Cape Town City Football Club was 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 based in

Cape Town Cape Town ( af, Kaapstad; , xh, iKapa) is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving as the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. It is the legislative capital of the country, the oldest city in the country, and the second largest ...

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...

. The club competed in the

National Football League 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 ...

(NFL) from 1962 until the league was dissolved in 1977. Cape Town City won the NFL title in 1973 and 1976, as well as the NFL Cup in 1970, 1971 and 1976. Home matches were played at

Hartleyvale Stadium Hartleyvale Stadium is a field hockey stadium in Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa. It was previously used as a soccer stadium by Cape Town City in the National Football League era, as well as by Hellenic during the late 1980s. It is curre ...

in Observatory.

Honours

* NFL Champions: 1973, 1976 (Runners-up 1965, 1970, 1971, 1974) * Castle Cup ( NFL Cup) Winners: 1970, 1971, 1976 (Runners-up 1969) * UTC Bowl Winners: 1971, 1973 (Runners-up 1965) * Champion of Champions Winners: 1971, 1972, 1974 * Coca-Cola Shield: (Runners-up 1970, 1975)

External links

Cape Town City 1964 Team PhotoPhoto of Home Ground – Hartleyvale, ObservatoryThe 1976 Castle Cup Final Match Programme: Cape Town City v Hellenic

Gallery

File:Ben_Anderson.JPG, Ben Anderson. File:Frank_'Jingles'_Pereira.JPG, Frank 'Jingles' Pereira, v Durban City File:Cape_Town_City_forms_a_wall.jpg, Cape Town City forms a wall, consisting of Geoff Hurst, Ken Scott, Willy Hunter and Terry Gulliver File: CTC v Hellenic1.jpg, Cape Town City defends a corner, v Hellenic L to R: Jim Forest, Eric Welsh, Wilf du Bruin, Frank McClintock and Arno Steffenhagen Association football clubs established in 1960 National Football League (South Africa) clubs Defunct soccer clubs in South Africa Soccer clubs in Cape Town Soccer and apartheid