{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Use South African English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox football league season |competition=National Professional Soccer League | image = | pixels = |season = 1982 |winners = Durban City |relegated = AmaZulu, Bloemfontein Celtic, Leicester City |league topscorer= |biggest home win= |biggest away win= |highest scoring = |matches = |total goals = |longest wins = |longest unbeaten= |longest winless = |longest losses = |highest attendance= |lowest attendance= |average attendance= |prevseason = 1981 |nextseason = 1983 |updated = }}
The '''1982 National Professional Soccer League''' was the fifth season of the multi-racial South African National Professional Soccer League (NPSL). The league was a merger of the previous NPSL, which due to the country's apartheid policies were for black teams only, and the National Football League, for white teams only.
The other professional league, the non-racial Federation Professional League, continued to function independently.
It was won by Durban City,<ref name="ulwazi1">{{cite web|url=http://www.ulwazi.org/index.php5?title=Durban_Living_Legend_-_Mark_Steven_Tovey |title=Durban Living Legend - Mark Steven Tovey - Community Memory |publisher=Ulwazi.org |date=1955-05-07 |accessdate=2013-11-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020021131/http://www.ulwazi.org/index.php5?title=Durban_Living_Legend_-_Mark_Steven_Tovey|archive-date=20 October 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=South Africa 1982 |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesz/zaf82.html |access-date=2025-01-26 |website=www.rsssf.org}}</ref> managed by Clive Barker, earning City their first ever title.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dylan |date=2023-09-18 |title=Barker's Brilliance |url=https://www.sportsclub.co.za/features/barkers-brilliance/ |access-date=2025-01-26 |website=SportsClub |language=en-US}}</ref>
{{#invoke:Sports table|main|style=WDL
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|team1=DUR|name_DUR=Durban City |win_DUR=20 |draw_DUR=9 |loss_DUR=5 |gf_DUR=58 |ga_DUR=25 |team2=WTS|name_WTS=Wits University |win_WTS=19 |draw_WTS=10 |loss_WTS=5 |gf_WTS=57 |ga_WTS=25 |team3=KAI|name_KAI=Kaizer Chiefs |win_KAI=18 |draw_KAI=7 |loss_KAI=9 |gf_KAI=52 |ga_KAI=32 |team4=HIG|name_HIG=Highlands Park |win_HIG=15 |draw_HIG=12 |loss_HIG=7 |gf_HIG=49 |ga_HIG=27 |team5=PIR|name_PIR=Orlando Pirates |win_PIR=17 |draw_PIR=8 |loss_PIR=9 |gf_PIR=46 |ga_PIR=36 |team6=HEL|name_HEL=Hellenic |win_HEL=14 |draw_HEL=12 |loss_HEL=8 |gf_HEL=50 |ga_HEL=31 |team7=ARC|name_ARC=Arcadia Shepherds |win_ARC=15 |draw_ARC=9 |loss_ARC=10 |gf_ARC=51 |ga_ARC=33 |team8=DYN|name_DYN=Dynamos |win_DYN=16 |draw_DYN=7 |loss_DYN=11 |gf_DYN=51 |ga_DYN=43 |team9=SWA|name_SWA=Moroka Swallows |win_SWA=13 |draw_SWA=13 |loss_SWA=8 |gf_SWA=59 |ga_SWA=51 |team10=WIT|name_WIT=Witbank Black Aces |win_WIT=13 |draw_WIT=10 |loss_WIT=11 |gf_WIT=46 |ga_WIT=45 |team11=AFR|name_AFR=African Wanderers |win_AFR=10 |draw_AFR=10 |loss_AFR=14 |gf_AFR=36 |ga_AFR=50 |team12=MAM|name_MAM=Mamelodi United |win_MAM=10 |draw_MAM=10 |loss_MAM=14 |gf_MAM=38 |ga_MAM=61 |team13=BEN|name_BEN=Benoni United |win_BEN=9 |draw_BEN=11 |loss_BEN=14 |gf_BEN=35 |ga_BEN=49 |team14=RAN|name_RAN=Rangers |win_RAN=10 |draw_RAN=7 |loss_RAN=17 |gf_RAN=38 |ga_RAN=45 |team15=BUC|name_BUC=Durban Bush Bucks |win_BUC=9 |draw_BUC=8 |loss_BUC=17 |gf_BUC=43 |ga_BUC=59 |team16=AMA|name_AMA=AmaZulu |win_AMA=11 |draw_AMA=4 |loss_AMA=19 |gf_AMA=35 |ga_AMA=51 |team17=BLO|name_BLO=Bloemfontein Celtic |win_BLO=4 |draw_BLO=7 |loss_BLO=23 |gf_BLO=25 |ga_BLO=62 |team18=LEI|name_LEI=Leicester City |win_LEI=4 |draw_LEI=4 |loss_LEI=26 |gf_LEI=27 |ga_LEI=73
|status_AMA=R |status_BLO=R |status_LEI=R
|update=complete |source=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesz/zaf82.html }}
==References== {{reflist}}
{{South African soccer seasons}}
1982 Category:1982 in South African sport Category:1981–82 in African association football leagues