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Witwatersrand University Women's F.C.
The Witwatersrand University women's football club, also known as Wits Ladies F.C. or Wits University Ladies, is the football club representing the University of the Witwatersrand based in Johannesburg, Gauteng. The senior team competes in the Sasol Women's League, the second tier women's football league in South Africa. History In 2017, they won the Johannesburg Regional Women's League. The win granted them entry into the 2017 SAFA Gauteng Regional Women's Championship. Only the top two sides at the championship advance to Gauteng stream of the second tier Sasol Women's League. Wits Ladies finished third missing out on second place on goal difference after being tied with Rosina Sedibane. In 2019 they finished in third place at the USSA championship and qualified for the Women's Varsity Football tournament. In 2021, they recorded they biggest win against Lusaka Ladies when they won 13-0 in the Sasol Women's League. U/21 team In 2024, they were fourth in the 2024 Pirates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sasol Women's League
The Sasol Women's League is the second-tier South African women's association football league, sponsored by Sasol since 2013. It is semi-professional, and operates as a provincial league, with two "streams" of 8-10 teams in each of South Africa's nine provinces (in some cases, multiple streams per province), and each province's champion then competing in a single-location National Championship tournament. The championship's two finalists are then promoted to the (professional, first-tier) SAFA Women's League, while the bottom two teams in each province's standings are relegated to the SAFA Women's Regional League of their respective province. History The Sasol Women's League was originally launched in 2009 as the Absa Women's League, in partnership with Absa Bank, in order to improve the South African women's national team's international performances. At the inaugural national championship. Detroit Ladies from Mpumalanga defeated Palace Super Falcons from Gauteng via pen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Sasol Women's League
The 2024 Sasol Women's League is the 15th season of the Sasol Women's League and 4th season used as a promotion system to SAFA Women's League The SAFA Women's League, known as Hollywoodbets Super League for sponsorship reasons, is the top flight of women's association football in South Africa. The competition is run by the South African Football Association. The league comprises 16 ( .... The Sasol Women's League is the second tier of South African women's football. Provincial winners Provincial logs Eastern Cape Coastal Stream Inland Stream Free State Stream A Stream B Gauteng Stream A Stream B Kwazulu Natal Stream A Stream B Limpopo Stream A Stream B Mpumalanga Steam A Stream B North West Steam A Stream B Northern Cape Steam A Stream B Western Cape Steam A Stream B National playoffs The Sasol League National Championship was contested by the nine provincial champions. Ezemvelo defeated Unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jabulile Baloyi
Jabulile Baloyi is a South African former player and professional soccer manager who is the current head coach of Sasol Women's League side the University of the Free State. In 2018 she led University of Johannesburg to the USSA title and defended it in 2019. Career Baloyi competed for South Africa in the 2002 African Women's Championship qualifiers. Managerial career University of Johannesburg In February 2017 she joined the University of Johannesburg as head coach. Her team were runners-up for the 2017 Women's Varsity Football where they lost 4-0 in the final to Tshwane University of Technology. She led the university to the USSA title in 2018 and defended it in 2019. South Africa women's under-20 She coached the South Africa women's under-20 team for the 2022 African U-20 Women's World Cup qualification where the team exited in the third round after a 1-0 defeat and 0-0 draw against Uganda. Stellenbosch University In October 2021 she joined Stellenbosch Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football (soccer)
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] |
University Of The Witwatersrand
The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (), commonly known as Wits University or Wits, is a multi-campus Public university, public research university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg, South Africa. The university has its roots in the mining industry, as do Johannesburg and the Witwatersrand in general. Founded in 1896 as the South African School of Mines in Kimberley, South Africa, Kimberley, it is the third oldest South African university in continuous operation. The university has an enrollment of 37,295 students as of 2025, of which approximately 20 percent live on campus in the university's 17 residences. 63 percent of the university's total enrollment is for Undergraduate education, undergraduate study, with 35 percent being Postgraduate education, postgraduate and the remaining 2 percent being Occasional Students. The university has, as of 2024, an acceptance rate of approximately 4.5%, having received 140,000 applications but only having a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannesburg
Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu language, Zulu and Xhosa language, Xhosa: eGoli ) (colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, Jo'burg or "The City of Gold") is the most populous city in South Africa. With 5,538,596 people in the City of Johannesburg alone and over 14.8 million in the urban agglomeration, it is classified as a Megacity#List of megacities, megacity and List of urban areas by population, one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. Johannesburg is the provinces of South Africa, provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, and seat of the country's highest court, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, Constitutional Court. The city is located within the mineral-rich Witwatersrand hills, the epicentre of the international mineral and gold trade. The richest city in Africa by GDP and private wealth, Johannesburg functions as the economic capital of South Africa and is home to the continent's largest stock exchange, the Johannesburg Stock Exchang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SAFA Women's Regional League
