1978 NPSL First Division

November 2024 November 2024 National Professional Soccer League 1978 Lusitano Thomas ‘Junior’ Ngobe, 40 goals (Witbank Aces) 1977 NPSL1977 NFL 1979 The 1978 National Professional Soccer League was the first season of the newly-formed multi-racial South African National Professional Soccer League (NPSL). The league was a merger of the previous NPSL, which due to the country's apartheid policies were for black teams only, and the National Football League, for white teams only. It was won by Lusitano.HISTORY https://www.uptherabbits.com/history 2024-11-21 Benoni United FC enSouth Africa 1978 https://www.rsssf.org/tablesz/zaf78.html 2024-11-21 www.rsssf.org The third professional league, the non-racial Federation Professional League, continued to function independently. Lusitano's 13-0 victory over Mangaung United is the largest margin of victory in a top-flight league game in South Africa.Pirates close to matching PSL winning-margin record https://supersport.com/football/betway-premiership/news/641a1b97-5e04-4c68-a183-c3c4ba9dcaa5/pirates-close-to-matching-psl-winning-margin-record 2024-11-21 SuperSport en The top scorer was Witbank Ace's Thomas ‘Junior’ Ngobe, with 40 goals.Goldswain Zita 2022-11-20 Local legend soccer player honoured https://www.citizen.co.za/witbank-news/news-headlines/2022/11/20/local-legend-soccer-player-honoured/ 2024-11-27 Witbank News en-US main WDL 2 LUS Lusitano 29 1 4 119 26 WTS Wits University 26 2 6 80 21 ARC Arcadia Shepherds 22 9 3 89 22 KAI Kaizer Chiefs 21 10 3 63 18 HIG Highlands Park 24 4 6 87 29 WIT Witbank Black Aces 23 6 5 88 41 PCA Pretoria Callies 19 11 4 49 27 BEN Benoni United 23 3 8 72 41 SWA Moroka Swallows 17 8 9 65 44 PIR Orlando Pirates 13 13 8 42 28 ICA Imperial Callies 13 10 11 48 43 VAA Vaal Professionals 9 12 13 46 53 COL Colchester United 11 8 15 49 61 LEI Leicester City 10 8 16 37 52 BLO Bloemfontein Celtic 10 8 16 53 80 AMA AmaZulu 11 5 18 42 51 WEL Welkom Real Hearts 8 8 18 34 43 PIL Pilkington United Bros 8 7 19 40 63 LIO Moroka Lions 9 3 22 50 79 WAN African Wanderers 6 8 20 31 73 SOB Sobantu Manchester United 5 9 20 31 69 GOL Lamontville Golden Arrows 5 5 24 25 75 BUC Durban Bush Bucks 4 6 24 26 83 MAN Mangaung United 2 5 27 17 124 R R R R R R R R R R complete https://www.rsssf.org/tablesz/zaf78.html Relegation criteria are unclear. The league was divided into two zones of 12 clubs, playing each team in their zone twice, and teams in the other zone once. References 1978 Category:1978 in South African sport Category:1975–76 in African association football leagues