Hwange Colliery F.C.

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Hwange Football Club
Full nameHwange Football Club
NicknameChipangano
Founded1940
GroundColliery Stadium
Hwange, Zimbabwe
Capacity15,000
ChairmanButholezwe Dube
ManagerMebelo Njekwa
LeagueZimbabwe Premier Soccer League
(ZPSL)
202416th (relegated)

Hwange Colliery F.C. (formerly known as Wankie Colliery F.C.) is a football club from Hwange, Zimbabwe, previously playing in the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League

The club has won its fair share of honours along its history, beating a star-studded Callies 6–1 to lift the Castle Cup in 1972. in 1973 Dynamos were beaten 1–0. In 1991 Chipangano lifted the Zifa Cup beating Cranborne Bullets 3–1.[1]

Hwange were most recently promoted to the Zimbabwe top flight in 2018 after spending one year in the second division after a 2016 relegation.[2]

They were relegated from the 2024 Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League.[3]

Honours

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1970, 1973, 1991

References

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