| Full name | Black Rhinos Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Chipembere, Chadya Mukonde | ||
| Founded | 1984 | ||
| Ground | Rufaro Stadium Harare, Zimbabwe (Capacity: 30,000) |
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| Chairman | Incumbent Defence Forces Chief since it is an armed forces team. | ||
| Manager | Nesbert Saruchera | ||
| League | Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League | ||
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Black Rhinos FC is a Zimbabwean football club based in Harare. They currently play in Division 1 North, the second level of Zimbabwean Football, having been relegated from the Premier Soccer League in the 2007 season. Their home stadium is the 1 Commando Battalion Football Field.
"Chipembere" burst on to the scene in 1984 boasting an array of what is arguably the best footballers in Zimbabwean football history; Stanford "Stix" Mtizwa, Japhet "Shortcat" Mparutsa, Stanley "Sinyo" Ndunduma, Maronga "The Bomber" Nyangela, Jerry "Dzungu" Chidawa, Simon "AK-47" Mugabe and Hamid "Muzukuru" Dhana. They won the Premier League title in the year of conception; 1984, such was the strength of their assembled talent.
Mixed fortunes have, since the retirement of its best footballers, seen Black Rhinos yoyo-ing between the Premier League and Division 1, latest being when Black Rhinos were promoted to the top level of Zimbabwean football, the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League, after they were champions of the Northern Division of the Second Level during the 1997 season, they were then relegated in 2007 but promoted back to the Premier Soccer League in 2009.[1]
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