The 2018 Men's Premier Hockey League was the 3rd edition of the Premier Hockey League, the annual tournament men's field hockey championship of South Africa.
The Drakensberg Dragons won the tournament for the first time, defeating the Addo Elephants 2–0 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: Cheslyn Gie
Head Coach: Siphesihle Ntuli
Head Coach:Garreth Ewing
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 tournament Jethro Eustice (Dragons) Siya Nolutshungu (Gazelles) Richard Pautz (Dragons) Peter Jarvis (Dragons)
Final ranking Rank Team Drakensberg Dragons Addo Elephants Garden Route Gazelles 4 Maropeng Cavemen 5 Golden Gate Gladiators 6 Mapungubwe Mambas
Goalscorers
References
External links 2019 PHL Men at South African Hockey Association