SuperSport United: What Happened to the Pretoria Soccer Club, Its Honours and Siwelele

SuperSport United, the Pretoria soccer club, was sold in 2025, when Siwelele FC was founded after buying the club. News of the sale, for a reported R50 million, broke on 1 July 2025, and the club had finished 14th in its last season under the old name, 2024-25. SuperSport United won consecutive league titles in 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10 before the 2025 sale.

The Supersport United fixtures listing now follows the Siwelele games, with kick off times shown in WAT, EAT, SAST and GMT together.

What Happened to SuperSport United FC, and Is It Still a Club?

SuperSport United was sold in 2025, when Siwelele FC was founded after buying the club. The deal was reported at R50 million, and a rebrand was planned from the moment the news broke on 1 July 2025. Siwelele took the nickname of Bloemfontein Celtic, a name that carries real feeling in the Free State, and its first season, 2025-26, finished 10th of 16 in the Premiership. So, the plain answer to 'is SuperSport United still a club?' is that Siwelele FC was founded in 2025 after buying SuperSport United, connecting the Pretoria club's history with Bloemfontein.

Who Were SuperSport United of Pretoria?

SuperSport United were a Pretoria soccer club, and they won three league titles in a row in 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10. Their story ran back to the Pretoria City years, whose matches still count in the club's appearance records, and that long Gauteng history is why the name meant so much in the capital.

What Did SuperSport United Win?

SuperSport United won twelve major domestic honours: league titles in 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10; Nedbank Cups in 1999, 2005, 2011-12, 2015-16 and 2016-17; MTN 8 trophies in 2004, 2017 and 2019; and the Telkom Knockout in 2014. The league hat trick from 2007-08 to 2009-10 is the crown. But, the Nedbank Cup was where the club looked most at home, lifting it in 1999, 2005, 2011-12, 2015-16 and 2016-17. Back to back wins in 2015-16 and 2016-17 point to a squad built for knockout soccer, with nerve mattering as much as quality in knockout competitions.

The MTN 8 followed in 2004, 2017 and 2019, and the Telkom Knockout in 2014, which gave the club silverware in all four of the competitions listed in the table below. For a reader comparing clubs, that spread says more than any single season on the log, because it shows a side that could win over a full league campaign and in knockout competitions. Those honours belong to the SuperSport United years. If you are quoting them in a debate (and Pretoria fans often are), the dates in the table are the quickest way to get them right.

From Atteridgeville to Bloemfontein: Where Do They Play Now?

In 2025, Siwelele FC listed Dr. Petrus Molemela Stadium in Bloemfontein as its home, with a capacity of 22,000; SuperSport United’s former home was Lucas Moripe Stadium in Atteridgeville, Pretoria, with a listed capacity of 28,900. The 2025 sale connected the club’s Pretoria history with Bloemfontein, where Siwelele is the nickname of Bloemfontein Celtic. If you are travelling to a match, check the venue on each fixture entry, because the ground is listed with every game.

Which Coaches and Players Built the SuperSport Name?

Pitso Mosimane coached the club from 2001 to 2007 and laid the foundations, and Gavin Hunt took over in 2007 and delivered the three league titles during a first spell that ran to 2013. Hunt returned for a second spell from 2022 to 2025, while Stuart Baxter coached in 2016-17, a season that ended with the Nedbank Cup in the cabinet. For readers in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Uganda, Mosimane is the natural way in.

As recorded in 2025, the names that carry the story on the pitch include Ronwen Williams, Kermit Erasmus, Daine Klate and Kamohelo Mokotjo, all of them products of the club's own academy. As recorded in 2025, Dennis Masina of Eswatini holds the record as the club's most capped international, which gives supporters across southern Africa a direct stake in the history. Dennis Masina links the club’s history with Eswatini.

What Did the SuperSport United Academy and Soccer Schools Produce?

In my opinion, the SuperSport United academy was among the most productive in South African soccer, and the proof is in the names: as recorded in 2025, Daine Klate, Kermit Erasmus, Ronwen Williams and Kamohelo Mokotjo all came through it. Each took a different route, a winger, a striker, a goalkeeper and a midfielder, which suggests a system built to teach the game rather than to fill one position. Those graduates explain why searches for the SuperSport United FC academy remain strong long after the 2025 sale, especially among parents in Gauteng.

Many readers also search for the SuperSport United soccer schools at Dainfern and Kyalami, both north of Johannesburg. Junior coaching programmes like these can change names, venues or organisers when a senior club is sold, and we have not confirmed which sessions still run under the old name. So, if you are thinking of enrolling a child, contact the organisers at the venue directly and ask about age groups, coaching staff and schedules before you commit to anything.

For young players already in the professional system, the pathway in the Premiership runs through the DStv Diski Challenge, the reserve competition where academy players test themselves against other clubs' youngsters. If you want to follow a Siwelele youngster from that stage into the first team, the live squad module lists players as the club registers them. That is a far better guide than any list written months ago, because registrations shift with every transfer window.

How Is the Squad Set Out Now?

The squad sits in a live module that updates as the club registers and releases players, so the names you see there are current while any written list would quickly fall behind. It is grouped by position, which lets you see at a glance where the depth sits and where a new signing might slot in. If you are coming to Siwelele from the SuperSport United days, read it alongside the academy names above. You may well spot players who started in the Pretoria youth system and carried on into the Bloemfontein era, which is one of the quieter pleasures of following a renamed club.

Where Are SuperSport News, Fixtures and Predictions Now?

SuperSport news, fixtures, form and predictions now follow Siwelele, and all of them sit in the live modules above, which update after every match. The predictions are calls with a probability and a reference price, never a certainty, so read them as an informed view of the odds rather than a promise of a result. They make most sense next to the form guide and the log. A side's goals conceded tells you more than its last scoreline, and that number moves the probabilities more than most supporters expect.

Every fixture shows kick off in SAST, WAT, EAT and GMT together. SAST runs two hours ahead of GMT, WAT one hour ahead and EAT three hours ahead, so a fan in Lagos sees the match an hour earlier on the clock than a fan in Johannesburg, while Nairobi and Kampala see it an hour later. Accra follows GMT. If you treat the PSL as the main event and Europe as the Sunday extra, as I do, those four times make it easy to plan both around the same weekend.

What Are SuperSport United's Club Records?

The club's record victory was 9-0 against Red Star Anse aux Pins in the CAF Confederation Cup on 19 March 2005, and Bradley Grobler is its all time top scorer with 58 goals. Ronald Lawrence holds the most starts with 224, a total that includes his Pretoria City matches. At the other end, the record defeat was 0-5 against Arcadia on 7 April 1990, in the old NSL, long before the title years. These figures close the SuperSport United book, while the records module on the page tracks the Siwelele numbers as they are written.