South Africa National Football League (Datsun League) 1977

South Africa National Football League (Datsun League) 1977 - Winner Highlands Park

Final Ranking		pts	win	drw	lst	gf	ga	g+-	1978 to
1.	Highlands Park	37	17	3	4	52:	20	+32	5. 1978 NPSL
2.	Lusitano	37	15	7	2	38:	10	+28	1. 1978 NPSL
3.	Durban United	33	13	7	4	32:	15	+17	1978 FPL
4.	Hellenic	26	11	4	9	35:	29	+6	1978 FPL
5.	Arcadia Shepherds	26	9	8	7	31:	27	+4	3. 1978 NPSL
6.	Wits University	26	9	8	7	21:	24	-3	2. 1978 NPSL
7.	Maritzburg	21	6	9	9	32:	31	+1	1978 FPL
8.	Durban City	21	8	5	11	31:	36	-5	1. 1978 FPL
9.	East London United	18	6	6	12	20:	31	-11	5. 1978 FPL
10.	PG Rangers	18	5	8	11	21:	34	-13	NFL ?
11.	Cape Town City	17	6	5	13	22:	35	-13	1978 FPL
12.	Roodeport-Guild	15	5	5	14	18:	38	-20	1978 FPL
13.	Germiston Callies	14	5	4	15	17:	49	-32	11. 1978 NPSL

Last edition of South Africa National Football League as Level I.

5 teams went to multiracial 1978 NPSL. 7 teams to 1978 FPL. PG Rangers possibly stayed in NFL.

_ 1977 Mainstay League Cup:

_ 1977 Castle Cup: Lusitano 1-0 Durban United

_ 1977 NFL Cup: Cape Town Spurs 4-0 --- PG Rangers

Points After Matches

Team

High

Lusi

Durb

Hell

Wits

Arca

Mari

Durb

East

Rang

Cape

Rood

Germ

Highlands Park

---

1:0

0:1

3:1

1:1

0:1

2:0

5:0

3:1

5:1

Lusitano

1:0

---

0:0

3:0

1:1

2:1

6:2

2:0

1:0

3:0

Durban United

0:1

0:0

---

0:0

2:0

4:1

1:1

0:0

2:0

1:0

2:1

Hellenic

0:1

1:0

---

3:2

2:1

0:1

Wits University

0:0

0:2

2:1

---

1:0

3:1

2:2

Arcadia Shepherds

0:3

3:2

1:1

---

1:1

0:0

2:1

3:0

Maritzburg

2:3

1:1

---

2:1

1:1

5:0

Durban City

1:1

2:0

2:1

1:2

1:1

1:0

---

3:0

2:2

2:1

1:1

East London United

0:2

1:1

1:2

3:2

0:1

1:1

---

1:0

1:2

Rangers

1:3

-:1

2:2

1:1

3:2

2:1

---

2:2

0:1

1:1

Cape Town City

3:1

0:1

0:2

0:0

1:1

1:0

2:0

0:1

1:2

---

2:0

Roodepoort Guild

1:1

1:2

0:2

0:1

2:1

1:2

1:1

---

2:1

Germiston Callies

0:3

0:2

0:0

3:2

1:0

0:0

---

Round Robin 1

Round 1 - Saturday 05.03.1977

date	team 1 _________	score	team 2 _________	HT
Fri 04.03.77	East London United	1-2	Durban United
Fri 04.03.77	Cape Town City	1-0	Maritzburg
Sissons pen. --- att: 8,325
Fri 04.03.77	Germiston Callies	0-0	Roodepoort Guild
Sat 05.03.77	Highlands Park	0-1	Arcadia Shepherds	0-0
0-1 Vincent Julius 84' att: 5,000
Sun 06.03.77	Durban City	2-2	PG Rangers
Tue 08.03.77	Wits University	2-2	Germiston Callies

Round 2 - Saturday 12.03.1977

date	team 1 _________	score	team 2 _________	HT
Fri 11.03.77	Lusitano	2-0	East London United
Fri 11.03.77	Hellenic	2-1	Durban City
Fri 11.03.77	Arcadia Shepperds	ppd	Cape Town City
postponed and rescheduled to Tue 07.06.1977
Sat 12.03.77	PG Rangers	1-1	Germiston Callies
Sat 12.03.77	Roodepoort Guild	0-1	Wits University
Sun 13.03.77	Durban United	1-0	Cape Town City
att: 5,000
Sun 13.03.77	Maritzburg	2-1	East London United

