2019 Men's Premier Hockey League (South Africa)

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2019 Men's Premier Hockey League
Tournament details
Host country Johannesburg
City South Africa
Dates18 July 2019 (2019-07-18)–4 August 2019 (2019-08-04)
Teams6
Venue(s) Randburg Hockey Stadium
Final positions
Champions Drakensberg Dragons
Runner-up Mapungubwe Mambas
Third placeGarden Route Gazelles
Tournament statistics
Matches played19
Goals scored102 (5.37 per match)
Top scorer(s) Keegan Hezlett (5 goals)
Best player Nqobile Ntuli
Best young player Mustaphaa Cassiem
Best goalkeeper Rob McKinley
2018 (previous)

The 2019 Men's Premier Hockey League was the 4th edition of the Premier Hockey League, the annual tournament men's field hockey championship of South Africa. [1]

Contents

Competition format

Format

The 2019 Premier Hockey League followed a single round-robin format, followed by a classification round.

During the pool stage teams played each other once. The top four ranked teams qualified for the Classification Round. Team 1 played Team 4, while Team 2 played Team 3 in the two semi-finals. The two victorious teams moved onto the Final, while the losing teams competed for third place.

Point allocation

Match points were distributed as follows:

Participating teams

Each squad consists of 20 players, made up of 7 marquee players as determined by SA Hockey's team, with a further 3 players into their 20 from the "new generation" pool featuring the country's most exciting young talent. Coaches were forced to release between 4 and 8 players from the 2018 squads ahead of the draft. [2]

Addo Elephants

Head Coach: Cheslyn Gie

Drakensberg Dragons
Golden Gate Gladiators
Garden Route Gazelles
Maropeng Cavemen
Mapungubwe Mambas

Results

Pool stage

PosTeamPldWWDLDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1 ––  Mapungubwe Mambas 54100167+915 Semi-Final
2 ––  Drakensberg Dragons 521021712+59
3 ––  Garden Route Gazelles520121912+77
4 ––  Maropeng Cavemen 53002141409
5 ––  Addo Elephants52003151726
6 ––  Golden Gate Gladiators 50014626201
Source: SA Hockey
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result; 6) field goals scored.

Matches

18 July 2019
10:00
Golden Gate Gladiators 2–2 Mapungubwe Mambas
Ramphele Field hockey ball.svg 23'
S. Mvimbi Field hockey ball.svg 30'
Report Last Field hockey ball.svg 38'
Jonas Field hockey ball.svg 44'
Penalties
van den Berg Field hockey penmiss.svg
van Tonder Field hockey pengoal.svg
Saker Field hockey penmiss.svg
Abdulla Field hockey penmiss.svg
1–3Field hockey penmiss.svg Mann
Field hockey penmiss.svg O. Mvimbi
Field hockey pengoal.svg Jonas
Field hockey pengoal.svg M. Cassiem
Field hockey pengoal.svg Gonzalves
18 July 2019
14:00
Maropeng Cavemen 2–1Garden Route Gazelles
Mackay Field hockey ball.svg 34'
Botes Field hockey ball.svg 39'
Report Sibbald Field hockey ball.svg 38'
18 July 2019
18:00
Addo Elephants1–4 Drakensberg Dragons
Mbekeni Field hockey ball.svg 56' Report Pautz Field hockey ball.svg 4', 19'
Botma Field hockey ball.svg 39', 53'

19 July 2019
10:00
Golden Gate Gladiators 0-5Addo Elephants
Report Rosenberg Field hockey ball.svg 27'
Comerasamy Field hockey ball.svg 34', 49'
Mbekeni Field hockey ball.svg 55'
Hykes Field hockey ball.svg 59'
18 July 2019
14:00
Mapungubwe Mambas 2-1 Maropeng Cavemen
M. Cassiem Field hockey ball.svg 7'
Kok Field hockey ball.svg 56'
Report Wiid Field hockey ball.svg 57'

20 July 2019
12:00
Drakensberg Dragons 4-4Garden Route Gazelles
Crowe Field hockey ball.svg 13'
Ntuli Field hockey ball.svg 50'
Botma Field hockey ball.svg 55'
da Graca Field hockey ball.svg 60'
Report James Field hockey ball.svg 44'
Beauchamp Field hockey ball.svg 48'
Burger Field hockey ball.svg 54'
Neethling Field hockey ball.svg 58'
Penalties
van Wyk Field hockey pengoal.svg
Botma Field hockey penmiss.svg
Crowe Field hockey pengoal.svg
Ntuli Field hockey pengoal.svg
3-0Field hockey penmiss.svg Samboer
Field hockey penmiss.svg Dart
Field hockey penmiss.svg Simmons
20 July 2019
16:00
Golden Gate Gladiators 3-5 Maropeng Cavemen
Abdulla Field hockey ball.svg 35'
Walstroom Field hockey ball.svg 51'
Ramphele Field hockey ball.svg 58'
Report Hezlett Field hockey ball.svg 24', 45'
Wiid Field hockey ball.svg 35'
Mackay Field hockey ball.svg 37'
Mpopo Field hockey ball.svg 45'

