Highlanders FC

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Highlanders FC
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Basic data
Surname Highlanders Football Club
Seat Bulawayo , Zimbabwe
founding 1926
president Peter Dube
Website highlandersfc.co.za
First soccer team
Head coach Kevin Kaindu
Venue Barbourfields Stadium , Bulawayo
Places 40,000
league Premier Soccer League
2018 5th place
home
Away

The Highlanders Football Club is a Zimbabwean football club from Bulawayo that plays in the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League (first Zimbabwean league).

history

At the beginning of the 20th century, Lobengula , King of the Ndebele , sent his two grandsons Albert and Rhodes to South Africa to study there. Both played soccer while studying and Rhodes founded Lions Football Club on his return in 1926 . Most of the players came from Makokoba, the oldest part of Bulawayo. Ten years later the club was renamed the Matebeleland Highlanders Football Club . In 1966, the club received a request from the Rhodesia National Football League to participate in their league operations. The Highlanders agreed and started in the second division two years later. In the very first season, the club was first and thus rose to the first division. In 1970, the club made it to the Premier Soccer League for the first time, but rose again after only one season and again after another season. Due to differences with the league management, the Highlanders left the Premier Soccer League and founded the South Zone Soccer League. Annoyed by this fact, many members left their club and founded a new club called Olympics , which was also to appear under a black and white striped emblem. Despite the decline in membership, the Highlanders continued to exist and were a founding member of the new league, as were the clubs Black Chiefs, Callies, Portuguese, Old Miltonians, Black Horrors, Ramblers and Go Beer Rovers.

In 1979, the clubs from the capital Salisbury (now Harare) also recognized the point of this action and expressed their support in the fight against injustice in Zimbabwean football. The result was the National Professional Soccer League, which merged with the Rhodesia National Football League to form the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA). In 1990 the Highlanders won their first national championship in the new first division. More followed in 1993, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2006.

successes

  • Zimbabwean Championship: 1990, 1993, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2006
  • Zimbabwean Cup Winner: 1990, 2001
  • Zimbabwean Super Cup winners: 2001, 2005
  • Zimbabwean Independence Trophy: 1986, 1988, 1991, 2001, 2002, 2011

Known players

Statistics in the CAF competitions

competition round opponent First leg Return leg
African Cup Winners' Cup 1986 1 round ZambiaZambia Power Dynamos Kitwe 1: 3 (H) 0: 2 (A)
African Cup Winners' Cup 1987 1 round TanzaniaTanzania Miembeni SC Zanzibar 1: 0 (H) 0: 1/2: 4 on note (A)
CAF Champions League 1991 1 round KenyaKenya Gor Mahia FC 0: 1 (A) 4: 0 (H)
2nd round EgyptEgypt al Ahly Cairo 1: 3 (A) 0: 1 (H)
African Cup Winners' Cup 1992 1 round TanzaniaTanzania Railway SC Dar-es-Salaam without a fight for Dar-es-Salaam without a fight for Dar-es-Salaam
CAF Champions League 1994 1 round ZambiaZambia Nkana Red Devils FC without a fight for Nkana without a fight for Nkana
CAF Champions League 2000 1 round SeychellesSeychelles St. Michel United FC 1: 0 (H) 2: 0 (A)
2nd round CameroonCameroon Sable de Batie 3: 0 (H) 0: 3/3: 4 n.e. (A)
CAF Champions League 2001 1 round TanzaniaTanzania Young Africans Dar-es-Salaam 2: 2 (A) canceled, counted for Young Africans
CAF Champions League 2002 1 round MozambiqueMozambique Costa do Sol Maputo 1: 0 (H) 0: 2 (A)
CAF Champions League 2003 1 round ReunionReunion SS Saint-Louisienne 3: 1 (H) 1: 1 (A)
2nd round TunisiaTunisia Espérance Tunis 1: 1 (H) 0: 6 (A)
CAF Champions League 2007 Preliminary round MauritiusMauritius Pamplemousses SC 1: 0 (H) 0: 1/9: 8 n.e. (A)
1 round EgyptEgypt al Ahly Cairo 0: 0 (H) 0: 2 (A)
CAF Confederation Cup 2008 Preliminary round MozambiqueMozambique Ferroviário de Nampula 3: 0 (H) 0: 1 (A)
1 round ZambiaZambia Green Buffaloes FC 1: 1 (A) 1: 0 (H)
2nd round SudanSudan Al-Merrikh SC Omdurman 0: 2 (H) 1: 3 (A)
CAF Confederation Cup 2011 Preliminary round ZambiaZambia Nchanga Rangers 1: 1 (H) without a fight for Nchanga
  • 2001: The second leg was canceled when the score was 2-0 for Young Africans due to crowd riots. The club then withdrew its team from the competition.
  • 2011: The club withdrew its team from the competition after the first leg.

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