Sankoyo Bush Bucks Football Club is an
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
club from
Sankoyo,
Botswana
Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label=Setswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kalahar ...
. They formerly played in the top domestic
Botswana Premier League
The Botswana Premier League, currently known as the BTC Premiership for sponsorship reasons, is the highest level football league in Botswana. Organised by the Botswana Football Association, the league was formed in 1978 to replace the pre-indep ...
until their relegation in 2019. They play home games in
Maun.
Their colours are green and white.
Their nickname is "Ngurungu", the local name for a bushbuck.
History
Sankoyo Bush Bucks were founded in 1996 and began play in 2000. They gained promotion to the Premier League in 2014, becoming the first team from the northwestern Nhabe region to play in the Botswana top flight.
The Bush Bucks were docked 29 points after the end of the 2015 season which meant they would be relegated after using an unregistered player, Zimbabwean Morris Ruzivo. However, they won their appeal and remained in the Botswana Premier League. They were relegated at the end of the 2019 season.
Ownership
The team has been largely supported by the Sankoyo Community Trust. The trust contributed about P200,000 each season to support the team.
Coaches
*Philani Mabhena (2016)
*Drago Stanalojvic (2016)
References
External links
Soccerway
Football clubs in Botswana
1996 establishments in Botswana
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