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| Full name | Garankuwa United Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | Kopano Ke Matla (Togetherness is strength) |
| Founded | Revived in July 2004 |
| Ground | Pilditch Stadium, West Pretoria, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa |
| Capacity | 20,000 |
| Owner | Dingi Rahlagane |
| Chairman | Abram Rathlabane |
| Manager |  Joseph Mekoe |
| League | SAFA Second Division |
Garankuwa United, sometimes also spelled Ga-Rankuwa United, is a semi-professional association football club based in the Ga-Rankuwa township of Pretoria, in the Gauteng province of South Africa. The club was founded (or revived) in July 2004, to play their first season in the SAFA Regional League. In June 2005, the owners Dingi Rahlagane and Harold "Kaizer" Motaung, decided to acquire the Castle League franchise of the club Buffaloes, based in the North-West province of Vodacom League, which provided the team an automatic promotion to this level for 2005–06.[1][2]
The team's debut season in Vodacom League was very successful, as they managed both to win the North-West province, and get promoted after the provincial play-offs, to play the next two seasons in the National First Division. By June 2007, they were however relegated back again to the North-West province of Vodacom League. They managed again to win the province, both in 2010 and 2011, but today still play in Vodacom League, as they were not yet able to also win the promotional tickets at the provincial play-offs.
- ^ Independent OnLine (7 July 2006). "Ga-Rankuwa United set their sights high".
- ^ Rodwell Ziba (2007). "Ga-Rankuwa United FC -Facebook website".