Chippa United F.C.

Chippa United

Full name	Chippa United Football Club
Nickname(s)	Chilli Boys
Founded	January 2010;14 years ago (2010-01)
Ground	Buffalo City Stadium (night games) Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium
Capacity	16,000
Chairman	Siviwe Mpengesi
League	Betway Premiership
2022–23	14th
Website	www.chippautdfc.co.za
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Former club crest

Chippa United Football Club (often known as Chilli boys or Chippa) is a South African professional football club based in East London in the Eastern Cape province, having previously been based in Nyanga suburb of the city of Cape Town. The club's first team currently plays in the Premier Soccer League's Premier Division, with the reserve team playing in the PSL's reserve league. ^[1] The team plays most of its home games at the Buffalo City Stadium, while hosting night matches at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium.

History

The club was founded in January 2010 when Chippa Mpengesi purchased the Vodacom League franchise of Paarl based club, Mbekweni Cosmos, for R400,000. ^[2] Cosmos had won promotion from the Castle League at the end of the 2008–09 season, and started campaigning in the Vodacom League in the 2009–10 season. In 2010–11 season, the club began playing under the name, Chippa United.

Chippa United's first season was very successful with the club winning the Western Cape Vodacom League before winning the Vodacom League National Coastal Stream to achieve promotion to the National First Division. ^[3] Chippa were also crowned the overall 2010–11 Vodacom League National champions after beating Inland Stream winners Sivutsa Stars. ^[3]

The club finished their debut season in the National First Division in 2nd place behind University of Pretoria and won promotion to the Premier Soccer League via the play-offs in June 2012. ^[4] Chippa used five managers during the course of the 2012–13 PSL season ^[5] and finished 15th, eventually getting relegated after failing to win the playoffs. ^[6]

A feeder team, called Peace Makers, was once owned by Chippa United, and ran teams under the club's umbrella. It ran a team in the SAFA Second Division and also junior teams in Cape Town's junior leagues. ^[7] The Peace Makers franchise was sold to Milano United before the beginning of the 2013–14 season. ^[8] In Port Elizabeth the club runs its youth teams under the Chippa United name, and play in the Port Elizabeth Football Association leagues. ^[9]

Ownership

Chippa United is wholly owned by Chippa Investment Holdings, which is a Cape Town-based construction, security and cleaning company founded by Siviwe "Chippa" Mpengesi.

During 2015, the club was effectively under the administration of Access Facilities and Leisure Management, the operating company of Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium. ^[10]

Stadium

During the club's early seasons in Cape Town, it used Philippi Stadium as its home ground. The stadium was used from 2009–10 to 2011–12 and again in 2013–14.

Following the 2011–12 the club was promoted from the Premier Soccer League's National First Division to the Premier Division. Philippi Stadium was deemed not to be up to standard to host matches in the Premier Division. Due to this, the club hosted its matches at Athlone Stadium and Cape Town Stadium. ^[11] However, the ground had previously been used by Vasco da Gama during the 2010–11 season. From March 2013, the club was allowed to host matches at Philippi Stadium. ^[12]

Following the 2013–14 season the club was promoted to the Premier Division once more. During the off season, the club announced that it would move to Port Elizabeth. ^[13] The club and municipality announced a three-year deal to use Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium. ^[14] The municipality also announced that certain matches would be played at the city's Wolfson Stadium and Gelvandale Stadium. ^[15] During the 2014–15 season, the club was forced to host matches at the Wolfson Stadium.

