{"id":83866,"date":"2022-12-05T08:53:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T08:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoutlier.co.za\/?p=83866"},"modified":"2025-11-17T17:42:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:42:41","slug":"the-2021-22-dstv-premiership-season-experienced-the-least-number-of-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/2022\/12\/05\/the-2021-22-dstv-premiership-season-experienced-the-least-number-of-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2021\/22 DStv Premiership season experienced the least number of goals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With the FIFA World Cup underway in Qatar, there has never been a more stark reminder of South Africa\u2019s place in world football. The last time the South African national football team qualified for the tournament was 20-years ago, in 2002. This excludes our automatic qualification in 2010 when we hosted the world cup.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South African football on the world stage is looking bleak at the moment. On the international front, Bafana Bafana, which missed out on the 32-team 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon), is currently ranked 67th in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifa.com\/fifa-world-ranking\/men?dateId=id13792\">FIFA Men\u2019s Rankings<\/a>, and is not one of the top 10 national football teams in Africa. Meanwhile the under\/20 national football team also recently failed to qualify for the 2023 under\/20 Afcon, dashing any hopes that we may have about the next generation changing our fortunes for the better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And on the club football front, South Africa\u2019s top-flight DStv Premiership has just come from its lowest-scoring season in the last 10 seasons. Just 479 goals scored in 240 matches \u2013 an average of 1.9 goals per match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/editor.mediahack.co.za\/theoutlier\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/12\/Goals-in-the-last-10-seasons-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83867\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Goals-in-the-last-10-seasons-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Goals-in-the-last-10-seasons-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Goals-in-the-last-10-seasons-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Goals-in-the-last-10-seasons-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Goals-in-the-last-10-seasons.png 1081w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The highest scoring season during this period was 2015\/16 with 562 goals overall, averaging 2,3 goals per match. The total goals scored in 2021\/22 also represents one of two seasons with less than 500 goals per season. In the last ten seasons, the last time it was this low was in 2017\/18 (490 goals).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s top-flight DStv Premiership has just come from its lowest-scoring season in the last 10 seasons. 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