10 best stats and facts from the 2022/23 DStv Premiership season

The 2022/23 DStv Premiership season is in the record books with Mamelodi Sundowns once again champions of South Africa.

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Below, a look at just 10 of the stats and facts from the season that caught our attention:

1. Only 10 goals were scored by all sides on the opening weekend, the lowest combined total for all teams in their season opening matches in PSL history.

2. Kaizer Chiefs’ Caleb Bimenyimana became the first player in PSL top-flight history to score a hat-trick of penalties in a single game against Stellenbosch FC last October.

3. Mamelodi Sundowns became the first team in PSL history to win as many as 12 games at the half-way stage of a 16 team PSL season.

4. In February Kaizer Chiefs won their fifth consecutive Soweto derby against Orlando Pirates, the first time either of the teams have won five straight league derbies in PSL history.

5. Mamelodi Sundowns won the title with seven games still left to play, the earliest title victory in terms of remaining matches in PSL history.

6. Ronwen Williams kept his 18th clean sheet for Mamelodi Sundowns in the league, a new record for a goalkeeper in a single PSL campaign.

7. Mamelodi Sundowns set a new record for goal difference in a 30-game PSL season (+39), beating the +36 record set last season. In the last three seasons, their total goal difference stands at +110.

8. Daniel Cardoso and Given Msimango were the only players to play every minute of every league game this season. The last player to do so was Cardoso in 2020/21 for Kaizer Chiefs.

9. Orlando Pirates had 17 players score for them this season, the most different goal scorers ever for the Soweto giants in a single PSL season (17 also in 2003/4).

10. Eric Tinkler won a match against Kaizer Chiefs for the 11th time in his coaching career, more than he has against any other PSL opponent.

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