Cape Town Roses and Stellenbosch FC are the winners of the Cape Town Engen Knockout Championships

Cape Town Roses and Stellenbosch FC will have an opportunity to represent Cape Town at the Champion of Champions of the Engen Knockout Challenge. 

Cape Town Roses u20 ladies successfully defended their crown following a 2-0 victory over RV United Women’s Football Club as they brought the trophy home and secured a place for them to compete in the Engen Champs of Champs against other teams in the country. 

Cape Town Roses convincingly defeated Salt River Blackpool FC by 2-1 in order to place themselves in the final of the competition. Their counterparts RV United Women’s Football Club defeated Dangerous Heroes by 4-2 on penalties after both teams held each other by 1-1. 

Dangerous Heroes went to settle for the third place as they thumped Salt River Blackpool FC by 5-2. 

Coach Madikane of Cape Town Roses spoke about the importance of resilience after a tough competition that had the strongest teams in the region. He highly commanded the players to hang in there, by showing strength and pulling a strong fight until the last minute.

Boys Competition, u18 

Stellenbosch Football Academy’s run to glory had to be concluded on penalties as they showed how impressive they were in penalties by knocking out Cape Town Spurs in the semi-finals. They went on to do the same in the final defeating UBuntu FC in the penalties to win the Cape Town Engen Knockout Challenge. 

UBuntu FC’s road to the final saw them playing against Rygersdal FC who they defeated by 2-1 to secure a place in the final. 

After a goalless final, with both teams failing to score a goal, Stellenbosch saw themselves going into the penalties once again. Ubuntu failing to convert their penalties, they saw themselves losing out on the gold by 5-3 in favour of Stellenbosch FC. 

Tylon Smith of Stellenbosch Football Academy had a fantastic tournament as he picked up a personal accolade as the defender of the tournament at this year’s Engen knockout tournament. 

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