Ajax Cape Town FC

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Ajax Cape Town

Full name

Ajax Cape Town Football Club

Nickname(s)

Urban Warriors

Founded

1999, merger of Seven Stars
and Cape Town Spurs

Ground

Athlone Stadium, Cape Town;
Newlands Stadium, Cape Town
(Capacity 30,000)

Chairman

Manager

League

ABSA Premier League, 4th





Home colours





Away colours

Ajax Cape Town is a South African football (soccer) team based in Parow, Cape Town that participates in the Premier Soccer League. Home games are usually played at Athlone Stadium, having moved from Newlands Rugby Stadium at the end of the 2004/2005 season.

Ajax CT was formed in 1999, via the amalgation of two Cape Town-based teams, Seven Stars and Cape Town Spurs, as AFC Ajax expanded their worldwide talent-feeder network to South Africa.

The Ajax CT project had limited success in the seasons leading up to 2006/2007, the club winning a solitary title - the Rothmans Cup in 2000 - with Steven Pienaar being one of the few talents to make the grade for a move to Amsterdam, back in 2002. However, in 2006/2007, under the guidance of new coach Muhsin Ertuğral, Ajax CT claimed fourth place in the PSL and won the ABSA Cup - beating league champions Mamelodi Sundowns 2-0 in the final.

Gordon Igesund, South Africa's most successful club coach who won league titles with Manning Rangers, Orlando Pirates, Santos and Sundowns, coached the club from 2002 until 2006.

In January 2007, Ajax CT managed to beat their mother club AFC Ajax 3-1 in a friendly game held in Cape Town.

After the departure of Muhsin Ertuğral at the end of the 2006/2007 season and in line with the club's development philosophy, the appointment of Craig Rosslee as the new head coach was announced.

1 Former Managers
2 Notable Players
3 Honours
4 Club records
- 4.1 Premier Soccer League record
5 2006/2007 season
6 Club officials/Technical team
7 2007/2008 First team squad
- 7.1 Foreigners
8 2007/2008 Transfers
9 External links

Leo Van Veen (1999-00)
Henk Bodewes (2000-01)
Rob McDonald (2001-02)
Gordon Igesund (2002-06)
Muhsin Ertuğral (2006-07)

Rothmans Cup - 2000
ABSA Cup - 2007

Most starts: Brett Evans 210
Most goals: Brent Carelse 28
Most capped player: Edelbert Dinha (Zimbabwe)
Most starts in a season: Edelbert Dinha 41 (2000/01)
Most goals in a season: Thembinkosi Fanteni 15 (2006/07)
Record victory: 5-1 vs Moroka Swallows (19/2/06, PSL)
Record defeat: 0-6 v Orlando Pirates (22/9/04, PSL)

2006/2007 - 4th
2005/2006 - 11th
2004/2005 - 6th
2003/2004 - 2nd
2002/2003 - 13th
2001/2002 - 14th
2000/2001 - 11th
1999/2000 - 4th

Castle Premiership - 4th
ABSA Cup - winners
Telkom Knockout - runners-up
SAA Supa 8 - not qualified
Telkom Charity Cup - not voted in

1. Thembinkosi Fanteni 11
2. Franklin Cale 4
3. Russel Mwafulirwa 3
3. Granwald Scott 2
5. Mfundo Shumana 2
5. Brett Evans 2
5. Bryce Moon 2
5. Brent Carelse 2

Player of the Season: Thembinkosi Fanteni
Players' Player of the Season: Nazeer Allie
Top Goal-scorer: Thembinkosi Fanteni
Young Player of the Season: Clifford Ngobeni
Most Improved Player: Granwald Scott
Sportsman of the Season: Franklin Cale

CEO: John Comitis
Coach: Craig Rosslee
Assistant coach: Wilfred Mugeyi & Michael Rubesch
Goalkeeper coach: Brian van der Heever
Head of Youth Development: John Rowley
Reserve team coach: Douglas Williams

As of August 21, 2007

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Hans Vonk (captain)
2	DF	Nazeer Allie
4	DF	Dominic Isaacs
5	MF	Clifford Ngobeni
6	MF	Mfundo Shumana
7	FW	Nhlanhla Shabalala
8	MF	Roberto Santo
9	FW	Nathan Paulse
10	FW	Andile Mbenyane
11	MF	Jonathan Fransman
12	MF	Granwald Scott
13	DF	Dikilu Bageta
14	DF	Eduardo Ferreira
15	MF	Mkhanyiseli Siwahla
16	GK	Andre Petim

No.	Position	Player
17	MF	Eyong Enoh
18	MF	Coburn Woodington
19	FW	Russel Mwafulirwa
20	MF	Bryce Moon
22	MF	Aidan Jenniker
23	MF	Sameehg Doutie
24	MF	Franklin Cale
25	DF	Brett Evans
26	DF	Clayton Daniels
27	MF	Daylon Claasen
28	DF	Mario Booysen
29	FW	Thembinkosi Fanteni
30	GK	Morgan Cathey
31	FW	Clinton Emmanuel

In the South African PSL, only five non-South African nationals can be registered. Players with foreign and South African citizenship do not count as foreigners.