FNB Stadium Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Local football=== The FNB Stadium is home to Kaizer Chiefs Football Club. It is also the preferred venue for the Soweto derby soccer matches β the country's biggest sporting showpiece β involving Soweto based [[Premier Soccer League]] clubs, Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates. It was also the traditional home of the Iwisa Maize Meal Spectacular and later, the Telkom Charity Cup, which were charity soccer season openers in South African football from 1990 to 2006, before it was closed for renovations. The stadium was re-opened when it hosted the 2010 [[Nedbank Cup]] final between [[Bidvest Wits]] and [[AmaZulu F.C. (South Africa)|Amazulu]]. The game ending 3β0 to Bidvest Wits. [[Fabricio Rodrigues]] was the first player to score at the rebuilt Soccer City. The Charity Cup then returned in [[2010 Telkom Charity Cup|2010]]. The first league match at the stadium since being rebuilt, was a [[2010β11 Premier Soccer League]] match between [[Orlando Pirates F.C.|Orlando Pirates]] and [[Free State Stars]]. The first [[MTN 8]] match at the stadium was the first leg of the [[2010 MTN 8]] semifinal, between [[Orlando Pirates F.C.|Orlando Pirates]] and [[Kaizer Chiefs F.C.|Kaizer Chiefs]]. The venue has also hosted high-profile Bafana Bafana matches, including their 1β0 win over Spain in 2013 as well as the side's worst ever defeat when they lost, 5β0, to Brazil in another international friendly in 2014. In May 2018, [[Mamelodi Sundowns]] hosted [[FC Barcelona]] in an exhibition match, dedicated to the late Former [[President of South Africa]] in his centenary. The match ended 3{{ndash}}1 in the favour of Barcelona. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page