Addington FC is a South African
football (soccer)
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club based in
Durban
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.
Addington won both the
NFL
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and the
Castle Cup in 1963, and the
NFL
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the major ...
again in 1969 (as
Durban Spurs).
History
Addington FC joined the NFL in 1962, winning the championship in their second season. Before the 1969 season, they were renamed Durban Spurs. Although they won the league that season, it proved to be their last hurrah. By the start of the 1970 season, they had merged with
Durban United to form Durban Spurs United.
External links
expro.co.za1963 Addington Team Photo1963 Castle Cup Final Players' Profile
See also
* National Football League (South Africa)
The National Football League (NFL) was the first professional association football league in South Africa, established in 1959. At first the NFL received stiff opposition from the SAFA, the amateur governing body which controlled the major foot ...
National Football League (South Africa) clubs
Soccer clubs in Pretoria
Soccer and apartheid
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