Team Overview

The South Africa national soccer team represents South Africa in men's international football and is run by the South African Football Association, the governing body for football in South Africa. Nicknamed Bafana Bafana (The Boys in Zulu), the team plays at various stadiums around the country. The team is a member of both FIFA and the Confederation of African Football (CAF), is one of the most well-supported national sides in Africa, and are recognised by their traditional yellow-green kits. Having played their first match in 1906, South Africa returned to the world stage in 1992, after sixteen years of being banned from FIFA, and forty years of effective suspension due to the apartheid system. South Africa have qualified for the FIFA World Cup three times: 1998, 2002 and 2026, in addition to qualifying as hosts of the 2010 tournament, becoming the first African nation to do so. Despite defeating France 2–1 in their final game of the group stage, they failed to progress from the first round of the tournament, becoming the first host nation in the history of the FIFA World Cup to exit in the group stage, followed by Qatar in 2022. As of January 2026, the team is ranked 60th in FIFA overall.

Current Squad

No	Pos	Name	Club
1	1GK	Ronwen Williams	0
16	1GK	Sipho Chaine	0
22	1GK	Ricardo Goss	0
2	2DF	Thabang Matuludi	0
3	2DF	Khulumani Ndamane	0
6	2DF	Aubrey Modiba	3
14	2DF	Mbekezeli Mbokazi	1
18	2DF	Samukele Kabini	0
20	2DF	Khuliso Mudau	1
21	2DF	Ime Okon	1
24	2DF	Olwethu Makhanya	0
25	2DF	Kamogelo Sebelebele	0
26	2DF	Bradley Cross	0
4	3MF	Teboho Mokoena	9
5	3MF	Thalente Mbatha	3
13	3MF	Yaya Sithole	1
23	3MF	Jayden Adams	0
7	4FW	Oswin Appollis	8
8	4FW	Tshepang Moremi	1
9	4FW	Lyle Foster	10
10	4FW	Relebohile Mofokeng	0
11	4FW	Themba Zwane	12
12	4FW	Thapelo Maseko	1