Baroka FC through to premier league

While Baroka FC are celebrating their automatic promotion to the Absa Premiership Division, Jomo Cosmos are contemplating a new life in the National First Division, following their automatic relegation from the Premiership Division.

Baroka finished their league programme on top of the NFD log, making them an automatic candidate for promotion to the elite league. Their promotion did not come as a surprise, as they were leading the pack right from the beginning of the season nine months ago.

The Polokwane side needed at least one point in their league match against Milano United at the Old Peter Mokaba Stadium last Sunday to secure a place in the Absa Premiership Division. The final score was 1-1. Baroka finished the league program with 60 points, one ahead of Highlands Park.

Highlands Park and the third-placed side, Mbombela United, together with the team that finished in the second-last position in the Absa Premiership, the University of Pretoria, will partake in the promotional play-off matches.

The team that will finish on top in the promotional play-offs will also be promoted to the Premiership Division. Should Amatuks fail to make the grade in the promotional play-offs, they will finally be relegated to the NFD, where they will rub shoulders with the likes of Black Leopards, Witbank Spurs and Cape Town All Stars.

It is also official that Moroka Swallows, once the pride of Dube, Soweto, have been relegated once again. The “Birds” will be campaigning in the ABC Motsepe League come next season. Moroka Swallows completed their league programme at the bottom of the NFD with 24 points. African Warriors will accompany Swallows to the lower division.           

Sport - Date: 27 May 2016

Frank Mavhungu

Frank is a Human Resources Manager at the Department of Public Works in Limpopo. He is the longest serving correspondent of the Mirror, having joined us at the end of 1990.  He mainly writes sports reports and resides at Tsianda Village. In 2004, Frank won the National Castle League Award, an award for the best reporter in the SAB league in South Africa.

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