Round 3 - Saturday 19.03.1977

date	team 1 _________	score	team 2 _________	HT
Wed 16.03.77	Lusitano	2-1	Maritzburg
Fri 18.03.77	East London United	1-2	Roodepoort Guild
Fri 18.03.77	Germiston Callies	0-2	Durban United
Fri 18.03.77	Cape Town City	1-2	PG Rangers	0-1
France --- Mason, Hall att: 7,217
Sat 19.03.77	Wits University	2-1	Hellenic
Sun 20.03.77	Maritzburg	5-0	Roodepoort Guild
Sun 20.03.77	Durban City	1-1	Arcadia Shepherds

Round 4 - Saturday 26.03.1977

date	team 1 _________	score	team 2 _________	HT
Fri 25.03.77	Hellenic	0-1	Lusitano
Fri 25.03.77	Wits University	1-0	Durban City
1-0 Raymond Graham 86' Milner Park raindrenched 3,500 crowd
Fri 25.03.77	Arcadia Shepherds	3-0	Germiston Callies
Fri 25.03.77	East London United	0-2	Highlands Park
Sat 26.03.77	PG Rangers	1-1	Maritzburg
Sat 26.03.77	Guild-Apolo	1-1	Cape Town City	0-0
Pelimpasakakis --- France att: 400
Sun 27.03.77	Durban United	0-1	Highlands Park

Ranking 27.03		pts	win	drw	lst	gf	ga	g+-	m
1.	Wits University	7	3	1	0	6:	3	+3	4
2.	Lusitano	6	3	0	0	5:	1	+4	3
3.	Durban United	6	3	0	1	5:	2	+3	4
4.	Maritzburg	5	2	1	2	9:	5	+4	5
5.	Arcadia Shepherds	5	2	1	0	5:	1	+4	3
6.	PG Rangers	5	1	3	0	6:	5	+1	4
7.	Highlands Park	4	2	0	1	3:	1	+2	3
8.	Guild Apolo	4	1	2	2	3:	8	-5	5
9.	Cape Town City	3	1	1	2	3:	4	-1	4
10.	Germiston Callies	3	0	3	2	3:	8	-5	5
10.	Hellenic	2	1	0	2	3:	4	-1	3
12.	Durban City	2	0	2	2	4:	6	-2	4
13.	East London United	0	0	0	5	3:	10	-7	5

Round 5 - Saturday 02.04.1977

date	team 1 _________	score	team 2 _________	HT
Fri 01.04.77	Cape Town City	0-0	Wits University	0-0
att: 7,818
Fri 01.04.77	Germiston Callies	0-2	Hellenic
Sat 02.04.77	Lusitano	1-1	Arcadia Shepherds
Sun 03.04.77	Maritzburg		Hellenic
Sun 03.04.77	Durban City	1-1	Roodepoort Guild

Round 6 - Saturday 09.04.1977

date	team 1 _________	score	team 2 _________	HT
Thu 07.04.77	PG Rangers	2-1	East London United
Thu 07.04.77	Cape Town City	2-0	Durban City
France 2 1pen. att: 6,017
Sat 09.04.77	Wits University		Maritzburg
Sat 09.04.77	Germiston Callies		East London United
Sat 09.04.77	Hellenic	1-0	Durban United
Sun 10.04.77	Durban United	0-0	Lusitano	0-0
Mon 11.04.77	Highlands Park	3-1	Hellenic
Mon 11.04.77	Arcadia Shepherds	1-1	Maritzburg

Round 7 - Saturday 16.04.1977

date	team 1 _________	score	team 2 _________	HT
Wed 13.04.77	Highlands Park	3-1	Roodepoort Guild
Fri 15.04.77	Hellenic		PG Rangers
Fri 15.04.77	Wits University		East London United
Sat 16.04.77	Highlands Park	5-0	Cape Town City
Sat 16.04.77	Roodepoort Guild	1-1	Lusitano
Sun 17.04.77	Maritzburg	1-1	Durban United
Sun 17.04.77	Durban City	3-0	East London United

Round 8 - Saturday 23.04.1977

date	team 1 _________	score	team 2 _________	HT
Fri 22.04.77	Arcadia Shepherds	1-1	Wits University
Fri 22.04.77	Cape Town City	2-0	Germiston Callies
Pereira, Akhurst att: 7,456
Sat 23.04.77	Lusitano	0-1	Highlands Park
Possible Replay 1-0?
Sat 23.04.77	Roodepoort Guild	0-2	Hellenic
Trezona Park.
Sun 24.04.77	Durban United	2-0	PG Rangers
Sun 24.04.77	Maritzburg	2-1	Durban City

