Year-round training
Weekly sessions adjusted by age category, held at our southern suburbs facility with two natural turf fields, evening lighting and changing rooms.
Cape Town · Est. 2020 · Youth Soccer Development NPO
Breaking through the barriers that hold back youth soccer in South Africa
A group of ex-professional footballers building racially and culturally diverse youth teams — developing tomorrow's professionals, and tomorrow's role models, along the way.
2020Founded in Cape Town
Minis–SeniorsU12–U23 age groups, boys & girls
NPO253-839 · Registered non-profit
2Natural turf pitches with evening lighting
About Shosholoza
Project Shosholoza
A group of retired international, ex-professional footballers came together to create a unique social enterprise: introducing Cape Town youth to careers in sport, while developing future professional athletes. We take South African kids from all walks of life — with multi-cultural roots — and form racially diversified youth teams that mirror the face of today's South Africa.
Along the way, our goal is to expose South African U16–U18 youth (boys and girls) to sports-related professional careers, while instilling the ethics, citizenship and leadership skills that let them contribute to the socio-economic welfare of their communities — developing players who succeed academically as much as athletically, on their way to becoming doctors, physiotherapists, nurses, data analysts and biokineticists, to name a few.
Shosholoza Football Academy is a Cape Town based, independent Youth Soccer Development Organization, registered as a Non-Profit Company (NPO), pursuing SARS "Public Benefit Organisation" (PBO) status.
How we work
Operations
A year-round program of player development, built on professionally licensed coaches and partnerships that support every player's health, education and long-term wellbeing.
Player evaluation
Every player is tracked through Futeval+, our cloud-based performance app — generating reports on technical, tactical and psychometric development for clubs, scouts and schools.
Whole-player support
Partner medical staff, nutritionists, physiotherapists, biokineticists and educators work alongside coaches — opening our players' eyes to careers across sport.
Our ultimate goal: a year-round residential academy where players are protected from societal pressures that threaten their development, both physically and psychologically.
Club neutral
Skilz School
The Shosholoza Skilz School offers high performance football skills and tactical training to 8–12 and 12–16 year old competitive players — and a chance for standout talent to be identified for the Shosholoza Football Academy program.
The Skilz School runs as a Sunday morning weekly training session, year-round, at Southfield Primary School.
Enquire about a sessionWhat we're building toward
Our Goals
- Offer youth an organised avenue into soccer, open to every segment of South African society, so teams reflect the country's diverse cultural and racial makeup.
- Provide an elite development pathway for Academy graduates via a 2nd or 3rd division national or provincial franchise, honing skills at competitive match level.
- Offer genuine professional development in an Academy environment, with UEFA-licensed coaches.
- Develop players capable of playing professionally at the highest level — seeding SA leagues, international clubs, and ultimately a Bafana Bafana World Cup squad.
- Teach leadership skills and ethics that build better citizens and future community leaders, on and off the pitch.
- Expose youth to the career paths sport offers beyond playing — coaching, physiotherapy, sports science, sports medicine and more.
- Continue supporting graduates with non-profit player representation, reinvesting fees into future youth development instead of traditional agent commissions.
Our approach
How is Shosholoza different?
Double bottom-line
A sustainable social enterprise: the organisation is a registered NPO funded by Project Shosholoza, while player representation runs as a separate, socially-driven affiliate.
Measured & accountable
Specific, measurable objectives that are monitored and reported to every stakeholder.
Licensed leadership
Led by professionally licensed, internationally recognised coaches — including ex-SA National Team and international club players — alongside an experienced management team.
Full-circle support
Partner medical staff, nutritionists, physiotherapists and educators work in step with our development staff on every player's health and education.
Self-sustaining
A private-sector-driven, not-for-profit operation — not dependent on government or SAFA funding to keep developing players.
Minis, U12–U23 & Seniors
Our Players
Boys and girls, from every background, wearing the badge across the club's age groups.
Partner with us
Sponsorship Opportunities
Affordable sponsorship packages, tailored by negotiation to fit your business. Every sponsor helps keep a player on the pitch and in the classroom.
- Your branding/logo on club communications — website, match-day comms, Facebook & Instagram
- Acknowledgement at home matches via PA announcements and signage
- Direct marketing to members via e-mail newsletters and social media
- Discounted hall hire for corporate or private functions
- Home field advertising board / services directory listing
- Invitations to sponsors' functions
- A Shosholoza Soccer Club polo shirt with your logo
Player Sponsor
R5,000
Show your support by sponsoring one of our First Team players. Includes signage at our home field and season passes for all home matches, plus a framed photo of your player for your place of business.
Sponsor a playerOther Packages
By negotiation
We'll happily discuss other ways to promote your brand:
- Logo on playing shirts and shorts
- Logo on coaches' and officials' apparel
- Logo on players' off-field apparel (polos, tracksuits)
- Sponsorship of our end-of-season presentation dinner
- Signage in our clubrooms
Get in touch
Contact Us
- Richard O. Wilson Jr.
- Chairman · +27 71 031 0224
- Clint Roberts
- General Manager · +27 (0)4903 5585
- info@shosholozafc.org.za
- Training Ground
- Pelican Heights Sports Grounds
52 Gannet Street, Pelican Heights
Cape Town 7941, South Africa
Shosholoza FC · Registered NPO No. 253-839