Posted on July 05, 2021
On Friday, 2 July 2021 announced the return of Samuel Troughton to the AmaTuks as a Technical Director. The recommendation and decision to appoint Sammy, as he is affectionately called, comes after a review of the 2020/2021 season. Sammy has coached for a number of teams both in the Glad...
Posted on May 07, 2021
Spartak of TuksFootball, is well on their way to qualify for the playoffs of the 2021 SAFA Tshwane Regional League. The team has won nine of their eleven games so far and drew twice. What is impressive is that they scored 22 goals and only conceded six. According to the Tuks head coach,...
Posted on March 08, 2021
The University of Pretoria (UP) with its Department of Sport (TuksSport) and Mamelodi Sundowns Football Club today announced a ground-breaking partnership that seeks to vastly enhance the game of football and the development of it through science, technology and scientific research.
Posted on February 23, 2021
TuksSport High School Class of 2020’ has achieved a 98.2% matric pass rate. It is the first time the school reaches an 89% bachelor pass rate. In total, the learners achieved 73 distinctions.
Posted on February 10, 2021
When Nicholas Stothard, Varsity team head coach at TuksFootball says he considers football to be the most beautiful game he means it. "The reality is that the underdog always sort of has a chance. Fairy tales are written every day on football fields across the world. It is the game that keeps...
Posted on January 12, 2021
Nicholas Stothard is a UP-Tuks alumni, holding two qualifications - BCom Recreation & Sports Management and BCom Honours Marketing Management. In 2013 and 2014, playing as a goalkeeper, he was part of the Tuks team that won the Varsity Football tournament. Having been more passionate about...
Posted on November 19, 2020
The Safa Girls Soccer Academy based at Tuks is where talented players become match winners, or so it seems, judging by Banyana Banyana's heroics.
Posted on September 29, 2020
It is said a picture is worth a thousand words. It is undoubtedly true in the case of Tlisane Motaung the newly appointed coach of the AmaTuks football team.
Posted on July 17, 2020
"The man who likes to wear many hats" is an excellent way to describe Tuks footballer Katlego Motlhatsang.
Posted on May 28, 2020
Getting to play Varsity football is a big dream for many aspiring stars as it is a rare opportunity to showcase their talent on television.
Posted on April 27, 2020
Arsenal seems to be unstoppable at the moment as hardly a day is going by without them winning.
Posted on April 23, 2020
Amilcar Thobejane had set herself two goals for 2020. One is to finish her final year medical studies and the other to help the Tuks women's football team win a tournament.
Posted on November 11, 2019
Getting teams to win trophies and matches will never all it will be about for the AmaTuks coach Zipho Dlangalala.
Posted on September 23, 2019
Tuks women's football team won't be contesting the Varsity Football Tournament semifinals, but it is certainly not due to lack of trying.
Posted on September 20, 2019
Tuks's women football team Varsity campaign suffered a severe setback last night when their captain, Thalea Smidt, had to be carried off the field after suffering a serious leg injury.
Posted on September 19, 2019
Final or bust is the attitude with which the Tuks women's football team will kick off their Varsity Football campaign from today in Potchefstroom.
Posted on September 13, 2019
TUT proved to be again Tuks's nemesis in the Varsity Football Tournament yesterday in Cape Town beating them in a penalty shootout in a semi-final encounter.
Posted on September 11, 2019
In light of Isaac Newton's quote of what goes up must come down, it could be argued that no team can remain victorious against the same opposition forever. That is why it might be safe on betting that Tuks is going to beat TUT during Thursday's Varsity Football semi-final encounter in Cape Town.
Posted on September 06, 2019
It could be said it was by a whisker or by the skin of their teeth it does not really matter, the record will show that last night playing at home Tuks has again qualified for the Varsity Football Tournament's semi-finals.
Posted on September 03, 2019
Thalea Smidt is used to acing exams, but in two weeks from now she has set her sights on achieving something she is never done before, and that is to hold the Varsity Women's Football trophy aloft.
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