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The South African Premier Division, officially referred to as the Betway Premiership for sponsorship purposes, and commonly referred to as the PSL after the governing body, [1] is the premier men's professional soccer league and the highest division in the league system of South Africa, organised since 1996.
Association football, or soccer, as it is usually called in South Africa, is the nation's most popular sport followed by rugby union and cricket.The governing body is the South African Football Association (SAFA), [1] while the Premier Soccer League is the organisation responsible for running the country's two professional divisions, namely the South African Premiership and the National First ...
The South African Championship, officially known as the Motsepe Foundation Championship for sponsorship reasons, [1] is the second-highest league of South African football after the South African Premiership. Both the South African Championship and South African Premiership are organised by the Premier Soccer League.
The top tier of football in South Africa was renamed the Premier Soccer League, for the start of the 1996-97 season. The following page details the football records and statistics of the Premier Division since that date.
The South African Football Association (colloquially known as SAFA) is the national administrative governing body that controls the sport of football in the Republic of South Africa (RSA) and is a member of the Confederation of African Football (CAF). SAFA established in 1991.
The CAF Champions League is a seasonal association football competition established in 1966 as the African Cup of Champions Clubs, open initially to the league champions of all CAF member associations, but since 1997 also currently includes the clubs finishing second in the strongest leagues from the CAF 5-year ranking and the competition's defending champions.
The National Soccer League (NSL) was a South African football (soccer) league established in 1985, as a response to boardroom disagreements in the non-racial NPSL. [1] The NPSL had been established in 1978 after a merger between the NFL and the previous racial NPSL for African people.
In 1978, the NPSL merged with the National Football League (NFL), which previously had been organised only for White South African players in 1959–1977. The two leagues together formed a new topflight multi-racial football league in 1978–1984 (also named NPSL), where teams were still designated as white or black, but the white teams were allowed to field a maximum of three black players.