According to a report tabled by the Nelson Mandela Bay mayor's office, Chippa United's contract to play in the city is for 18 years, beginning with the 2014–15 season, and thus running to 2031–32. ^[16]

During the 2015–16 season, the club announced plans to host some of its matches at East London's Buffalo City Stadium. ^[17] The club cited the high cost of hosting matches at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, and lack of paying spectators as reasons for the decision. ^[18]

Training ground

On the club's movement to Port Elizabeth, it announced that it intended to use Wolfson Stadium as its training ground, and intended pursuing a long-term lease from the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality. As the ground was not yet up to standard, the club announced that it would use Gelvandale Stadium for training, until the necessary upgrades were completed at Wolfson Stadium. During the 2014–15 and 2015–16 seasons, the club split its training at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University's Second Avenue Campus and Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium's outdoor fields. Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium's outer fields are shared with the Eastern Province Elephants rugby team.^{[ citation needed ]}

Achievements

• NFD Champions:

2013–14

• PSL promotion/relegation play-offs:

2011–12

• Second Division National play-offs:

2010–11

• Second Division Western Cape Stream:

2010–11

• Metropolitan Under-19 Premier Cup

2012 (As Philippi United) ^[19]

• U-17 Engen Knockout Challenge

2015 ^[20]

2016 ^[21]

Club records

Premiership

Season	Division	Result	Pld	Won	Draw	Lose	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Nedbank Cup	Telkom KO	MTN 8
2009-10	3rd	13th	30	10	5	15	48	48	0	35
2010-11	3rd	Winner	32	26	5	1	96	18	78	83
2011-12	NFD	2nd/Promoted	30	14	9	7	46	29	17	51	1st round	—	—
2012-13	PSL	15th/Relegated	30	6	10	14	28	41	-13	28	R32
2013-14	NFD	1st/Winner	30	17	7	6	54	36	18	58	1st Round	—	—
2014-15	PSL	14th	30	7	9	14	30	47	-17	30	R32	R16	–

• 2012–13  – 15th (relegated)
• 2014–15 – 14th
• 2015–16 – 6th
• 2016–17 – 13th
• 2017–18 – 10th
• 2018–19 – 12th
• 2019–20 – 11th
• 2020–21 – 15th
• 2021–22 – 14th
• 2022–23 – 14th
• 2023–24 – 12th

National First Division

• 2011–12  – 2nd (promoted via play-off)
• 2013–14  – 1st (promoted)

SAFA Second Division

• 2009–10  – 13th (as Mbekweni Cosmos)
• 2010–11  – 1st (promoted via play-off)

Nedbank Cup

• 2011–12  – NFD qualification round
• 2012–13  – Round of 32
• 2013–14  – NFD qualification round
• 2014–15  – Round of 32
• 2015–16  – Round of 32

Telkom Knockout

• 2012  – Round of 16
• 2014  – Round of 16
• 2015  – Round of 16

MTN 8

• 2016  – Semi-finals*

PSL Reserve League

• 2014–15  – 6th (Group B)
• 2015–16  – 16th

Shirt sponsor & kit manufacturer

Period	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
2010–11	Rada Sport	Vacant
2011–12	Adidas	Vacant
2012–13	Kappa	Vodacom
2013–14	Umbro	Chippa Holdings
2014	Nike [22]
2015	Umbro
2015–16	Puma [23]
2016-17	Canterbury [24]
2017-20	Umbro [25]	Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality
2020-	Monflair [26]

Internationals

Players who have made an appearance for national football team, while playing for Chippa United. Caps and period refer to the number of caps earned, and the period in which they are earned, while at Chippa United.

Player	National team	Caps	Period
David Zulu	South Africa	0	2013
James Okwuosa	Nigeria	2	2013–
Thamsanqa Sangweni	South Africa	1	2014–
Chrisopher Komane	South Africa	?	2014–
Siyabonga Zulu	South Africa	?	2014–
William Twala	South Africa	2	2015–
Aristide Bancé	Burkina Faso	3	2015–
Zitha Macheke	South Africa U-23	1	2015–
Zaid Patel	South Africa U-23	?	2015
Diamond Thopola	South Africa	0	2016–
Daniel Akpeyi	Nigeria Olympic Team	1	2016
Stanley Nwabali	Nigeria National Team	7	2024

