Soweto Derby 2026: Kaizer Chiefs vs Orlando Pirates Date, Time and Our Prediction

When is the next Soweto Derby

Detail	Confirmed
Fixture	Orlando Pirates v Kaizer Chiefs
Competition	Betway Premiership 2026-27
Date	Saturday 31 October 2026
Kick-off	13:30 SAST, which is 11:30 GMT
Venue	Orlando Stadium, Soweto, Johannesburg
Home side	Orlando Pirates
Our pick	Orlando Pirates, 58% Good
Second league derby this season	Not yet on the published fixture list

Taken from the SuperSport Betway Premiership fixture list on 24 September 2026, where the ground is listed under its sponsor name, Orlando Amstel Arena. Kick-off times five weeks out do move for broadcast, so treat 13:30 as scheduled rather than final.

Our prediction for Orlando Pirates against Kaizer Chiefs

We are on Orlando Pirates at 58 percent. That figure is deliberately modest for a home side that has not lost a league match all season, and the reason is the opponent rather than the hosts.

Pirates have the better team and the better season so far. Six wins and one draw from seven, three clean sheets in the three most recent matches we verified, and a points-per-game rate that projects higher than the champions. On pure quality this is a 70 percent fixture.

What pulls it down to 58 is that Kaizer Chiefs have drawn four of their seven league matches. They are not a team that loses at the moment, they are a team that refuses to resolve. A pick that names a winner and gets a draw is a loss on our record, and the last Soweto Derby, in April 2026, finished 1-1. Chiefs do not need to be better than Pirates on 31 October to beat our pick. They only need to be stubborn for ninety minutes, which is precisely what they have been all season.

How the two clubs go into the derby

Measure	Orlando Pirates	Kaizer Chiefs
Log position	2nd of 16	4th of 16
Games played	7	7
Won, drawn, lost	6, 1, 0	3, 4, 0
Points	19	13
Points per game	2.71	1.86
Defeats this season	None	None
Share of points won from draws	1 of 19, 5.3%	4 of 13, 30.8%

Position, games played, results and points read off the SuperSport Betway Premiership table on 24 September 2026 and unchanged from our 23 September check, because league football is paused for the FIFA international break. Goal difference and goals for and against are left out on purpose: the sources we use disagree on them, and we do not publish a number we cannot confirm twice.

Recent form, the last three league matches for each club

Date	Match	Score	Result
Sun 20 Sep 2026	Marumo Gallants v Orlando Pirates	0-2	Pirates win, away, clean sheet
Thu 17 Sep 2026	Orlando Pirates v Durban City	2-0	Pirates win, home, clean sheet
Tue 1 Sep 2026	Kruger United v Orlando Pirates	0-4	Pirates win, away, clean sheet
Sun 20 Sep 2026	Golden Arrows v Kaizer Chiefs	0-0	Chiefs draw, away
Sat 12 Sep 2026	Polokwane City v Kaizer Chiefs	1-1	Chiefs draw, away
Sun 6 Sep 2026	Kaizer Chiefs v Siwelele	3-2	Chiefs win, home

Scorelines taken from the SuperSport Betway Premiership results page on 24 September 2026. Across those three matches Pirates scored 8 and conceded 0. Chiefs took 5 points from a possible 9 and have not scored more than once in either of their last two.

The last two Soweto Derbies

Date	Competition	Clubs	Result
26 April 2026	Betway Premiership	Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs	1-1 draw
28 February 2026	Betway Premiership	Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs	3-0 to Orlando Pirates

Both results were confirmed against more than one independent report on 24 September 2026. We are not publishing an all-time head-to-head total, because the published totals do not agree: one widely cited reference gives 107 meetings, while SuperSport in April 2026 gave 109 league meetings and 184 encounters across all competitions. When two sources cannot agree on a number, we leave it off the page rather than pick the one that reads better. What SuperSport did report in April 2026 is that the February win was a fourth consecutive league derby win for Pirates, their best such run of the PSL era. The April draw ended that run.

The draw problem that decides this derby

We counted the season out of the verified 16-team log rather than taking anybody else’s word for it. This is the single number that sets our confidence on a Kaizer Chiefs fixture.

Betway Premiership 2026-27 so far	Figure
League matches played	57
Matches that ended level	23
League-wide share of matches drawn	40.4%
Kaizer Chiefs games drawn	4 of 7, 57.1%
Orlando Pirates games drawn	1 of 7, 14.3%
Clubs drawing more often than Chiefs	Two, Golden Arrows and Chippa United, both 5 of 7

Computed from the log verified on 24 September 2026. Total games played divided by two gives 57 matches, and the drawn column summed across all 16 clubs and divided by two gives 23 drawn matches. The wins column and the losses column both total 34, and 34 plus 23 equals 57, which is the arithmetic check that the underlying table is sound.

Two league matches in five end level in this competition, and Chiefs are running well above even that. Pirates are the opposite case, one draw in seven. A derby puts the least resolvable team in the league in front of the most resolvable, at the most resolvable team ground. That is why we are on Pirates, and it is also why we are only on them at 58.

Build-up fixtures before the derby, with our picks

Date	Kick-off (SAST)	Fixture	Venue	Our pick	Confidence
Sat 17 Oct 2026	13:30	Kaizer Chiefs v Stellenbosch	FNB Stadium	Kaizer Chiefs	52% Close call
Sun 18 Oct 2026	16:00	Orlando Pirates v TS Galaxy	Orlando Stadium	Orlando Pirates	71% Strong
Sat 31 Oct 2026	13:30	Orlando Pirates v Kaizer Chiefs	Orlando Stadium	Orlando Pirates	58% Good
Wed 4 Nov 2026	17:30	Kaizer Chiefs v AmaZulu	FNB Stadium	Kaizer Chiefs	49% Close call
Wed 4 Nov 2026	17:30	Siwelele v Orlando Pirates	Free State Stadium, Bloemfontein	Orlando Pirates	68% Good

Dates, kick-off times and venues taken from the SuperSport Betway Premiership fixture list on 24 September 2026. These are the same picks and the same confidence figures published on our Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates hubs, because a pick that changes depending on which page you read it on is not a pick.

Our graded record, including the losses

Across every competition we cover, our published record is 79 wins and 55 losses from 134 graded picks, 59 percent. Our Betway Premiership column is the worst one we have: 6 wins and 7 losses, 46 percent from 13 graded picks. That is a losing column and it stays on the site.

Record	Result	Note
All competitions, all time	79W-55L, 59%	134 graded picks
Betway Premiership	6W-7L, 46%	13 picks, our weakest column
Strong picks, 70% and up	19W-3L, 86%	Across all competitions
Soweto Derby picks graded	None yet	31 October will be our first

We do not slice the record by club, because 13 PSL picks in total is far too small a sample to cut that finely without the result being noise. Every individual pick, won or lost, is listed in the public log on our home page with its result attached. Record re-verified against the live site on 24 September 2026.