Young African FC is a Namibian football club playing in the Namibia Premiership and is based in Gobabis. It was founded in 2013 by former Namibian international Maleagi Ngarizemo.
History The club was promoted to the Namibia Premier League in 2016, however this season was cancelled due to conflicts between the clubs and the Namibia Premier League.
Young African won the 2017 Namibia Cup, defeating Mighty Gunners 3–2 in the final.
Young African played 8 games of the 2018/19 season before being expelled as they "registered a player with false identification details as well as contravened rule 52.4 of the NPL Football Manual on Rules and Regulation for corrupt, dishonest or unlawful practice" upon appeal to the Namibia Football Association the club was reinstated to the Premier league but had to pay a N$100,000 fine
League results Season League Place 2013–14 Cattle Country Football league 1st 2014–15 Southern First Division league ? 2015–16 Southern First Division league 1st 2016–17 Namibia Premier League Cancelled 2017–18 Namibia Premier League 5th 2018–19 Namibia Premier League Expelled 2019–20 No League 2020–21 No League 2021–22 No League 2022–23 Namibia Premier Football League 9th 2023–24 Namibia Premiership 10th 2024–25 Namibia Premiership 2nd
Achievements
Namibian Cup: 2017: Winner Standard Bank Cup Dr Hage Geingob Cup
Performance in CAF competitions
Matches Season Competition Round Opponent Home Away Aggregate 2025-26 CAF Confederation Cup 1 Royal Leopards 0 – 2 0 – 2 0 – 7
References
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