Round 9 - Saturday 30.04.1977

date	team 1 _________	score	team 2 _________	HT
Tue 26.04.77	PG Rangers	0-1	Roodepoort Guild
Fri 29.04.77	Hellenic	1-0	Durban United
Fri 29.04.77	East London United	0-1	Arcadia Shepherds
Sat 30.04.77	Highlands Park	1-1	Wits University
Sat 30.04.77	Germiston Callies	3-2	Maritzburg
Sun 01.05.77	Durban City	2-0	Lusitano

Round 10 - Saturday 07.05.1977

date	team 1 _________	score	team 2 _________	HT
Wed 04.05.77	Highlands Park	2-0	Durban City
Fri 06.05.77	East London United	3-2	Hellenic
Fri 06.05.77	Cape Town City	0-1	Lusitano
att: 6,743
Sat 07.05.77	PG Rangers	1-3	Highlands Park
Sat 07.05.77	Roodepoort Guild	1-2	Durban United
Sun 08.05.77	Durban City	2-0	Germiston Callies

Round 11 - Saturday 14.05.1977

date	team 1 _________	score	team 2 _________	HT
Wed 11.05.77	Lusitano	3-0	Germiston Callies
Fri 13.05.77	Hellenic	0-1	Cape Town City
--- Welsh
Fri 13.05.77	Arcadia Shepherds	0-0	PG Rangers
Sat 14.05.77	Wits University	0-0	Lusitano
Sun 15.05.77	Durban United	1-1	Durban City
Sun 15.05.77	Maritzburg	2-3	Highlands Park
Sun 15.05.77	PG Rangers		Wits University

Rk	Ranking	pts	win	drw	lst	gf	ga	g+-	m	miss
1.	Highlands Park	19	9	1	2	26:	8	+18	12
2.	Lusitano	18	7	4	1	13:	5	+8	12
3.	Durban United	15	6	3	3	15:	9	+6	12
4.	Arcadia Shepherds	13	4	5	2	15:	11	+4	11	1
5.	Wits University	11	3	5	1	8:	7	+1	9	3
6.	Hellenic	10	5	0	5	14:	13	+1	10	2
7.	Durban City	10	3	4	5	14:	14	0	12
8.	Cape Town City	10	4	2	5	8:	11	-3	11	1
9.	Roodepoort Guild	10	3	4	5	10:	18	-8	12
10.	Maritzburg	9	3	3	4	17:	14	+3	10	2
11.	Rangers	8	2	4	4	9:	13	-4	10	2
12.	Germiston Callies	5	1	3	7	6:	22	-16	11	1
13.	East London United	4	2	0	8	8:	18	-10	10	2

Ranking Round Robin 1 per known scores.

Round 12 - Saturday 21.05.1977

_ 1977 Castle Cup - Round 1 - 19.05, 20.05, 21.05, 28.05

date	team 1 _________	score	team 2 _________	HT
Wed 18.05.77	Germiston Callies	0-3	Highlands Park
Wed 18.05.77	East London United	1-0	Cape Town City
Wed 18.05.77	Hellenic	3-2	Arcadia Shepherds
Sat 21.05.77	Lusitano	1-0	PG Rangers
Sat 21.05.77	Roodepoort Guid	2-1	Arcadia Shepherds
Sun 22.05.77	Durban United	2-0	Wits University
Sat 28.05.77	Arcadia Shepherds	3-2	Durban United

Round Robin 2

Round 13 - Saturday 04.06.1977

date	team 1 _________	score	team 2 _________	HT
Tue 31.05.77	Wits University		Highlands Park
Tue 31.05.77	Arcadia Shepherds	0-3	Lusitano
Wed 01.06.77	PG Rangers	3-2	Durban City
Fri 03.06.77	Cape Town City	1-1	Arcadia Shepherds
France --- att: 7,036
Sat 04.06.77	Roodepoort Guild	2-1	Germiston Callies
Sun 05.06.77	Maritzburg		Lusitano
Sun 05.06.77	Durban City	2-1	Hellenic

Round 14 - Saturday 11.06.1977

date	team 1 _________	score	team 2 _________	HT
Tue 07.06.77	Arcadia Shepherds	2-1	Cape Town City
2-1 Geoff Wegerle --- Pereira rescheduled from Fri 11.03.1977
Wed 08.06.77	Wits University		Roodepoort Guild
postponed to Friday, 8th July
Wed 08.06.77	East London United		Maritzburg
Fri 10.06.77	Hellenic		Highlands Park
Sat 11.06.77	Arcadia Shepherds		Durban City
Sat 11.06.77	PG Rangers	2-2	Cape Town City
--- Pereira, Hill
Sat 11.06.77	Germiston Callies		Wits University
Sun 12.06.77	Durban United	2-1	Roodepoort Guild
New Kingsmead 15:00.

