Cup is a South African cup competition tracked in the Xtra-Stats database. Use this page to follow live scores, upcoming fixtures and completed results, while reviewing standings and player and team statistics across the recorded seasons from 2017 to 2025. It provides a practical reference for monitoring matches and comparing performance over time.
Latest played matches, Cup
Final
Semi-finals
Quarter-finals
Round of 32
Cup Standings
Cup Statistics
Top scorers 2025
| # | Player | Goals |
|---|
Top assists 2025
| # | Player | Assists |
|---|
Top key passes
Top tackles
Top yellow cards
Top red cards
Cup teams participation since 2017
History
| Team | Nb participations |
|---|---|
| Black Leopards | 9 |
| Baroka FC | 9 |
| Cape Town City | 9 |
| University of Pretoria | 9 |
| Amazulu | 8 |
| Marumo Gallants | 8 |
| Ajax Cape Town | 8 |
| Golden Arrows | 8 |
| Kaizer Chiefs | 8 |
| Polokwane City | 8 |
| Supersport United | 8 |
| Chippa United | 8 |
| Mamelodi Sundowns | 8 |
| Orlando Pirates | 8 |
| Stellenbosch | 8 |
| Royal AM | 8 |
| Richards Bay | 8 |
| Maritzburg Utd | 7 |
| TS Galaxy | 7 |
| Hungry Lions | 6 |
| JDR Stars | 6 |
| Moroka Swallows | 6 |
| Uthongathi | 6 |
| Jomo Cosmos | 5 |
| Free State Stars | 5 |
| Sekhukhune United | 5 |
| Pretoria Callies | 5 |
| Venda FC | 5 |
| Cape Town ALL Stars | 4 |
| Highlands Park FC | 4 |
| Ts Sporting | 4 |
| Bloem Celtic | 4 |
| Casric Stars | 4 |
| Mbombela United | 3 |
| Royal Eagles | 3 |
| Super Eagles | 3 |
| Bidvest Wits | 3 |
| Cape Umoya United | 3 |
| Steenberg United | 3 |
| NC Pro's | 3 |
| Orbit College | 3 |
| Platinum City Rovers | 3 |
| Magesi | 3 |
| Milford FC | 3 |
| Upington City | 3 |
Cup top scorer teams
Cup About
Cup is a South African football cup competition, with available competition history covering the seasons from 2017 through 2025. It belongs to the knockout side of the South African football calendar, where clubs compete for advancement through successive rounds rather than accumulating points across a league table.
Competition identity
The competition is associated with **South Africa** and is classified as a **cup**. Its recorded coverage includes nine seasons between 2017 and 2025, making it a competition with a documented modern-era presence. Beyond that core identity, the available material does not establish a confirmed alternative title, formation date, gender category, governing organisation or position within a specific national division.
That distinction matters because the supplied descriptions of an international South African league cannot be treated as rules for this cup. They refer to a separate competition concept, including group stages, invited overseas clubs and a proposed global title, none of which is confirmed here for Cup.
How the competition works
A cup competition is defined by its progression through elimination rounds, but the available information does not confirm Cup’s precise draw structure, number of entrants, opening round, seeding policy, two-legged or single-match ties, or final venue. It is therefore not possible to state responsibly whether every tie is played once, whether clubs enter at different stages, or how the competition handles replays and aggregate scores.
The same caution applies to match regulations. No competition-specific evidence confirms the points system, tie-break hierarchy, extra-time provisions or penalty-shootout procedure for Cup. Those rules can vary between competitions and between editions, so they should not be inferred from the competition’s classification alone.
Qualification and participation
The available record does not identify the participating clubs, qualification routes or eligibility requirements for Cup. In particular, there is no confirmed basis for saying that entry is determined by league position, preliminary qualifying rounds, regional allocation, invitations or a particular club-licensing system. The competition should therefore be understood as a South African cup event without attaching an unverified access model to it.
Calendar and sporting importance
Cup is documented across the 2017–2025 period, but its normal start date, seasonal scheduling and relationship with domestic league and other cup competitions are not established by the available information. No confirmed details are available on the trophy, prize structure, continental qualification, automatic entry into a later edition or other sporting consequences of winning.
What can be stated with confidence is the competition’s essential role as an elimination-based South African football event. Cup offers a route to competitive progression in which a club’s survival depends on individual ties, making each round distinct from the longer campaign of a league season. Its historical record from 2017 to 2025 provides the basis for examining editions, fixtures and results within that period, while competition-specific regulations and honours should be read from the relevant season material when available.