Kaizer Chiefs will begin their quest for a 14^th knockout cup crown away against SuperSport United. Their last 16 tie will be a repeat of the 2004/05 final, when Amakhosi defeated Matsatsantsa 1-0 in Bloemfontein.

Overall, this will be the fifth meeting between Chiefs and SuperSport in this competition, going back to the 1996-97 season when SuperSport won 2-1 in the second round. Since then, Chiefs have won the last three games in the knockout cup between the teams, defeating them in the 2004 final with Colins Mbesuma scoring the game’s only goal in a 1-0 win.

Chiefs also defeated SuperSport en route to lifting the title in 2007/08 Siphiwe Tshabalala scoring the game’s only goal, in a 1-0 win a quarterfinal clash. The last meeting between the teams in this competition ended in another 1-0 win for Chiefs, in the 2018/19 quarterfinals.

Chiefs have won the knockout cup 13 times previously and have been runners up a further four times. Their last appearance in the final came in 2015.

Amakhosi’s first title in this competition goes back to 1983. In the PSL era, since 1996/97, Chiefs have won the knockout cup eight times. They have won back-to-back titles three times, doing so in 1997/98 and 1998/99, as well as in 2003/04 and 2004/5, and most recently in 2009/10 and 2010/11.

Amakhosi also reached four successive knockout cup finals between 2001 and 2004, winning three of these in 2002, 2004 and 2005. Chiefs’ last title came in the 2010/11 campaign when they defeated arch-rivals Orlando Pirates in the final, successfully retaining the trophy they won the previous season by beating Ajax Cape Town in the final.