The Ramblers is a Namibian

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club from Pionierspark,

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History

The Ramblers have played in the country's highest division, the

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and the club was previously known as Windhoek Optics Ramblers. They sold their place in the premier league and now focus on growing talent from children upwards. Through the youth development programs, Ramblers were able to nature talent and build a first team squad currently boasting 25 graduates of the Ramblers Academy, of which 4 went to represent Namibia at the 2021 U20 African Cup Of Nations.

Sponsor

As of 1 June 2019, the Ohlthaver & List (O&L) Group became the club's main sponsor. As the O&L Group purpose ‘Creating a Future, Enhancing Life’ states, the O&L Ramblers Soccer Academy will endeavor to live this philosophy by creating an environment where young soccer players/enthusiasts can really be part of the soccer family, now and in the future, while making a positive change in their sports lives.

Women's Team

In 2019, Ramblers decided to have a new addition in their ranks by creating the women's team. This decision was taken by Hafeni Ndeitunga and Alessandro Micheletti as they saw that football was an equal game. The women's team currently plays in NFA Women's Super League (Namibia's Women's top flight football league) Coaches * Hafeni Ndeitunga (Head Coach) * Ileni Hitula (Assistant Coach) * Roshaan Leukes (Assistant Coach)

Achievements

: 1 ::1992 *

NFA-Cup The Namibia FA Cup (''Namibia Football Association Cup''), officially Bidvest Namibia Cup, is an association football tournament for Namibian club Previous Champions *1990: Black Africa F.C. (Windhoek) *1991: Chief Santos (Tsumeb) *1992: Liverpoo ...

: 1 ::2005

Performance in CAF competitions

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: 1 appearance ::

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: Preliminary Round

2021/22 SQUAD

Notable coaches

Men's Team *

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(2002–03) *

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(2009–10) * Tiro Thabanello * Benedict's Haoseb (2015–19)

External links

Ramblers official website
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