Women's soccer Women's association football, more commonly known as women's football or women's soccer, is the team sport of association football played by women. It is played at the professional level in multiple countries, and about 200 national teams partic ... began in South Africa during the 1960s and gained popularity in the 1990s, when the first national women's team was formed. History South African women's soccer started in 1960 during the Apartheid era. Orlando Pirates Women's Football Club and Mother City Girls were among the first women's soccer clubs formed in 1962. National league Sanlam National Women's Football League was set up in the late 1990s with the goal of increasing the number of women in soccer administration and a second season was played in 2002. In 2009, a semi-professional women's football league the Sasol Women's League was established with the aim of developing the women's game. In 2012, the Ministry of Sports and Recreation called for the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Sports South Africa
University Sports South Africa (USSA) is the governing body for sports competitions and student-athletes in South Africa. Team South Africa Team South Africa is the USSA team formed of student-athletes that represent the country at FISU events. Basketball 3x3 In 2023 the University of Johannesburg hosted the 5th FASU 3×3 Basketball Championship. The university's men's team ended the champion in fourth place after going down 21-12 to Ghana in the bronze match. Netball In 2024 the women’s netball team won the CUCSA Region V games held in Tshwane, South Africa. They defeated Zimbabwe 96-30 in the final. Soccer Team South Africa won gold in the men’s and women’s soccer events at the 2024 CUCSA Region V games held in Tshwane, South Africa. The women’s team won 3-0 against Botswana in their final while the men’s team defeated Zimbabwe 4-0 in their final. Rugby 7's In 2012 the men's rugby 7's team were second after losing to Great Britain 35-17 at the 5th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Varsity Football
Women's Varsity Football, also known as Women's Varsity Diski, is a South African university football competition. It is one of seven sports in the Varsity Sports series. The annual tournament involves the top women's football playing universities in the country, which belong to the University Sports Company. The tournament is managed by Advent Sport Entertainment and Media (ASEM) on behalf of the University Sports Company (USC), and is endorsed by the South African Football Association and University Sport South Africa. History The inaugural tournament was held in 2013, with UJ Ladies winning the final 6-0 against TUT Ladies. The 2017 edition was hosted by Tshwane University of Technology at TUT Stadium. TUT Ladies defeated UJ Ladies 4-0 in the final to win their fourth consecutive title. The 2018 edition was hosted by the North-West University at NWU McArthur Stadium. TUT Ladies defeated UWC Ladies 2-1 in the final to win their fifth consecutive title. The 2019 edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Pirates Cup (Women)
The 2024 Pirates Cup (Women) was the second edition of the women's soccer tournament hosted by Orlando Pirates. The tournament was hosted at Wits Marks Park Sports Grounds in Emmarentia from 28 March 2024 - 1 April 2024. UP-Tuks Ladies were defending champions. They failed to make it to the semi-finals of this years edition. JVW FC were crowned champions after defeating Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies 4-3 via penalties after the match ended in a 1–1 draw. Participating teams The eight teams that will be competing in the 2024 Pirates Cup Open challenge are: On Sunday the 24th of March 2024, the draw for the 2024 Pirates Cup was concluded. The teams were split into the following two groups: Group Stages Group A Group B Knockout Stage *In the knockout stage, extra-time and a penalty shoot-out will be used to decide the winner if necessary. Bracket Semi finals Third place Finals Statistics Goal scorers 5 goals * L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orlando Pirates F
Orlando commonly refers to: * Orlando, Florida, a city in the United States Orlando may also refer to: People * Orlando (given name), a masculine name, includes a list of people with the name * Orlando (surname), includes a list of people with the name * Orlando (Frankish warrior) (died 778), the military leader best known as Roland who inspired the Italian medieval icon "Orlando" Fictional characters * Orlando (character), the central character in a sequence of Italian verse romances from Dante, Ariosto and others * Orlando (''As You Like It''), a character in William Shakespeare's ''As You Like It'' * Orlando, the title character of '' Orlando: A Biography'', a novel by Virginia Woolf, and its film and stage adaptations * Orlando (fictional cat), central figure in Katherine Hale's ''The Marmalade Cat'' 1938–1972 series of children's books * Orlando, a character from the comic book '' The Invisibles'' * Orlando, a character from a comic book series '' The League of Ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pirates Cup (Women)
The Pirates Cup (Women) is an U/21 women's soccer tournament hosted by Orlando Pirates. History The inaugural edition consisted of eight U/21 women's teams and was held at Wits Marks Park in Emmarentia from 19 - 21 March 2023. Tuks Ladies defeated UJ Ladies 2-1 in the final. The second edition took place from 28 March - 1 April 2024 at Wits Marks Park. JVW Sapphires were crowned champions after defeating Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies Academy 4-3 via penalties after the match ended in a 1-1 draw. The third edition took place from 18 - 21 April 2025 at Wits Marks Park. Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies Academy were crowned champions after defeating UJ Ladies 1-0 in the final. Champions List of past champions: Awards The following players were rated best: Sponsor The tournament is sponsored by: * Orlando Pirates (host) * Vodacom * adidas * aQuelle * Oppo * Marriott Bonvoy Marriott International, Inc. is an American multinational corporation, multinational company that oper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
