Južná Afrika - Premier | 05/01 13:00 | 27 | [6] Cape Town City v Orlando Pirates [3] | W | 0-2 | |
Južná Afrika - Premier | 04/28 13:00 | 26 | [13] Royal AM FC v Orlando Pirates [3] | W | 0-4 | |
Južná Afrika - Premier | 04/20 15:30 | 25 | [3] Orlando Pirates v Amazulu [12] | W | 1-0 | |
Juhoafrický pohár | 04/13 16:00 | 3 | Amazulu v Orlando Pirates | W | 2-4 | |
Južná Afrika - Premier | 04/06 15:30 | 24 | [4] Orlando Pirates v Golden Arrows [9] | W | 7-1 | |
Južná Afrika - Premier | 04/03 17:30 | 23 | [13] Moroka Swallows v Orlando Pirates [4] | D | 1-1 | |
Južná Afrika - Premier | 03/30 15:45 | 22 | [6] Sekhukhune United v Orlando Pirates [2] | L | 2-1 | |
Juhoafrický pohár | 03/16 16:00 | 4 | Orlando Pirates v Hungry Lions FC | W | 4-0 | |
Južná Afrika - Premier | 03/09 13:30 | 21 | [5] Orlando Pirates v Kaizer Chiefs [6] | W | 3-2 | |
Južná Afrika - Premier | 03/06 17:30 | 20 | [5] Orlando Pirates v Cape Town Spurs [16] | D | 1-1 | |
Južná Afrika - Premier | 03/02 13:30 | 19 | [9] Polokwane City v Orlando Pirates [5] | W | 0-1 | |
Juhoafrický pohár | 02/24 13:00 | 5 | Safa MP v Orlando Pirates | W | 0-6 | |
Juhoafrický pohár | 02/24 13:00 | 5 | Safa MP v Orlando Pirates | W | Cancelled | |
Južná Afrika - Premier | 02/17 18:00 | 18 | [1] Mamelodi Sundowns v Orlando Pirates [5] | D | 1-1 | |
Južná Afrika - Premier | 02/13 17:30 | 17 | Orlando Pirates v Chippa United | - | Postponed | |
Južná Afrika - Premier | 12/29 18:00 | 16 | [4] Orlando Pirates v Stellenbosch FC [5] | L | 2-3 | |
Južná Afrika - Premier | 12/23 15:45 | 15 | [2] Supersport United v Orlando Pirates [3] | L | 3-1 | |
Južná Afrika - Premier | 12/17 13:30 | 8 | [7] Golden Arrows v Orlando Pirates [5] | W | 1-2 | |
Južná Afrika - Premier | 12/09 18:00 | 14 | [7] Orlando Pirates v TS Galaxy [11] | W | 1-0 | |
Južná Afrika - Premier | 12/05 17:30 | 4 | [9] Orlando Pirates v Moroka Swallows [6] | W | 2-0 | |
Južná Afrika - Premier | 11/25 13:30 | 13 | [15] Richards Bay FC v Orlando Pirates [7] | D | 0-0 | |
Južná Afrika - Premier | 11/11 13:30 | 12 | [7] Kaizer Chiefs v Orlando Pirates [10] | W | 0-1 | |
Južná Afrika - Premier | 11/07 17:30 | 11 | [13] Orlando Pirates v Sekhukhune United [11] | W | 1-0 | |
Juhoafrický pohár | 11/04 13:00 | 3 | Richards Bay FC v Orlando Pirates | L | 5-4 | |
Južná Afrika - Premier | 11/01 17:30 | 6 | [16] Cape Town Spurs v Orlando Pirates [13] | L | 2-1 | |
Južná Afrika - Premier | 10/27 17:30 | 10 | [13] Orlando Pirates v Polokwane City [5] | D | 1-1 | |
Južná Afrika - Premier | 10/24 17:30 | 9 | [11] Amazulu v Orlando Pirates [14] | D | 0-0 | |
Južná Afrika - Ligový pohár | 10/20 17:30 | 4 | Orlando Pirates v Cape Town Spurs | W | 2-0 | |
Juhoafrická republika - Supa 8 pohár | 10/07 16:00 | 1 | Orlando Pirates v Mamelodi Sundowns | W | 3-1 | |
Južná Afrika - Premier | 10/04 17:30 | 9 | Amazulu v Orlando Pirates | - | Postponed |
Orlando Pirates Football Club (often known as "The Buccaneers") is a South African professional football club based in Orlando, Soweto that plays in the top-tier system of Football in South Africa known as DStv Premiership. The team plays its home matches at Orlando Stadium in Soweto.
