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| Full name | Orlando Pirates Football Club | ||
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| Short name | Pirates | ||
| Founded | 1937, as Orlando Boys Club | ||
| Ground | Orlando Stadium | ||
| Capacity | 37,313[1] | ||
| Chairman | Irvin Khoza | ||
| Manager | José Riveiro | ||
| League | Betway Premiership | ||
| 2023–24 | 2nd of 16 | ||
| Website | https://www.orlandopiratesfc.com/ | ||
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Orlando Pirates Football Club (often known as "The Buccaneers") is a South African professional football club based in Orlando, Soweto that plays in the top-tier system of Football in South Africa known as Betway Premiership. The team plays its home matches at Orlando Stadium in Soweto.[2]
The club was founded in 1937 and was originally based in Orlando, Soweto.[3] They were named "amapirate" which means 'Pirates' in IsiZulu after the band of teenagers that originally formed an amateur football club at Orlando Boys Club broke away and started congregating at the home of one of the people that worked at Orlando Boys Club.[4] Orlando Pirates are the first club since the inception of the Premier Soccer League in 1996 to have won three major trophies in a single season back to back, having won the domestic league ABSA Premiership, the domestic cup Nedbank Cup and the Top 8 Cup MTN 8 during the ABSA Premiership 2010–11 season and domestic league ABSA Premiership, the League Cup Telkom Knockout and the Top 8 Cup MTN 8 during the ABSA Premiership 2011–12 season.[5] They are one of only two South African teams with Mamelodi Sundowns to win the CAF Champions League, which they won in 1995 and were runners up of 2013 CAF Champions League.
They are also the runners-up of the 2015 and 2021–2022 CAF Confederation Cup.[6]
In total Orlando pirates have appeared in four Confederation of African Football finals, that is more continental finals than any other Premier Soccer League side.
The Pirates have won nine league titles and 88 trophies in total including 10 South African cup trophies.[7]
In 2024 they became the first team to win three consecutive MTN 8 finals.[8]
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- ^ "Trophy Cabinet". Orlando Pirates Football Club. Archived from the original on 6 February 2023. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
- ^ "Tshegofatso Mabasa & Relebohile Mofokeng strike late as Orlando Pirates beat Stellenbosch FC to clinch historic MTN8 title | Goal.com". www.goal.com. 5 October 2024. Retrieved 5 October 2024.