Women football league to promote four teams

By The Standard | Dec. 9, 2012

Four teams are set to be promoted into the Marange Women’s National Super League for the 2013 soccer season.

Report by Brian Nkiwane

The three teams: Burrow Jets from the country’s Southern Region, Aces Youth Academy from the Northern Region and Tenax from the Eastern Region, won their respective Division One leagues to book places in the big league.

Faith Drive, who ended the season anchored at the bottom, and Chipembere were relegated.

However, Chipembere has been thrown a lifeline as they are going to be involved in promotional play offs with three other teams that came second in their respective Division One leagues.

The winner in these promotional play offs will then join Aces, Tenax and Burrow Jets in the league.

Chipembere will play Hwange Ladies, who finished second in the Southern Region behind champions Burrow Jets and Auckland who finished hot on the heels of Aces Youth Academy in the Northern Region.

However, it is still game on in the Eastern Region where Tenax were crowned champions but the battle for second position is still on between Masvingo Poly and Mucheke Queens.

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The play-offs are set to kick off anytime in December.

Speaking to Standardsport from Masvingo, a representative of the region said they hoped that the league would be concluded by Friday next week and by then they would be in a position to know who joins Chipembere, Auckland and Hwange Ladies in the play-offs.

Meanwhile, women football boss Mavis Gumbo has confirmed that the league is going to increase the number of teams to 12 next seasons after they had reached an agreement with their sponsors.

“We have been talking to our sponsors all along to give us the green light to increase the number of teams to 12. It’s now left to us the leadership to make sure that promotional play-offs are done in a proper manner so that we have 12 teams,” Gumbo said.