Weekend Sat 18.07.1977 - 1977 Castle Cup - Round 2.

Round 15 - Saturday 25.06.1977

date	team 1 _________	score	team 2 _________	HT
Fri 24.06.77	Highlands Park		East London United
Fri 24.06.77	Cape Town City	ppd	Roodepoort-Guild
postponned and played on Fri 16.09.77.
Sat 25.06.77	Wits University		PG Rangers
Sat 25.06.77	Germiston Callies	1-0	Durban City
possible date end of July
Sun 26.06.77	Durban United	0-0	East London United	0-0
Sun 26.06.77	Maritzburg		Arcadia Shepherds

Round 16 - Saturday 03.07.1977

date	team 1 _________	score	team 2 _________	HT
Fri 01.07.77	Hellenic		Germiston Callies
Fri 01.07.77	East London United		PG Rangers
Sat 02.07.77	Lusitano	ppd	Wits University
played in September.
Sat 02.07.77	Roodepoort-Guild		Highlands Park
Sun 03.07.77	Maritzburg		PG Rangers
Sun 03.07.77	Durban City	2-1	Cape Town City
--- Pereira

Round 17 - Saturday 09.07.1977

date	team 1 _________	score	team 2 _________	HT
Wed 06.07.77	Durban United	4-1	Arcadia Shepherds
Fri 08.07.77	Cape Town City	0-1	East London United
att: 4,640
Fri 08.07.77	Wits University	3-1	Roodepoort Guild
postponed from Wednesday, 8th June
Sat 09.07.77	Highlands Park		Maritzburg
Sat 09.07.77	Germiston Callies		Lusitano
Sun 10.07.77	Durban United	0-0	Hellenic	0-0
Mon 11.07.77	Arcadia Shepherds		East London United

Round 18 - Saturday 16.07.1977

date	team 1 _________	score	team 2 _________	HT
Wed 13.07.77	Lusitano		Roodepoort-Guild
Fri 15.07.77	Hellenic		Wits University
Fri 15.07.77	East London United		Germiston Callies
Sat 16.07.77	Arcadia Shepherds		Highlands Park
Sat 16.07.77	PG Rangers	0-1	Lusitano
0-1? Collins (winner goal) Rand Stadium 4,000. Referee: Griffiths.
Rangers: Nogueira; Farrell, Hutchons, Arber e Walter; Rubestein, West e Walker; Hugo, Grainger e Mann.		Lusitano: Balac; Swan, Brown, DeLacour e Ejea; Pinheiro, Gie e De Freitas; Flynn, Filby , Collins.
Sat 16.07.77	Roodepoort-Guild		Maritzburg
Sun 17.07.77	Durban United	ppd	Germiston Callies
played on Sun 18.09.77.

Round 19 - Saturday 23.07.1977

date	team 1 _________	score	team 2 _________	HT
Wed 20.07.77	PG Rangers		Arcadia Shepherds
Fri 22.07.77	Cape Town City	3-1	Highlands Park
Buckley 2 1pen., France --- att: 7,982
Sat 23.07.77	Wits University	ppd	Durban United
played later. Score 0-2.
Sat 23.07.77	Arcadia Shepherds		Hellenic
Sat 23.07.77	Germiston Callies		PG Rangers
Sun 24.07.77	Durban City	1-0	Maritzburg

Round 20 - Saturday 30.07.1977

date	team 1 _________	score	team 2 _________	HT
Wed 27.07.77	Lusitano	0-0	Durban United	0-0
Fri 29.07.77	Hellenic		Maritzburg
Fri 29.07.77	East London United	0-1	Wits University
Sat 30.07.77	Highlands Park	1-0	Lusitano
Lusitano: crunching tackle, antagonism against the referee and linesmenn, crowd invasiions. Rand Stadium.
Sat 30.07.77	Roodepoort-Guild		PG Rangers
Sun 31.07.77	Maritzburg	1-1	Cape Town City
--- Pereira
Sun 31.07.77	Durban City	1-2	Wits University

