2016 Pakistan Hockey League

The 2016 Pakistan Hockey League season, abbreviated to PHL 2016, is the first season of the Pakistan Hockey League. Six teams will be participating.[1]

Pakistan Hockey League 2016
Tournament Details
DatesPostponed –
Administrator(s)Pakistan Hockey League
Tournament Format(s)Double Round-robin and Playoffs
Host(s) Pakistan
Teams6
Tournament Summary
Matches played24

Rules and regulations

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Six teams took part in the tournament and each team played two matches against each team, one at their home venue and one at the venue of the opposition team.

The points in the league phase of the tournament were awarded as follows:

Points
Results Points
Win 5 points
Draw 2 points
Loss with goal difference of 2 or less goals 1 points
Loss with goal difference of 3 or more goals 0 points

If at the end of the League two or more teams had the same number of points for any place, these teams would be ranked according to the following order:

  1. respective number of matches won;
  2. respective goal difference (goals for less goals against). A positive goal difference always takes precedence over a negative one;
  3. respective number of goals scored;
  4. the cumulative results of the two matches played between those two teams taking firstly the points won in the two matches, secondly the goal difference, and thirdly the number of goals scored

Teams

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Six teams participates in debut edition of Pakistan Hockey League, which will represents following cities/states, Lahore, Karachi, Kashmir, Peshawar, Quetta & Islamabad. Divulging details he said that there would be six teams of every province and each of these would have five foreign players. “We’re optimistic to get attention of a reasonable number of international players,” he said adding that the owners of the franchises would themselves decide the names of their teams.

Venues

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FaisalabadHockeyStadium
 
GojraStadium
 
NationalHockeyStadium
Stadiums represented by PHL venues as of 2016

The inaugural edition of Pakistan Hockey League will be held in three different cities of Pakistan. Faisalabad, Gojra and Lahore will be host this event. The league matches will be played in Faisalabad Hockey Stadium from Faisalabad, Gojra Hockey Stadium from Gojra and the National Hockey Stadium, Lahore. The final of this tournament will also be held in National Hockey Stadium, Lahore.[2]

PHF Secretary Shahbaz Senior revealed that the PHF is expecting a lot of international players for the league and added that while the federation is doing its best to host the league in Pakistan.

Broadcasting

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Pakistan Hockey Federation said that they were in talks were also in progress for the official broadcasters of the league. The following Pakistani channels will be broadcasting of this league. The foreign channels who will be broadcast this league very soon announced.

Country Years Channels
  Pakistan 2016 – present PTV Sports
Ten Sports
Geo Super

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Pakistan launching Pro Hockey League in November". 9 February 2016.
  2. ^ "Pro-hockey-league: PHF hopes to hold inaugural event in November". 25 February 2016.
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