The 2018 Men's Premier Hockey League was the 3rd edition of the

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, the annual tournament men's field hockey championship of

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. 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

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Classification stage

Semi-finals

Third place game

Final

Awards

Final ranking

Goalscorers

References

External links

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