Round 21 - Saturday 06.08.1977

date	team 1 _________	score	team 2 _________	HT
Fri 05.08.77	Cape Town City	0-2	Durban United
20:30
Sat 06.08.77	Lusitano	3-0	Hellenic	2-0
1-0 Nino Gomes 18' 2-0 Mickey Flinn 1T 3-0 2T Rand Stadium. Next match of Hellenic in Natal.
Sat 06.08.77	Germiston Callies	ppd	Arcadia Shpepherds
played on 21.09.77??
Sun 07.08.77	Maritzburg		Wits University
Sun 07.08.77	Durban City	1-1	Highlands Park

Round 22 - Saturday 13.08.1977

date	team 1 _________	score	team 2 _________	HT
Wed 10.08.77	Lusitano	6-2	Durban City	2-2
Rand Stadium night match.
Fri 12.08.77	Cape Town City		Hellenic
Fri 12.08.77	East London United	1-1	Durban City
Fri 12.08.77	Highlands Park	0-1	Durban United
date could be wrong.
Sat 13.08.77	Highlands Park		PG Rangers
Sat 13.08.77	Arcadia Shepherds		Roodepoort-Guild
Sun 14.08.77	Durban United	ppd	Maritzburg
played on 11.09.77 ??

Round 23 - Saturday 20.08.1977

date	team 1 _________	score	team 2 _________	HT
Fri 19.08.77	Hellenic		Roodepoort-Guild
Sat 20.08.77	Lusitano	bt	Cape Town City
Sun 21.08.77	Durban City	2-1	Durban United
Sun 21.08.77	Maritzburg		Germiston Callies

Round 24 - Saturday 27.08.1977

date	team 1 _________	score	team 2 _________	HT
Wed 24.08.77	Wits University		Arcadia Shepherds
Fri 26.08.77	East London United	1-1	Lusitano
Fri 26.08.77	Germiston Callies		Cape Town City
Sat 27.08.77	PG Rangers		Hellenic
Sat 27.08.77	Roodepoort-Guild	1-2	Durban City

Round 25 - Saturday 03.09.1977

date	team 1 _________	score	team 2 _________	HT
Fri 02.09.77	PG Rangers	2-2	Durban United
Fri 02.09.77	Hellenic	1-0?	East London United
Sat 03.09.77	Wits University		Cape Town City
Mon 05.09.77	Roodepoort-Guild	1-2	East London United
Mon 05.09.77	Highlands Park	5-1	Germiston Callies

Round 26 - Saturday 10.09.1977

Scheduled Final of 1977 Castle Cup. Played on Sat 01.10.1977.

date	team 1 _________	score	team 2 _________	HT
Sun 11.09.77	Durban United	bt	Maritzburg

Last matches

date	team 1 _________	score	team 2 _________	HT
Fri 16.09.77	Cape Town City		Roodeport-Guild
Sun 18.09.77	Durban United	bt	Germiston Callies
--- --.09.77	Lusitano	3-0	Wits University	2-0
from Sat 02.07.77. Championship decider. Lusitano needed a 8 goals win! Gary Bailey brought off half a dozen miraculous saves! 1-0 Nino Gomes 15' 2-0 Ejea 30' 3-0 Lary de Freitas 63'
Wed 21.09.77	Germiston Callies	0-0?	Arcadia Shpepherds
--- --.09.77	Wits University	0-2	Durban United
--- --.09.77		1-0	PG Rangers
--- --.09.77		1-0	East London United

Points After Mathes	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.	7.	8.	9.	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
1. Highlands Park	0	2	4	6	8	10	10	11	13	15	17	19											35	37
2. Lusitano	2	4	6	7	8	9	11	13	15	17	18	20											35	37
3. Durban United	2	4	6	6	6	7	8	10	10	11	13	13	15	16	18	19	21	22	24	26	28	29	31	33
4. Hellenic	2	2	2	4																				26
5. Arcadia Shepherds	2	3	5	6	7	8	10	11	11	11	13	13	14	16									25	26
6. Wits University	1	3	5	7	8																		26	26
7. Maritzburg	0	2	2	4	5																			21
8. Durban City	1	1	2	2	3	3	5	5	5	5														21
9. East London United	0	0	0	0	0	0																		18
10.PG Rangers	1	2	4	5	7																		18	18
11.Cape Town City	2	2	2	3	4	6	6	8	8	10	10	11	11	12										17
12.Roodepoort	1	1	3	3	4	5	5	6	6	8	8	10	12											15
13.Germiston Callies	1	2	3	3	3	3																	14	14

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