The Safa-Buffalo City SAB Regional League which is gaining steam, takes a break this coming weekend for the pre-Easter tournament that takes centre-stage at four separate venues.
The showpiece league, a first-of-its-kind venture under the Safa- BC banner, will delay the much- anticipated league clash between log-leaders Parkside Sporting and second-placed Future Tigers, who are separated by a single point.
The tournament, officially announced by Safa-BC yesterday, will comprise four groups with as many clubs per group.
All 16 clubs in the league will be participating, and will be an eliminator for the annual Easter tournament scheduled for the Easter weekend.
First and second-placed teams in every group will gain a free pass to the Easter tournament – the biggest football showpiece in Buffalo City, while clubs that finish in the bottom two are not completely ruled out of the competition.
There will however be a leeway for the bottom teams, but club bosses will be expected to fork out R300 for their teams to be included in the tournament line-up.
All clubs that were in the top four placings on the log, when the league campaign reached the halfway point, were seeded into the four separate groups.
Thereafter, the remaining 12 teams were placed into three separate pots based on log positions.
Group A, which according to Safa-BC, will be played at North End stadium features log-leaders, Parkside Sporting; Mighty Swallows; Zebra United and Zwelitsha United.
Safa-BC’s dream of the group winners being decided at the North End Stadium, could hit a snag as their affiliate, the East London Central LFA, are due to kick off their their own league at the weekend.
The dominant Sporting are favourites to top the group without any hassles, while the other three relatively average clubs will
have to battle it out for second place to qualify with the Parkside outfit.
As for Group B, scheduled for the dry-pitch Ginsberg Stadium, Future Tigers and Shiloh are likely to end first and second at the expense of Black Eagles and under-performing Amania Sporting.
It could do Amania the world of good if they are eliminated so they can focus their minds on their dismal performance in the league, where they are on a 16-game losing streak – the exact number of matches they have played in the ongoing 2014-15 campaign.
Sisa Dukashe is the venue for the unpredictable Group C where matches will be played between Relatives; Wonderful Attackers, Mighty Bucks and King Spurs.
This is anyone’s group to win but frontrunners are Relatives and Bucks, who also use the venue as their homeground for league games.
Clubs gunning for spot in Easter tournament
The showpiece league, a first-of-its-kind venture under the Safa- BC banner, will delay the much- anticipated league clash between log-leaders Parkside Sporting and second-placed Future Tigers, who are separated by a single point.
The tournament, officially announced by Safa-BC yesterday, will comprise four groups with as many clubs per group.
All 16 clubs in the league will be participating, and will be an eliminator for the annual Easter tournament scheduled for the Easter weekend.
First and second-placed teams in every group will gain a free pass to the Easter tournament – the biggest football showpiece in Buffalo City, while clubs that finish in the bottom two are not completely ruled out of the competition.
There will however be a leeway for the bottom teams, but club bosses will be expected to fork out R300 for their teams to be included in the tournament line-up.
All clubs that were in the top four placings on the log, when the league campaign reached the halfway point, were seeded into the four separate groups.
Thereafter, the remaining 12 teams were placed into three separate pots based on log positions.
Group A, which according to Safa-BC, will be played at North End stadium features log-leaders, Parkside Sporting; Mighty Swallows; Zebra United and Zwelitsha United.
Safa-BC’s dream of the group winners being decided at the North End Stadium, could hit a snag as their affiliate, the East London Central LFA, are due to kick off their their own league at the weekend.
The dominant Sporting are favourites to top the group without any hassles, while the other three relatively average clubs will
have to battle it out for second place to qualify with the Parkside outfit.
As for Group B, scheduled for the dry-pitch Ginsberg Stadium, Future Tigers and Shiloh are likely to end first and second at the expense of Black Eagles and under-performing Amania Sporting.
It could do Amania the world of good if they are eliminated so they can focus their minds on their dismal performance in the league, where they are on a 16-game losing streak – the exact number of matches they have played in the ongoing 2014-15 campaign.
Sisa Dukashe is the venue for the unpredictable Group C where matches will be played between Relatives; Wonderful Attackers, Mighty Bucks and King Spurs.
This is anyone’s group to win but frontrunners are Relatives and Bucks, who also use the venue as their homeground for league games.
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