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Five knock-out cups for 2008 PSL season

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By Tawona Jonhera, on January 09 2008 06:28

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A bumper football season is on the cards this year as the Premier Soccer League has secured sponsorship for five knock-out tournaments while clubs will receive a monthly $1.5 billion bonus, The Zimbabwe Gazette has established.

CBZ Premier League

A month before the 2008 roars into life on February 10 the PSL management committee is already in the final stages of trying up the loose ends of deals that they intend to present to clubs at their annual general meeting in Kwekwe early next month.

Fixtures secretary Godfrey Japajapa confirmed that financial giant CBZ Holdings will bankroll the league as well as sponsor the country’s premier knockout tournament the FA Cup, whose winner will earn a ticket into the CAF Cup.

“Apart from the traditional sponsors we have also secured sponsorship for the annual charity shield, which will this year feature Dynamos and Highlanders, as well as sponsorship for the Independence Trophy and a new cup dubbed the Super 8."

“As way of cushioning clubs from the hyperinflationary environment CBZ have agreed to give each of the 16 top flight clubs $1,5 billion monthly in a development that we believe will go a long way in improving club viability as well as player welfare,” he said.

DeMbare and Bosso will get the season underway in the Nestle Charity Shield during the first weekend of February in what promises to be a thrilling tie if the close contests that the two giants fought last year are anything to go by.

Dynamos earned the right to play in the season opener by virtue of being the 2007 champions while Highlanders did so on the back of coming runners up in the CBZ FA Cup.

Turning to the 2008 league season Japajapa revealed that he was close to drafting the full fixtures list that will for the first time in the history of Zimbabwean football see the premiership taking a mid-winter break.

The break is meant to pave way for the four games that the Warriors will play during the month of June as they battle for tickets to the 2010 African Cup of Nations and the World Cup in South Africa.

“I am almost through with drafting the fixtures for the 2008 season and I should be in a position to present the full programme to the clubs at the Annual General Meeting in Kwekwe."

“In light of the tight international programme that the national team will have in June the league will take a breather so that all attention will be focussed on ensuring that the Warriors earn their place at the Africa Cup of Nations and the World Cup.

“As the PSL we will also be coming down hard on teams that bring the name of football or that of the sponsors into disrepute,” said Japajapa.

The fast rising football administrator admitted that the PSL are in a catch 22 situation on the venues to use as the refurbishment of the National Sports Stadium and Rufaro are moving way behind schedule while newly promoted Beitbridge side Underhill have not started sprucing up Dulibadzimu Stadium.

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siziyicela seyivuthiwe

By: mahlaba (Guest) on January 09 2008 10:15

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siziyicela seyivuthiwe

By: mahlaba (Guest ) on January 09 2008 10:15

withsuch abig and lucrative chance presented to the zim soccer we plead with all involved inthis to respect the rules to avoid mney squandering.liziphathe kuhle

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