Cloud 9 F.C.

African Winners
Founded	1989
Ground	Bhisho Stadium
Ground Capacity	N/A
Owner	Anele Mbambani
League	Vodacom League, Eastern Cape Province
2010-11 season	10

African Winners is a South African association football club founded in 1989.^[1] The team originate from King William's Town in the Eastern Cape. Since September 2010, they have been competing in the Eastern Cape stream of Vodacom League, with the new name Cloud 9.

History

By the end of the 2009-10 season, the team had won SAFA Amathole-SAB Stream B, and thereby qualified for the Amathole District Championship, to be held March 13 at Jan Smuts Stadium in East London, Eastern Cape. Each year the two best teams from Stream A and Stream B will meet at the District Championship to decide the overall champion after a round robin stage. The overall District champion will then subsequently participate at the Provincial Playoffs for Vodacom League.^[1]

African Winners managed to win the Regional Amathole District Championship 2010, after a: 2-0 win against FC Buffalo, 3-1 win against Young Aces and a 2-2 draw against TUBS. The next challenge was to participate at the SAB-Castle Regional League Provincial Playoffs, to be held May 2010 in Port Elizabeth, where the two best teams would win promotion to the Vodacom League. The provincial playoffs were however won by Happy Brothers and Kokstad Liverpool, with African Winners finishing just behind. At first this meant no qualification for African Winners to the Vodacom League, but the team then decided to buy the league franchise held by the team Cloud 9, and thereby bought themselves a ticket to the Vodacom League.^[1]^[2]

As a curiosity, one of the teams local rivals from the Amathole District, FC Buffalo, at the same time opted to follow the same economical promotion path to the Eastern Cape Stream of Vodacom League, as they purchased the Franchise position from The Guys F.C.^[2]^[3]

Despite the fact, that African Winners ahead of the 2010-11 season had bought the Vodacom League Franchise from Cloud 9, it can be seen from the data published by SAFA,^[4] that the club apparently decided to trash their old name, and preferred to continue in the 2010-11 season with the name Cloud 9, at the venue Bredbach Sport Field.

External links

SAFA Official Website -database with results of Vodacom League

References

1 2 3 "African Winners Football Club". Facebook website. 2009.
1 2 "Big responsibility for African Winners". Daily Dispatch. April 2010.
↑ "EC Vodacom League teams meet for pre-season planning". Daily Dispatch. 23 August 2010.
↑ "Vodacom League - 2010/11 season - Eastern Cape Province - Results and fixtures". SAFA Logs and Results. Retrieved 23 May 2011.

SAFA Second Division seasons

Vodacom League	1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12

SAFA Second Division	2012–13

ABC Motsepe League	2013–14

Seasons in South African soccer

Premiership teams (2015–16)	Ajax Cape Town Bidvest Wits Bloemfontein Celtic Chippa United Free State Stars Golden Arrows Jomo Cosmos Kaizer Chiefs Mamelodi Sundowns Maritzburg United Black Aces Orlando Pirates Platinum Stars Polokwane City Supersport United Tuks FC

First Division teams (2015–16)	African Warriors AmaZulu Black Leopards Baroka FC Cape Town All Stars FC Cape Town Highlands Park Milano United Moroka Swallows Royal Eagles Santos Thanda Royal Zulu Vasco da Gama Witbank Spurs

National Premier Soccer League (South Africa)	1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984

National Soccer League (South Africa)	1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995

Premier Soccer League	1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

National First Division	1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

SAFA Second Division	1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16

Nedbank Cup	1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2000 2001 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2008-09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15

Telkom Knockout	1982* 1983* 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

MTN 8	1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 2000 2001 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Carling Black Label Cup	2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

Telkom Charity Cup	1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Vodacom Challenge	1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2011

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