Premier Soccer League
| Premier Soccer League | |
| Full name | Premier Soccer League |
| abbreviation | PSL |
| Association | South African Football Association |
| First edition | 1996 |
| hierarchy | 1st League |
| Teams | 16 |
| master | Mamelodi Sundowns (9) |
| Record champions | Mamelodi Sundowns |
| Website | www.psl.co.za |
| Qualification for |
Champions League Confederation Cup |
| region |
South Africa
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Under the name Premier Soccer League (abbreviated PSL ) which organized National Soccer League to professional football in South Africa . It consists of the first division Premier Division and a also single-track second division, the First Division . The National Soccer League is affiliated to the SAFA football association as a special member. Its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the Norwegian Kjetil Siem.
The starting salary of a PSL professional in 2018 was 71,000 Rand (around 3500 euros) per month. In the 2019/20 season , Khama Billiat is the PSL's highest-paid professional with a monthly salary of more than 833,000 Rand (around 40,000 euros).
Premier Division
The Premier Division was played for the first time in the 1996/97 season.
Founding members
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Today's league principle
16 teams play the South African soccer champions who qualify for the CAF Champions League together with the runner-up . The third and the cup winners start in the CAF Confederation Cup . The bottom of the table is relegated to the "First Division", the penultimate plays with the second and third in the second division in a relegation tournament to stay in the PSL.
Teams in the 2017/18 season
- Ajax Cape Town ( Urban Warriors , Cape Town)
- AmaZulu Durban
- Baroka ( Bakgaga , Polokwane)
- Bidvest Wits ( The Students , Johannesburg)
- Bloemfontein Celtic ( Siwelele )
- Cape Town City FC ( Blue and Gold Army , Cape Town)
- Chippa United ( Chilli Boys , Port Elizabeth)
- Free State Stars ( Ea Lla Koto , Bethlehem)
- Golden Arrows ( The Backheel Boys , Durban)
- Kaizer Chiefs ( Glamor Boys , Johannesburg)
- Mamelodi Sundowns ( Downs )
- Maritzburg United (Pietermaritzburg)
- Orlando Pirates ( The Bucs , Johannesburg)
- Platinum Stars ( The Lions of the North , Mahikeng)
- Polokwane City
- SuperSport United ( Matsatsantsa , Pretoria)
statistics
Record champions
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Title number |
society |
|---|---|
| 9 | Mamelodi Sundowns |
| 4th | Orlando Pirates |
| 4th | Kaizer Chiefs |
| 3 | Supersport United |
| 1 | Manning Rangers |
| 1 | Santos Cape Town |
| 1 | Bidvest Wits |
List of previous masters
List of previous top scorers
environment
Stadiums and audience numbers
Since the soccer World Cup in 2010 , some teams in the Premier Soccer League have had very modern stadiums that have been converted or rebuilt for the World Cup. An example of this are the Orlando Pirates , who play most of their home games in the Soccer City final stadium , which has a capacity of 94,700 seats. But despite the good infrastructure, the audience numbers are rather low. In the 2009/2010 season, the average attendance in the league was only 7500; this value has not increased noticeably since the World Cup.
TV marketing and sponsorship
The Premier Soccer League is the financially strongest soccer league on the African continent. This is mainly due to the television contract with the broadcasters Super Sport ( Pay TV ) and SABC ( Free TV ) , which guarantees the league 160 million euros per season. There are only six football leagues in the world that receive higher revenues.
The league's name sponsor has been Absa Bank since 2007, which is why the league is officially called ABSA Premiership . From 1996 to 2007 the Castle Brewery (owned by Kompania Piwowarska ) was the official sponsor.
First Division
| ' National First Division' | |
| abbreviation | NFD |
| Association | South African Football Association |
| First edition | 1996 |
| hierarchy | 2nd league |
| Teams | 16 |
| master | Pretoria University |
| Record champions | African Wanderers , Black Leopards (3 titles each) |
| Website | www.psl.co.za |
| region | South Africa |
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history
The First Division , also National First Division , is the second highest professional class in South African football. Like the PSL, it was played for the first time in the 1996/97 season.
1996/97 season
In the 1996/97 season the NFD was still divided into four groups. There were the Western Cape , Natal Eastern Cape , Northern, and Southern groups . While sixteen teams played in the groups Western Cape and Natal Eastern Cape , the groups Northern and Southern consisted of twenty-two teams. The four champions of the respective seasons played in a relegation tournament for the two promotion places.
1997-2004 season
The NFD system was changed just a year later. The four panels have been decimated to two. At that time it consisted for the first time of the two departments Coastal Stream with teams from the coastal region and the Inland Stream with teams from the inland. In the 1997/98 season, both seasons consisted of twenty teams, from 1998 the Coastal Stream season of fourteen and the Inland Stream season of sixteen teams. The respective champions of the two seasons rose directly to the PSL, the last or sometimes the last two or three relegated. In the 2003/04 season had to relegate the six worst teams from the Coastal Stream season and the eight worst teams from the Inland Stream season with a view to the restructuring in the summer of 2004 .
2004-2007 season
In the summer of 2004, the two seasons were combined into a national league for the first time and the league was known as the Mvela Golden League after a sponsor . It consisted of sixteen teams. The champion was promoted directly to the PSL, while the second, third and fourth competed together with the penultimate of the PSL in a relegation tournament for the last free place in the PSL. The last two teams or in the 2004/05 season the last four teams were relegated.
