Garankuwa United F.C.

Garankuwa United

Full name	Garankuwa United Football Club
Nickname(s)	Kopano Ke Matla (Togetherness is strength)
Founded	Revived in July 2004
Ground	Pilditch Stadium, West Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Capacity	20,000
Owner	Dingi Rahlagane
Chairman	Abram Rathlabane
Manager	Joseph Mekoe
League	SAFA Second Division

Garankuwa United, sometimes also spelled Ga-Rankuwa United, is a semi-professional association football club based in the Ga-Rankuwa township of Pretoria, in the Gauteng province of South Africa. The club was founded (or revived) in July 2004, to play their first season in the SAFA Regional League. In June 2005, the owners Dingi Rahlagane and Harold "Kaizer" Motaung, decided to acquire the Castle League franchise of the club Buffaloes, based in the North-West province of Vodacom League, which provided the team an automatic promotion to this level for 2005–06.^[1]^[2]

The team's debut season in Vodacom League was very successful, as they managed both to win the North-West province, and get promoted after the provincial play-offs, to play the next two seasons in the National First Division. By June 2007, they were however relegated back again to the North-West province of Vodacom League. They managed again to win the province, both in 2010 and 2011, but today still play in Vodacom League, as they were not yet able to also win the promotional tickets at the provincial play-offs.

Prehistoric team: Ga-Rankuwa United (1960–92)

The current Garankuwa United team, is said to have been founded in June 2005, as a phoenix team of the previous club Ga-Rankuwa United (1960–92). When the prehistoric team got founded in the early 1960s, it initially had the name ABC FC. Later it changed to Wallabies FC, before the club settled with their final name Ga-Rankuwa United. The team did not compete at the high level in South Africa, but only in various domestic regional leagues, like i.e. the Bopsol league organised by the Bophuthatswana government.^[3]

Club records and best achievements

Achieved an 11th place of the National First Division in 2006–07.
Reached the 1/8-Finals (round 16) of the 2007 ABSA Cup, where they narrowly were defeated 1–2 by Dynamos.
Won the North West province of Vodacom League in 2006, 2010 and 2011.

Historical League results

2005–06 (VL) – 1st (in North-West, and promoted)
2006–07 (NFD) – 11th
2007–08 (NFD) – 8th (in Inland stream => Relegated)
2008–09 (VL) – 4th (in North-West)
2009–10 (VL) – 1st (in North-West)
2010–11 (VL) – 1st (in North-West)

Stadium

When the team played at the National First Division in 2006–08, the preferred home venue was Odi Stadium.^[1] This venue had a capacity of 60,000 seats, and had a perfect location just 5 km North of the club house in Garankuwa, being situated in the neighbour township Mabopane. After being relegated to Vodacom League, the team however moved their home venue to these smaller and less expensive stadiums: Medunsa Stadium in 2008–09, Garankuwa Stadium in 2009–10, and Pilditch Stadium in 2010–11.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ ^a ^b Independent OnLine (7 July 2006). "Ga-Rankuwa United set their sights high".
^ Rodwell Ziba (2007). "Ga-Rankuwa United FC -Facebook website".
^ Pretoria News (4 August 2006). "Ga-Rankuwa United: all you need to know".^{[dead link]}

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