Kaizer Chiefs Football Club (often known as Chiefs) is a South African professional

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club based in Naturena, Johannesburg South, that plays in the Premiership. The team is nicknamed ''AmaKhosi'', which means "Kings" or "Chiefs" in Zulu, and the ''Phefeni Glamour Boys''. Chiefs have won numerous league titles and cup trophies. The most recent domestic trophy was the

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. They hold the most trophies amongst all clubs in South Africa and are the most successful team in South African football history since the start of the top flight in 1970. The team has a strong local rivalry, the Soweto derby, with Orlando Pirates, a fellow Soweto team that Chiefs founder

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played for in his early playing career. Famous players who donned the black-and-gold jersey in the past include former national team captains Neil Tovey and Lucas Radebe as well as Patrick Ntsoelengoe, Gary Bailey, John "Shoes" Moshoeu,

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, Steve Komphela, Siyabonga Nomvete, and Doctor Khumalo. It is the most supported team in

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. Kaizer Chiefs had a support base of over 16 million at the turn of the century. They drew an average home attendance of 16,144 in the 2019–20 season, the highest in the league. The team plays many of its home matches at the 94,797-capacity

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. In January 2025, Kaizer Chiefs celebrated their 55th anniversary.

History

Kaizer Chiefs FC was founded in January 1970 shortly after the return of Kaizer "Chincha Guluva" Motaung from the

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where he played as a striker for the

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of the

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(NASL). He combined his own first name with the Atlanta Chiefs to create the name of Kaizer Chiefs. Several other people have played key roles in the formation and growth of Kaizer Chiefs, including the late Gilbert Sekgabi, Clarence Mlokoti, China Ngema, Ewert "The Lip" Nene, and Rabelani Jan Mofokeng, he trailed and quit because of work. Kaizer Chiefs are known as ''"Amakhosi"'' by its fans, a Zulu word meaning "kings" or "chiefs". Their headquarters is ''Kaizer Chiefs Village'', in Naturena, six kilometres south of Johannesburg. The 2001–02 season was one of the Club's most successful in their history as well as their most tragic. They won four major trophies in four months; the Vodacom Challenge, the BP Top Eight, the Coca-Cola Cup, and the

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. At the time the team was said to have been a team that was on ''"Operation vat alles"'' by its then public relations officer Putco Mafani, ''"vat alles"'' being an

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statement meaning ''"take everything"'' in English. However, the highs of cup wins was contrasted by the lows of the Ellis Park Stadium disaster on 11 April 2001, in which 43 fans were crushed to death during the Soweto Derby between Chiefs and their arch-rivals Orlando Pirates. By winning the African Cup Winners' Cup, Chiefs played the

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winners Al Ahly of

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in the

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. In April 2002, Kaizer Chiefs' achievements during 2001 were recognized as they were chosen as the "CAF Club of the Year" by the

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. In the 2003–04 season Chiefs were given the Fair Play Award at the Peace Cup in

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. Chiefs ended the season as league champions, winning the Premiership for the first time in their history. During the championship race of the 2004–05 soccer season, Chiefs overtook the season-long leaders ( Orlando Pirates) in the last game of the season to defend its PSL championship. Under the leadership of

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n coach

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n striker

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had a record-breaking season scoring 39 goals in all competitions. Kaizer Chiefs' forays into Africa were temporarily scuttled by a Confederation of African Football (CAF) ban. However, it still made its presence felt through the annual Vodacom Challenge that pit Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates with an invited European club. Chiefs have won the Vodacom Challenge Cup 5 times since its inception. They beat a young

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side 4–3 on penalties in the 2006 Challenge to win the trophy. In March 2007, coach Ernst Middendorp and the club parted company. The club instantly appointed their rival Orlando Pirates' former coach Kosta Papić for the remainder of the 2006–07 season.

