Cavin Johnson will hope to add his name to a short list of South African coaches who have tasted Soweto Derby success since the formation of the Premier Soccer League 27 years ago.
Johnson has been installed as interim coach at Kaizer Chiefs and will be hoping for a derby victory over Orlando Pirates to win over fans of the AmaKhosi early in his tenure.
He does not have great record against The Buccaneers down the years though, with three wins in 18 previous meetings with his various clubs.
He will be up against Spanish coach Jose Riveiro, who tasted his first derby success in the Nedbank Cup semifinal played between the sides in May. He had lost his first two games before that.
There have been 22 wins for Chiefs and 21 for Pirates since the formation of the PSL ahead of the 1996/97 season, but only eight of those 43 victories have been engineered by South African coaches down the years.
The most successful have been Eric Tinkler, who led Pirates to two wins in the 2015/16 season, and Arthur Zwane, who did the league double over Pirates in the last campaign but was axed at the end of the season.
Roger de Sa (2013/14) and Fadlu Davids (2020/21), who was standing in for the German Josef Zinnbauer, are the other successful South Africans on the Pirates side.
The co-coaching team of Doctor Khumalo & Donald Khuse led Chiefs to a Derby win in 2002/03, while the only other South African to steer the AmaKhosi to success aside from Zwane was Gavin Hunt in 2020/21.
Admittedly, Chiefs have largely hired foreign coaches all through that period, though Steve Komphela had close to three years in charge at Naturena, but never tasted a Derby win.
The tactician with the most Derby successes in the PSL is former Chiefs coach Stuart Baxter, who won five in his two spells in charge of the club. There were three in his first stint and two in his second.
German Ernst Middendorp is next on the list with four, which also came from his two spells at Naturena. He picked up a pair of wins in the 2005/06 season and another two in 2019/20.
Muhsin Ertugral and Vladimir Vermezovic are the only other Chiefs coaches to record three wins.
That is also the most wins a Pirates coach has enjoyed in the Derby as Ruud Krol and Micho Sredojevic claimed three victories in their spells with the clubs. Zinnbauer might have joined them had he not been absent for the match Davids was in charge.
There have been a few coaches to lead both sides in Derbies since 1996/97, but the only one to claim a win for either team was Ted Dumitru.
He was successful with Pirates in the 1999/00 season and then led Chiefs to victory in 2003/04.
COACHES WITH MOST DERBY WINS IN PSL ERA
ORLANDO PIRATES
3 - Ruud Krol, Micho Sredojevic
2 - Augusto Palacios, Eric Tinkler, Josef Zinnbauer
1 - Shaibu Amidu, Viktor Bondarenko, Fadlu Davids, Roger de Sa, Ted Dumitru, Jean-Yves Kerjean, Ronald Mkhondawire, Kosta Papic, Jose Riveiro
KAIZER CHIEFS
5 - Stuart Baxter
4 - Ernst Middendorp
3 - Muhsin Ertugral, Vladimir Vermezovic
2 - Paul Dolezar, Arthur Zwane
1 - Ted Dumitru, Gavin Hunt, Doctor Khumalo/Donald Khuse