The 2018 Women's Premier Hockey League was the 3rd edition of the Premier Hockey League, the annual tournament women's field hockey championship of South Africa.
The Blyde River Bunters won the tournament for the first time, defeating the Madikwe Rangers 1–0 in the final.
Competition format Format The 2018 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 will be 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: Marcelle Keet
Head Coach: Bevan Bennet
Head Coach: Andi Bernstein
Head Coach:
Head Coach: Inky Zondi
Head Coach: Lenise Marais
Results Pool stage
Matches
Classification stage
Semi-finals
Third place game
Final
Awards Player of the tournamentGoalkeeper of the tournamentTop goalscorerYoung Player of the tournamentKara-Lee Botes (Lakers)Phumelela Mbande (Bunters)Carmen Smith (Bunters)Lezaan Jansen van Vuuren (Bunters)
Final ranking Rank Team Blyde River Bunters Madikwe Rangers St. Lucia Lakers 4 Orange River Rafters 5 Namaqualand Daisies 6 Wineland Wings
Goalscorers
References
External links 2018 PHL Women at South African Hockey Association