Quick facts and figures from South Africa’s grand ‘classsico’ as Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates square up yet again. *There have been 147 past derbies, 64 won by Chiefs and 35 by Pirates. There have been 43 draws and five abandoned matches. *Chiefs have scored a total of 200 goals in the Soweto derby. The tally for the Bucs is 159. *Pule ‘Ace’ Ntsoelengoe scored a record 19 times in the derby matches for Chiefs, way ahead of Nelson ‘Teenage’ Dladla and Abednego ‘Shaka’ Ngcobo on 11. Pirates’ top scorer in the derbies is Jomo Sono with nine games. *The Orlando Stadium has hosted a total of 59 derby matches, compared to 49 at Soccer City. *Percy ‘Chippa’ Moloi scored the very first goal in a Chiefs v Pirates derby game in 1970. *The last player to score a hat trick in the Chiefs v Pirates derby was Jerry Sikhosana, who got three in Pirates’ 4-1 win in November 1996. *The fastest goal in the history of the derby match came after just 19 seconds from Mabhudi Khenyeza in Durban in November 2007. *Alfred ‘Russia’ Jacobs and Fani Madida hold the distinction of having scored in four successive derbies. Jacobs’ quartet came in 1970 and 71 and Madida in 1991 and 1992. Chiefs goalkeeper Joseph ‘Banks’ Setlhodi netted penalties in three successive derbies in 1972, Ntsoelengoe scored in three games in a row in1975 and was matched by Sikhosana (96-97) and Dennis Lota (99-00) *Four goals is the biggest winning margin in derby game, twice achieved by Chiefs (7-3 in 1972 and 5-1 in 1975) and once by Pirates (5-1 in 1990). *The record for the most number of derby matches in a single season was set in 1975. That season the two sides met eight times inside 12 months, twice in the league; in the two legs of the Champions of Champions final; the semifinal of the first-ever mixed tournament, which was also called the Champion of Champions; the Life Challenge final and the BP Top 16 semifinal, which also necessitated a replay. *Chiefs and Pirates have only been involved in an official cup competition penalty shoot out three times, in 1975, 2006 and 2010 with Chiefs winning all. *Chiefs and Pirates are the only South African clubs to have won a title in African club competition. Pirates won the African Champions Cup in 1995. Chiefs won the African Cup Winners’ Cup in 2001. Pirates play again next year in the African Champions League but Chiefs did not qualify. *Six players have scored for both Chiefs and Pirates in a derby match -- Gabriel Khoza, Blessing Mgidi, Jerry Sadike, Donald ‘Ace’ Khuse, Marks Maponyane and Marc Batchelor. *There have been eight own goals only in the previous 147 derbies – the first from Orlando Pirates fullback Michael Yende in 1971 and the last from Daine Klate two years ago. *The last coach to have sat on the bench of one of the derby teams having previously in his career, coached the other side was Kosta Papic, who coached Chiefs in April 2007 having been Pirates coach before that. *Herman Blaschke, the Namibian- born, was the first foreigner to score in the derby between Chiefs and Pirates, in 1975. Later the same year Zimbabwean Ebison Mugoyo also got a goal for the AmaKhosi. The last foreigner to score in a derby was the Nigerian forward Ezenwa Otorogu, for Pirates in November 2010. *Chiefs’ keeper Setlhodi slotted home four penalties in derbies in both 1971 and 1972, the only goalkeeper to score in the derby. #D25
Posted on: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 07:49:02 +0000
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