Real Kings FC

Real Kings Football Club were a South African football club from KwaZulu-Natal who rose through the amateur ranks into the National First Division, South African football's second tier, before selling their status in 2020.

Real Kings club facts

• Province: KwaZulu-Natal
• Highest level reached: National First Division, the second tier
• Second-tier seasons on record: 2016/17 through 2020/21

Status history

• 2020 - sold their National First Division status to Royal AM, the club founded by Shauwn Mkhize, who used it to enter the professional game before buying Bloemfontein Celtic's Premiership status a year later.

Note on our records: Real Kings appear across more than one record. Their earlier amateur football is held under a lower-league data source, their 2016/17 to 2018/19 second-tier seasons under this record, and their 2019/20 and 2020/21 seasons under the identifier that later became Royal AM, because the data provider reused it across the status sale. Selling a status transfers a league place to a separate entity rather than renaming a club, so Real Kings and Royal AM are two different clubs.