Lebohang Maboe: Soccer Career, Clubs, Caps and Net Worth

Lebohang Maboe is the attacking midfielder who joined Kaizer Chiefs on a free transfer in August 2025, returning to the club whose academy shaped him after a spell and four major trophies with Mamelodi Sundowns. Born Lebohang Kgosana Maboe in Heidelberg, Gauteng, on 17 September 1994, he is the son of the former Orlando Pirates and other clubs striker Sidwell Maboe, and he has played for South Africa at the COSAFA Cup and the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.

Think of his career as a boy who left home for a few seasons and came back with a full trophy cabinet. Below you will find every club in order, the 2018 Nedbank Cup run that made his name at Maritzburg United, a straight answer on his caps (the recorded figures run from 9 to 17), and the published net worth estimates with their outlets attached. The profile module above carries his live numbers for this season, so the words here stay true after every match.

Who Is Lebohang Maboe?

Lebohang Maboe is a South African midfielder who plays mostly as an attacking or central midfielder and has been used on the wing or up front when a coach needs a different shape. The game is in the household. His father, Sidwell Maboe, played as a striker for Orlando Pirates and other clubs, and in 2018 the Sunday World (Sowetan) ran a family feature, 'When soccer runs in the family', on the Maboe players and their story.

For a South African reader, the interest lies in the route. Maboe came through the Kaizer Chiefs academy, made his name in Pietermaritzburg, won his medals in Pretoria with Masandawana, and came back to Amakhosi as an experienced senior player in 2025. In my opinion, very few players carry both a Chiefs academy story and a Downs title story, which is why his name comes up in conversation on both sides of the Chiefs and Sundowns rivalry.

The Road From Heidelberg: Every Club and Every Move

Maboe started at amateur side Ratanda Real Hearts, close to home in Heidelberg, and was promoted to their under 17 side at the age of 14. That early jump against older boys tells you how highly he was rated as a teenager. From Ratanda he moved into the Kaizer Chiefs academy, which is the first Chiefs chapter in his story and the reason his 2025 signing read like a homecoming to supporters in Soweto.

His senior breakthrough came away from the Premiership, at Mbombela United in the National First Division, where he scored 3 goals in 27 appearances in 2015-16. In 2016 he stepped up to Maritzburg United, making his debut in October 2016 against Free State Stars under Ernst Middendorp. No fee appears in the published record of either move, which is common for transfers at that level of the South African game.

The big move came in 2018, when Maboe joined Mamelodi Sundowns. On 29 January 2025 he joined SuperSport United on loan until the end of the 2024-25 season. As with Maritzburg, no fee for the Sundowns move appears in the published record.

In August 2025, Maboe signed for Kaizer Chiefs on a free transfer and took the number 6 shirt. A free transfer means no fee passed between the clubs, so Chiefs added a player with two league titles at no cost beyond his wages. The career table below covers his completed spells to the end of the 2024-25 season, while his appearances and goals for Chiefs live in the profile module, which updates after every match.

Why Did Maboe Leave Maritzburg for Sundowns, Then Come Home to Chiefs?

Maboe joined Mamelodi Sundowns in 2018 because Maritzburg United were working through financial difficulties at the time, and the move followed straight on from his outstanding Nedbank Cup campaign. For a young midfielder, the timing could hardly have been better. Sundowns were the side setting the standard on the log, and a player who had just been named Player of the Tournament had every reason to test himself in a squad built to win the Premiership every season.

The return to Kaizer Chiefs in August 2025 came after his loan at SuperSport United, and it was a free transfer rather than a sale. The fuller reasoning is for the player and the clubs to tell, but the shape of it is easy to read. So, Chiefs gained a midfielder who knows what a title race demands, and Maboe went back to the club where his academy days began, this time as one of the senior heads in the dressing room.

What Does Maboe Do on the Pitch?

Maboe is an attacking or central midfielder by trade, and his versatility is a large part of his value, because coaches have also used him as a winger or a forward. That flexibility matters in the PSL, where squads rotate heavily across league, cup and continental fixtures. A player who can fill three roles without the side changing its whole plan is worth more to a coach than his goal column alone suggests.

