Black Leopards have some lost ground to recover from their 14th position, and the job starts against Free State Stars. Read more!
- Black Leopards have yet to win a game at home.
- Black Leopards have created more than twice as many corners as Free State Stars.
Both sides have had plenty of rest since their last effort on the pitch. Let's agree to expect an animated fixture!
Black Leopards form and stats
0-2-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Gladafrica Championship numbers at home for Black Leopards so far this season.
Leopards are anxiously hoping for a goal as it's been 301 minutes since the last one in league fixtures. (Scored by T. Thutlwa).
The Leopards fans got no joy from their last match, a Gladafrica Championship game also here at Thohoyandou Stadium: A 0-1 defeat against JDR Stars (placed 2nd).
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Cape Town Spurs (0-2).There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Leopards as they are travelling to their away game against Cape Town All Stars in the Gladafrica Championship. That match is three days after this one.
Leopards has huge difficulties finding the net and are scoring on average only once per two home matches in the league: 1 goal from 4 games. Leopards are not conceding a lot of goals here at Thohoyandou Stadium in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 3 from 4 matches.
Free State Stars form and stats
Things could have gone better for Free State Stars in their Gladafrica Championship away matches, but 4 points from 3 games is all right.
State's previous game was their home loss versus University of Pretoria (1-2).
Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Hungry Lions's place.The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Uthongathi in just three days.
Free State Stars are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed 1 goal from 3 away games. Free State Stars are tighter than a frog's bottom, as only 1 away goal have been conceded so far.
Head 2 Head
Last ten meetings with these teams: Leopards won zero, Free State Stars triumphed in seven and we saw three draws. eight games with over 2,5 goals, two matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  T. Thutlwa 3 goals |  M. Sekola 3 goals | S. Mthethwa 1 goals |
Black Leopards missing players
Free State Stars missing players
| Black Leopards | Free State Stars | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 8 | 4 | 2 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | Scored | S | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 7 | 3 | 2 | Conceded | C | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 88% | 75% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 67% | 75% |
| 62% | 25% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 38% | 25% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 25% |
| 25% | 25% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 67% | 50% |
| 50% | 75% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 67% | 50% |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 0% |
- Black Leopards have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won.
- Black Leopards have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
- Black Leopards have created more than twice as many corners as Free State Stars.
- Black Leopards have won significantly less corners at home than away.
- Black Leopards have yet to win a game at home.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | University of Pretoria | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 15 |
| 2 | JDR Stars | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 15 |
| 3 | Hungry Lions | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 14 |
| 4 | Platinum City Rovers | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 14 |
| 5 | Uthongathi | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| 6 | Cape Town All Stars | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 12 |
| 7 | Polokwane City | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 11 |
| 8 | Venda FC | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 11 |
| 9 | Free State Stars | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 11 |
| 10 | Pretoria Callies | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 |
| 11 | TS Sporting | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | -2 | 9 |
| 12 | Richards Bay | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -2 | 9 |
| 12 | Real Kings | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | TTM | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | -4 | 9 |
| 14 | Black Leopards | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | -2 | 7 |
| 15 | Cape Town Spurs | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | -6 | 7 |
| 16 | Jomo Cosmos | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | -5 | 3 |