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South African Football & Lottery Statistics

Original reference data on South African football, published with the method, the sources and the limits attached — and with the underlying rows downloadable as CSV, so you can check the arithmetic rather than take it on trust. Free to cite under CC BY 4.0. Statistics describe what has happened; they do not predict future results. 18+ only.

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Lucky Numbers Frequency

How often each number has been drawn across UK49s Lunchtime, UK49s Teatime and the SA Daily Lotto — with the methodology and a clear note on what frequency does (and does not) tell you.

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PSL by Season

Champions, runners-up, Golden Boot winners and goal totals season by season for South Africa's Premier Soccer League / Betway Premiership.

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Soweto Derby Database

Every itemisable Kaizer Chiefs v Orlando Pirates meeting — 88 of them — with date, venue, score and attendance where recorded. Across thirty Premiership seasons the league record is exactly level.

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PSL Travel Load

Kilometres travelled by every Betway Premiership club over a season, computed from stadium coordinates. Stellenbosch cover 2.9 times the distance Kaizer Chiefs do.

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PSL Altitude Advantage

Home advantage measured across 930 matches, and hard evidence that visiting teams lose about 0.30 points per game when they cross South Africa's altitude divide.

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Bafana World Cup Minutes by Club

Every minute South Africa played at the 2026 World Cup, allocated to the club that released the player. Sundowns and Pirates had eight squad places each — and a 60% gap in playing time.

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Stadium Accessibility

How far 26 major townships are from the nearest Premiership ground, and how close each ground is to a railway station. Chatsworth is 1.8 km away; Motherwell is 232 km.

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Cost of Attending a Match

What a matchday actually costs in 2026: a R60–R80 ticket plus a R30–R66 journey, priced against both the average wage and the national minimum wage.

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PSL Goals per Game

How many goals the Betway Premiership actually produces, season by season, and how that compares with the leagues it is measured against.

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PSL Promoted Teams

How promoted clubs fare in their first Premiership season — survival rates, points and the record of every promotion we could itemise.

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FIFA Club Benefits

What each Betway Premiership club is owed for releasing players to the 2026 World Cup — and why the R56m figures that circulated do not survive checking.

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Bafana Overseas-Based Players

Sixteen squads, 371 places, 1996–2026. Dependence on foreign leagues peaked at the 2002 World Cup — 7 of 23 home-based — and has been falling ever since.

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Bafana Squad Age Profile

South Africa are picking more young players than they used to, and older squads than they used to. The 2026 World Cup squad had seven aged 22 or under and seven aged 30 or over.

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PSL Transfer Window

Ins, outs and net headcount for all 16 clubs. Siwelele released 24 players — and two published compilations of the same window agree on both counts for only five of the sixteen.

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PSL Attendance

Two seasons in the last decade have a verifiable per-club crowd table. For the six seasons since 2019/20 there is no published record at all.

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Diski Challenge Graduates

The PSL says 18 of the 25 players in South Africa's 2025 AFCON squad came through its reserve league. The eighteen check out; the squad was 28.

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Banyana Coverage Gap

One outlet, twelve months, counted article by article: 700 pieces on the men's national team and 12 on the women's. Seven of the twelve months carried none at all.

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World Cup Transfer Outcomes

One month after South Africa's historic run, exactly one of the 26-man squad has completed a move abroad. Transfers counted, and no modelled valuations anywhere.

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Match Streaming Data Cost

Measured, not estimated: 460 MB at the lowest quality and 3.6 GB in Full HD for one match — R74 to R259 at published prepaid rates, or up to R1,043 out of bundle.

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PSL Home and Away Form by Club

Every club's home and away record, split season by season across four reconciled seasons. Seven of the ten ever-present clubs were worse at home than away in at least one of them.

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The Other Derbies

Tshwane, Durban and Cape Town: 54 itemised meetings, and the reason no complete record of any of them exists. The two published all-time Tshwane counts disagree on every figure.

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PSL Referee Statistics

Cards and penalties for all 25 Premiership referees across two seasons — rates run from 2.08 to 5.11 yellows a match — plus what no public source can answer about appointments and added time.

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PSL Squad Age by Club

All sixteen 2026/27 squads inside a 3.4-year band, from AmaZulu's 25.6 to Milford's 29.0 — and the newly promoted clubs field the oldest sides in the division.

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Methodology

Where the data comes from — and how to read it

FAQ

Statistics FAQ

What is on the South African statistics hub?

Nineteen reference datasets on South African football, media and lottery draws — among them the complete itemised Soweto derby record, every club's season travel load computed from stadium coordinates, thirty years of national-team squad composition, the 2026/27 transfer window counted club by club, township distance to the nearest Premiership ground, and a counted comparison of men's and women's national-team coverage. Each page shows the data in plain tables, publishes its method, sample window and sources, lists what could not be verified, and offers the underlying rows as a CSV.

Can past draw frequency predict future Lucky Numbers results?

No. Each draw is independent, and past frequency does not change the odds of any number appearing next. Frequency tables are a record of what has happened, not a prediction tool — see the full note on the Lucky Numbers frequency page.

How often is the data updated?

The Lucky Numbers frequency tables are refreshed monthly. The PSL season history is updated once each completed season. Every page shows a visible "Last updated" date and the sources used.

Can I cite or link to these statistics?

Yes. Each page includes a "cite this page" line and the data is published for reference under a Creative Commons Attribution licence. Please link back to the page you used.

Spotted an error, or have a better source? Tell us — corrections are published with the date they were made. Every dataset here is free to cite.

Statistics are for reference only and do not predict results. 18+ only.