The performance that announced him came in the 2017-18 Nedbank Cup. Maritzburg United reached the final, where they lost to Free State Stars, and Maboe collected both the Player of the Tournament and the Most Promising Player awards. Winning both in the same competition is rare, and it is fair to say that run is what put the young midfield maestro on the radar of the biggest clubs in the country.

His first season at Sundowns, 2018-19, backed up the hype with nine goals and eight assists as the club retained the Premiership. More silverware followed: the Telkom Knockout in 2019, then the Premiership and the Nedbank Cup in 2019-20. Four major trophies in two seasons is a tidy return for any midfielder, and it gave Maboe the winning record that Chiefs supporters pointed to when he signed.

How should you read him in the Chiefs side? In my opinion, the log is often decided by goals conceded, and a midfielder who keeps the ball and covers more than one position helps a side protect a lead as much as he helps it score. His goals, assists and minutes for this season sit in the profile module, so check those for his form rather than any written summary.

Maboe and Bafana Bafana: COSAFA Goals, AFCON 2019 and the Caps Question

Maboe scored three goals in two appearances for South Africa at the 2018 COSAFA Cup.

The 2018 COSAFA Cup was his standout tournament in a South Africa shirt. He scored three goals in two appearances, and South Africa won the Plate. Because both versions of his record show three international goals, it would appear that these COSAFA strikes make up his full scoring tally for his country, which is a neat way to remember his peak with the national side.

In 2019 he was named in the South Africa squad for the Africa Cup of Nations, wearing the number 7 shirt. AFCON 2019 offered readers in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and Uganda a chance to follow Maboe with Bafana Bafana on the continental stage. The 15 June 2019 match between South Africa and Ghana is not recognised by FIFA as official.

So, how many caps does he have? The answer depends on the count. Wikipedia's career table gives 9 caps and 3 goals up to June 2019, while its infobox gives 17 caps and 3 goals for the years 2017 to 2021. The recorded figures range from 9 to 17, and the national team module shows the figure it uses alongside its date.

Lebohang Maboe net worth

SportsBrief estimated Lebohang Maboe's net worth at about USD 1.5 million in a 2024 profile written during his Mamelodi Sundowns years, and put his Sundowns salary at about USD 62,325 a month. Both are unverified third party estimates. The article gives no method, and because it was written before his move to Chiefs, it reflects his Sundowns earnings rather than anything agreed at Amakhosi.

Briefly reported in 2025 that his actual pay at Sundowns and his other clubs was never disclosed, and it cited a market value of about EUR 450,000 when he joined Kaizer Chiefs. No endorsement or image rights figures appear in the reporting. If you want the numbers in rand, naira, shillings or cedis, convert them at the day's rate, because these currencies move against the dollar and the euro, and a fixed conversion would go out of date quickly.

Treat every one of these as a published estimate, never as accounts. A monthly salary multiplied by twelve is a year of gross income, not wealth, and it says nothing about deductions, an agent's share or the cost of living. Net worth is what remains after all of that, built up over years, which is why no outside estimate can be checked against anything official.

Market value works differently again. It is an indication of what a club might pay for a player, and that money goes to the selling club, never to the player. Maboe joined Chiefs on a free transfer, so no fee changed hands at all. The useful reading is simple: a long career at a title winning club suggests a good living, but the exact figure stays with Maboe.

How to Watch Maboe From Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and Uganda

Premiership matches are scheduled in South African time, so start from SAST and work outwards. A 15:30 SAST kick off is 14:30 WAT in Lagos, 13:30 GMT in Accra and 16:30 EAT in Nairobi and Kampala, and because none of these zones changes its clocks, that gap holds all year. The fixtures module above lists every Chiefs kick off with all four times shown side by side.

Which channel shows the match depends on where you are, and the broadcast details for each country sit in the viewing module, which updates as rights holders change. Supporters can plan to watch at home or meet friends at a venue showing the match, using the listed broadcast details to check availability.

Readers in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and Uganda can explore Maboe's Sundowns years as part of his South African club career. If he is the reason you have started watching the PSL, open the fixtures module, set the kick off in your own time zone, and browse our profiles of other African soccer players who have made the same journey between the big South African clubs.