2020 MTN 8

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CountrySouth Africa
Dates17 October 2020 – 12 December 2020
Teams8
ChampionsOrlando Pirates (10th title)
2020 MTN 8
Tournament details
CountrySouth Africa
Dates17 October 2020 – 12 December 2020
Teams8
Final positions
ChampionsOrlando Pirates (10th title)
Runners-upBloemfontein Celtic
Tournament statistics
Matches played9
Goals scored20 (2.22 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)(2 goals)
Mogakolodi Ngele
Yagan Sasman
Ghampani Lungu
Thembinkosi Lorch
 2019
2021 

The 2020 MTN 8 was the 46th edition of South Africa's annual soccer cup competition, the MTN 8. It featured the top eight teams of the Premier Soccer League at the end of the 2019–20 season.

Supersport United were defending champions, but were eliminated in the Semifinal by Bloemfontein Celtic.

The competition was won by Orlando Pirates, ending a six-year trophy drought.[1]

The eight teams competing in the MTN 8 knockout competition are (listed according to their finishing position in the 2019/2020 Premier Soccer League Season):

  1. Mamelodi Sundowns
  2. Kaizer Chiefs
  3. Orlando Pirates
  4. Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila (purchased the position from Bidvest Wits)
  5. SuperSport United
  6. Cape Town City
  7. Maritzburg
  8. Bloemfontein Celtic

Quarter-finals

Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila2–3SuperSport United
Ngele 44', 56' Report 8' Grobler
28' Rayners
33' Lungu
Kaizer Chiefs2–1Maritzburg United
Sasman 73', 75' Report 32' Kutumela

Semi-finals

Orlando Pirates3–0Kaizer Chiefs
Z.Lepasa 26'
V.Pule 66'
T.Lorch 81'
Attendance: 0(due to Covid-19)
Referee: Eugene Ndluli

Bloemfontein Celtic1–0Supersport United
V.Letsoalo 49'

Bloemfontein Celtic won 2–1 on aggregate

Orlando Pirates won 5–0 on aggregate

Final

Statistics

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