Orlando Pirates News, Fixtures and Predictions: MTN8 Final on Saturday, Still Unbeaten in the League

Where Orlando Pirates sit right now

Checked against the SuperSport Betway Premiership table and the PSL’s own log on 6 October 2026; nothing has changed since 20 September because of the international break. Goals are now included because SuperSport and TNT Sports agree on them, which the sources did not when this page was first written.

Recent Orlando Pirates results

Scores from the SuperSport Betway Premiership results page. Across those three matches Pirates scored 8 and conceded 0.

Next Orlando Pirates fixtures, with our picks

League dates, venues and times from the SuperSport fixture list and Soccerway on 6 October 2026. SuperSport lists times in UTC, so we add two hours for South African time. The Galaxy game was moved forward from Sunday 18 October, and the whole 4 November round, including the Siwelele game, now shows as postponed with no new date. The MTN8 final details are as published in our final preview. Times can still move for broadcast, so treat them as scheduled rather than final.

Why the TS Galaxy game is a strong pick

Only three Betway Premiership fixtures on our board carry a confidence figure of 70 percent or above, and this is one of them. Pirates are unbeaten with 6 wins from 7 and have conceded once all season. TS Galaxy are twelfth on 6 points with 1 win from 7. It is a home side with the best defence in the league against a team that has beaten one opponent all season. The one new risk is the schedule: the game now comes three days after the MTN8 final, so watch for rotation.

We have not yet published a pick on the postponed Siwelele fixture, and we will set one once it has a new date. It will not be an automatic strong call. Siwelele are fifteenth and have not won a league game, but they have drawn three of seven, and away midweek matches against bottom-half sides who specialise in the low-scoring draw are exactly where our picks in this league have gone wrong.

The number that makes Pirates predictable

We took the verified 16-team log and counted the season to date. This is why Pirates fixtures carry our higher confidence figures while most Betway Premiership fixtures do not.

Computed from the 16-team log, rechecked on 6 October 2026: total games played divided by two gives 57 matches, and the drawn column across all clubs divided by two gives 23 drawn matches. The wins and losses columns balance at 34 each, which is the arithmetic check that the table is sound.

Two matches in five in this league end level, and a draw is a losing pick for us because a pick that names a winner and gets a draw has lost. Pirates are the outlier: one draw in seven, against a league average nearly three times that rate. A team that resolves its matches is a team we can actually price, and that is why a Pirates fixture can reach 71 percent while a Chiefs fixture against a mid-table side sits at 52.

What 19 points from 7 games projects to

Pirates are one point behind Sundowns with a game in hand, and on current rate they are the projected champions rather than the challengers. The caveat is that seven games is seven games, and Sundowns have a habit of grinding out title-winning runs that form tables never see coming. Saturday’s MTN8 final against Sundowns is a cup game, not a league one, but it is the first head-to-head test of where the two sides really stand.

Our graded record, including the losses

Across every league we cover, our published record is 109 wins and 77 losses from 186 graded picks, 59 percent. Our Betway Premiership column is our worst: 6 wins and 7 losses, 46 percent from 13 graded picks. That is a losing column. We publish it because a record nobody can check is worth nothing.

We do not publish a club-by-club split for Pirates yet, because 13 PSL picks in total is far too small a sample to slice by club without the number being noise. Every individual pick is listed in the public log on our home page with its result attached. Rechecked against the live site on 6 October 2026.