2016 Pakistan Hockey League

Pakistan Hockey League 2016

Tournament details
Dates	October – November
Administrator(s)	Pakistan Hockey League
Format(s)	Double Round-robin and Playoffs
Host(s)	Pakistan
Teams	6
Final positions
Champions	TBA
Runner-up	TBA
Third Place	TBA
Tournament summary
Matches played	24
Most Goals	TBA
Attendance	TBA
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2016 Pakistan Hockey League, known as 2016 Pakistan PRO Hockey League and abbreviated as PHL 2016 was the first season of the hockey tournament Pakistan Hockey League. Tournament was scheduled to start from October to November.

Teams

Peshawar Thunders

Federal Vipers

Kashmir Warriors

Lahore Fighters

Quetta Challengers

Karachi Super Heros

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Cities represented by PHL teams as of 2016

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.

The Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) has succeeded to approve a Rs200 million grant for the promotion of hockey league.

To a query he said that best players from India would also be invited for the league adding that the exact situation regarding participation of players from the neighbouring country would be clear after a couple of months.

Khokhar also added that there would be three categories of players – category A, B and C. “Players of category A will be offered around 1.5 million rupees, of B category around one million rupees and that of C category will get around 0.8 million rupees”.

Teams	City/State	Owner	Price	Captain	Head Coach
Federal Vipers	Islamabad, Capital Territory	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
Peshawar Thunders	Peshawar, Khyber Pakthunkhwa	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
Quetta Challengers	Quetta, Balochistan	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
Kashmir Warriors	Kashmir, Pakistan	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
Karachi Super Heros	Karachi, Sindh	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
Lahore Fighters	Lahore, Punjab	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA

Venues

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.

Rules and regulations

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

Broadcasting

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

Awards

Player of the Tournament		Future player of the tournament		Most goals in league phase		Fair play
TBA (TBA)		TBA (TBA)		TBA (TBA)		TBA

See also

• Field hockey
• International Tournaments (field hockey)
• Pakistan national field hockey team

External links

• Official website
• Pakistan Hockey Website