Kaizer Chiefs host Mamelodi Sundowns in a crunch DStv Premiership clash on Thursday, where The Brazilians will be crowned league champions with victory over their old rivals.
We round up the numbers on one of the classic clashes in South African football.
2 – Sundowns are champions elect, but also already mathematically guaranteed of a top-two place in the DStv Premiership, which means they will play in the CAF Champions league for an 11th successive season.
4 – Chiefs and Sundowns’ biggest victory in this fixture in both 4-0. Chiefs claimed wins by that margin in 1987 and 1992, while Sundowns’ success was much more recent – the 2022/23 season.
5 – The quartet of Donald Khuse, Chippa Molatedi, Thabo Mooki and Siyabonga Nomvethe have each scored five goals for Chiefs against Sundowns, the most in the National Soccer League (NSL) era.
7 – The most number of goals scored in a single fixture between the two sides. That was in a thrilling 4-3 win for Chiefs in the 2004/05 campaign.
7 – Former Sundowns forward Lovemore Chafunya and current star Peter Shalulile have scored the most goals for the club against Chiefs in the NSL era with seven each. Chafunya’s were netted between 1985 and 1991. Shalulile bagged a brace in the second leg of the MTN8 semifinals this season to also move to seven goals against the AmaKhosi.
7 – Chiefs have the joint seventh best home record this season with 21 points from 12 games (W6 D3 L3 GF12 GA7). They have lost to Cape Town City, Orlando Pirates and Stellenbosch FC, all by 1-0 scorelines.
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8 – Chiefs are currently in eighth place and on course for the MTN8 next season, but they are only two points ahead of AmaZulu in
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