2017 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 | –– Maropeng Cavemen | ||
| Runner-up | –– Drakensberg Dragons | ||
| Third place | –– Mapungubwe Mambas | ||
| Tournament statistics | |||
| Matches played | 19 | ||
| Goals scored | 79 (4.16 per match) | ||
| Top scorer(s) | –– Courtney Halle (5 goals) | ||
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The 2017 Men's Premier Hockey League was the 2nd edition of the Premier Hockey League, the annual tournament men's field hockey championship of South Africa.
The Maropeng Cavemen won the tournament for the first time, defeating the Drakensberg Dragons 3–0 in the final.[1]
Competition format
Format
The 2017 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 2017 squads ahead of the draft.[2]
Addo Elephants
Head Coach:
Drakensberg Dragons
Head Coach:
Golden Gate Gladiators
Head Coach:
Garden Route Gazelles
Head Coach:
Maropeng Cavemen
Head Coach:
Mapungubwe Mambas
Head Coach:
Results
Pool stage
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | WD | LD | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | –– Maropeng Cavemen | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 4 | +10 | 13 | Semi-Final |
| 2 | –– Mapungubwe Mambas | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 5 | +6 | 9 | |
| 3 | –– Drakensberg Dragons | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | +2 | 10 | |
| 4 | –– Addo Elephants | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 6 | |
| 5 | –– Garden Route Gazelles | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 13 | −10 | 6 | |
| 6 | –– Golden Gate Gladiators | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 21 | −8 | 4 |
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.
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
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||
| 11 December 2017 | ||||||
| –– Mapungubwe Mambas | 2 | |||||
| 12 December 2017 | ||||||
| –– Drakensberg Dragons | 5 | |||||
| –– Drakensberg Dragons | 0 | |||||
| 11 December 2017 | ||||||
| –– Maropeng Cavemen | 3 | |||||
| –– Maropeng Cavemen | 6 | |||||
| –– Addo Elephants | 1 | |||||
| Third place | ||||||
| 12 December 2017 | ||||||
| –– Mapungubwe Mambas | 2 | |||||
| –– Addo Elephants | 1 | |||||
Semi-finals
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Third place game
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Final
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Awards
| Player of the tournament | Goalkeeper of the tournament | Top goalscorer | Young Player of the tournament |
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| –– Miguel da Graca[3]| –– Gowan Jones[3] | –– Courtney Halle[3] | –– Tyson Dlungwana[3] |
Final ranking
| Rank | Team |
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| –– Maropeng Cavemen | |
| –– Drakensberg Dragons | |
| –– Mapungubwe Mambas | |
| 4 | –– Addo Elephants |
| 5 | –– Garden Route Gazelles |
| 6 | –– Golden Gate Gladiators |
Goalscorers
There have been 79 goals scored in 19 matches, for an average of 4.16 goals per match.
5 goals
- –– Courtney Halle
4 goals
3 goals
- –– Gareth Heyns
- –– Austin Smith
- –– Jarryd Jones
- –– Greg Last
- –– Michael Abrahams
- –– Cerezo Comerasamy
- –– Lance Louw
- –– Ricky West
2 goals
- –– Winray Christoffels
- –– Julian Hykes
- –– Damian Kimfley
- –– Ignatius Malgraff
- –– Sinoxolo Mbekeni
- –– Nqobile Ntuli
- –– Mattew de Sousa
- –– Steven Paulo
- –– Brynn Cleak
- –– Chad Futcher
- –– Miguel da Graca
1 goal
- –– Reberto Bosman
- –– Andrew Manson
- –– Nick Gonzalves
- –– Amkelwe Letuka
- –– Dylan Swanepoel
- –– Brandon James
- –– Lloyd Norris-Jones
- –– Jean-Pierre de Voux
- –– Mark Chong
- –– Laython Coombs
- –– Jacki Mohlaba
- –– Maximilian Pike
- –– Rusten Abrahams
- –– Callum Buchanan
- –– Ross Gonzalves
- –– Ross Hetem
- –– Owen Mvimbi
- –– Francois Pretorius
- –– Winchester Scott
- –– Lungani Gabela
- –– Thabang Modise
- –– Clinton Panther
- –– Brad Robertson
- –– Hendy Seerane
Source: SAHA
References
- ^ "Rafters, Cavemen crowned 2017 PHL champions". iol.co.za. Independent Online. Retrieved 23 March 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.
- ^ a b c d "National coach hails quality of Premier Hockey League - South African Hockey Association". www.sahockey.co.za. Archived from the original on 18 February 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2022.