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2018–19 Botswana Premier League
The 2018–19 Botswana Premier League was the 42nd season of the Botswana Premier League, the top-tier football league in Botswana, since its establishment in 1978. The season started on 18 August 2018. The league drew an average attendance of 1,300 per match. Season summary Township Rollers won their fourth consecutive Botswana Premier League after a 0–0 draw with Police XI on 27 May 2019. This season also featured the relegation of four-time champions Mochudi Centre Chiefs, who only picked up five points from nine matches late in the season. Team changes Two teams were relegated after one year in the Botswana Premier League, TAFIC F.C. and Uniao Flamengo Santos. They were joined by last place finishers Gilport Lions. They were replaced by First Division North winners BR Highlanders, First Division South winners Notwane F.C., and promotion playoff winners Prisons XI. Teams Stadiums and locations Number of teams by district League table References Botswana Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botswana Premier League
The Botswana Premier League is the highest level Association football, football league in Botswana. Organised by the Botswana Football Association, the league was formed in 1978 to replace the pre-independence Bechuanaland Union African Soccer League, which was regional. Participants in the first edition of the league included Tlokweng Pirates, Notwane, Black Peril FC, Black Peril, Queens Park Rangers (Botswana), Queens Park Rangers and a team from Ngwaketse district. The league has always been dominated by the teams that are based south of Dibete or in the southern part of the country. In the 2006–07 season, ECCO City Green, Ecco City Greens made history by becoming the first team from the north to lift the lucrative competition. The league is sponsored by a mobile phone operator Be Mobile to the tune of 30 million pula. After the ABSA premiership in South Africa, the Be Mobile league is the second highest sponsored league in the COSAFA region. The league has attracted increas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Forest F
Black is a color that results from the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic color, without chroma, like white and grey. It is often used symbolically or figuratively to represent darkness.Eva Heller, ''Psychologie de la couleur – effets et symboliques'', pp. 105–26. Black and white have often been used to describe opposites such as good and evil, the Dark Ages versus the Age of Enlightenment, and night versus day. Since the Middle Ages, black has been the symbolic color of solemnity and authority, and for this reason it is still commonly worn by judges and magistrates. Black was one of the first colors used by artists in Neolithic cave paintings. It was used in ancient Egypt and Greece as the color of the underworld. In the Roman Empire, it became the color of mourning, and over the centuries it was frequently associated with death, evil, witches, and magic. In the 14th century, it was worn by royalty, clergy, judges, and government o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orapa United FC
Orapa United FC is a Botswana football club based in Orapa. The team currently plays in Botswana Premier League having gained promotion from Botswana First Division North League in the 2013–14 season. The club was founded by Johane Mchive, Tidimalo Tito and Kaisara Kaisara in 2012 by merging five football clubs in the Orapa Township. Kaisara Kaisara served as Orapa United's first Interim chairman until he called the first elective Annual General Meeting. The club reached three consecutive Mascom Top 8 Cup finals from 2016 to 2018, the premier cup competition in Botswana. They beat Township Rollers in the 2016 final. They again defeated Township Rollers in the 2020 final. Achievements League *Botswana Premier League: 0 ::runners up 2014–15 *Botswana First Division North: 1 ::Winners 2012–13 Cup competitions * FA Challenge Cup: 1 :: 2018–19. *Mascom Top 8 Cup: 2 :: 2016, 2020. Performance in CAF competitions *CAF Champions League: 0 appearance *CAF Confederation C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaborone United
Gaborone United Sporting Club (GU) is a football club from Botswana based in Gaborone. Its official sponsor is Bank Gaborone, who signed a three-year deal at the beginning of the 2022–23 season. Gaborone United play their home games at Gaborone United Stadium. Honours *Botswana Premier League: 8 ** 1967, 1969, 1970, 1986, 1990, 2009, 2022, 2024–25 * Botswana FA Challenge Cup: 9 ** 1968, 1970, 1984, 1985, 1990, 2012, 2020, 2022, 2023 * Botswana Independence Cup: 8 ** 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1992, 1993 * Mascom Top 8 Cup: 2 ** 2013, 2015 Other Tournaments Other trophies won by Gaborone United are: *Kabelano Charity Cup: 2 (2003, 2018) *Gaborone Fitness Centre Tournament: 1 (1984) *City Day Cup: 1 (1993) *Gaborone Sun Challenge Cup: 1 (1994) *Supreme Cup: 1 (1995) Performance in CAF competitions *CAF Champions League: 2 appearance ::2010 - Second Round :: 2022/23 - Preliminary Round * African Cup of Champions Clubs: 2 appearances ::1987 - Preliminary Round ::1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botswana Defence Force XI FC
