Lebogang Khune

Central Midfielder - SuperSport United
29 Jan 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Lebogang Khune

20 Edition

The SuperSport United Sentinel

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Keagan Mkhize runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 44. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Hlompho Mphela scores twice — 8.49

Two goals and a mark of 8.49 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Themba Zwane asks to leave SuperSport United

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Luther Zungu: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” SuperSport United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Loan watch

Lebogang Tau keeps scoring at Platinum Stars

18 appearances away from home and 16 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.

Squad

Bongani Mokotjo is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.25 with 14 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

Words at SuperSport United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sifiso Phiri is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

SuperSport United see off Jomo Cosmos

Three points for SuperSport United, 2‑1 the final word against Jomo Cosmos in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Loan watch

Siyabonga Manyama has seen enough of KCB

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at SuperSport United, and 3 appearances in 14 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The SuperSport United Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Nowhere to hide for SuperSport United

2‑6 against Black Aces, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Market

SuperSport United sell Gift Dolly for $10.8M

Gift Dolly has left for Racing Genk in a $10.8M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Market

Sifiso Phiri attracts admirers

The name of Sifiso Phiri has come up in conversations SuperSport United were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Sifiso Phiri in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at SuperSport United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Lebogang Khune among the goals in a wild afternoon

8 goals in one match, Lebogang Khune on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of SuperSport United and Black Aces.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Hlompho Mphela

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings

Clinton N'jie runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

A long afternoon for Williams Mkhize

Beaten 6 times, with 5 saves for company. Goalkeepers carry these scorelines on their record whoever actually caused them, which is the quiet injustice of the job.

Boardroom

Nobody left the SuperSport United dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

In brief