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.
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:
4 points: win by 3+ goals 3 points: win and shoot-out win 1 point: shoot-out loss 0 points: loss
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.
Head Coach: Cheslyn Gie
Head Coach: Siphesihle Ntuli
Head Coach:Neville Rothman
Head Coach: Ashlin Freddy
Head Coach: Mark Sanders
Head Coach: Lungile Tsolekile
Results Pool stage
Matches
Classification stage
Semi-finals
Third place game
Final
Awards Player of the tournamentGoalkeeper of the tournamentTop goalscorerYoung Player of the tournamentNqobile Ntuli (Dragons)Rob Mckinley (Mambas)Keegan Hezlett (Cavemen)Mustaphaa Cassiem (Mambas)
Final ranking Rank Team Drakensberg Dragons Mapungubwe Mambas Garden Route Gazelles 4 Maropeng Cavemen 5 Addo Elephants 6 Golden Gate Gladiators
Goalscorers
Attendances
The Drakensberg Dragons won the final after beating the Mapungubwe Mambas at the Randburg Hockey Stadium in front of a capacity crowd of 3,000.https://www.citizen.co.za/randburg-sun/sports-news/2019/08/18/hockey-finals-blitz/
# Club Average 1 Drakensberg Dragons 178 2 Mapungubwe Mambas 165 3 Garden Route Gazelles 152 4 Maropeng Cavemen 137 5 Addo Elephants 133 6 Golden Gate Gladiators 129
References
External links 2019 PHL Men at South African Hockey Association