UWC Ladies Football

13/03/2019

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Official page of the University of the Western Cape Football (Men & Women's Team | Champs 2015, 2021, 2023, 2024 & 2025 | 2024 COSAFA Qualifiers CHAMPIONS!🏆

14/01/2019

- Interim coach around this time last year, 22 February 2018 – appointed permanent head coach with immediate effect.
- Lost-out to Nigerian Asisat Oshoala in 2017/8, came-back stronger in 2018/9.
2018 Coach of the Year: Desiree Ellis🇿🇦
2018 Goal of the Year: Thembi Kgatlana 🇿🇦
2018 Women's African Player of the Year: Thembi Kgatlana 🇿🇦

🥈 2nd place at the AWCON
🌍 1st ever qualification for the FIFA World Cup
⚽️ AWCON top scorer
👏 AWCON best player
💥 AWCON woman of the match FOUR times

Instead of thinking where you are, think of where you want to be
A dream doesn't become a reality through magic, it takes sweat, determination & hard work &.
It's not how many times you get knocked down that count, it's how many times you get back up.

25/12/2018

Wishing Our UWC Women's Football Club Family a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New Year 🎄🎉🎁🎆.

Everything Is Possible.💪🏾🙏🏾

See you Safe, Lovely and Healthy in 2019!.🧐

18/12/2018

👩‍🎓 Congratulations to Kelso Peskin who graduated at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas this past weekend.
She followed Kaylin Swart and Jermaine Seoposengwe who graduated earlier this year and last year, respectively.
⚽️ Yesterday, the three together with Roxanne Barker and Leandra Smeda were named in the Sasol-sponsored Banyana Banyana squad of 26 players to feature in two international friendly matches early in the new year against the Netherlands and Sweden in Cape Town. 📚⚽️👠🇿🇦


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https://www.safa.net/2018/12/17/ellis-makes-changes-announces-squad-face-netherlands-sweden/?fbclid=IwAR3g7bXN8PgsEWc1ds0Gh6x4Wu3Tc6ac4xmagO1ZIrIuYKE6wLEMTnMffK0

11/12/2018

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UWC Women's Football Club in 2018

-> Sasol League National Championships - 🥉rated 3rd in the country.
Thanks to UWC SDS for covering the Tourney (public info. & media updates)
-> Mysafa Sasol League SAFA - Western Cape - 🥇
(qualified for Playoffs & the upcoming National Soccer League 2019)
-> SAFA Cape Town Coca-Cola Peninsula Beverages Cup - 🥇
-> Varsity Sports Football - 🥈
-> USSA Football National Club Champs - 4th
(qualified for Varsity Football 2019 edition, 7 selected to represent USSA National Team)
-> Our LFA Team continued with their Dominance
-> Student-Player's Growth - more than 10 Footballers Graduated📚⚽🎓
- Pro Player Signings - 2 (Houston Dash National Women's Soccer League, FC "Gintra-Universitetas" feat.UEFA Women's Champions League)
- USSA 🇿🇦 team reps - ✅
- U/17 🇿🇦 team reps - ✅
- U/20 🇿🇦 team reps - ✅
- Senior 🇿🇦 team - ✅Represented (+-7 former-current)

Congratulations once again, We Appreciate Each One of You😍
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28/11/2018

🔥............and the rest is History!..
ICYMI:
For the first time ever, our Senior National Team, Banyana Banyana have qualified for the FIFA Women's World Cup!
SA 🇿🇦 beat Mali 2-0 in the semifinal of the 2018 African Women’s Cup of Nations. SA will face defending champions Nigeria 🇳🇬 in the FINAL on Saturday (18h00).

Congrats , the whole nation is really proud of you!.👌🙌🙏🇿🇦️

You're 👏

SAFA.net - South African Football Association Sasol Sasol League Mysafa Nike Football Sport and Recreation South Africa (SRSA) Team South Africa

All the Best to our Senior Women's National Team, Banyana Banyana on their quest to qualify for the FIFA Women's World Cup for the first time ever!..

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Sasol
Sasol League SAFA.net - South African Football Association

27/11/2018

All the Best to our Senior Women's National Team, Banyana Banyana on their quest to qualify for the FIFA Women's World Cup for the first time ever!..

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Sasol
Sasol League SAFA.net - South African Football Association

22/11/2018

🚨News Alert🚨:
The Launch and Draw for the 2018 Mysafa Sasol League National Championships (Kimberley, Northern Cape, 4-9 Dec) is done!.🔥🇿🇦️⚽
We have been drawn in group C, alongside the defending/two-time champions from Free State Bloemfontein Celtics and Coal City Wizards from Mpumalanga province.
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Moreover, as part of campaign, Sasol and SAFA.net - South African Football Association are in search for first ever commentator where aspiring female commentators will be given an opportunity to commentate at the 2018 National Championship.


Banyana Banyana >
The University of the Western Cape

21/11/2018

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Today we crush on 3;
- Thembi's 'thunderous' strike (anticipation-run-technique-execution + POM)👌,
- SA's result of the week, Banyana Banyana's sensational win over defending/ten-time African Champions in the &
- Chelsea, SAFA Cape Town Youth Player of the Year.
A big shout-out to her, she featured in all three group stage matches for 🇿🇦 in the U-17 FIFA Women's World Cup Am UWC
Banyana Banyana will face Equatorial Guinea in their 2nd match of the 2018 Women’s AFCON today (Wed, 21 Nov) at 18h30 local time (20h30 SA Time).

21/11/2018

🔥 Video
Thembi Junior Kgatlana's wonderful goal vs Nigeria. Sun, 18 Nov

19/11/2018

ICYMI:
Chelsea Named the SAFA Cape Town Youth Female Player of the Year at the SAFA Cape Town Youth Annual Awards held on Saturday evening at the Mayor's Banqueting Hall, Cape Town, Civic Centre.
Moreover;
Thembi came off the bench to score the only goal (scorcher) and won herself a Player of the Match accolade after receiving a back-line splitting pass from one of our former student-players, Jermaine Seoposenwe. This was a very crucial for the Sasol-sponsored Banyana Banyana to register an important win over the defending/ten-time African Champs, Nigeria in their opening Total Women’s AFCON last night.
Congratulations to both Chelsea and Thembi, who ar currently representing 🇿🇦️️ at the U-17 FIFA Women's World Cup and AWCON respectively.🥇🏆⚽✨

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