Current squad

As of 1 August 2024 ^[27]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 DF   RSA Gadiel Kamagi 3 DF   RSA Azola Ntsabo 4 DF   LES Thabo Makhele 5 DF   RSA Seun Ndlovu 6 MF   RSA Siphelo Baloni 8 FW   NAM Elmo Kambindu 9 FW   CMR Bienvenu Eva Nga 10 MF   RSA Azola Matrose 11 MF   RSA Ronaldo Maarman 12 MF   RSA Aviwe Mqokozo 14 MF   RSA Sinoxolo Kwayiba 15 MF   RSA Andile Jali 16 GK   RSA Lukhanyo July 17 FW   RSA Giovanni Philander 18 DF   RSA Thabang Molaoa

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 MF   TAN Baraka Majogoro 23 GK   NGA Stanley Nwabali 24 MF   RSA Ayabulela Konqobe Magqwaka 25 DF   RSA Sirgio Kammies 26 FW   RSA Aphelele Teto (on loan from Livingston ) 27 DF   RSA Gadinkame Modise 29 MF   RSA Athenkosi Dlala 30 MF   RSA Craig Martin 31 DF   RSA Kerwin Peters 32 GK   RSA Darren Johnson 33 DF   RSA Justice Chabalala 36 MF   RSA Asanele Bonani 39 DF   RSA Boy Madingwana 47 MF   RSA Xolani Sithole

Former coaches

• Manqoba Mngqithi (9 July 2012 – 20 Aug 2012)
• Julius Dube (23 Aug 2012 – Sept 12, 2012)
• Roger Sikhakhane (Sept 13, 2012 – 28 Oct 2012)
• Farouk Abrahams (28 Oct 2012 – 29 Jan 2013)
• Wilfred Mugeyi (29 Jan 2013 – 11 April 2013)
• Mark Harrison (12 April 2013 – 7 Oct 2013)
• Ian Palmer (8 Oct 2013 – 27 Jan 2014)
• Vladislav Herić (29 Jan 2014 – 30 June 2014) ^[28]
• Kosta Papić (1 July 2014 – Sept 3, 2014)
• Roger Sikhakhane (Sept 4, 2014 – 5 Jan 2015)
• Ernst Middendorp (5 Jan 2015 – 30 March 2015)
• Roger Sikhakhane (2 July 2015 – 7 Dec 2015)
• Dan Malesela (Dec , 2015 – Sept, 2017) ^{[29] [30]}
• Teboho Moloi (Sept 30, 2017 – 3 Mar 2018) ^{[31] [32]}
• Vladislav Herić (3 Mar 2018 – 27 May 2018) ^{[33] [34]}
• Dan Malesela (27 May 2018 – 21 Aug 2018) ^[30]
• Lehlohonolo Seema ( – 23 Dec 2020) ^[35]
• Luc Eymael (23 Dec 2020 – 24 Dec 2020) ^[36]
• Dan Malesela (27 Dec 2020 – 4 Apr 2021) ^[37]
• Gavin Hunt (7 Jul 2021 – Jul 2022) ^[38]
• Daine Klate (Jul 2022 – Sep 2022) ^{[39] [40]}
• Morgan Mammila (Jun 2023 – Jan 2024) ^[41]
• Thabo September and Kwanele Kopo (Jan 2024 –) ^[42]

Former technical directors

• Mich d'Avray ^[43]
• Vladislav Herić

References

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33. "Heric returns as Chippa United coach". Kickoff. 3 March 2018. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
34. "Chippa announce new head coach". Kickoff. 27 May 2018. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
35. "Chippa stun SA with Eymael announcement". Kickoff. 23 December 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
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42. Raophala, Mauwane (9 January 2024). "Morgan Mammila reassigned as new coaches take over at Chippa". FARPost. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
43. "Chippa Confirm D'Avray As Technical Director". Soccer Laduma. 3 September 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2020.

External links

• Official website
• Premier Soccer League
• Chippa United F.C results