Ayabulela Konqobe Magqwaka

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Ayabulela Konqobe Magqwaka
Personal information
Full name Ayabulela Konqobe Magqwaka
Date of birth (1996-01-12) 12 January 1996 (age 28)
Place of birth Cape Town, South Africa
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
Chippa United
Number 24
Youth career
Cultural Roots [1]
Vasco da Gama
Ajax Cape Town
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2014–2016 Ajax Cape Town 0 (0)
2015SuperSport United (loan) 2 (0)
2015–2016AmaZulu (loan) 14 (1)
2016–2017 Thanda Royal Zulu 29 (0)
2017 AmaZulu 0 (0)
2017–2018 Chippa United 17 (0)
2018–2019 AmaZulu 1 (0)
2019–2020 Steenberg United 12 (0)
2020 Ekenäs IF 22 (6)
2021– Chippa United 52 (2)
2022Cape Town All Stars (loan) 9 (0)
International career
2015 South Africa U20 2 (0)
South Africa U23 1 (0)
2021– South Africa 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 27 November 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 16 July 2021

Ayabulela Konqobe Magqwaka (born 12 January 1996) is a South African football (soccer) midfielder who plays for Chippa United. [2]

Contents

Early life career

He hails from Gugulethu on the Cape Flats. [3]

Club career

Besides his native South Africa, Konqobe Magqwaka has played in Finland for Ekenäs IF (EIF) in the second-tier Ykkönen.

International career

He made his debut for South Africa national soccer team on 13 July 2021 in a 2021 COSAFA Cup game against Lesotho. [4] South Africa won the tournament.

Honours

Chippa United

Career statistics

As of 27 November 2024.
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueCup [a] OtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
SuperSport United (loan) 2014–15 South African Premiership 200020
AmaZulu (loan) 2015–16 NFD 14110151
Thanda Royal Zulu 2016–17 NFD29000290
Chippa United 2017–18 South African Premiership170112 [b] 0201
AmaZulu 2018–19 South African Premiership100010
Steenberg United 2019–20 NFD12010130
Ekenäs IF 2020 Ykkönen 22651277
Chippa United 2020–21 South African Premiership12040160
2021–22 South African Premiership000000
2022–23 South African Premiership11010120
2023–24 South African Premiership211201 [b] 0241
2024–25 South African Premiership81001 [b] 091
Total5227020613
Cape Town All Stars (loan) 2021–22 NFD9010100
Career total15891623017811

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References

  1. Magqwaka awaits chance, pressreader.com, 4 October 2014
  2. Off-the-field issues cost AmaZulu star Ayabulela Konqobe a job, timeslive.co.za, 10 April 2019
  3. "Web Page Under Construction".
  4. "South Africa v Lesotho game report". ESPN. 13 July 2021. Retrieved 12 August 2021.