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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.
The South African Premier Division, officially referred to as the Betway Premiership for sponsorship purposes, and commonly referred to as the PSL after the governing body, [1] is the premier men's professional soccer league and the highest division in the league system of South Africa, organised since 1996.
Arena Holdings, formerly known as Tiso Blackstar Group, Johnnic Communications, Avusa and the Times Media Group, is a South African media company based in Johannesburg, South Africa. It publishes several major South African newspapers, including the Sunday Times, Business Day, Financial Mail, Herald, Sowetan and Daily Dispatch. It acquired its ...
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 top tier of football in South Africa was renamed the Premier Soccer League, for the start of the 1996-97 season. The following page details the football records and statistics of the Premier Division since that date.
Domestically, they have also won the Nedbank Cup six times, the MTN 8 four times and the Telkom Knockout four times. They are the first South African team to compete in the FIFA Club World Cup, where they finished in 6th place. In 2021, Sundowns became the first club in Africa to win both CAF Champions League and CAF Women's Champions League [2 ...
Cape Town Spurs F.C. (formerly known as Ajax Cape Town) is a South African professional football club based in Parow in the city of Cape Town that plays in the National First Division. Dutch Eredivisie club AFC Ajax was their parent club and majority shareholder after a merger of both Cape Town Spurs and Seven Stars in January 1999 until ...
Kaizer Chiefs were banned by the African Football (CAF) from competing in African club competitions until 2009 after their abrupt withdrawal from the 2005 CAF Confederation Cup. This was the second time in four years that Chiefs had been penalized by CAF for refusal to participate in a competition. It is the most supported team in South Africa ...