2018 Men's Premier Hockey League (South Africa)

The 2018 Men's Premier Hockey League was the 3rd edition of the Premier Hockey League, the annual tournament men's field hockey championship of South Africa.

The Drakensberg Dragons won the tournament for the first time, defeating the Addo Elephants 2–0 in the final.

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

1. Onke Letuka

2. Ignatius Malgraff

3. Zamo Ngubo

4. Joshua August

5. Cerezo Comerasamy

6. Tevin Pieterson

7. Miguel de Graca

8. Jody Erasmus

9. Bjorn Sorenson

10. Andrew Manson

11. Tim Guise-Brown

12. Sinoxolo Mbekeni

13. Damian Kimfley

14. Julian Hykes

15. Daniel Bell

16. Andrew Buckley

17. Matthew Martins

18. Reberto Bosman

19. Cody Posthumus

20. Robin Jones

Head Coach: Siphesihle Ntuli

1. Gary Cooper

2. Jethro Eustice

3. Grant Robertson

4. Cody van Wyk

5. Melrick Maddocks

6. Dylan Swanepoel

7. Keegan Hezlett

8. Amkelwe Letuka

9. Nqobile Ntuli

10. Chad Cairncross

11. Nick Gonzalves

12. Blake Tyack

13. Peter Jarvis

14. Mattew de Sousa

15. Mbuso Mgobozi

16. Francois Pretorius

17. Mohamed Mea

18. Richard Pautz

19. Cameron Ryan

20. Lance de Kock

21. Gowan Jones

Head Coach:Garreth Ewing

1. Matthew Davies

2. Chris Makaba

3. Lungani Gabela

4. Andile Ndlovu

5. Che February

6. Mark Chong

7. Michael Horan

8. Max Pike

9. Andrew Hobson

10. Matthew Roman

11. Wade Dollman

12. Jared Cass

13. Bradley Sherwood

14. Michael Forrest

15. Clayton Saker

16. Samkelo Mvimbi

17. Duncan Fischer

18. William Eveleigh

Head Coach: Ashlin Freddy

1. Siya Nolutshungu

2. Brandon James

3. Tyson Dlungwana

4. Gertjie Lamprecht

5. Berne Burger

6. Taylor Dart

7. Dylan Coombes

8. Michael Abrahams

9. Gerald Mpopo

10. Keenan Horne

11. Le-Neal Jackson

12. Pierre Botma

13. Clinton Panther

14. Luke Schooling

15. Tom Richardson

16. Connor Beauchamp

17. Reece Arendse

18. Jean-Pierre de Voux

19. Keagan de Castro

20. Jayson Reed

21. Taine Paton

Head Coach: Mark Sanders

1. Reza Rosenberg

2. Cameron Mackay

3. Lethu Thomo

4. Steven Paulo

5. Thabang Modise

6. Lance Louw

7. Nduduza Lembethe

8. Adrian Abrahams

9. Rusten Abrahams

10. Rayner York

11. Kyle Lion-Cachet

12. Ryan Crowe

13. Chad Futcher

14. Brynn Cleak

15. Craig Wiid

16. Travis Hardnick

17. Tommy Hammond

18. Rassie Pieterse

19. Stephen Cant

20. Ricky West

21. Kingsley Botes

22. Estiaan Kriek

23. Dalan Philips

Head Coach: Lungile Tsolekile

1. Rob Mckinley

2. Laython Coombs

3. Xola Maqula

4. Luthando Jonas

5. Dillan Langeveld

6. Michael Baiden

7. Tevin Kok

8. Owen Mvimbi

9. Caleb Syce

10. Jonty Robinson

11. Ross Gonzalves

12. Callum Buchanan

13. Delpiarro Langford

14. Winchester Scott

15. Alex Stewart

16. Kyle Essau

17. David Zwemke

18. Courtney Halle

19. Mjekejwa Mohlaba

20. Michael Marki

21. Matt Brown

22. Kewan Harries