{{Short description|South African football club}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Infobox football club |clubname = Arcadia Shepherds |image = Logo Arcadia Shepherds.svg |upright = 0.7 |fullname = Arcadia Shepherds Football Club |nickname = Arcs |website = {{URL|https://arcadiashepherdsfc.blogspot.com}} |founded = {{start date and age|1903}} |ground = Caledonian Stadium, Pretoria |capacity = 5000 |chairman = Ricky Manna |manager = Lucky Manna |league = Vodacom League, Gauteng Province |season = 2010–11 season |position = 7th |pattern_la1=|pattern_b1=|pattern_ra1= |leftarm1=FFFFFF|body1=FFFFFF|rightarm1=FFFFFF|shorts1=000000|socks1=000000 }}
'''Arcadia Shepherds''' are a South African association football club based in Arcadia, Pretoria. It is affiliated with the Football Association of Pretoria (FAP).
==History== The club was founded in 1903,<ref name="Koonyaditse2010">{{cite book|author=Oshebeng Alpheus Koonyaditse|title=The Politics of South African Football|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHeORaJoZO0C&pg=PA45|year=2010|publisher=African Books Collective|isbn=978-0-9814398-2-2|pages=45–}}</ref> and was briefly renamed ''Arcadia United'' in the seasons from 1963–68, following a merger with ISCOR Pretoria. Arcadia Shepherds experienced their most successful season in 1974, where they won "the triple": NFL Championship, Castle Cup and the NFL UTC Bowl Cup. The next three big achievements by the club, was when they won the NPSL League Cup Competition in 1982, after an exciting final against Highlands Park; then a victory in the NPSL Sales House Cup in 1985 as Arcadia Fluoride, beating Kaizer Chiefs in the final; and next year in 1986 they won the BP Top Eight Cup, beating Wits University in the final. Since then, the achievements by the team have been modest. They managed to win a NPSL championship in 1992, but this was at a time when all the best teams were playing in the NSL.
The club was whites-only during the apartheid era.<ref name="AlegiBolsmann2013">{{cite book|author1=Peter Alegi|author2=Chris Bolsmann|title=South Africa and the Global Game: Football, Apartheid and Beyond|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XcCMAQAAQBAJ&pg=PT147|date=18 October 2013|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-317-96817-7|pages=147–}}</ref> More recently Shepherds have been known for producing players like Phil Evans, Bongani Khumalo and Katlego Mphela.<ref>{{cite web| title =Arcadia Shepherds FC to lose its stadium after 111 years| url =https://www.timeslive.co.za/sport/soccer/2014/12/10/arcadia-shepherds-fc-to-lose-its-stadium-after-111-years| website =| date =10 December 2014| accessdate =19 May 2015 }} </ref>
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Category:Arcadia Shepherds F.C. Category:Association football clubs established in 1903 Category:National Football League (South Africa) clubs Category:SAFA Second Division clubs Category:Soccer clubs in Pretoria Category:1903 establishments in Transvaal Colony Category:Soccer and apartheid