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2024–25 South African Premiership

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Premiership
Season2024–25
Dates14 September 2024 – May 2025
Matches played160
Goals scored343 (2.14 per match)
Top goalscorerLucas Ribeiro Costa (13 goals)
Biggest home winOrlando Pirates 8-1 Marumo Gallants
(24 December 2024)
Biggest away winAmaZulu 0-5 Stellenbosch (23 January 2025)
Highest scoringOrlando Pirates 8-1 Marumo Gallants
Longest winning run
7 Matches
Longest unbeaten run
7 Matches
Longest winless run3 Matches
Marumo Gallants
Longest losing run3 Matches
Marumo Gallants
Highest attendance100,000
Orlando Pirates v Kaizer Chiefs
(1 February 2025)
2025–26
All statistics correct as of 19 March 2025.

The 2024–25 South African Premiership is the 29th consecutive season of the South African Premiership. It is known as the Betway Premiership for sponsorship reasons, after the premature end of the sponsorship from the league's previous sponsor, DSTV, and also commonly referred to as the PSL after the governing body.[1] The season runs from 14 September 2024 and will conclude in May 2025. Mamelodi Sundowns are defending champions and are defending their title after winning it for seven consecutive seasons starting from the 2017-18 season.

In April 2025, the PSL's Board of Governors, consisting of the 15 Premiership teams (excluding Royal AM), and 16 National First Division teams, voted to expel Royal AM from the league.[2] The club had not played any of their fixtures since December 2024 following a preservation order by the South African Revenue Service over unpaid taxes.[3] All of their results in the season until then were expunged from the record.

Teams

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Team changes

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Increase Promoted from 2023–24 National First Division

Decrease Relegated to 2024–25 National First Division

Purchased statuses

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Stadiums and locations

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Stadiums

Team Location Stadium Capacity
AmaZulu Durban Moses Mabhida Stadium 55,500
Cape Town City Cape Town Cape Town Stadium Athlone Stadium 55,000, 36,000
Chippa United Gqeberha Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium 48,459
Golden Arrows Durban (Hammarsdale) Mpumalanga Stadium 12,000
Kaizer Chiefs Johannesburg (Soweto) FNB Stadium 94,736
Magesi Polokwane Old Peter Mokaba Stadium 15,000
Mamelodi Sundowns Pretoria (Marabastad) Loftus Versfeld Stadium 51,762
Marumo Gallants Bloemfontein Dr. Petrus Molemela Stadium 22,000
Orlando Pirates Johannesburg (Soweto) Orlando Stadium 37,139
Polokwane City Polokwane Old Peter Mokaba Stadium 15,000
Richards Bay Richards Bay King Zwelithini Stadium 10,000
Royal AM Pietermaritzburg Harry Gwala Stadium 12,000
Sekhukhune United Polokwane Peter Mokaba Stadium 45,500
Stellenbosch Stellenbosch Danie Craven Stadium 16,000
SuperSport United Pretoria (Atteridgeville) Lucas Masterpieces Moripe Stadium 28,900
TS Galaxy Mbombela Mbombela Stadium 40,929

League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Mamelodi Sundowns 23 19 1 3 52 13 +39 58 Qualification for 2025–26 CAF Champions League
2 Orlando Pirates 21 15 1 5 32 15 +17 46
3 Sekhukhune United 25 13 5 7 35 26 +9 44 Qualification for 2025–26 CAF Confederation Cup
4 Stellenbosch 24 11 8 5 29 17 +12 41
5 TS Galaxy 26 8 10 8 29 28 +1 34
6 AmaZulu 26 10 3 13 27 32 −5 33
7 Polokwane City 25 8 8 9 18 22 −4 32
8 Chippa United 24 8 6 10 21 19 +2 30
9 Kaizer Chiefs 25 8 6 11 23 29 −6 30
10 Marumo Gallants 26 8 6 12 24 37 −13 30
11 Magesi 24 8 4 12 16 26 −10 28
12 Golden Arrows 22 6 8 8 15 21 −6 26
13 Richards Bay 25 7 5 13 16 26 −10 26
14 SuperSport United 23 5 8 10 14 24 −10 23
15 Cape Town City 25 6 5 14 13 29 −16 23 Qualification for Playoffs
16 Royal AM[7] 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Relegation to the National First Division
Updated to match(es) played on 1 May 2025. Source: Premier Soccer League


Results

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Each team plays each other twice (30 matches each), once at home and once away.

