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Ramblers was founded in 1945. It is home to our Men’s and Women’s Football Teams, Youth Academy, Old Boys and Social Team.<\/p>\n
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The Club is formed by Neil Greeff who is the first captain and plays its first game in Okahandja.
\nA group of gentlemen who worked for Standard Bank who did not want to play Rugby at “Wanderers”
\nformed a Football Club and adopted the name “Ramblers” instead.
\nThe coat of arms with the simple word \u201cAequitas\u201d as motto was adopted soon thereafter.
\nAequitas is the Latin word for FAIR PLAY.<\/p>\n
Men’s Hockey Section was formed<\/p>\n
Formation of Baseball\/Softball section<\/p>\n
Ladies Hockey Section was formed<\/p>\n
After winning several league titles in SWA, Ramblers now plays in the Second Division of the SA National Soccer League.<\/p>\n
The first team of Ramblers together with Talpark and Cohen FC is transformed into a professional football club –
\nWindhoek City – with the objective of attaining promotion into the First Division of the SA National Soccer League.<\/p>\n
A few players part ways with Windhoek City and enter a Ramblers team in the 1st League of SWA again.
\nThe first soccer tour to Angola is undertaken under the leadership of Manuel Coelho.<\/p>\n
Ramblers wins the Georges Cup for a record 12th time. This is the last year that this historical cup dating
\nback to 1916 is played.<\/p>\n
The club grounds are acquired in Pionierspark<\/p>\n
The first soccer field is taken into use in Pionierspark.<\/p>\n
The Club House is inaugurated by the Mayor of Windhoek.
\n(in previous years the old Hotel Kaiserkrone, a hall at the show grounds, the M&Z Caf\u00e9
\nas well as an old house in the Southern Industrial Area served as unoffical club house)<\/p>\n
Bertus Damon and Eric Muinjo are the first “non-white” players to join Ramblers.<\/p>\n
The first soccer tour to Germany is undertaken under the leadership of Manuel Coelho.<\/p>\n
Ramblers beat Chief Santos 4-0 in the final of the Mainstay Cup captained by Bobby Craddock.<\/p>\n
The second soccer tour to Germany is undertaken under the leadership of Manuel Coelho.<\/p>\n
Ramblers legend Joseph Martin scores the first international goal for Namibia against Lesotho<\/p>\n
Ramblers wins the newly formed Namibia Premier League (NPL) under captain Ruli Pahl and
\ncoach Gary Sales. Other team members like Jorge da Purificacao, Mario Carreira, Mark Kutzner,
\nTollie van Wyk, Joseph Martin and Dave Fransman play a crucial role in the management and
\ncoaching of the Ramblers Soccer Section from 1999 to 2014.<\/p>\n
Ramblers is the first Namibian representative in the African Champions League and plays
\nCosta Do Sol in Maputo in Mozambique in front of a capacity crowd of 45,000 spectators with the
\nreturn leg in Windhoek.<\/p>\n
Ramblers is relegated from the NPL.<\/p>\n
Ramblers is promoted again into the NPL.<\/p>\n
Windhoek Optics is the main sponsor of Ramblers who together with Civics
\nare the first post-independence football clubs to pay players incentives\/salaries and
\nare thus instrumental in paving the way towards semi-professional football in Namibia.<\/p>\n
The third soccer tour to Germany is undertaken under the leadership of Ralf Behrens.<\/p>\n
Ramblers wins the prestigious NFA Cup in June. Henrico Botes, who is captain of the Brave Warriors at the time,
\nis sold to Moroka Swallows. Henrico is currently still actively playing in the PSL and can rightly be
\nregarded as Namibia’s most successful professional soccer player, after Collin Benjamin.
\nIn October Ramblers captain Quinton Jacobs is sold to Ajax Cape Town.
\nRamblers celebrates it’s 60th Club anniversary where Henrico Botes and Silke Pennefather, captain of the
\nNamibian ladies hockey team, are crowned as Sportsman and Sportswoman of the year respectively.<\/p>\n
NPL runners up.
\nThe Old Boys of Ramblers visit the World Cup in Germany and play a few friendly matches.<\/p>\n
Ramblers win the FNB Cup.<\/p>\n
Michael Pienaar of Ramblers captains the Brave Warriors at the AFCON Championships in Ghana
\nand in June 2008 together with Lazarus Kaimbi signs professional contracts in South Africa.<\/p>\n
The Ramblers Soccer Academy is formed and is soon regarded as the most
\nsuccessful Academy in Namibia.<\/p>\n
The Ramblers Hockey Division disintegrates.<\/p>\n
Lutz Pfannenstiel is Technical Director at Ramblers using Namibia as a platform by becoming
\nofficial commentator for German TV station ZDF during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa (and later official
\nBBC Champions League Final co-commentator) –
\nsubsequently he is known as founder of Global United FC and Director f\u00fcr International Affairs
\nat Bundesliga Club 1899 Hoffenheim.<\/p>\n
NPL runners up.<\/p>\n
The NPL Status is sold to UNAM for economic reasons and Ramblers now competes in the Southern Stream First Division.<\/p>\n
Ramblers Soccer Academy (u7 – u17) wins 15 out of a possible 24 gold medals in 5 tournaments.<\/p>\n
Ramblers Soccer Academy (u7 – u17) wins 14 out of a possible 28 gold medals in 5 tournaments.
\nThe first Academy offspring make it into professional football overseas when Jandja Maharero (USA)
\nEnnio Hamutenya (Malta) sign contracts overseas. Reggie Willemse had joined the Ajax Cape Town Youth Academy in 2012 already.<\/p>\n
Ramblers was always predominantly a football and hockey club. Over the years other sports codes joined
\nlike Waterpolo, Cricket, Striders, Archers,Bass Masters Angling and Fistball but no longer exist and
\nRamblers is now currently a pure football club boasting its own facilites with two fields and teams
\nfrom u7-u17, a Social and Old Boys team as well as a first team.
\nThe Ramblers club house boasts with a range of trophies for competitions that are no longer played including the
\nhistorical Kommando Pokal, Georges Cup, League Cup, Stoessel Cup and AZ Cup where Ramblers were the last winners.
\nTrophies from the post-independence era include NPL League Cup (1992 – Sponsor R\u00f6ssing),
\nthe NFA Cup (2005-Sponsor NBL) and the FNB Cup from 2007.<\/p>\n
Ramblers Soccer Academy (u7 – u17) competes actively in all tournaments hosted by the respective clubs<\/p>\n
Ramblers Soccer Academy (u7 – u17) competes actively in all tournaments hosted by the respective clubs, and the inaugural HOPSOL Youth League tournament.<\/p>\n
6 Ramblers u\/17 players are selected as part of the HOPSOL Black Africa team that participates at the Future Champs tournament, hosted in Johannesburg South Africa.
\nRamblers Soccer Academy (u7 – u17) competes actively in all tournaments hosted by the respective clubs, and the inaugural HOPSOL Youth League tournament.<\/p>\n
On the 10th of April 2019, Ramblers Women’s Football Team was formed. Claudia Reiter is announced as the very first captain in the team’s history. Himeepimbi Kaputu in the scored the first goal in the team’s history against V-Power Angels and her goal was assisted by Alicia Aebes.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”1900″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_single_image image=”2041″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_single_image image=”2035″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][vc_single_image image=”3107″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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