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Township Rollers Football Club is a football club based in Gaborone, Botswana. Township Rollers are popularly known as Mapalastina. The club was founded in 1961 as Mighty Tigers, later to adopt the name Township Rollers in 1965. Rollers has an old rivalry with cross town club Gaborone United S.C.. Rollers also have a bitter rivalry with Mochudi Centre Chiefs SC, which has eclipsed the Gaborone Derby in recent years. This match has earned its right to be called the biggest football encounter in Botswana due to both clubs' following and success. The team is owned by Township Holdings, a company chaired by millionnaire Jagdish Shah of CA Sales. The other shairholder is Somerset Gobuiwang while the fans also have a stake. It enjoys a massive following all over the country.With most of its fanbase scattered across Botswana, it can be called the most supported football team in the country. ==History== The club was formed by the Public Works Department (PWD) workers in 1961. They called the team Mighty Tigers FC at the time. In 1965, the name was changed to Township Rollers Football Club. Township Rollers is the most achieving football club in the history of Botswana football. It dominated Botswana football around the eighties and its popularity grew bigger and bigger. Township was for the first time relegated to the first division league in 2003 leaving Extension Gunners as the only club in Botswana which has never played in the lower league. It took them only one season to bounce back to the then Premier League, and the club did so with a bang. They made history by being the first club to win a double in any one season. In the season 2004/2005 under the tutelage of a Botswana icon, the late coach Banks Panene they won both the coca-cola cup and the league title. After the 2004/05 success, Township Rollers struggled to have any impact in domestic competitions winning only the Kabelano Charity Cup. This was mainly due to the sale of their influential players among them Mogogi Gabonamong (who is now the captain of South Africa's PSL club Santos Football Club),Mosione and the skillful winger Mark both of whom were sold to Platinum Stars. Mongala has since been bought by Orlando Pirates. The season to watch for the mighty Popa was the 2009/2010 season. The club made history by clinching the League and Cup double to the delight of popa supporters where they amassed 78 points and beating their closest rivals Mochudi Centre Chiefs by 13 points as well as a convincing victory against the same team in the coca cola cup final. As if that was not enough the team won all awards on offer for both the league and coca cola cup. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Township Rollers F.C.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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