Sundowns Fixtures 2026-27: Dates, SAST Times and Our Predictions

Mamelodi Sundowns fixtures 2026-27Dates, venues and kick-off times verified 2 October 2026Our public record: 98W-71L, 58% over 169 graded picks

The next Mamelodi Sundowns fixture is the MTN8 final against Orlando Pirates at Moses Mabhida Stadium, Durban, on Saturday 10 October 2026 at 18:00 South African time. Three days later the league restarts away to Richards Bay at Princess Magogo Stadium on Tuesday 13 October at 19:30, then come the two CAF Champions League legs against Wiliete of Angola, and Durban City visit Loftus Versfeld on Sunday 1 November at 15:30. Sundowns top the Betway Premiership on 20 points from eight games and are unbeaten. Our published picks: Orlando Pirates 53% in the final, then Sundowns 76%, 58%, 80% and 79%, every one graded in public afterwards.

Every confirmed Mamelodi Sundowns fixture

All times are South African Standard Time. The two league rows are carried by both the SuperSport Betway Premiership list and the ESPN South African Premiership feed, which agreed on date, venue and clock on 2 October 2026. The MTN8 final date, venue and kick-off were confirmed by the league on 28 September and carried by Briefly and Flashscore. For the CAF tie only the confederation windows are confirmed, so we publish the windows and nothing more precise.

Date	Kick-off SAST	Fixture	Competition	Venue	Our published pick
Sat 10 Oct 2026	18:00	Orlando Pirates v Mamelodi Sundowns	MTN8 final	Moses Mabhida Stadium, Durban	Orlando Pirates to lift the trophy, 53% close call
Tue 13 Oct 2026	19:30	Richards Bay v Mamelodi Sundowns	Betway Premiership	Princess Magogo Stadium	Mamelodi Sundowns 76% strong
16 to 18 Oct 2026	Not yet confirmed	Wiliete v Mamelodi Sundowns	CAF Champions League, second preliminary round, first leg	Angola	Mamelodi Sundowns 58% good
23 to 25 Oct 2026	Not yet confirmed	Mamelodi Sundowns v Wiliete	CAF Champions League, second leg	South Africa	Mamelodi Sundowns 80% strong
Sun 1 Nov 2026	15:30	Mamelodi Sundowns v Durban City	Betway Premiership	Loftus Versfeld Stadium, Pretoria	Mamelodi Sundowns 79% strong

Every pick above is reproduced exactly as it appears on our Mamelodi Sundowns hub, the Betway Premiership fixtures page and the match previews, so no two pages on this site carry different numbers for the same game. Sundowns have no league fixture in the 31 October round or the Wednesday 4 November round on the published fixture list. When the league publishes the rearranged dates we will add them here with a pick, not before.

The kick-off times other lists get wrong

The SuperSport league list prints Betway Premiership kick-offs with no timezone label. The ESPN feed carries the same clock values and labels them UTC, and South Africa runs two hours ahead of UTC all year. So the bare 17:30 on the list for Richards Bay v Sundowns is 19:30 South African time, and the bare 13:30 for Sundowns v Durban City is 15:30. This page publishes the South African clock.

Fixture	Unlabelled list value	ESPN feed, UTC	South African time	What this page publishes
Richards Bay v Mamelodi Sundowns, 13 Oct	17:30	17:30	19:30	19:30 SAST
Mamelodi Sundowns v Durban City, 1 Nov	13:30	13:30	15:30	15:30 SAST

Three weeks, five matches, three competitions

This is the stretch that will shape the Sundowns season. From the MTN8 final on 10 October to Durban City on 1 November is 22 days, and inside it sit a cup final, two league matches and both legs of a continental tie, one of them in Angola. The table puts the strength of each opponent next to it, measured as Betway Premiership points per game from the log as it stood on 2 October 2026.

Date	Opponent	Where	Opponent league points per game	Days since previous match
10 Oct	Orlando Pirates	Neutral, Durban	2.71 (19 from 7)	First match after the break
13 Oct	Richards Bay	Away	0.43 (3 from 7)	3
16 to 18 Oct	Wiliete	Away, Angola	Not in the league	3 to 5
23 to 25 Oct	Wiliete	Home	Not in the league	5 to 9
1 Nov	Durban City	Home	1.00 (7 from 7)	7 to 9

The two extremes come back to back. Pirates are earning more points per game than Sundowns themselves, and three days later Richards Bay are still without a league win after seven games. That 2.28 point per game swing between consecutive opponents is why our confidence goes from a coin toss to a strong pick inside 72 hours.