2007-2011 season
From 2007 the league consisted again of the two departments, the Coastal Stream with the teams from the coastal region and the Inland Stream with teams from the inland. Each of the two leagues had eight participants. The winners of the two leagues played against each other at the end of the season and thus determined the first promoted to the Premier Division . The loser of this "final" played with the two runners-up and the 15th in the Premier Division in a relegation tournament for last place in the top division.
Since the 2011/12 season
According to the league, the system with two seasons was particularly unattractive for sponsors. Therefore, it was decided to combine the two seasons with eight teams from the 2011/12 season back into a single-track league. In addition, the maximum number of foreign players allowed per club was reduced from five to three and a minimum number of South African players under the age of 23 was set. This is five players per club and is mainly justified by the fact that instead of the many South African veterans who often end their careers in the First Division , young talents get match practice, which should form the basis for a strong national team in the future . While the first in the table is promoted directly to the PSL, the second and third in the table play together with the penultimate of the PSL in a relegation tournament for the last free place in the PSL.
Teams in the 2017/18 season
Clubs in the First Division of the 2017/18 season are:
- Black Leopards (Venda)
- Cape Town All Stars (Cape Town)
- Highlands Park (Johannesburg)
- Jomo Cosmos (Johannesburg)
- Mbombela United (Mbombela)
- Mthatha Bucks (Mthatha)
- Real Kings FC (Durban)
- Richards Bay FC (Richards Bay)
- Royal Eagles (Durban)
- Stellenbosch FC (Stellenbosch)
- Super Eagles FC (Bethlehem)
- Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila (Limpopo)
- Ubuntu Cape Town (Cape Town)
- University of Pretoria FC (Pretoria)
- Uthongathi (Tongaat)
- Witbank Spurs (Witbank)
statistics
Record champions
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Title number |
society |
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| 3 | African Wanderers |
| 3 | Black Leopards |
| 2 | AmaZulu Durban |
| 2 | Dynamos FC |
| 2 | Free State Stars |
| 2 | Golden Arrows |
| 2 | Jomo Cosmos |
| 2 | Tembisa Classic |
| 1 | Baroka FC |
| 1 | Bay United |
| 1 | Bloemfontein Celtic |
| 1 | Bush Bucks FC |
| 1 | Carara kicks |
| 1 | Chippa United |
| 1 | FC AK |
| 1 | Maritzburg United |
| 1 | Polokwane City |
| 1 | Pretoria University |
| 1 | Ria Stars |
| 1 | Santos Cape Town |
| 1 | Seven stars |
| 1 | Silver Stars |
| 1 | Thanda Royal Zulu |
| 1 | Vasco Da Gama |
| 1 | Wits University |
List of previous masters
Promoted to the PSL loser in the playoffs
1 = Thanda Zulu Royal was dissolved at the end of the season and replaced with the newly founded club Richards Bay FC . The license from Thanda Zulu Royal was sold to AmaZulu Durban , so that they rose.
See also
- List of the highest national soccer divisions
- South African Football Association
- Soccer in South Africa
Web links
- Premier Soccer League (PSL)
- South African Football Association (SAFA)
- Confederation of African Football (CAF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ . Soccer Laduma, November 27, 2018.
- ↑ Top 10 highest paid soccer players in South Africa ABSA PSL 2020. Briefly, August 11, 2020.
- ↑ NZZ Online: Die Farben des Sport, accessed on January 17, 2011
- ↑ Kicker Sportmagazin, issue 2/2011, January 3, 2011, page 47
- ↑ a b rsssf.com: South Africa 1996/97
- ↑ a b rsssf.com: South Africa 1997/98
- ↑ a b rsssf.com: South Africa 1998/99
- ↑ a b rsssf.com: South Africa 1999/00
- ↑ a b rsssf.com: South Africa 2000/01
- ↑ a b rsssf.com: South Africa 2001/02
- ↑ a b rsssf.com: South Africa 2002/03
- ↑ a b rsssf.com: South Africa 2003/04
- ↑ a b rsssf.com: South Africa 2004/05
- ↑ a b rsssf.com: South Africa 2005/06
- ↑ a b rsssf.com: South Africa 2006/07
- ↑ a b rsssf.com: South Africa 2007/08
- ↑ a b rsssf.com: South Africa 2008/09
- ↑ a b rsssf.com: South Africa 2009/10
- ↑ a b rsssf.com: South Africa 2010/11
- ↑ kickoff.com: NFD streams to merge
- ↑ psl.co.za: PSL's NFD plan ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ South Africa 2011/12. Retrieved February 17, 2018 .
- ^ South Africa 2012/13. Retrieved February 17, 2018 .
- ^ South Africa 2013/14. Retrieved February 17, 2018 .
- ^ South Africa 2014/15. Retrieved February 17, 2018 .
- ^ South Africa 2015/16. Retrieved February 17, 2018 .
- ^ South Africa 2016/17. Retrieved February 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Sibongiseni Gumbi: Thanda change name As They prepare for NFD . In: The Citizen . ( citizen.co.za [accessed February 17, 2018]).
- ↑ Thanda Royal Zulu Football Club has been sold to AmaZulu | Zululand Observer . In: Zululand Observer . June 1, 2017 ( zululandobserver.co.za [accessed February 17, 2018]).
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