2016–17 South African Premier Division

Premier Soccer League

Season	2016–17
Matches played	82
Goals scored	179 (2.18 per match)
Top goalscorer	Tendai Ndoro (9)
Biggest home win	2 matches SuperSport United 6-1 Orlando Pirates (1 November 2016) Mamelodi Sundowns 5-0 Highlands Park (27 November 2016)
Biggest away win	Baroka 1-4 Chippa United (28 September 2016)
Highest scoring	SuperSport United 6-1 Orlando Pirates (1 November 2016)
Longest winning run	Bidvest Wits (5)
Longest unbeaten run	SuperSport United (10)
Longest winless run	Free State Stars (10)
Longest losing run	Ajax Cape Town (4)
← 2015–16 2017–18 → All statistics correct as of 30 November 2016.

The 2016–17 South African Premier Division season (known as the ABSA Premiership for sponsorship reasons) is the 20th season of the Premier Soccer League since its establishment in 1996.

Mamelodi Sundowns were the defending champions, having won the previous 2015–16 South African Premier Division (PSL) season. The season featured 14 teams from the 2015–16 season and two new teams promoted from the 2015–16 National First Division: Baroka and Highlands Park who replace relegated Jomo Cosmos and University of Pretoria. Highlands Park promotion was won via the PSL Playoff Tournament. Cape Town City bought over the franchise of Mpumalanga Black Aces and relocated from Mbombela Stadium to Cape Town Stadium.^[1]^[2] The sale of Free State Stars franchise to Moroka Swallows fell through.^[3]^[4]

Teams

Stadiums and locations

Location of teams in the 2016–17 PSL.

Football teams in South Africa tend to use multiple stadiums over the course of a season for their home games. The following table will only indicate the stadium used most often by the club for their home games.

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Ajax Cape Town	Cape Town	Cape Town Stadium	7004690700000000000♠69,070
Baroka	Polokwane	Peter Mokaba Stadium	7004455000000000000♠45,500
BV Wits	Johannesburg	Bidvest Stadium	7003500000000000000♠5,000
Bloemfontein Celtic	Bloemfontein	Dr Petrus Molemela Stadium	7004220000000000000♠22,000
Cape Town City	Cape Town	Cape Town Stadium	7004690700000000000♠69,070
Chippa United	Port Elizabeth	Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium	7004460000000000000♠46,000
Free State Stars	Phuthaditjhaba	Charles Mopeli Stadium	7004500000000000000♠50,000
Highlands Park	Tembisa	Makhulong Stadium	7004100000000000000♠10,000
Golden Arrows	Durban	Princess Magogo Stadium	7004120000000000000♠12,000
Kaizer Chiefs	Soweto	FNB Stadium (Soccer City)	7004947360000000000♠94,736
Mamelodi Sundowns	Pretoria	Lucas Masterpieces Moripe Stadium	7004289000000000000♠28,900
Maritzburg United	Pietermaritzburg	Harry Gwala Stadium	7004120000000000000♠12,000
Orlando Pirates	Soweto	Orlando Stadium	7004400000000000000♠40,000
Platinum Stars	Phokeng	Royal Bafokeng Stadium	7004445300000000000♠44,530
Polokwane City	Polokwane	Peter Mokaba Stadium	7004455000000000000♠45,500
SuperSport United	Pretoria	Lucas Masterpieces Moripe Stadium	7004289000000000000♠28,900

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Ajax Cape Town	Stanley Menzo^[5]	Adidas^[6]	Huawei^[7]
Baroka	Kgoloko Thobejane	Umbro	Clover
BV Wits	Gavin Hunt^[8]	Kappa^[9]	Bidvest^[10]
Bloemfontein Celtic	Vacant	Kappa^[11]	MTN^[12]
Cape Town City	Eric Tinkler	Umbro	Vacant
Chippa United	Dan Masilela	Canterbury^[13]	Chippa Holdings
Free State Stars	Denis Lavagne	Umbro	Bonitas
Highlands Park	Gordon Igesund	Kappa	Highfield Motor Group
Golden Arrows	Clinton Larsen	Millé	Vacant
Kaizer Chiefs	Steve Komphela	Nike^[14]	Vodacom^[15]
Mamelodi Sundowns	Pitso Mosimane^[16]	Puma^[17]	Ubuntu Botho
Maritzburg United	Ernst Middendorp^[18]	Puma	Vacant
Orlando Pirates	Augusto Palacios	Adidas	Vodacom^[15]
Platinum Stars	Cavin Johnson	Acelli	The Royal Marang Hotel
Polokwane City	Luc Eymael	XCO	Vacant
SuperSport United	Stuart Baxter^[19]	Kappa	Engen

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Free State Stars	Denis Lavagne	Sacked	22 September 2016^[20]	16

