Peter Shalulile (born 23 October 1993) is a Namibian professional

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who plays as a striker for

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club

Mamelodi Sundowns Mamelodi Sundowns Football Club (simply known as Sundowns) is a South African professional football club based in Mamelodi, Pretoria in the Gauteng province that plays in the Premiership, the first tier of South African football league syste ...

and

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the Namibia national team. He is regarded as one of the best strikers to play in the South Africa top flight division.

Club career

Tura Magic

Peter is a product of Tura Magic FC in Namibia a club he joined when they were campaigning in the NFA Khomas second division and helped gain promotion in the 2011–2012 season. He made his way up from the U-20 to the Senior Namibia National Soccer Team and scored crucial goals en route to their first ever trophy which was the COSAFA Cup in 2015.

Highlands Park

He joined

National First Division The South African Championship, officially known as the Motsepe Foundation Championship for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest league of South African football after the South African Premiership. Both the South African Championship and ...

club Highlands Park after an impressive showing at the COSAFA Cup in 2015, and helped them gain promotion, scoring two crucial goals in the playoff encounter against Mbombela at the Makhulong Stadium in June 2016. Midway through the 2019–20 season, the media speculated that Shalulile was being hunted by three of South Africa's biggest clubs, Mamelodi Sundowns, Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates, due to his goalscoring abilities. He finished the season as joint top goalscorer alongside Orlando Pirates' Gabadinho Mhango.

Mamelodi Sundowns

Shalulile signed for

at the end of the season. He scored 4 goals in his first 7 league appearances. Shalulile is the second Namibian player to join Mamelodi Sundowns after Ronnie 'The Magnet' Fillemon Kanalelo, who played for Sundowns between 1997 and 2005. On 22 April 2023 against CR Belouizdad in the CAF Champions League quarter finals, Shalulile became the latest player to join the list of prominent players who have managed to bag 100 goals or more in the Premiership, joining the likes of Siyabonga Nomvethe, Collins Mbesuma and Masandawana’s all-time top goal scorer, Daniel Mudau.

Career statistics

Club

International

International career

On the international scene Peter has scored sixteen goals for the senior national team, the last being in Namibia's Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Burundi on 24 March 2025. He was a member of the Namibian under-19 squad that won the Metropolitan Under-19 Premier Cup in South Africa in 2011.

International goals

:''As of match played 24 March 2025. Namibia score listed first, score column indicates score after each Shalulile goal.''

Honours

Mamelodi Sundowns *

**2020-2021 **2021-2022 **2022-2023 **2023-2024 *

Nedbank Cup The Nedbank Cup is the current name of South Africa's Premier Soccer League, premier club association football, soccer knockout tournament. While many formats have been used over the years, the tournament has always been based on the idea of gi ...

**2022 *

MTN 8 The MTN 8 is a South African soccer single-elimination tournament, cup competition launched in 1972 for teams who finished in the top 8 positions of the league table of the country's preceding season of the top-flight league (currently the Sout ...

**2021 Individual * PSL Footballer of the Year: 2020-21 * Lesley Manyathela Golden Boot: 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23 * PSL Footballer of the Season: 2021-22 *

PSL Players' Player of the Season The Premiership Players' Player of the Season is a South African soccer award granted by the Premier Soccer League The Premier Soccer League (PSL) is the administrative body for professional soccer leagues and cups in South Africa. It is b ...

: 2021-22 * CAF Champions League Top Goalscorer:

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Shalulie, Peter 1993 births Living people Namibian men's footballers Men's association football forwards Ongos SC players Highlands Park F.C. players Mamelodi Sundowns F.C. players South African Premier Division players Namibia men's international footballers 2019 Africa Cup of Nations players 2023 Africa Cup of Nations players Footballers from Windhoek Namibian expatriate men's footballers Namibian expatriate sportspeople in South Africa Expatriate men's soccer players in South Africa 21st-century Namibian sportsmen