Mamelodi Sundowns Football Club (simply known as the Sundowns) is a South African professional football club based in Mamelodi, Pretoria, Gauteng that plays in the Premiership, the first tier of South African football league system. Founded in the 1970s, they play their home games in the Loftus Versfeld Stadium.
As of 2025, the Sundowns are the most successful football club in the South African PSL with 15 league titles, amounting to a record 18 in total. Domestically, they have also won the Nedbank Cup six times, the MTN 8 four times and the Telkom Knockout four times.
They won the 2016 CAF Champions League, 2017 CAF Super Cup and were voted the 2016 CAF Club of the Year. They are the first South African team to compete in the FIFA Club World Cup, where they finished in 6th place. In 2021, Sundowns became the first club in Africa to win both CAF Champions League and CAF Women's Champions League titles. In 2023, Sundowns was crowned champions of the inaugural African Football League.
Sundowns is owned by South African business magnate Patrice Motsepe and is one of the most valuable clubs in Africa, with a market value of €29 million as of the 2023-24 season. The club takes pride in its unique style of attacking play, locally dubbed "Shoe Shine & Piano" which includes combinations of quick, short passes on the ground and this is likened to the Spanish Tiki-taka and Total Football. Over the years, this style of play has been reflected in its youth teams and women's football team.
