Chippa United

Chippa United

Nickname(s)	Chilli Boys
Founded	June 2010
Ground	Philippi Stadium, Philippi, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa (Capacity: 10,000)
Owner	Siviwe Mpengeni (Chippa Investment Holdings)
Chairman	Siviwe Mpengesi
Manager	Wandisile Mbenguzana
Coach	Michael Lukhubeni
League	Vodacom League, Western Cape Province
2010-11 season	1
Website	Club home page
Home colours

Chippa United is a semi-professional association football club based in the Nyanga suburb of Cape Town, in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The club was founded in June 2010, where they bought the Castle League franchise of Mbekweni Cosmos, and hereby started out to play in Vodacom League. Their first season was very successful, as they managed not only to win the Western Cape Province, but also to win the overall Vodacom Promotional Championship, after a series of play-offs in June 2011. This accomplishment ensured Chippa United a direct promotion, to play next season in the National First Division.

Chippa United is wholly owned by Chippa Investment Holdings, which is a big construction, security and cleaning company in Cape Town.

Achievements

• Won the overall Vodacom Promotional Championship, after a series of play-offs in June 2011, where they first won the Coastal Stream, and then continued their victorious march, by defeating Sivutsa Stars 1–0 in the final.
• Won the Western Cape province in Vodacom League 2010–11, after achieving 26 victories, 5 draws and only 1 defeat. At the same time they had a rather impressive Goal Difference of 78, having scored 96 and only conceded 18 goals. Despite this impressive performance, the victory in the provincial division was only achieved in the last round of the season. Because the runnerup Milano United managed to pull out an equally strong performance, with only 2 defeats during the season.
• Reached the 1/16-Finals (round 32) of the 2011 Nedbank Cup, where they narrowly lost to Witbank Spurs.
• Won the local Buffalo City Easter Tournament 2010.

Historical League results

2010–11 (VL) – 1st (promoted as playoff champion)

Team squad

With the professional salaries offered to players, the ‘Chilli Boys’ have been able to entice several ex-PSL stars.
The list below highlight the teams most valuable players as of May 2011, according to the South African soccer site KickOff.^[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. No. Position Player 30 GK Abdurghman White (formerly with Bidvest Wits) 27 DF Ashley Opperman (formerly with Vasco da Gama) 22 MF Diego Marco Brown (formerly with Maritzburg United) 11 FW Welcome Qalanto (formerly with Maritzburg United) 10 FW Andile Mbeyane (formerly with Ajax Cape Town) 14 FW Robin Rhode

Head Coach: Professor Ngubane
1st Assistant: Duran Francis

Top Goal scorers

Top3 Goal Scorers in 2010-11: Andile Mbenyane: 31 goals Robin Rhode: 22 goals Welcome Qalanto: 7 goals

Stadium

Currently they are using the FIFA 2010 World Cup training facility Philippi Stadium , with a seating capacity of 4 000, as sole home venue, and a training field in Nyanga for daily practice. Chippa United also has a team playing in the Castle League and also have a young feeder team Philippi United FC, utilizing the same training field and stadium.

External links

• Official website for Chippa United
• SAFA database with all match results in Vodacom League
• Pictures of the team in competitive matches

References

1. ^ KickOff (2011-06-05). "Vodacom League Play-offs approach". http://www.kickoff.com/news/22189/vodacom-league-play-offs-approach.php.