2017 Men's Premier Hockey League (South Africa)

2017 Men's Premier Hockey League

Tournament details
Host country	Johannesburg
City	South Africa
Dates	18 July 2019 (2019-07-18)–4 August 2019 (2019-08-04)
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
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.

Matches

25 November 2017 08:00 Drakensberg Dragons  ––  4-0  ––  Addo Elephants Heyns  23' Letuka  25' Swanepoel  0' Ntuli  48' Report

25 November 2017 12:00 Maropeng Cavemen  ––  0-0  ––  Garden Route Gazelles Report Penalties da Graca Abrahams Gabela Modise Futcher 1-2 Burger Coombes Norris-Jones Julius Mpopo

25 November 2017 16:00 Golden Gate Gladiators  ––  1-6  ––  Mapungubwe Mambas Beauchamp  20' Report Abrahams  9' Scott  0' Jones  27', 32', 58' Paulo  43'

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26 November 2017 10:00 Maropeng Cavemen  ––  3-2  ––  Addo Elephants West  25', 55' Gabela  44' Report Hykes  3' Malgraff  36'

26 November 2017 12:00 Drakensberg Dragons  ––  2-2  ––  Golden Gate Gladiators de Sousa  33' Heyns  48' Report Halle  26' Beauchamp  55' Penalties Maddocks de Sousa Dart Gonzalves Philips 3-1 Coombs Cassiem Pike Hobson

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2 December 2017 10:00 Garden Route Gazelles  ––  0-3  ––  Mapungubwe Mambas Report Pretorius  27' Last  29' Buchanan  40'

2 December 2017 14:00 Addo Elephants  ––  4-2  ––  Golden Gate Gladiators Christoffels  13' Mbekeni  16' Kimfley  26' Hykes  31' Report Beauchamp  53' Mohlaba  56'

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3 December 2017 08:00 Addo Elephants  ––  0-1  ––  Mapungubwe Mambas Report Last  28'

3 December 2017 12:00 Drakensberg Dragons  ––  0-3  ––  Maropeng Cavemen Report West  12' Futcher  24' Modise  60'

3 December 2017 16:00 Garden Route Gazelles  ––  3-6  ––  Golden Gate Gladiators De Voux  3' James  9' Norris-Jones  17' Report Coombs  21' Chong  35' Halle  37', 41' Pike  40' Beauchamp  53'

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9 December 2017 08:00 Drakensberg Dragons  ––  2-1  ––  Mapungubwe Mambas Smith  6' Heyns  42' Report Gonzalves  34'

9 December 2017 12:00 Maropeng Cavemen  ––  6-2  ––  Golden Gate Gladiators Comerasamy  5' Panther  12' Abrahams  25' da Graca  36' Robertson  46' Cleak  56' Report Halle  35', 50'

9 December 2017 16:00 Addo Elephants  ––  4-0  ––  Garden Route Gazelles Christoffels  9' Mbekeni  45' Bosman  57' Kimfley  59' Report

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10 December 2017 10:00 MC 2-0  ––  Mapungubwe Mambas Futcher  4' Comerasamy  41' Report

10 December 2017 14:0 Drakensberg Dragons  ––  0-0  ––  Garden Route Gazelles Report Penalties Gonzalves Letuka Dart Ntuli 2-4 de Voux Coombes Horne Mulder

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

11 December 2017 14:00 Mapungubwe Mambas  ––  2-5  ––  Drakensberg Dragons Hetem  47' Paulo  56' Report Smith  21', 39' de Sousa  24' Ntuli  28' Gonzalves  54'

11 December 2017 16:00 Maropeng Cavemen  ––  6-1  ––  Addo Elephants Comerasamy  13' Louw  27', 43', 54' Seerane  40' Abrahams  55' Report Malgraff  56'

Third place game

12 December 2017 15:00 Mapungubwe Mambas  ––  2–1  ––  Addo Elephants Mvimbi  3' Last  9' Report Manson  39'

Final

12 December 2017 19:30 Drakensberg Dragons  ––  0-3  ––  Maropeng Cavemen Report Cleak  11' da Graca  14' Abrahams  43'

Awards

Player of the tournament	Goalkeeper of the tournament	Top goalscorer	Young Player of the tournament
––  Miguel da Graca[3]| ––  Gowan Jones[3]	––  Courtney Halle[3]	––  Tyson Dlungwana[3]

Final ranking

Rank	Team
	––  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

•  –– Connor Beauchamp

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

1. "Rafters, Cavemen crowned 2017 PHL champions". iol.co.za. Independent Online. Retrieved 23 March 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. "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.

External links

• 2017 PHL Men at South African Hockey Association