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returned for the 2007–08 season to begin his second stint with Chiefs, having already coached ''The Glamour Boys'' from 1999 until 2003. Under coach Ernst Middendorp in the 2019/20 season, Kaizer Chiefs topped the table from the seventh matchday of the season until infamously losing the title on the final day, which saw the club finishing two points behind winners Mamelodi Sundowns. On 26 June 2021, the team secured their first

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final appearance after defeating

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by a 1–0 aggregate. On 9 July 2021, Kaizer Chiefs confirmed through Twitter that they signed six players for next season after their transfer ban ended. On 17 July 2021, they lost 3–0 against Al Ahly in the Champions League Final. In the 2023/24 season, Kaizer chiefs finished in 10th position under the interim coach Cavin Johnson, making this their lowest finish in the PSL era.

Stadium

Amakhosi Stadium

The ''Amakhosi'' have used no less than nine stadiums in

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as their home ground, and often rotated between several stadiums during the season. In August 2006, the club decided to develop their own stadium, the Amakhosi Stadium. However, this project has stalled.

FNB Stadium/Soccer City

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, with a capacity of 94,736 seats. It is located next to the

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headquarters (''SAFA House''), where both the FIFA offices and the Local Organising Committee for the 2010 FIFA World Cup is housed.

The Soweto Derby

The Soweto Derby between Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates is a fiercely-contested rivalry dating back to 1970, and in contrast to most other games in the South African Premiership, always attracts a large fanbase.

Honours

Domestic

Top-flight league titles: 12 Premiership *Champions (4): 2003–04, 2004–05, 2012–13, 2014–15 *Runners-up (5): 1996–97, 1997–98, 1998–99, 2000–01, 2013–14, 2019–20

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*Champions (3) - record:

1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

National Professional Soccer League *Champions (5) - record:

1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; ...

, 1977,

1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...

1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 6 – A funeral service is held in West Germany for Nazi Grand Admiral ...

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...

Cups: 42

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(National Cup) *Champions (14) - record: 1971, 1972, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1987,

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

, 2012–13, 2024–25 Telkom Knockout (League Cup) *Champions (13) - record: 1983,1984, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2004,

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

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(Top 8 Tournament) *Champions (15) - record: 1974, 1976, 1977, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1992,

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

International

*Runners-up: 2020–21

*Winners:

*Runners-up:

Individual Awards *''African Club of the Year 2001''

unofficial domestic cups

Vodacom Challenge *Winners (5) - record: 2000, 2001, 2003,

Telkom Charity Cup *Winners (11) - record: 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2003,

Carling Black Label Cup *Winners(4):

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

*Runners-up(5):

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

Sales House Champ of Champs *Winners:1974,1976,1977,1980,1981,1982,1984 Panasonic Cup *Winners: 1986 Ohlsson's Challenge Cup *Winners: 1987, 1989 Castle Challenge Cup *Winners: 1990, 1991 Stylo Cup *Winners: 1970 UCT Super Team Competition *Winners: 1972 Shell Helix Ultra Cup *Winners: 2019 CUFA Cup *Winners: 2024 Home of Legends Cup *Winners: 2024

Performance in CAF Competitions

Kaizer Chiefs qualified to play for the

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but withdrew from the competition. The team made their first CAF Cup appearance in the year 2000 and only made it to the round of 16. They had the same result in the

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and 2014 CAF Champions League. In the

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edition of the CAF Confederations Cup, Kaizer Chiefs reached the playoff round of 30 in which they were eliminated. Kaizer Chiefs are the runner-ups of the 2020-21 CAF Champions League and the

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after being crowned the Champions of the 2001 African Cup Winners' Cup. Chiefs were banned by the African Football (CAF) from competing in African club competitions until 2009 after their abrupt withdrawal from the 2005 CAF Confederation Cup. This was the second time in four years that Chiefs had been penalized by CAF for refusal to participate in a

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. Kaizer Chiefs' appearances in African competitions *

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= 5 appearance(s) * CAF Confederations Cup = 2 appearance(s) *

= 1appearance(s) *

= 3 appearance(s) *

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= 1 appearance(s)

Club Ranking

Kaizer Chiefs are ranked 30th on the CAF 5-year ranking for the 2024-25 CAF club Season.