The club was founded in 1937 and was originally based in Orlando, Soweto. They were named "amapirate" which means 'Pirates' in IsiZulu after the band of teenagers that originally formed an amateur football club at Orlando Boys Club broke away and started congregating at the home of one of the people that worked at Orlando Boys Club. Orlando Pirates are the first club since the inception of the Premier Soccer League in 1996 to have won three major trophies in a single season back to back, having won the domestic league ABSA Premiership, the FA Cup Nedbank Cup and the Top 8 Cup MTN 8 during the ABSA Premiership 2010–11 season and domestic league ABSA Premiership, the League Cup Telkom Knockout and the Top 8 Cup MTN 8 during the ABSA Premiership 2011–12 season. They are one of only two South African teams with Mamelodi Sundowns to win the CAF Champions League, which they won in 1995. They are the runners-up of the 2015 and 2021–2022 CAF Confederation Cup.
Pirates have won 9 league titles and 36 trophies in total.
Orlando Pirates is one of South Africa's oldest football clubs having been established in 1937 in Orlando East, Soweto.
The founders of Orlando Pirates included the offspring of migrant workers who moved from rural areas to work in the gold mines of Gauteng. Boys in Orlando came together at every available opportunity in open spaces and in informal groupings to play football. The original club was formed in 1934 by a group of teenagers at the Orlando Boys Club. Andries Mkhwanazi, popularly known as "Pele Pele", was a boxing instructor at the Orlando Boys Club when he encouraged formation of a football club in 1937 and a year later those teenagers were competing among the minors of the Johannesburg Bantu Football Association barefoot and without a team kit.
In 1940, Bethuel Mokgosinyane, the first president, bought the first team kit with his own funds. Orlando Boys participated in Johannesburg Bantu Football Association's Saturday League, where they won the Division Two title and gained promotion to Division One in 1944. Andrew Bassie, a key member of the team, suggested the new name 'Orlando Pirates'. The team composed the camp's war cry 'Ezimnyama Ngenkani'.
Over the years, Orlando Pirates, also known as 'The Happy People', have accumulated a record of successes having won the National Professional Soccer League title in 1971, 1973, 1975 and 1976, the National Soccer League title in 1994, and the Premier Soccer League title four times, in 2001, 2003, 2011 and 2012. Their first-place finish in the 2010–11 domestic league campaign generated much excitement among the club's vast fan base.
In 2011, Orlando Pirates enjoyed tremendous success by winning the 2010–11 Premier Soccer League, The Nedbank Cup, The MTN 8 Cup and The Telkom Knockout. This year was dubbed as "The Happy Year."[]
Many other cup triumphs in domestic football have also been recorded, including Vodacom Challenge title victories in the inaugural 1999 tournament and 2005. But the African continent and other areas of the football world took notice of Orlando Pirates Football Club when they won the African Champions Cup (now known as the Champions League) in 1995 and the African Super Cup a year later. Along with Mamelodi Sundowns, TP Mazembe and AS Vita, the Orlando Pirates are the only Southern Hemisphere club to have won the African Champions League. This achievement resulted in the club being honoured by the first State President of the new democratic South Africa, Nelson Mandela; another first for a South African sporting team.
Kaizer Chiefs chairman Kaizer Motaung and his Jomo Cosmos counterpart Jomo Sono were popular players of the highest calibre for the Buccaneers before starting their own clubs.
In 2005, the team, along with Interza Lesego and Ellis Park Stadium Ltd, announced its acquisition of a 51% share in Ellis Park Stadium, making it the first majority black-owned stadium in South Africa. It was in the same year that Orlando Pirates achieved Superbrand status. Superbrands is an international company that identifies and rewards the leading brands around the world; Orlando Pirates are the only South African sports team next to the Springboks and Proteas to be given this status. []
The Soweto derby between Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates is fiercely contested derby. The first match was on 24 January 1970.