It went down to the wire but Supersport on Saturday did enough to retain their Absa Premier Soccer League title.
The Soweto Derby between rivals Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs at Ellis Park on Saturday could define the destiny of the Absa Premiership.
There will be no added pressure on SuperSport United when the defending Absa Premiership champions and log leaders host Orlando Pirates on Thursday.
Bay United, bottom of the Absa Premiership with 20 points, face another daunting task when they host Kaizer Chiefs on Wednesday night.
The PSL Disciplinary Committee meted out a R200 000 suspended fine on Pirates as a result of the pitch invasion of their fans at Ellis Park.
Pretoria University soccer coach Steve Barker has a huge challenge ahead. The giant killers were paired against PSL outfit Bloemfontein Celtic.
Moroka Swallows coach Julio Leal will have a heart to heart talk with his players after they crashed 2-1 to Platinum Stars on Sunday.
Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs won on Saturday to keep the pressure on Premiership leaders SuperSport United.
SuperSport United coach Gavin Hunt is taking no chances when the PSL champions meet their Ugandan counterparts Kampala City Council on Friday.
Five titanic fixtures will overshadow the traditional David vs Goliath theme of the Nedbank Cup when it kicks off this weekend.
Orlando Pirates intend turning Ellis Park back into the once-feared ”House of Pain” when they host Mamelodi Sundowns on Wednesday night.
Bay United coach Khabo Zondo told his players to stand up and be counted as the team face relegation after only one season in the top flight.
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/ 16 February 2009
Bloemfontein Celtic coach Owen da Gama, intends turning their home ground — the Seisa Ramabodu Stadium — into a graveyard for visiting teams.
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/ 13 February 2009
Serame Letsoaka has set reaching the semifinals of the under-20 World Cup as the minimum target, but can only achieve this if clubs release players.
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/ 25 January 2009
After a succession of comic bungling that would have been more appropriate from clowns in a circus, Mamelodi Sundowns gained a bizarre 2-1 win.
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/ 25 January 2009
A goal three minutes from time gave Santos three points they hardly deserved in their Premier Soccer League match against Bay United.
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/ 23 January 2009
An SABC bid to get exclusive club soccer broadcasting rights would be a hurdle to sports development, Icasa heard on Friday.
Kaizer Chiefs coach Muhsin Ertugral boosts his strike force with the signing of talented striker Abia Nale
Mamelodi Sundowns were fined R100 000 — R60 000 suspend for 12 months — by the PSL on Tuesday night.
Saturday’s MTN 8 first-leg semifinal between Kaizer Chiefs and Moroka Swallows has ”unceremoniously” been locked out of Loftus Versfeld.
The gloves come off this weekend when the top eight Premier Soccer League clubs get down to the business of opening the new season.
Bay United and FC AK will trot out at the Wolfson Stadium in Port Elizabeth on Sunday knowing that the stakes are high.
Relegated PSL club Black Leopards on Tuesday announced they will be changing their spots with the massive sale of 14 leading players.
South African football is becoming a microcosm of society’s gap between the haves and the have-nots.
Kaizer Chiefs will parade their new-look side when they tackle European giants Manchester United in the Vodacom Challenge at Newlands, Cape Town.
The annual PSL transfer market is in full swing, with Bafana flyer Sibusiso Zuma’s switch from Arminia Bielefeld to Sundowns the juiciest item.
Voting is open for the 23rd annual Telkom Charity Cup, South Africa’s one-day knockout competition featuring four teams.
It was going to take a special goal to win Nedbank Cup and the R6-million winner’s cheque. And it was a goal of sheer brilliance from Mamelodi Sundowns midfielder Lerato Chabangu two minutes from time that earned the Brazilians a hard fought and largely undeserved 1-0 win over the gallant Mpumalanga Black Aces.
Fate has dealt a cruel hand to Mamelodi Sundowns’ budding right back, Papi Mungomeni. The 23-year-old, who has become a regular in the Brazilians’ starting line-up this season, will miss playing in Saturday’s Premier Soccer League (PSL) showpiece, the Nedbank Cup final against First Division Mpumalanga Black Aces at the Johannesburg Stadium.
Mamelodi Sundowns had their minds on Saturday’s Nedbank Cup final and paid the price when Free State Stars thumped the defending Premier Soccer League champions 4-0 in the final league fixture of the season. Meanwhile, Santos ended in third position on the league table after beating Platinum Stars 1-0, and Orlando Pirates beat AmaZulu 4-1.
Ajax Cape Town players slumped to the ground — many of them in tears — after drawing 2-2 with Golden Arrows at the King Zwelithini Stadium in Durban on Sunday, failing to score the goal that would have earned them the Premier Soccer League (PSL) championship, which instead went to SuperSport United.
Bafana Bafana’s new coach, Joel Santana, faced a scrum of media photographers when he arrived on Sunday at Johannesburg’s OR Tambo airport. It took Santana’s South African Police Service escort less than a minute to whisk Santana out of the airport and into his car en route to his hotel.