Sipho Chaine: Soccer Goalkeeper, Caps, Honours and Net Worth

Sipho Chaine is a South African soccer goalkeeper, born on 14 December 1996 and 1.86 m tall, who joined Orlando Pirates in September 2022 and became the first choice in the 2023-24 season. He made his Bafana Bafana debut on 10 September 2024, was named PSL Goalkeeper of the Season in 2024-25 and 2025-26, and won the Premiership with the Buccaneers in 2025-26. A goalkeeper's career works a little like the queue at a taxi rank, where you wait behind those who arrived first and are judged on what you do once your turn comes.

Most searches for him ask the same few things, so here are the short answers before the detail. The club is Orlando Pirates, which he joined in September 2022 after spells at Bloemfontein Celtic, Royal AM and Chippa United. His cap count is carried by the live profile module above. On money, Briefly News (March 2025) did not name a net worth or give an endorsement figure, and the one salary figure in circulation, an alleged salary of about R95,000, belongs to his Royal AM days according to that report.

Who Is Sipho Chaine?

Sipho Justin Chaine is the goalkeeper who rose from the Bloemfontein Celtic reserves to the number one jersey at Orlando Pirates, one of the two great stages in Soweto soccer. He was born on 14 December 1996 in South Africa, stands 1.86 m, and has spent his whole senior career with South African clubs. Supporters of Ezimnyama Ngenkani know him as their last line, while readers in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Uganda are more likely to know him as the goalie they see in CAF competitions and AFCON squads. Both views are fair, but the domestic one explains him better.

Goals conceded is a number that matters a great deal on the Premiership log, and a goalkeeper's profile is the natural place to test that view. So, the writing here sticks to what stays true about Chaine: where he came from, what he has won and what has been reported about his pay. The modules above refresh after each match with his appearances, clean sheets and latest results, and the prose explains how to read them.

From Bloemfontein Celtic to Orlando Pirates: The Road

Chaine's road starts in the Free State. He spent 2013 to 2016 in the Bloemfontein Celtic reserves and was on the first team books from 2016 to 2021, although the top flight debut only arrived in May 2019. That is a long apprenticeship by any measure, and it could be argued that the waiting taught him the patience his later career needed.

Which club does Sipho Chaine play for? Orlando Pirates, whom he joined on the last day of the September 2022 transfer window. The route there was quick, with a 2021-22 season at Royal AM and a short stay at Chippa United in 2022. No transfer fee has been published for the moves, so none is quoted. If his registration ever changes, the profile module will show the new club before any paragraph does.

Wikipedia dates his time as first choice at Pirates from the 2023-24 season, while Briefly News places the rise earlier, after the 2022 World Cup break. Either way, the competition for the jersey sharpened the whole goalkeeping department, and his league appearance total for the Buccaneers is carried by the profile module above.

What Kind of Goalkeeper Is Sipho Chaine?

Chaine is a shot stopper first, the kind of keeper whose value shows in the moments when the defence has already been beaten. The defining example came in the 2024 Nedbank Cup final, where Briefly News credits him with a decisive penalty save, in the same year that he had returned from injury in February. Cup finals are remembered for one or two moments, and a goalkeeper rarely gets a second chance at his. Perhaps that save, more than any award, is what carried his name beyond the PSL and into conversations elsewhere on the continent.

How should you read his clean sheet numbers? A clean sheet is a match in which his side concedes nothing, so it is shared credit between the keeper and the defenders in front of him. The records module shows his clean sheets beside matches played, and the ratio between the two says more than the raw count, because a keeper who plays more games collects more of everything. In a league where a single goal so often separates the sides, that ratio is the closest thing a goalkeeper has to a goal tally.

What Has Sipho Chaine Won?

The honours list is long for a player who only arrived in 2022. With Orlando Pirates he is credited with the MTN8 in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, the Nedbank Cup in 2023 and 2024, the Carling Knockout in 2025 and the South African Premiership in 2025-26. On top of the team medals, he was named PSL Goalkeeper of the Season in 2024-25 and again in 2025-26. The second award matters more than the first because retaining it shows consistency and not a streak, and the league title arrived in that same season.

How Many Caps Does Sipho Chaine Have for Bafana Bafana?

Chaine made his debut for South Africa on 10 September 2024, in an Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against South Sudan in Juba. His total number of caps is kept up to date by the live module, so read it there instead of in this text. As a goalkeeper he has no international goals, and his contribution is measured in saves and clean sheets instead.

The selections since then show his standing in the national set up. Hugo Broos included him in the Bafana Bafana party for the continental finals at the end of 2025, and later in the group for the 2026 World Cup. Fans following Uganda, Ghana, Kenya or Nigeria have reason to watch him here: their national sides could face him in qualifying matches or tournament competition. A squad place is different from a starting place, though, so read the caps figure and the call ups as two separate measures.

Sipho Chaine net worth

Briefly News (March 2025) did not name a net worth or give an endorsement figure for Sipho Chaine, so no figure is quoted here and none is invented. What the outlet did report is narrower. His Orlando Pirates salary is not public, an alleged salary of about R95,000 dates from his Royal AM days, and it cited a reported market value of €800,000. These are published reports and estimates, never audited accounts, and each one measures something different.

How much does Sipho Chaine earn per month? According to Briefly News, his Pirates salary is not public. The alleged salary of about R95,000 relates to Royal AM, the club he played for in 2021-22. A keeper who has since collected league and cup medals and two Goalkeeper of the Season awards would normally expect improved terms, but nothing has been published on them. So, treat R95,000 as an old, alleged salary and never as his current pay.

The €800,000 market value is a different kind of number again. Market value puts an approximate price on a player's potential transfer fee, and that money would go to the selling club, so it says nothing about what sits in the player's bank account. With no endorsement figure given, the outside income column stays empty. Readers who want naira, cedi or shilling equivalents should convert the rand and euro figures using a current exchange rate, because those rates move.

Why is the total so hard to pin down? Net worth means everything a person holds once his debts have been settled, and none of that detail is published for a South African soccer player. Clubs keep contracts private, bonuses vary with results, and agent fees, family commitments and investments all sit out of view. A wage is income, which is only the starting point of wealth. Any single figure quoted online without an outlet, a date and a method is best read as a guess, however confident it looks.

How to Watch Sipho Chaine From Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and Uganda

Chaine's club soccer runs through the Betway Premiership and the domestic cups, the MTN8, the Carling Knockout and the Nedbank Cup, with CAF club competition added in the seasons Pirates qualify. His international soccer comes through Bafana Bafana, in AFCON and World Cup qualifying and at the tournaments themselves. The fixture module lists every kick off in SAST alongside WAT, EAT and GMT. As a rule of thumb, South African time is one hour ahead of Nigeria, two hours ahead of Ghana, and one hour behind Kenya and Uganda.

Where the match is shown depends on your country. The broadcaster listed beside each fixture can change whenever rights are sold on, so confirm it shortly before kick off rather than trusting an old memory. In South Africa the habit is communal, from Soweto and the Free State to township viewing venues where a Pirates match fills the room. Elsewhere, CAF competitions and AFCON are the easiest windows. Start with the next dated fixture card above, note your local kick off time, then compare him with the other African footballers profiled alongside him.