Pirates 2.71 to Richards Bay 0.43 in three days: a 2.28 swing

Sundowns league results so far

Every Betway Premiership result this season, checked against the ESPN team schedule on 2 October 2026, with the running points total. The total ends on 20, which matches the league table exactly.

Date	Match	Home or away	Score	Result	Running points
Tue 11 Aug	TS Galaxy v Mamelodi Sundowns	Away	2-3	WIN	3
Sat 15 Aug	Kaizer Chiefs v Mamelodi Sundowns	Away	1-1	DRAW	4
Wed 19 Aug	Mamelodi Sundowns v Marumo Gallants	Home	2-0	WIN	7
Wed 26 Aug	Mamelodi Sundowns v AmaZulu	Home	5-2	WIN	10
Wed 2 Sep	Mamelodi Sundowns v Milford	Home	2-0	WIN	13
Sun 6 Sep	Golden Arrows v Mamelodi Sundowns	Away	1-2	WIN	16
Wed 9 Sep	Mamelodi Sundowns v Siwelele	Home	3-0	WIN	19
Sat 12 Sep	Chippa United v Mamelodi Sundowns	Away	1-1	DRAW	20

Home and away are two different teams

Split those eight results by venue and the pattern is stark. Counted from the scorelines above:

Split	Played	Won, drawn, lost	Points	Points per game	Goals for	Goals against
Home	4	4, 0, 0	12	3.00	12	2
Away	4	2, 2, 0	8	2.00	7	5
All league	8	6, 2, 0	20	2.50	19	7

Sundowns have a perfect home record and both of their dropped points came away, at Kaizer Chiefs and at Chippa United. That matters for the next two league fixtures in opposite directions: Richards Bay is away, where Sundowns have drawn half their games, and Durban City is at Loftus, where they have won every time. That split is consistent with our 79 percent on Durban City sitting above our 76 percent at Richards Bay, even though Richards Bay are the weaker side on the table.

What Sundowns matches look like, for other markets

Counted from the eight verified scorelines, not from a model:

Market	Count	Share
Total goals in Sundowns league matches	26 in 8	3.25 per match
Both teams scored	5 of 8	62.5%
Over 2.5 goals	4 of 8	50.0%
Sundowns clean sheets	3 of 8, all at home	37.5%
Sundowns failed to score	0 of 8	0.0%

Sundowns have scored in every league match this season and conceded in every away match. If you are looking at the Richards Bay game for a market other than the result, both teams scoring has happened in all four Sundowns away fixtures so far, though four is a small sample and we do not publish a pick on it.

Our record, including the losses

Read off the public pick log on our home page on 2 October 2026. Every pick stays on the log with its result attached.

Where	Record	Graded picks	Hit rate
All competitions	98 wins, 71 losses	169	58%
Strong band, 70% and above	23 wins, 4 losses	27	85%
Betway Premiership	6 wins, 7 losses	13	46%
Picks on Mamelodi Sundowns matches	3 wins, 0 losses	3	Sample too small to quote

The three Sundowns picks are the 5-2 home win over AmaZulu, the 2-0 home win over Milford and the 2-1 win at Golden Arrows. Three from three is a sample, not a hit rate. The line that matters is the one above it: our Betway Premiership column is losing, 6 wins against 7 losses, and six of those seven losses were draws, which our rules grade as a loss whenever the pick said there would be a winner. The MTN8 final and both CAF picks are the first we have ever published in those competitions, so those columns start at zero.

The honest versionOur 53 percent on Pirates in the final is a lean against the league leaders, not a tip. It rests on Pirates taking 2.71 points per game to Sundowns’ 2.50 and winning their semi-final 4-0 on aggregate while Sundowns went through on away goals. A cup final has no draw, so we grade it on who lifts the trophy, including extra time and penalties. We said that before the match on purpose.

Mamelodi Sundowns Fixtures 2026-27: Dates, Kick-off Times and Our Predictions