League table

Standings


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Cape Town City	11	6	3	2	14	10	+4	21	Qualification for 2018 CAF Champions League
2	SuperSport United	11	5	5	1	18	6	+12	20	Qualification for 2018 CAF Champions League
3	Bidvest Wits	9	6	2	1	12	7	+5	20	Qualification for 2018 CAF Confederation Cup
4	Golden Arrows	11	5	3	3	14	14	0	18
5	Kaizer Chiefs	11	4	5	2	12	7	+5	17
6	Orlando Pirates	10	4	5	1	11	11	0	17
7	Polokwane City	11	3	6	2	12	13	−1	15
8	Mamelodi Sundowns	7	4	1	2	13	5	+8	13
9	Maritzburg United	11	2	5	4	10	13	−3	11
10	Baroka	11	2	5	4	11	16	−5	11
11	Chippa United	10	2	4	4	9	9	0	10
12	Bloemfontein Celtic	9	2	3	4	5	7	−2	9
13	Platinum Stars	10	2	3	5	8	12	−4	9
14	Ajax Cape Town	11	2	3	6	11	16	−5	9
15	Free State Stars	11	1	5	5	8	12	−4	8	Qualification for PSL Playoff Tournament
16	Highlands Park	10	1	4	5	11	21	−10	7	Relegation to National First Division

Updated to games played on 30 November 2016.
Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) goals scored; 4) head-to-head points; 5) head-to-head goal difference; 6) head-to-head goals scored; 7) playoff
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Positions by round

	Leader
	2017 CAF Champions League or CAF Confederation Cup
	Relegation to National First Division or Playoff Tournament

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Cape Town City	2	8	7	5	4	6	5	5	3	2	1
SuperSport United	13	14	8	6	8	4	4	2	4	3	2
Bidvest Wits	3	2	2	3	7	8	3	1	1	1	3
Golden Arrows	15	7	3	1	2	2	2	4	2	4	4
Kaizer Chiefs	11	12	6	4	1	1	1	3	5	5	5
Orlando Pirates	1	1	1	2	3	3	6	6	6	6	6
Polokwane City	16	16	12	7	5	5	7	6	7	7	7
Mamelodi Sundowns	9	9	13	15	15	16	16	15	12	8	8
Maritzburg United	5	5	8	11	11	11	11	11	8	9	9
Baroka	7	10	16	10	12	9	9	10	9	10	10
Chippa United	3	2	4	8	6	7	8	8	10	11	11
Bloemfontein Celtic	13	14	14	16	16	12	12	13	13	13	12
Platinum Stars	5	2	4	9	9	10	10	9	11	12	13
Ajax Cape Town	7	10	11	13	13	15	15	16	16	15	14
Free State Stars	11	13	15	14	14	14	14	14	15	16	15
Highlands Park	9	6	10	12	10	13	13	12	14	14	16

Last updated: 30 November 2016
Source: Soccerway

Results

Home ╲ Away	Ajax Cape Town !AJX	Baroka !BRK	Bidvest Wits !BVW	Bloemfontein Celtic !BLC	Cape Town City !CTC	Chippa United !CHU	Free State Stars !FSS	Golden Arrows !GOL	Highlands Park !HPK	Kaizer Chiefs !KZC	Mamelodi Sundowns !MLS	Maritzburg United !MAR	Orlando Pirates !ORL	Platinum Stars !PLA	Polokwane City !PLK	SuperSport United !SUP
Ajax Cape Town !Ajax Cape Town			1–2								2–0	1–2	1–2		1–1	0–2
Baroka !Baroka	1–1		0–2			1–4							1–1		2–2	1–1
Bidvest Wits !Bidvest Wits						1–0			2–2	2–1
Bloemfontein Celtic !Bloemfontein Celtic		2–1	1–2					1–2				0–1			0–0
Cape Town City !Cape Town City	1–0	1–2		1–0								3–2			2–0
Chippa United !Chippa United				0–0	1–2		2–1						0–1	1–1
Free State Stars !Free State Stars	1–1			0–0				0–1		0–2		1–1		3–1
Golden Arrows !Golden Arrows					2–0	1–0								0–1	3–3	1–1
Highlands Park !Highlands Park		2–1			1–1		2–2	0–1		0–1
Kaizer Chiefs !Kaizer Chiefs	2–0	0–0			1–1							2–0		1–1		1–1
Mamelodi Sundowns !Mamelodi Sundowns					1–2			3–0	5–0	2–1
Maritzburg United !Maritzburg United						1–1		2–2	1–1		0–0				0–1	0–1
Orlando Pirates !Orlando Pirates					0–0		1–0	3–1		0–0				1–1
Platinum Stars !Platinum Stars	2–3	0–1	0–1	0–1												1–0
Polokwane City !Polokwane City			0–0				1–0		3–2		0–2		1–1
SuperSport United !SuperSport United			2–0			0–0	0–0		4–1				6–1

Updated to games played on 30 November 2016.
Source: Soccerway
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Scoring

Top scorers

As of 30 November 2016

Rank	Player	Club	Goals^[21]
1	Tendai Ndoro	Orlando Pirates	9
2	Lebogang Manyama	Cape Town City	5
3	Jeremy Brockie	SuperSport Utd	4
3	Thabo Mnyamane	SuperSport Utd	4
5	Lorenzo Gordinho	Kaizer Chiefs	3
	Wayde Jooste	Arrows	3
	George Lebese	Kaizer Chiefs	3
	Kurt Lentjies	Maritzburg Utd	3
	Thembinkosi Lorch	Chippa Utd	3
	Collins Mbesuma	Highlands Park	3
	Thobani Mncwango	Polokwane	3
	Robert Ng'ambi	Platinum Stars	3
	Nathan Paulse	Ajax	3
	Thuso Phala	SuperSport Utd	3
	Rodney Ramagalela	Polokwane	3
	Sibusiso Vilakazi	Mamelodi	3

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Tendai Ndoro	Orlando Pirates	Golden Arrows	3-1^[22]	000000002016-08-24-000024 August 2016

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