Back Mamelodi Sundowns AF ማሜሎዲ ሰንዳውንስ ኤፍ.ሲ AM ماميلودي صن داونز Arabic ماميلودى صن داونز ARZ মামেলোদি সানডাউনস ফুটবল ক্লাব Bengali/Bangla Mamelodi Sundowns Football Club Catalan Mamelodi Sundowns FC Czech Mamelodi Sundowns German Μαμελόντι Σάνταουνς ΦΚ Greek Mamelodi Sundowns Football Club Spanish
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| Full name | Mamelodi Sundowns Football Club | |||
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| Founded | 1970 | |||
| Ground | Loftus Versfeld Stadium | |||
| Capacity | 51,762 | |||
| Owner | Patrice Motsepe | |||
| Chairman | Tlhopie Motsepe | |||
| Head coach | Miguel Cardoso[1] | |||
| League | Betway Premiership | |||
| 2023–24 | 1st (champions) | |||
| Website | sundownsfc | |||
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| Football (Men's) | Football B (Men's) | |
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| Football (Women's) | Football B (Women's) | |
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 Premier Soccer League, the first tier of South African football league system. Founded in the 1970s, the team plays its home games in the Loftus Versfeld Stadium.
It is currently[when?] the most successful football club in the South African PSL era. They won the 2016 CAF Champions League, 2017 CAF Super Cup and were voted the 2016 CAF Club of the Year. Domestically, they have also won the Nedbank Cup six times, the MTN 8 four times and the Telkom Knockout four times. They are the first South African team to compete in the FIFA Club World Cup, where they finished in 6th place. In 2021, Sundowns became the first club in Africa to win both CAF Champions League and CAF Women's Champions League[2] titles. In 2023, Sundowns was crowned the champions of the first African Football League.
Sundowns is owned by South African business magnate Patrice Motsepe and is one of the most valuable clubs in Africa, by market value.[3] The club takes pride in its unique style of attacking play, locally dubbed "Shoe Shine & Piano" which includes combinations of quick, short passes on the ground and this is likened to the Spanish Tiki-taka and Total Football. Over the years, this style of play has been reflected in its Youth teams and women's football team.
- ^ "Champions Sundowns name Miguel Cardoso as new coach". SuperSport. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
- ^ Diamond, Drew (16 November 2023). "South African club Mamelodi Sundowns to release Netflix documentary". Her Football Hub. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
- ^ "Most valuable football clubs in Africa as of the 2021/2022 season, by market value". mirror. 20 September 2021. Archived from the original on 19 November 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2021.