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Stellenbosch F.C.
Stellenbosch Football Club is a professional Association football, football club based in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Founded in 2016 following the relocation of Vasco da Gama (South Africa), Vasco da Gama FC to Stellenbosch, the club is the first Premier Soccer League team from the Cape Winelands District Municipality, Cape Winelands region and was promoted to the South African Premiership in 2019. The first team plays its home matches at the Danie Craven Stadium. Domestically, the club has won the National First Division in 2019, earning promotion to the top-flight for the first time in the process, and the 2023 Carling Knockout Cup, which saw the team become the inaugural champions of the revamped competition. History Stellenbosch Football Club was formed in August 2016 when the Premier Soccer League Executive Committee approved the application from National First Division side, Vasco Da Gama for a List of South African soccer club franchise sales and name changes, name c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Stellenbosch (; )A Universal Pronouncing Gazetteer. Thomas Baldwin, 1852. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co.A Grammar of Afrikaans. Bruce C. Donaldson. 1993. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. is a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa, situated about east of Cape Town, along the banks of the Eerste River at the foot of the Stellenbosch Mountain. The town became known as the City of Oaks or ''Eikestad'' in Afrikaans and Dutch language, Dutch due to the large number of oak trees that were planted by its founder, Simon van der Stel, to grace the streets and homesteads. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
