2019 Men's Premier Hockey League (South Africa)
Tournament details | |||
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Host country | Johannesburg | ||
City | South Africa | ||
Dates | 18 July 2019 | –4 August 2019||
Teams | 6 | ||
Venue(s) | Randburg Hockey Stadium | ||
Final positions | |||
Champions | Drakensberg Dragons | ||
Runner-up | Mapungubwe Mambas | ||
Third place | Garden Route Gazelles | ||
Tournament statistics | |||
Matches played | 19 | ||
Goals scored | 102 (5.37 per match) | ||
Top scorer(s) | Keegan Hezlett (5 goals) | ||
Best player | Nqobile Ntuli | ||
Best young player | Mustaphaa Cassiem | ||
Best goalkeeper | Rob McKinley | ||
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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]
Competition format
[edit]Format
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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]
Head Coach: Cheslyn Gie
Head Coach: Siphesihle Ntuli
- Jethro Eustice (C)
- Ross Hetem
- Cody van Wyk
- Melrick Maddocks
- Dylan Swanepoel
- Suubi Mugerwa-Sekawabe
- Amkelwe Letuka
- Nqobile Ntuli
- Trevor de Lora
- Chad Cairncross
- Ignatius Malgraff
- Mattew de Sousa
- Miguel da Graca
- Francois Pretorius
- Ryan Crowe
- Richard Pautz
- Pierre Botma
- Andile Ndlovu
- Cameron Ryan
- Gowan Jones (C, GK)
- Sizwe Mthembu (GK)
Head Coach: Ashlin Freddy
Results
[edit]Pool stage
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | WD | LD | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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1 | –– Mapungubwe Mambas | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 7 | +9 | 15 | Semi-Final |
2 | –– Drakensberg Dragons | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 12 | +5 | 9 | |
3 | –– Garden Route Gazelles | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 12 | +7 | 7 | |
4 | –– Maropeng Cavemen | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 9 | |
5 | –– Addo Elephants | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 17 | −2 | 6 | |
6 | –– Golden Gate Gladiators | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 26 | −20 | 1 |
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) matches won; 3) goal difference; 4) goals for; 5) head-to-head result; 6) field goals scored.
Matches
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Classification stage
[edit]Semi-finals | Final | |||||
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 Gazelles | 1(0) | |||||
Third place | ||||||
4 August 2019 | ||||||
Maropeng Cavemen | 2 | |||||
Garden Route Gazelles | 3 |
Semi-finals
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Third place game
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Final
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Awards
[edit]Player of the tournament | Goalkeeper of the tournament | Top goalscorer | Young Player of the tournament |
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Nqobile Ntuli (Dragons)[4] | Rob Mckinley (Mambas)[4] | Keegan Hezlett (Cavemen)[4] | Mustaphaa Cassiem (Mambas)[4] |
Final ranking
[edit]Rank | Team |
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Drakensberg Dragons | |
Mapungubwe Mambas | |
Garden Route Gazelles | |
4 | Maropeng Cavemen |
5 | Addo Elephants |
6 | Golden Gate Gladiators |
Goalscorers
[edit]There have been 102 goals scored in 19 matches, for an average of 5.37 goals per match.
5 goals
4 goals
- Connor Beauchamp (Garden Route Gazelles)
- Mustaphaa Cassiem (Mapungubwe Mambas)
- Cerezo Comerasamy (Addo Elephants)
- Julian Hykes (Addo Elephants)
- Nqobile Ntuli (Drakensberg Dragons)
- Richard Pautz (Drakensberg Dragons)
3 goals
- Pierre Botma (Drakensberg Dragons)
- Wade Dollman (Mapungubwe Mambas)
- Keenan Horne (Garden Route Gazelles)
- Brandon James (Garden Route Gazelles)
- Ignatius Malgraff (Drakensberg Dragons)
- Sinoxolo Mbekeni (Addo Elephants)
- Marvin Simmons (Garden Route Gazelles)
2 goals
- Reece Arendse (Garden Route Gazelles)
- Berne Burger (Garden Route Gazelles)
- Dayaan Cassiem (Maropeng Cavemen)
- Ryan Crowe (Drakensberg Dragons)
- Miguel da Graca (Drakensberg Dragons)
- Courtney Halle (Maropeng Cavemen)
- Ross Hetem (Drakensberg Dragons)
- Luthando Jonas (Mapungubwe Mambas)
- Tevin Kok (Mapungubwe Mambas)
- Cameron Mackay (Maropeng Cavemen)
- Sam Mvimbi (Golden Gate Gladiators)
- Hans Neethling (Garden Route Gazelles)
- Tumi Ramphele (Golden Gate Gladiators)
- Reza Rosenberg (Addo Elephants)
- Dylan Swanepoel (Drakensberg Dragons)
- Craig Wiid (Maropeng Cavemen)
1 goal
- Idrees Abdulla (Golden Gate Gladiators)
- Michael Abrahams (Maropeng Cavemen)
- Spencer Botes (Maropeng Cavemen)
- Matt Brown (Mapungubwe Mambas)
- Callum Buchanan (Maropeng Cavemen)
- Chad Cairncross (Drakensberg Dragons)
- Chad Futcher (Addo Elephants)
- Ross Gonzalves (Mapungubwe Mambas)
- Gareth Heyns (Addo Elephants)
- Greg Last (Mapungubwe Mambas)
- Amkelwe Letuka (Drakensberg Dragons)
- Lance Louw (Garden Route Gazelles)
- Gerald Mpopo (Maropeng Cavemen)
- Owen Mvimbi (Mapungubwe Mambas)
- Senswesihle Ngubane (Garden Route Gazelles)
- Taine Paton (Garden Route Gazelles)
- Niel Raath (Mapungubwe Mambas)
- Daniel Sibbald (Garden Route Gazelles)
- Caleb Syce (Mapungubwe Mambas)
- Angelo Walstroom (Golden Gate Gladiators)
Source: SAHA
References
[edit]- ^ Zaal, Nicholas (18 August 2019). "Hockey finals blitz". Randburg Sun. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
- ^ "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.
- ^ van Schalkwyk, Annette (7 August 2019). "GALLERY: Worthy champions after best of battles in PHL". Comaro Chronicle. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
- ^ a b c d "CTM PHL 2019 ends with two worthy champions - South African Hockey Association". www.sahockey.co.za. Retrieved 18 February 2022.