Crest and colours

Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors

Club records

*Most appearances – Doctor Khumalo 497 *Most goals – Siphiwe Tshabalala 101 *Most capped player – Siphiwe Tshabalala 91 *Most appearances in a season – Neil Tovey 52 (1992) *Most goals in a season (all competitions) –

– 35 2004/05 *Record win – 9-1 vs Manning Rangers (Coca-Cola Challenge – 23 March 1996) *Record loss – 1-5 vs

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(League – 08/06/86), Orlando Pirates (League – 03/11/90), 1-5

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(League – 02/05/2024) - Nedbank Cup Winners for 2025.

PSL-era

Personnel

Club officials

Senior team staff

Players

Notable former players

''For all Kaizer Chiefs players with a Wikipedia article see ''

Coaches

* Thomas Johnson (1971) * Thomas Johnson and

(1972) *

(1973–74) * Eliakim Khumalo (1974) * Eddie Lewis (1974–76) * Eliakim Khumalo (1976) * Thomas Johnson (1976) * Eliakim Khumalo (1976) * Eddie Lewis (1976) *

(1977–78) * Mario Tuani (1979–80) * Eddie Lewis (1980) * Chris Ngcobo (1981) * Eliakim Khumalo (1981) * Joseph Setlhodi (1982) * Eddie Lewis (1983) * Eliakim Khumalo and Jackie Masike (1983) * Orlando Casares (1983) *

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(1984–85) * Shaka Ngcobo (1985) * Eddie Lewis (1985) *

(1985–88) * Jack Chamangwana (1988) * Jeff Butler (1988–89) * Jack Chamangwana (1989) * Augusto Palacios (1990) * Jeff Butler (1991) * Nelson ''"Teenage"'' Dladla (1991) * Wiseman Mbale (1992) * Jeff Butler (1992) * Sergio dos Santos (1993) * N. ''"Teenage"'' Dladla and Ryder Mofokeng (1993) * Geoff Hudson (1993) *

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...

(1994) * Trott Moloto (1994) * Augusto Palacios (1995) * Jeff Butler (1995–96) *

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(1996) * Wellington Manyathi (1997) * Paul Dolezar (1 July 1997 – 30 June 1999) * Jacob Sephoa (1999) * Muhsin Ertugral (14 July 1999–02) * Doctor ''"16V"'' Khumalo and Ace Khuse (2002–03) *

(12 June 2003 – 30 June 2005) * Ernst Middendorp (1 July 2005 – 5 March 2007) * Kosta Papić (7 March 2007 – 4 June 2007) * Muhsin Ertugral (1 July 2007 – 8 May 2009) * Vladimir Vermezović (18 May 2009 – 12 April 2012) * Ace Khuse ''(interim)'' (12 April 2012 – 30 June 2012) * Stuart Baxter (1 July 2012 – June 2015) * Steve Komphela (17 June 2015 – 21 April 2018) * Giovanni Solinas (12 July 2018 -7 December 2018) * Ernst Middendorp (7 December 2018 – 9 September 2020) * Gavin Hunt (17 September 2020 – 28 May 2021) * Stuart Baxter (7 June 2021 – 21 April 2022) * Arthur Zwane (26 May 2022 – 28 June 2023) * Molefi Ntseki (28 June 2023 – October 2023) * Cavin Johnson (October 2023 – June 2024) * Nasreddine Nabi (7 July 2024– current)

Kaiser Chiefs

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, the British

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band, was named after the club because Lucas Radebe, a former player of Kaizer Chiefs, captained

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, the team that the band members all supported.

Rugby

In 2012, Kaizer Chiefs registered a

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team to participate in the inaugural 7s Premier League.

Notes

References

External links

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