The Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) has approached Ngezi Platinum Stars and Manica Diamonds for either of them to participate in the 2025-26 CAF Confederation Cup, following Dynamos’ withdrawal. Dynamos, who won last season’s Chibuku Super Cup and earned the ticket to participate in the Confederation Cup, pulled out of the continental tournament citing financial incapacitation.…

Sunday’s clash promises drama as form meets fragility. Matchday 19 of the 2025 Premier Soccer League brings a fiery encounter as Scottland FC take on a resurgent CAPS United this Sunday. Traditionally a powerhouse in the league, Scottland have been struggling for form in recent weeks, winning just once in their last five games —…

Hundreds of people converged at Lady Stanley Cemetery in Bulawayo yesterday to lay to rest Warriors and FC Platinum midfielder Brian Banda. Banda died in a car accident which also claimed two lives along the Zvishavane-Filabusi Road on Sunday. He was 29. Football leaders, including ZIFA president Nqobile Magwizi and his deputy Kennedy Ndebele, Premier…

In Episode 7 of The Fanzone Podcast, we sit down with two game-changers: Loveness Wadzanai Mukura, Second Vice President of ZIFA, and Tinotenda Ryan Gumbo, champion bodybuilder and fitness coach. Mukura outlines her bold roadmap for women’s football in Zimbabwe, revealing what it takes to reach the world stage by 2026. Gumbo dives into the…

Brian Banda should have been 30 in three months’ time. The diminutive Warriors and FC Platinum midfielder was born on September 9, 1995, in Entumbane, Bulawayo. At 29, BB, as Banda was affectionately known, had built a house for his mother in Cowdry Park and was in the process of creating one for himself in…

The 29-year-old returns to the local Premiership after a six-year stint in South Africa, during which he turned out for Orlando Pirates and SuperSport United. Dzvukamanja joins a Scottland side with arguably the best squad in the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League, with big names like reigning Soccer Star of the Year Walter Musona, last…

Of all that can happen in Zimbabwean football, Dynamos playing Division One football is unimaginable. The Harare giants are the most successful club in Zimbabwean football, having won 22 league titles. They have provided the most Soccer Star of the Year award winners in the history of the prestigious gong. Similarly, DeMbare were 90 minutes…

Saul Chaminuka has literally been to every corner of Zimbabwe in search of stability. Judging by the manner in which he drags and speaks at a slow pace every time he is asked to make a comment on something, one might hurriedly, but needlessly, suggest that Chaminuka is always tired. The nomadic coach has been…