cup played at Malacca, Malaysia.

In September 2013, Bhutta was named captain of the Pakistan junior team that competed in the

Sultan of Johor Cup in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

In 2013, Bhutta was retained as captain of the national junior team that represented Pakistan in the Junior Hockey World Cup in New Delhi, India.

In 2018, Bhutta was named in the 18-member Pakistan hockey team for the Hockey World Cup in Bhubaneswar, India.

In December 2021, Bhutta led the Pakistan team in the Asian Champions Trophy in Dhaka.

In May 2022, Bhutta led the 20-member Pakistan squad at the Hockey Asia Cup held in Jakarta.

Later in 2022, he captained the Pakistan hockey team during the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

In August 2023, he was the captain of the Pakistan team during the Asian Champions Trophy held in Chennai.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Muhammad Umar Bhutta” as field hockey player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 2012, 2013, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1992-12-24. The account is most persuasive where Muhammad, Umar and Bhutta can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as field hockey player. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6932764. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1992, 2012, 2013 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Muhammad Umar Bhutta” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.