HARARE The Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) faces sanctions from the Confederation of African Football (CAF) if it fails to meet the November 30 deadline to register participating teams for the 2010 African Club Competitions.In a circular dated October 23 sent to all African football federations including ZIFA, CAF made it clear that the deadline was not subject to change and that late entries would attract sanctions.
The directive has raised genuine fears that Zimbabwe, whose domestic league programme is still to conclude may not meet the deadline.
Zimbabwe are supposed to register four teams for next year’s African club competitions. Two teams are supposed to be entered for the prestigious African Champions League and the other two for the CAF Cup competitions.
Although Lengthens have qualified for the CAF Confederations Cup
tournament, ZIFA can not register one team because all four
entries must be registered at the same time.
Zifa programmes manager Jonathan Musavengana confirmed receiving the
circular from CAF and revealed that ZIFA had already ordered
the Premier Soccer League management to ensure that they
wind up the league programme before CAF deadline.
The topflight league management had drafted the league programme in
such a way that it would end during the first week of November but
their programme has been disrupted by the Cosafa Senior
Challenge tournament hosted here and with four games remaining before
the league programme concludes, there are now genuine fears that they
might fail to meet the deadline.
The PSL league programme only resumed at the weekend. PSL fixtures secretary
Godfrey Japajapa said they would try their best to see to it that the
CAF deadline was met.
Post published in: Zimbabwe Sports News