2022–23 South African Premier Division

Football league season

Premier Soccer League
Season	2022–23
Dates	5 August 2022 – 20 May 2023
Champions	Mamelodi Sundowns
Relegated	Marumo Gallants
Champions League	Mamelodi Sundowns Orlando Pirates
Matches played	240
Goals scored	503 (2.1 per match)
Top goalscorer	(11 goals) Peter Shalulile (Mamelodi Sundowns)
Biggest home win	Mamelodi Sundowns 4–0 Kaizer Chiefs (13 August 2022) Golden Arrows 4–0 Swallows (16 September 2022) AmaZulu 4–0 Kaizer Chiefs (13 January 2023)
Biggest away win	Maritzburg United 0–5 Mamelodi Sundowns (26 August 2022)
Longest winning run	(15 wins) Mamelodi Sundowns
Longest unbeaten run	(24 games) Mamelodi Sundowns
Longest winless run	(13 games) Richards Bay
Longest losing run	(7 losses) Richards Bay
Highest attendance	(90 000) Orlando Pirates 0-1 Kaizer Chiefs 29 October 2022
← 2021–22 2023–24 → All statistics correct as of 14 January 2022.

The 2022–23 South African Premier Division from 5 August 2022 to 20 May 2023 is the 27th consecutive season of the PSL.^[1] Mamelodi Sundowns are the 5-time defending champions, having won the title from the 2017–18 season to 2021–22.^[2] Sekhukhune United relocated from Ellis Park Stadium to Peter Mokaba Stadium.^[3]^[4]

Teams

Team changes

The following teams changed divisions since the end of the 2021-22 season

Promoted from the 2021–22 National First Division

•Richards Bay F.C.^[5]

Relegated from the 2021–22 South African Premier Division

•Baroka F.C.^[6]

Location of teams

Cape Town City

Johannesburg teams
Kaizer Chiefs
Swallows
Orlando Pirates

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Location of teams in the 2022–23 PSL.

Stadiums and locations


Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
AmaZulu	Durban	Moses Mabhida Stadium	55,500
Cape Town City	Cape Town	Cape Town Stadium	55,000
Chippa United	Gqeberha	Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium	48,459
Golden Arrows	Durban (Clermont)	Sugar Ray Xulu Stadium	12,000
Kaizer Chiefs	Johannesburg (Soweto)	FNB Stadium	94,736
Mamelodi Sundowns	Pretoria (Marabastad)	Loftus Versfeld Stadium	51,762
Maritzburg United	Petermaritzburg	Harry Gwala Stadium	12,000
Marumo Gallants	Polokwane	Peter Mokaba Stadium	45,500
Orlando Pirates	Johannesburg (Soweto)	Orlando Stadium	37,139
Richards Bay	Richards Bay	Richards Bay Stadium	8,000
Royal AM	Chatsworth	Chatsworth Stadium	6,500
Sekhukhune United	Polokwane	Peter Mokaba Stadium	45,500
Stellenbosch	Stellenbosch	Danie Craven Stadium	8,000
SuperSport United	Pretoria (Atteridgeville)	Lucas Masterpieces Moripe Stadium	28,900
Swallows	Johannesburg (Soweto)	Dobsonville Stadium	24,000
TS Galaxy	Mbombela	Mbombela Stadium	40,929

Number of teams by province

Position	Province	Number	Teams
1	Gauteng	5	Kaizer Chiefs, Mamelodi Sundowns, Swallows, Orlando Pirates, SuperSport United
1	KwaZulu-Natal	5	AmaZulu, Golden Arrows, Maritzburg United, Richards Bay, Royal AM
3	Western Cape	2	Cape Town City and Stellenbosch
3	Limpopo	2	Marumo Gallants and Sekhukhune United
5	Eastern Cape	1	Chippa United
5	Mpumalanga	1	TS Galaxy

