Irvin Khoza and MultiChoice announced on live television that the new sponsor would be DStv, effectively rebranding the league as the DStv Premiership. ABSA would however announce its cancellation of its sponsorship with the PSL a year later on 4 June 2020. In 2019, ABSA increased their sponsorship deal to the PSL to R 39.9 million, which meant that the league winners would secure R 15 million. SuperSport United won 3 league titles in a row between 20.Īs of May 2019, the league is rated as the 6th best in Africa according to the CAF 5-Year Ranking system.įor the 2018–19 season, the PSL gives each club a monthly grant of R 2 million, with funds coming from the television broadcasting rights and national sponsorships, with the league champion earning R 10 million. In the same year, ABSA replaced Castle Lager as the title sponsor, with the latter having sponsored the league since its inception. In 2007, the PSL signed a television deal with SuperSport worth R 1.6 billion, which was the biggest sporting deal in the history of the country and ranked the league into the top 15 in the world in terms of commercial broadcast deals. Since the 2017–18 season, they have dominated the league with winning league title after league title. The 2005–06 season saw Mamelodi Sundowns capturing the title for a fourth time. Kaizer Chiefs successfully defended their league title in 2005 after they won the prestigious trophy in 2004 for the first time in a decade. More than 40 arrests were made, ranging from club bosses to match commissioners, referees and their assistants. An investigation codenamed "Operation Dribble" was launched by the police system of South Africa police in June 2004. In 2004, a match-fixing scandal rocked the football/soccer landscape in South Africa.
The league was reduced from 18 to 16 teams after the end of the 2001–02 season to avoid fixture congestion, causing the disbandment of two teams Ria Stars and Free State Stars, though the latter was reformed and competing as of the 2020–21 season. Main article: Ellis Park Stadium disaster
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