The future of Zambezi Soccer Challenge Cup—a pre-season tournament that offered some TNM Super League clubs a rare taste of international football—hangs in the balance.
Top Sport were the organisers of the competition that was held in the last two back-to-back seasons, with Caps United from Zimbabwe as the high-profile guests.
Kelvin Moyo, who was behind the competition, last week said he was no longer involved due to conflict of interest with his role as Big Bullets vice-general secretary.
Football Association of Malawi competitions manager, Gomezgani Zakazaka, last week also said there was no indication of Zambezi’s return this offseason.
“We are in the process of drafting a football calendar to be out probably by the second week of January. The off-season break without football would run up to February,” Zakazaka said.
“Then we expect friendly matches and bonanzas in March, and the season as usual, kicks off in April.
Organisations wishing to host such tournaments still need to apply for licences from Fam.”
Bullets defeated Caps 2-1 last year to win a watereddown version of Zambezi last year. Caps won the inaugural edition in 2014.
Silver Strikers were also involved in last season’s edition.
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