2013 Malaysia Junior Hockey League

2013 Malaysia Junior Hockey League

Tournament Details
Dates	11 January – 3 March
Administrator(s)	Malaysian Hockey Confederation
Tournament Format(s)	Double Round-robin and Knock-out
Host(s)	Malaysia
Venue(s)	8
Teams	28
← 2012

The 2013 Malaysia Junior Hockey League is slated to begin on 11 January 2013. SSTMI-Thunderbolt is the defending champion for both league and cup.

Before the seasons gets underway, controversial issue involving SSTMI girls' team that submitted an entry to the Under-19 boys league. However the competitions committee met and were against the idea and decided to create a junior girls' league this year.^[1]

Teams

A total of 28 teams enter this season, the highest since 1995.^[2]

Division 1

The eight teams playing in Division One are as below:

• BJSS
• Malacca High School
• UniKL
• MBPJ
• SSTMI Thunderbolt
• SSTMI Juniors
• MBI-Anderson School
• MSSPP-USM

Division 2

Division Two will have two groups of ten teams each.^[3] For Group A the teams comprise mostly from the northern region to cut down the cost of travel.

Group A Sabah Juniors[4] ‡ MSS Perlis Nur Insafi Anderson Juniors PHK-MSS Kelantan Matri KHA Juniors SMK Tunku Abdul Rahman 1MAS Penang SM Sains Tun Azlan Shah

Group B Tunas Muda Pahang SMK Padang Midin MSN Johor Politeknik KPT KL Sports School BJSS Juniors Kuala Langat SMK Datuk Mohd Taha Tunku Besar School OLAK-Klang PKT

‡ withdrawn

Results

10 January 2013 17:00 SSTMI Thunderbolt 6–0 SSTMI Juniors

11 January 2013 17:00 BJSS 0–1 SSTMI Thunderbolt

11 January 2013 17:00 SSTMI Juniors 2–3 MBPJ

Home \ Away	Anderson	BJSS	MBPJ	MHS	SSTMI	SSTMI Juniors	UniKL	USM
Anderson								2–0
BJSS			0–1		0–1
MBPJ
MHS	3–3
SSTMI				9–0		6–0
SSTMI Juniors			2–3				2–6
UniKL		6–1
USM

References

1. "MJHL not for SSTMI girls' team". The Star. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
2. "Girls' team want to play in junior hockey league". Aftar Singh. The Star. Retrieved 1 January 2013.
3. "A record number of MHJL teams". Malaysian Hockey. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
4. S. Ramaguru. "Not enough players so Sabah Juniors withdraw from MJHL". The Star. Retrieved 8 January 2013.