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Mamelodi Sundowns (C)	30	21	7	2	52	13	+39	70	Qualification for Champions League
2	Orlando Pirates	30	16	6	8	40	21	+19	54	Qualification for Champions League
3	SuperSport United	30	14	9	7	34	22	+12	51	Qualification for Confederation Cup
4	Cape Town City	30	12	9	9	34	30	+4	45
5	Kaizer Chiefs	30	13	5	12	32	33	−1	44
6	Stellenbosch	30	10	10	10	39	38	+1	40
7	Sekhukhune United	30	10	10	10	24	27	−3	40
8	Swallows	30	11	7	12	26	33	−7	40
9	Lamontville Golden Arrows	30	10	8	12	32	40	−8	38
10	TS Galaxy	30	7	14	9	28	22	+6	35
11	Royal AM	30	9	8	13	33	43	−10	35
12	AmaZulu	30	7	12	11	29	33	−4	33
13	Richards Bay	30	8	9	13	20	30	−10	33
14	Chippa United	30	7	9	14	29	44	−15	30
15	Maritzburg United	30	7	9	14	24	40	−16	30	Qualification for Playoffs
16	Marumo Gallants (R)	30	5	14	11	27	34	−7	29	Relegation to the First Division

Source: Premier Soccer League
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	AMA	CTC	CHI	GDA	TSG	KZC	MAG	MDS	MAR	RBU	SWA	ORL	ROY	SEK	STL	SSU
AmaZulu	—	2–1	1–2	0–1	1–2	4–0	1–1	2–2	1–1	0–1	0–1	0–4	1–1	2–0	1–0	2–1
Cape Town City	2–2	—	2–1	0–0	1–0	2–0	2–2	0–2	0–0	2–0	2–0	2–1	2–1	0–0	1–1	0–1
Chippa United	0–2	1–1	—	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	3–3	1–2	0–2	1–3	1–0	1–2	1–1
Lamontville Golden Arrows	1–0	1–1	3–2	—	0–0	0–2	3–2	1–1	0–1	0–2	4–0	0–2	1–2	0–0	1–1	2–1
TS Galaxy	0–0	0–1	4–0	4–0	—	0–0	0–1	1–2	1–2	4–0	0–0	1–2	1–1	1–1	0–0	2–0
Kaizer Chiefs	0–0	0–1	1–2	2–3	2–2	—	1–1	0–1	3–0	1–0	1–2	1–0	2–0	0–1	2–1	2–1
Marumo Gallants	0–0	2–1	3–1	1–1	0–0	1–1	—	0–2	0–1	0–2	1–1	0–2	3–1	2–0	0–0	0–0
Mamelodi Sundowns	1–0	0–0	2–1	2–1	0–1	4–0	1–0	—	1–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	5–1	2–0	3–0	1–0
Maritzburg United	1–1	1–2	2–1	0–2	1–2	2–3	2–2	0–5	—	1–1	0–0	1–0	3–1	1–1	1–0	1–2
Richards Bay	1–1	1–0	2–3	0–1	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–2	0–0	—	1–0	0–2	0–0	1–0	1–2	0–1
Swallows	2–3	3–2	2–0	0–1	0–0	1–2	2–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	—	1–4	2–0	2–1	1–2	0–0
Orlando Pirates	1–1	2–1	0–1	3–1	2–0	0–1	1–0	0–1	2–1	0–0	1–0	—	1–1	1–1	4–1	1–0
Royal AM	2–0	1–2	1–1	3–1	0–0	1–0	2–2	0–3	1–0	0–1	0–1	0–1	—	2–0	3–1	1–1
Sekhukhune United	0–0	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	3–2	1–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–2	—	1–1	1–0
Stellenbosch	2–0	3–2	1–1	5–2	2–1	1–3	1–1	1–1	3–0	1–2	3–0	1–1	3–1	0–1	—	0–2
SuperSport United	2–1	2–0	1–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	2–0	1–1	1–1	0–0	3–1	3–1	0–0	—

Source: Flashscore
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Statistics

