Manning Rangers F.C.

Manning Rangers is a South African football club based in Durban.

The side is best remembered as the inaugural champions of the Premiership, the first in the Premier Soccer League era.

In the mid-1960s, the club entered the professional ranks under the auspices of the South African Soccer League.

[2] In the inaugural 1996–97 season of the Premiership, the unfancied Maulers, then under the leadership of chairman Kaycee Reddy and coached by Gordon Igesund,[3] caused a major upset by winning the league, finishing with a 23–5–6 record and on 74 points, ahead of bigger clubs such as Kaizer Chiefs, Mamelodi Sundowns and Orlando Pirates.

In 1998–99 the team represented South Africa in the CAF Champions League losing out to eventual winners ASEC Abidjan of Côte d'Ivoire.