Home \ Away AMA CTC CHI KZC GDA MAG MDS MRG ORL PLK RBU ROY SEK STL SSU TSG
AmaZulu 2–0 2–0 1–3 0–0 3–0 0–1 2–0 24 May 2 May 4 Apr 2–1 0–2 0–5 2–1 1–2
Cape Town City 0–1 0–2 1–0 1–1 0–0 4 May 0–1 1–0 1–0 2–1 6 Apr 24 May 1–0 1–1
Chippa United 29 Mar 0–1 19 Apr 2–0 2–0 24 May 2–2 0–1 2–0 1–0 0–1 0–2 0–0 2–1
Kaizer Chiefs 2–2 0–0 1–0 0–1 1–0 1–2 26 Apr 3 May 24 May 2–1 2–2 1–0 2–1 1–4 5 Apr
Golden Arrows 27 Apr 3–2 5 Apr 29 Mar 0–1 1–1 2–0 0–0 0–1 24 May 4 May 0–0 1–1
Magesi 0–1 2–0 1–4 2–2 1–0 1–2 24 May 0–1 0–2 1–0 0–0 3 May 29 Mar 1–0 20 Apr
Mamelodi Sundowns 2–0 3–0 1–0 4–0 17 May 4–1 4–1 2–0 26 Apr 2–1 3–0 2–0 4–1
Marumo Gallants 1–0 1–0 17 May 1–2 19 Apr 3–1 1–3 2–0 0–0 0–0 1–2 0–1 5 Apr 1–1
Orlando Pirates 2–1 2–1 2–1 1–0 25 Apr 2–1 8–1 3–0 1–0 0–1 2–0 17 May
Polokwane City 2–1 17 May 1–0 2–0 0–1 1–0 1–0 1–0 0–1 30 Mar 1–1 1–1 26 Apr 1–1
Richards Bay 1–3 18 Apr 0–0 2–0 17 May 0–0 0–2 2–1 0–1 2–0 2–1 0–0 0–1 1–0
Royal AM 1–1 2–3 0–1 0–0 2–0 1–3
Sekhukhune United 4–2 1–0 1–1 17 May 2–0 1–0 2–4 1–0 1–2 19 Apr 2–0 1–2 1–1 1–3
Stellenbosch 19 Apr 3–0 26 Apr 0–1 0–2 2–1 0–1 1–0 0–0 1–1 1–1 1–1 17 May 1–1
SuperSport United 0–0 30 Mar 3 May 1–0 1–0 0–3 0–1 20 Apr 0–1 24 May 0–0 1–1 1–0
TS Galaxy 1–0 2–0 1–0 2–0 0–0 1–0 30 Mar 0–2 0–0 4 May 27 Apr 2–3
Updated to match(es) played on 16 March 2025. Source: Flashscore
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Statistics

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Top scorers

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As of 9 March 2025[8]
Rank Player Club Goals
1 Brazil Lucas Ribeiro Costa Sundowns 13
2 South Africa Iqraam Rayners Sundowns 9
3 Bosnia and Herzegovina Dženan Zajmović TS Galaxy 8
4
South Africa Sinoxolo Kwayiba Chippa United 6
South Africa Devin Titus Stellenbosch
Namibia Peter Shalulile Sundowns
Democratic Republic of the Congo Andy Boyeli Sekhukhune United
7 South Africa Tshegofatso Mabasa Orlando Pirates 5

Clean Sheets

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As of 31 March 2025
Rank Player Club Clean Sheets Minutes played
1 ZimbabweElvis Chipezeze Magesi F.C 11 1980
2 South Africa Sipho Chaine Orlando Pirates 10 1710
3 Ivory Coast Badra Ali Sangare Sekhukhune United 7 1890
4 Equatorial Guinea Manuel Sapunga Polokwane City 7 1530
5 South Africa Ronwen Williams Mamelodi Sundowns 7 1228

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Ngidi, Njabulo. "Betway bets on PSL with R900 million sponsorship: 'We don't chase away anybody,' says Khoza". Sport. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  2. ^ Vardien, Tashreeq. "Royal AM out! PSL votes overwhelmingly to expel club from SA football". Sport. Retrieved 10 April 2025.
  3. ^ "PSL cans Thursday's Royal AM game against Pirates, suspends all their matches". SowetanLIVE. Archived from the original on 22 January 2025. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
  4. ^ "Magesi book promotion, but playoff picture is murky". SuperSport. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
  5. ^ "Relegated Cape Town Spurs deny Kaizer Chiefs a top-eight spot". SABC. 25 May 2024. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
  6. ^ Rabothe, Tshepo (9 July 2024). "Marumo Gallants president hits back at 'status buying' criticism". FARPost. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
  7. ^ "Royal AM fixtures suspended".
  8. ^ "Betway Premiership Top Scorers". supersport.com.