Top scorers

As of 13 May 2023^[7]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Peter Shalulile	Mamelodi Sundowns	12
1	Khanyisa Mayo	Cape Town City	12
3	Monnapule Saleng	Orlando Pirates	11
4	Etiosa Ighodaro	Chippa United	10
	Bradley Grobler	SuperSport United
	Ranga Chivaviro	Marumo Gallants
7	Iqraam Rayners	Stellenbosch	9
7	Cassius Mailula	Mamelodi Sundowns	9
9	Júnior Mendieta	Stellenbosch	8
9	Amadou Soukouna	Maritzburg United	8

Hat-tricks


Key
H	Home game
A	Away game

Player	For	Against	Result	Date
Bonfils-Caleb Bimenyimana	Kaizer Chiefs	Stellenbosch	3-1 A	9 October 2022
Monnapule Saleng	Orlando Pirates	Swallows	4-1 A	3 March 2023

Most assists

As of 30 October 2022

Rank	Player	Club	Assists^[8]
1	Monnapule Saleng	Orlando Pirates	8
1	Júnior Mendieta	Stellenbosch	8
3	Iqraam Rayners	Stellenbosch	7
4	Kabelo Dlamini	Orlando Pirates	6
4	Knox Mutizwa	Golden Arrows)	6

Clean sheets

As of 30 October 2022

No	Player	Club	Clean sheets^[9]
1	Ronwen Williams	Mamelodi Sundowns	13
2	Jamal Salim	Richards Bay	11
3	Melusi Buthelezi	TS Galaxy	9
4	Veli Mothwa	AmaZulu	7
5	Richard Ofori	Orlando Pirates	5
	Thakasani Mbanjwa	Swallows
	Badra Ali Sangare	Sekhukhune United
	Darren Keet	Cape Town City
9	Ricardo Goss	SuperSport United	4
9	Washington Arubi	Marumo Gallants	4
11	Cedric Gumede	Golden Arrows	3
11	Sage Stephens	Stellenbosch	3

References

^ "Premier Soccer League Confirm Start Dates For 2022/2023 Season". Soccer Laduma. 6 July 2022. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
^ "Premier Soccer League - www.psl.co.za - official website". psl.co.za. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
^ "CLUB ANNOUNCEMENT – Official Relocation Of Sekhukhune United FC To Limpopo Province". Sekhukhune United. 1 July 2022. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
^ "Sekhukhune relocates from Gauteng to a different province". FARPost. 1 July 2022. Retrieved 1 July 2022.
^ "Richards Bay secure PSL promotion after clinching NFD title | Goal.com". www.goal.com. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
^ "Baroka relegated to NFD after six years in the PSL". TimesLIVE. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
^ "DStv Premiership Top Scorers". supersport.com.
^ "Players - PSL - South Africa - Results, fixtures, tables and news - Soccerway". soccerway.com.
^ "Premier Soccer League Top Scorers and Most Clean Sheets". footystats.com.

External links

Official website

South African Premier Division seasons

2023–24 teams

Former teams (defunct teams)

Associated competitions

Seasons

v t e Seasons in South African soccer
Premiership teams (2023–24)	AmaZulu Cape Town City Cape Town Spurs Chippa United Golden Arrows Kaizer Chiefs Mamelodi Sundowns Moroka Swallows Pirates Polokwane City Richards Bay Royal AM Sekhukhune United Stellenbosch SuperSport United TS Galaxy
First Division teams (2023–24)	Baroka Black Leopards Casric Stars Hungry Lions JDR Stars Jomo Cosmos Magesi Maritzburg United Marumo Gallants Milford MM Platinum Orbit College Platinum City Pretoria Callies TS Sporting University of Pretoria Upington City Venda
Premier Soccer League	1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24
National First Division	1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24
SAFA Second Division	1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24
Nedbank Cup	1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2001 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24
MTN 8	1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 2000 2001 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Carling Black Label Cup	2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2019 2021 2022
Telkom Knockout/Carling Knockout Cup	1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2023
National Football League	1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977
Federation Professional League	1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990
NPSL (1971-1977)	1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977
NPSL (1978-1984)	1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984
NPSL (1985-1995)	1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1984 1992 1983 1994 1995
National Soccer League (NSL)	1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995
SASF Cup	1961 1962 1963 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990
Telkom Charity Cup	1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Vodacom Challenge	1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2011

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