2019 Men's Premier Hockey League (South Africa)

2019 Men's Premier Hockey League
Tournament details
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
← 2018 (previous)

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

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.^[2]

Results

Pool stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	WD	LD	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
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

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.

Matches

18 July 2019
10:00

Golden Gate Gladiators	2–2	Mapungubwe Mambas
Ramphele 23' S. Mvimbi 30'	Report	Last 38' Jonas 44'
Penalties
van den Berg van Tonder Saker Abdulla	1–3	Mann O. Mvimbi Jonas M. Cassiem Gonzalves

18 July 2019
14:00

Maropeng Cavemen	2–1	Garden Route Gazelles
Mackay 34' Botes 39'	Report	Sibbald 38'

18 July 2019
18:00

Addo Elephants	1–4	Drakensberg Dragons
Mbekeni 56'	Report	Pautz 4', 19' Botma 39', 53'

19 July 2019
10:00

Golden Gate Gladiators	0-5	Addo Elephants
	Report	Rosenberg 27' Comerasamy 34', 49' Mbekeni 55' Hykes 59'

18 July 2019
14:00

Mapungubwe Mambas	2-1	Maropeng Cavemen
M. Cassiem 7' Kok 56'	Report	Wiid 57'

20 July 2019
12:00

Drakensberg Dragons	4-4	Garden Route Gazelles
Crowe 13' Ntuli 50' Botma 55' da Graca 60'	Report	James 44' Beauchamp 48' Burger 54' Neethling 58'
Penalties
van Wyk Botma Crowe Ntuli	3-0	Samboer Dart Simmons

20 July 2019
16:00

Golden Gate Gladiators	3-5	Maropeng Cavemen
Abdulla 35' Walstroom 51' Ramphele 58'	Report	Hezlett 24', 45' Wiid 35' Mackay 37' Mpopo 45'

21 July 2019
08:00

Golden Gate Gladiators	1-7	Garden Route Gazelles
S. Mvimbi 4'	Report	Neethling 1' Ngubane 3' Louw 5' Beauchamp 9', 48' Burger 27' Simmons 42'

21 July 2019
10:00

Mapungubwe Mambas	5-1	Addo Elephants
Dollman 16', 40' Brown 24' M. Cassiem 36' Kok 55'	Report	Futcher 10'

21 July 2019
16:00

Drakensberg Dragons	2-3	Maropeng Cavemen
Cairncross 28' Malgraff 41'	Report	D. Cassiem 36' Hezlett 48' Halle 57'

27 July 2019
12:00

Mapungubwe Mambas	3-2	Garden Route Gazelles
M. Cassiem 17' O. Mvimbi 27' Dollman 45'	Report	James 53' Simmons 57'

27 July 2019
16:00

Addo Elephants	6-3	Maropeng Cavemen
Comerasamy 4', 44' Hykes 6', 15', 52' Mbekeni 38'	Report	Abrahams 6' Hezlett 27' Halle 36'

27 July 2019
18:00

Golden Gate Gladiators	0-6	Drakensberg Dragons
	Report	Crowe 2' Swanepoel 5' Malgraff 29', 54' Pautz 32' Hetem 42'

28 July 2019
12:00

Addo Elephants	2-5	Garden Route Gazelles
Rosenberg 12' Heyns 43'	Report	Beauchamp 6' Horne 13' Paton 30' Arendse 41' Simmons 47'

28 July 2019
14:00

Mapungubwe Mambas	4-1	Drakensberg Dragons
Raath 4' M. Cassiem 52' Gonzalves 55' Syce 59'	Report	Swanepoel 7'

Classification stage

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

3 August 2019
14:00

Drakensberg Dragons	3-1	Maropeng Cavemen
Ntuli 12' Hetem 36' Letuka 51'	Report	Buchanan 33'

3 August 2019
16:00

Mapungubwe Mambas	1-1	Garden Route Gazelles
Jonas 6'	Report	Horne 56'
Penalties
Mann M. Cassiem Julius	3-0	Louw Horne Simmons

Third place game

4 August 2019
12:00

Maropeng Cavemen	2-3	Garden Route Gazelles
D. Cassiem 3' Hezlett 28'	Report	Horne 2' James 2' Arendse 34'

Final

4 August 2019

Drakensberg Dragons	4-0	Mapungubwe Mambas
da Graca 3' Ntuli 32', 49' Pautz 34'	Report

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Awards

Player of the tournament	Goalkeeper of the tournament	Top goalscorer	Young Player of the tournament
Nqobile Ntuli (Dragons)^[4]	Rob Mckinley (Mambas)^[4]	Keegan Hezlett (Cavemen)^[4]	Mustaphaa Cassiem (Mambas)^[4]

Final ranking

Rank	Team
	Drakensberg Dragons
	Mapungubwe Mambas
	Garden Route Gazelles
4	Maropeng Cavemen
5	Addo Elephants
6	Golden Gate Gladiators

Goalscorers

There have been 102 goals scored in 19 matches, for an average of 5.37 goals per match.

5 goals

Keegan Hezlett (Maropeng Cavemen)

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

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

^ 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.

External links

2019 PHL Men at South African Hockey Association

[1] Zaal, Nicholas (18 August 2019). "Hockey finals blitz". Randburg Sun. Retrieved 31 October 2022.

[2] "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.

[3] van Schalkwyk, Annette (7 August 2019). "GALLERY: Worthy champions after best of battles in PHL". Comaro Chronicle. Retrieved 31 October 2022.

[SAhockey.2019-4] "CTM PHL 2019 ends with two worthy champions - South African Hockey Association". www.sahockey.co.za. Retrieved 18 February 2022.

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