2020 MTN 8

Football tournament season
2020 MTN 8
Tournament details
CountrySouth Africa
Dates17 October 2020 – 12 December 2020
Teams8
Final positions
ChampionsOrlando Pirates (10th title)
Runner-upBloemfontein Celtic
Tournament statistics
Matches played9
Goals scored20 (2.22 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)(2 goals)
Mogakolodi Ngele
Yagan Sasman
Ghampani Lungu
Thembinkosi Lorch
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The 2020 MTN 8 was the 46th edition of South Africa's annual soccer cup competition, the MTN 8. It featured the top eight teams of the Premier Soccer League at the end of the 2019–20 season.

Supersport United were defending champions, but were eliminated in the Semifinal by Bloemfontein Celtic.

The competition was won by Orlando Pirates, ending a six-year trophy drought.[1]

Teams

The eight teams competing in the MTN 8 knockout competition are (listed according to their finishing position in the 2019/2020 Premier Soccer League Season):

  1. Mamelodi Sundowns
  2. Kaizer Chiefs
  3. Orlando Pirates
  4. Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila (purchased the position from Bidvest Wits)
  5. SuperSport United
  6. Cape Town City
  7. Maritzburg
  8. Bloemfontein Celtic

Quarter-finals

Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila2–3SuperSport United
Ngele 44', 56' Report 8' Grobler
28' Rayners
33' Lungu
Orlando Pirates1–0Cape Town City
Dzvukamanja 23' Report
Kaizer Chiefs2–1Maritzburg United
Sasman 73', 75' Report 32' Kutumela
Attendance: 0
Referee: Luxolo Badi
Mamelodi Sundowns0–1Bloemfontein Celtic
Report 69' Letsoalo

Semi-finals

Orlando Pirates3–0Kaizer Chiefs
Z.Lepasa 26'
V.Pule 66'
T.Lorch 81'
Attendance: 0
Referee: Eugene Ndluli
SuperSport United1–1Bloemfontein Celtic
G.Lungu 50' 14' N.Mabena

Bloemfontein Celtic1–0Supersport United
V.Letsoalo 49'
Referee: Thando Nzanzeka

Bloemfontein Celtic won 2–1 on aggregate

Orlando Pirates won 5–0 on aggregate

Final

Luthuli scores his goal after a corner kick for Bloemfontein Celtic in the 4th minute. Orlando Pirates player Thabang Monare received an injury and was replaced by Thembinkosi lorch. In the 32nd minutes, Hotto levels the matter for Orlando Pirates and the score was 1–1. After half time Thembinkosi lorch was fouled in the box and the referee called for a penalty in which was taken by lorch and made it 2–1 for Pirates scoring his second goal in the competition. The match ended in 2–1 and Pirates took the trophy ending their six-year trophy drought.

Statistics

No Player Club Goals
1 Botswana Mogakolodi Ngele Tshakhuma 2
South Africa Victor Letsoalo Bloem Celtic
South Africa Ghampani Lungu Supersport United
South Africa Yagan Sasman Kaizer Chiefs
South Africa Thembinkosi Lorch Orlando Pirates
2 ZimbabweTerrence Dzvukamanja Orlando Pirates 1
South Africa Linda Mntambo
South Africa Fortune Makaringe
South Africa Vincent Pule
Namibia Deon Hotto
South Africa Zakhele Lepasa
South Africa Iqraam Rayners Supersport United
South Africa Bradley Grobler
South Africa Thabiso Kutumela Maritzburg United
South Africa Ndumiso Mabena Bloemfontein Celtic

References

  1. ^ "MTN8 Final Report: Bloemfontein Celtic v Orlando Pirates 12 December 2020". Soccer Laduma. 12 December 2020. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
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