Mamelodi Sundowns

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Mamelodi Sundowns
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Basic data
Surname Mamelodi Sundowns Football Club
Seat South AfricaSouth Africa Pretoria
founding 1970 when sundowns in Pretoria
Colours Yellow-green
president Patrice Motsepe
Website sundownsfc.com
First soccer team
Head coach Pitso Mosimane
Venue Loftus Versfeld Stadium , Pretoria
Places 51,762
league Premier Soccer League
2018/19 1st place (master)
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Mamelodi Sundowns Football Club is a football club from Pretoria that plays in the top South African league, the Premier Soccer League . With nine championship titles he is the South African record champion since the league was resumed in 1996. In 2016 he won the CAF Champions League .

history

In the early 1960s, some young men in Marabastad in northwest Pretoria founded the club, which was officially registered as a club in 1970. The club has been a member of the Federation Professional Soccer League since 1972 . This top South African league was converted to the National Professional Soccer League in 1978 .

When racial segregation in sport was abolished in 1984, the National Soccer League , which is now the Premier Soccer League , was founded. The Sundowns started in the second division. A year later, the promotion succeeded and the Sundowns played from now on in the Premier Soccer League .

Standard Bank bought the association in the late 1980s . But only a short time later, the owner changed again and the football club became the property of the Twin Pharmaceutical Group .

In the 1997/98 season, the Sundowns won the Premier Soccer League for the first time . They also won the following two seasons. In 2001 they were in the final of the CAF Champions League .

In 2003, the South African industrialist Patrice Motsepe took over 51 percent of the association. Three years later he owned all the shares in the club and renamed the club in Mamelodi Sundowns .

The seasons 2005/06 and 2006/07 were also dominated by the club. The club won two more championships in the PSL and has been the record champions with five titles since the Premier Division began in the Premier Soccer League in 1996. In 2007 they only narrowly missed the so-called double when they were defeated in the final of the South African Cup Ajax Cape Town .

In the following years, however, the club was initially unable to build on the successes of the two championship titles and landed in fourth (2007/08) and nine (2008/09). The following season 2009/10 was again much more successful with second place. The 2010/11 season ended in fourth place. In the summer of 2011, the 1974 vice world champion Johan Neeskens took over the coaching position at the first division to reestablish attacking football and thus lead the team to championship and cup wins. After twelve match days of the following season, the club and Neeskens parted ways; the team was at that time on the penultimate place in the table. Pitso Mosimane took over the coaching position on December 2, 2012.

A very successful time for the Sundowns began with the new trainer. The team won the national championship titles in 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2019. However, the greatest successes were winning the CAF Champions League in 2016 and then the CAF Super Cup in 2017. What was strange was the fact that the Champions League title came about. After Mamelodi had actually failed at the AS Vita Club from the DR Congo and had already played in the Confederation Cup, they were allowed to compete in the group stage again because of the disqualification of the Congolese. In the final, they prevailed against the Egyptian representative Al Zamalek SC on a round trip.

Stadion

The Loftus Versfeld Stadium

The Mamelodi Sundowns play their home games in the Loftus Versfeld Stadium, among other places . Other home games will take place at the HM Pitje Stadium and the Super Stadium in the districts of Mamelodi and Atteridgeville .

The Mamelodi Sundowns training facilities are located near the Midrand office .

successes

Trainer

Club's top scorer in the Premier Soccer League

season

player Gates
1999/2000 Daniel Mudau 15th
2000/2001 Daniel Mudau 15th
2009/2010 Katlego Mphela 17th

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History ( Memento from October 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Official website of the Mamelodi Sundowns. Retrieved March 27, 2017.
  2. ↑ Dutch legend Neeskens to coach Sundowns , timeslive.co.za
  3. ↑ Downs part ways with Neeskens , kickoff.com of December 2, 2012
  4. ↑ Email from the official office dated June 17, 2010. Available on the discussion page.