Botswana Defence Force XI Football Club is a football club from Botswana based in Mogoditshane and playing home games in Gaborone. It is the club of the Botswana Defence Force, composed mostly of military players. players were eligible to play for the club once they became cadets. In 2016, the club reduced the number of civilian players on the team, citing financial concerns. History BDF XI were founded in 1978, a year after the Botswana Defence Force came into existence. BDF XI have won the Botswana Premier League seven times, most recently in 2004. Honours *Botswana Premier League: 7 ::1981, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1997, 2002, 2004 * Botswana Challenge Cup: 3 ::1989, 1998, 2004 * Botswana Independence Cup: 2 ::2001, 2002 Performance in CAF competitions *CAF Champions League: 2 appearances ::1998 – Preliminary Round ::2003 – Preliminary Round * African Cup of Champions Clubs: 4 appearances :: 1982 – First Round ::1989 – First Round ::1990 – Pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notwane F
Notwane FC is a football club from Botswana based in Gaborone. It is named after the Notwane River. Notwane is owned by GMG Global Investments, a subsidiary of GMG Holdings and recently made major scoop by signing former South African international players, former Orlando Pirates player Benedict Vilakazi and former Mamelodi Sundowns player Manqoba Ngwenya History Notwane were founded in 1965 and played in the first season of the Botswana Premier League. They were relegated from the top flight for the first time in 2015. The team sued the Botswana Football Association in 1992 after the BFA allowed Township Rollers a place in the premier league. Notwane were promoted again in 2017. However, Notwane suffered financial difficulties which led to a financial dispute with coach 'Pio' Paul in 2018. Achievements *Botswana Premier League: 3 ::1978, 1996, 1998 * Botswana Challenge Cup: 4 ::1978, 1995, 1997, 2006 *Botswana Independence Cup: 4 ::1994, 1995, 2003, 2004 Performance in CAF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilport Lions
Gilport Lions Football Club is a soccer club from Botswana based in Lobatse. Gilport Lions team colours are green and white. The club was previously called ''Botswana Meat Commission F.C.''. They have won the FA Challenge Cup in 2016. History The club was founded in 1969 by workers at the Botswana Meat Commission in Lobatse. They won the 2007 FA Challenge Cup, defeating ECCO City Greens F.C. on penalties. They also made the cup final in 1996, losing 2–0 to Township Rollers. In 2015, the club's ownership changed, with owners Kelesitse and Portia Gilika changing the club's name to Gilport Lions. The word "Gilport" is derived from their names. Stadium Gilport Lions F.C.'s home ground is Lobatse Sports Complex, which is situated between the hills in Lobatse, Peleng, next to Peleng river and around 75 km from Gaborone Athletic track and indoor sports arena. Its capacity is 20,000.Botswana Football Association Website http://www.bfa.co.bw/ Performance in CAF competitions * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TAFIC F
Tati African Football Independent Club also known as TAFIC for short, is a football club based in Francistown, Botswana. The team was relegated from the Botswana Premier League to the First Division North in 2014. Nicknamed Matjimenyenga, after a stream, which runs behind the low-income locations of Maipaafela and Kgaphamadi. The club motto: "Undipe ndi kupe". The club was founded in 1959 as a breakaway from the then popular TAFA football club. Information has it that the founders of TAFIC, which was initially known as Sharp Shooters in its formative years, were based at Kgaphamadi. They gained promotion back to the elite league as champions in the 2016/17 season but were subsequently relegated the very next season. They are currently playing in the Botswana Premier League. Honours * Botswana FA Challenge Cup 2002 * Debswana First Division North League (FDN) 2016/17 Performance in CAF competitions * African Cup Winners' Cup :: 1993 The United Nations General Assembly, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botswana
Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory part of the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the south and southeast, Namibia to the west and north, Zambia to the north, and Zimbabwe to the northeast. With a population of slightly over 2.4 million people and a comparable land area to France, Botswana is one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most sparsely populated countries in the world. It is essentially the nation-state of the Tswana people, who constitute nearly 80 percent of the population. The Tswana ethnic group are descended mainly from Bantu peoples, Bantu-speaking peoples who Bantu expansion, migrated into southern Africa, including modern Botswana, in several waves before AD 600. In 1885, the British Empire, British colonised the area and declared a protectorate named Bechuanaland. As part of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019–20 Botswana Premier League
The 2019–20 Botswana Premier League was the 43rd season of the Botswana Premier League, the top-tier association football, football league in Botswana, since its establishment in 1978. The season started on 31 August 2019. It was abandoned by the Botswana Football Association due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Botswana. The table at the time was considered final) and Jwaneng Galaxy F.C., Jwaneng Galaxy declared champions Teams Team changes Promoted from the 2018-19 Botswana First Division North •TAFIC F.C., TAFIC •Morupule Wanderers Promoted from the 2018-19 Botswana First Division South •Gilport Lions Relegated from the 2018-19 Botswana Premier League •Sankoyo Bush Bucks •Mochudi Centre Chiefs •Black Forest F.C., Black Forest Name changes •Sharps Shooting Stars FC, Sharps Shooting Stars were renamed Molepolole City Stars •Botswana Railways Highlanders were renamed Mahalapye Railways Highlanders Stadiums and locations Number of teams by district Leag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
