Young African FC

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Young African FC
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Full nameYoung African Football Club
Founded2013 [1]
Ground Legare Stadium, Gobabis
Chairman Maleagi Ngarizemo
League Namibia Premiership
2024–252nd

Young African FC is a Namibian football club playing in the Namibia Premier Football League and is based in Gobabis. It was founded in 2013 by former Namibian international Maleagi Ngarizemo.

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History

The club was promoted to the Namibia Premier League in 2016, however this season was cancelled due to conflicts between the clubs and the Namibia Premier League.

Young African won the 2017 Namibia Cup, defeating Mighty Gunners 3–2 in the final. [2]

Young African played 8 games of the 2018/19 season before being expelled as they "registered a player with false identification details as well as contravened rule 52.4 of the NPL Football Manual on Rules and Regulation for corrupt, dishonest or unlawful practice" [3] upon appeal to the Namibia Football Association the club was reinstated to the Premier league but had to pay a N$100,000 fine [4]

Performance

SeasonLeaguePlace
2013–14Cattle Country Football league [5] 1st [6]
2014–15Southern First Division league [7] ?
2015–16Southern First Division league1st [8]
2016–17Namibia Premier LeagueCancelled [9]
2017–18Namibia Premier League5th [10]
2018–19Namibia Premier LeagueExpelled [11]
2019–20No League
2020–21No League
2021–22No League
2022–23Namibia Premier Football League9th [12]

Achievements

Performance in CAF competitions

Matches

SeasonCompetitionRoundOpponentHomeAway Aggregate
2025-26 CAF Confederation Cup 1 Flag of Eswatini.svg Royal Leopards 0 – 2

References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20230516114426/https://www.facebook.com/FCYOUNGAFRICAN/about_details<
  2. 1 2 "African edge Gunners to win Debmarine Namibia Cup - Namibia Football Association". Archived from the original on 2017-12-04. Retrieved 2023-05-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. "FINED, RELEGATED – YOUNG AFRICAN FC SING THE BLUES". economist.na. Archived from the original on 2022-12-09.
  4. "It was a long and draining process – Ngarizemo…as Young African FC is thrown lifeline". neweralive.na. Archived from the original on 2021-08-05.
  5. "Facebook post from club". www.facebook.com.
  6. "Facebook post from club". www.facebook.com.
  7. "Facebook post from club". www.facebook.com.
  8. "Young african gains promotion". www.namibiansun.com. 26 April 2016. Archived from the original on 2023-05-14.
  9. "Namibia 2016/17". www.rsssf.org.
  10. "Namibia 2017/18". www.rsssf.org.
  11. "Namibia 2018/19". www.rsssf.org.
  12. "Namibia 2022/23". www.rsssf.org.