21 July 2019
08:00
Golden Gate Gladiators 1-7Garden Route Gazelles
S. Mvimbi Field hockey ball.svg 4' Report Neethling Field hockey ball.svg 1'
Ngubane Field hockey ball.svg 3'
Louw Field hockey ball.svg 5'
Beauchamp Field hockey ball.svg 9', 48'
Burger Field hockey ball.svg 27'
Simmons Field hockey ball.svg 42'
21 July 2019
10:00
Mapungubwe Mambas 5-1Addo Elephants
Dollman Field hockey ball.svg 16', 40'
Brown Field hockey ball.svg 24'
M. Cassiem Field hockey ball.svg 36'
Kok Field hockey ball.svg 55'
Report Futcher Field hockey ball.svg 10'
21 July 2019
16:00
Drakensberg Dragons 2-3 Maropeng Cavemen
Cairncross Field hockey ball.svg 28'
Malgraff Field hockey ball.svg 41'
Report D. Cassiem Field hockey ball.svg 36'
Hezlett Field hockey ball.svg 48'
Halle Field hockey ball.svg 57'

27 July 2019
12:00
Mapungubwe Mambas 3-2Garden Route Gazelles
M. Cassiem Field hockey ball.svg 17'
O. Mvimbi Field hockey ball.svg 27'
Dollman Field hockey ball.svg 45'
Report James Field hockey ball.svg 53'
Simmons Field hockey ball.svg 57'
27 July 2019
16:00
Addo Elephants6-3 Maropeng Cavemen
Comerasamy Field hockey ball.svg 4', 44'
Hykes Field hockey ball.svg 6', 15', 52'
Mbekeni Field hockey ball.svg 38'
Report Abrahams Field hockey ball.svg 6'
Hezlett Field hockey ball.svg 27'
Halle Field hockey ball.svg 36'
27 July 2019
18:00
Golden Gate Gladiators 0-6 Drakensberg Dragons
Report Crowe Field hockey ball.svg 2'
Swanepoel Field hockey ball.svg 5'
Malgraff Field hockey ball.svg 29', 54'
Pautz Field hockey ball.svg 32'
Hetem Field hockey ball.svg 42'

28 July 2019
12:00
Addo Elephants2-5Garden Route Gazelles
Rosenberg Field hockey ball.svg 12'
Heyns Field hockey ball.svg 43'
Report Beauchamp Field hockey ball.svg 6'
Horne Field hockey ball.svg 13'
Paton Field hockey ball.svg 30'
Arendse Field hockey ball.svg 41'
Simmons Field hockey ball.svg 47'
28 July 2019
14:00
Mapungubwe Mambas 4-1 Drakensberg Dragons
Raath Field hockey ball.svg 4'
M. Cassiem Field hockey ball.svg 52'
Gonzalves Field hockey ball.svg 55'
Syce Field hockey ball.svg 59'
Report Swanepoel Field hockey ball.svg 7'

Classification stage

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
3 August 2019
 
 
Drakensberg Dragons 3
 
4 August 2019
 
Maropeng Cavemen 1
 
Drakensberg Dragons 4
 
3 August 2019
 
Mapungubwe Mambas 0
 
Mapungubwe Mambas (p.s.o.)1 (3)
 
 
Garden Route Gazelles1(0)
 
Third place
 
 
4 August 2019
 
 
Maropeng Cavemen 2
 
 
Garden Route Gazelles3

Semi-finals

3 August 2019
14:00
Drakensberg Dragons 3-1 Maropeng Cavemen
Ntuli Field hockey ball.svg 12'
Hetem Field hockey ball.svg 36'
Letuka Field hockey ball.svg 51'
Report Buchanan Field hockey ball.svg 33'
3 August 2019
16:00
Mapungubwe Mambas 1-1Garden Route Gazelles
Jonas Field hockey ball.svg 6' Report Horne Field hockey ball.svg 56'
Penalties
Mann Field hockey pengoal.svg
M. Cassiem Field hockey pengoal.svg
Julius Field hockey pengoal.svg
3-0Field hockey penmiss.svg Louw
Field hockey penmiss.svg Horne
Field hockey penmiss.svg Simmons

Third place game

4 August 2019
12:00
Maropeng Cavemen 2-3Garden Route Gazelles
D. Cassiem Field hockey ball.svg 3'
Hezlett Field hockey ball.svg 28'
Report Horne Field hockey ball.svg 2'
James Field hockey ball.svg 2'
Arendse Field hockey ball.svg 34'

Final

4 August 2019
Drakensberg Dragons 4-0 Mapungubwe Mambas
da Graca Field hockey ball.svg 3'
Ntuli Field hockey ball.svg 32', 49'
Pautz Field hockey ball.svg 34'
Report

[3]

Awards

Player of the tournamentGoalkeeper of the tournamentTop goalscorerYoung Player of the tournament
Nqobile Ntuli (Dragons) [4] Rob Mckinley (Mambas) [4] Keegan Hezlett (Cavemen) [4] Mustaphaa Cassiem (Mambas) [4]

Final ranking

RankTeam
Gold medal icon.svg Drakensberg Dragons
Silver medal icon.svg Mapungubwe Mambas
Bronze medal icon.svgGarden Route Gazelles
4 Maropeng Cavemen
5Addo Elephants
6Golden Gate Gladiators

Goalscorers

There have been 102 goals scored in 19 matches, for an average of 5.37 goals per match.

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Source: SAHA

References

  1. Zaal, Nicholas (18 August 2019). "Hockey finals blitz". Randburg Sun. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  2. "THE CTM PHL for 2019 ready to go after draft completed - Premiere Hockey League (PHL) - South Africa". Archived from the original on 11 January 2023. Retrieved 20 February 2022.
  3. van Schalkwyk, Annette (7 August 2019). "GALLERY: Worthy champions after best of battles in PHL". Comaro Chronicle. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "CTM PHL 2019 ends with two worthy champions - South African Hockey Association". www.sahockey.co.za. Retrieved 18 February 2022.