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The South Africa national soccer team represents South Africa in men's international soccer and is run by the South African Football Association, the governing body for Soccer in South Africa. Nicknamed Bafana Bafana (The Boys in Zulu), the team's home ground is FNB Stadium, which is located in Johannesburg.
Association football, or soccer, as it is usually called in South Africa, is the nation's most popular sport followed by rugby union and cricket.The governing body is the South African Football Association (SAFA), [1] while the Premier Soccer League is the organisation responsible for running the country's two professional divisions, namely the South African Premiership and the National First ...
The league was reduced from 18 to 16 teams after the end of the 2001–02 season to avoid fixture congestion, causing the disbandment of two teams; Ria Stars and Free State Stars, though the latter was reformed and competing as of the 2020–21 season. In 2004, a match-fixing scandal rocked the football/soccer landscape in South Africa.
The South African Football Association is the second Football Association in South Africa to be named the South African Football Association and it is also the second football association in South Africa to affiliate to FIFA. The present day South African Football Association, unlike its predecessor allows for a mixed-race national team.
Itumeleng Khune is the second most capped South African international of all time, behind Aaron Mokoena. The South Africa national soccer team played their first international in 1906, [1] and were founder members of the Confederation of African Football in 1956, but due to their apartheid system were banned from the confederation in 1958 and from FIFA in 1976. [2]
This is a record of South Africa's results at the FIFA World Cup.The FIFA World Cup, sometimes called the Football World Cup, usually referred to simply as the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (), the sport's global governing body.
The South Africa women's national football team, nicknamed Banyana Banyana (The Girls), is the national team of South Africa and is controlled by the South African Football Association. South Africa competed in two Olympic Games, two FIFA Women's World Cups, and 14 Women's African Cup of Nations, where they were runners up five times before ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to ... This article provides details of international football games played by the South Africa national soccer team from 2020 to ...