10 years after they last played in Caf club cup competition, Nchanga Rangers return to savor some African football.
Rangers will be Zambia’s sole representatives in the Orange Caf Confederation Cup.
It is 10 years since the Chingola club last took part in Caf club competition and that was in 2000 when they reached the quarterfinals of the defunct Caf Cup.
However, they find a football landscape that is hungrier more ambitious despite the lack of incentives to play in the preliminary three rounds of the Confederation Cup.
There is a conventional wisdom that Zanaco and Zesco have set a template for any local team to qualify to the lucrative group stages of either the Confederation or the Orange Caf Champions League.
This follows the two team’s feats in the last two edition of the Caf club tournament.
Zesco are in the Champions League where they will face Caf club debutants Liga Muculmana of Mozambique who were promoted in 2007 and three years later were crowned champions.
The Maputo side will visit Ndola to play Zesco on January 29 in a preliminary round first leg match.
Meanwhile, Rangers will be tested later rather than sooner after their preliminary round opponents Bulawayo Highlanders withdrew from this year competition due to financial constraints.
Rangers qualify to the first round with a walkover win where they will face Dr Congo giants Lupopo in March with an away first round, first leg match.
Bruce Mwape work starts now with his fairly modest squad of players to shame the skeptics.
Brave Rangers exploits in continental futbo cannot be underestimated, and this time round they will do even better.
Where are Nkana results? Come on boys we need you! You are supposed to be the ones!
Teti nsumine ba ONLY LIVING JAY! Rangers have made no mark on continental football in their long history. The teams that can lay claim to such fame are Power Dynamos the first and only winners of a continental club title in Z. Nkana Red Devils the first to reach the finals and Mighty who were the first to reach the semi-finals and who repeated that feat before Nkana came on the scene. Magnificent Kabwe Warriors were the first to reach a quarter-final. Green Buffaloes also deserve a mention. But during all this Rangers were spectators.
#3 I strongly recognize and appreciate what Mighte, Nkana and especially Power 90 have done in continental soccer. Would not forget to mention the great achievements of GBFC and more so recently ZANACO FC and ZESCO UTD. The few timez my Brave Rangers have reprezented Zambia have not been a disappointment.
Where are the funds going to come from to enable these chaps be travelling abroad? Bakulanina Kapekele from Chingola to Bulawayo and it keeps getting worse for them when they progress further in the contest, they may need to travel further north to Egypt by BUS!
…Rangers came through the back door!!!
BRAVe rangers dont deserve to represent ZAMBIA . THIS SPOT WAS FOR GBFC. I DONT SEE THEM ACHIEVING ANYTHING. THEY WILL BE ELIMINATED IN THE FIRST ROUND.
Babasalile shani kanshi? Twebeni. Anyway Brave Rangers prove us doomsayers wrong.
brave 4life,representing Zed
Burave icibanda, cha yelo chilawina, umbi kamumina pali burave icibanda muleke kulanda pantu mulanjika ku mweo………
Imwe cup ibwela ku Zed. Ni zee maningi ! ! !
GBFC with your blind loyalty.where are art thou now?You cant turn the tables now.
This is the reason Zambia only has one representative in each CAF tournaments. Clubs like Nchanga Rangers go out to humiliate us at the expense of Power 90 etc which can bring glory to this finnished footballing land. It is because of oor performances by teams like NR that drop our rankings…these guys can even loose to Moroka Swallob team!
Nchanga are th best team in Zambia and they play like Bacerlona with Sileni Phiri like Iniesta Godfrey Siame as Busket, Andrew Sinkala as Xavi and guess who can only play like Eto, Harry Milanzi
Natubwela nakabili Moses is Gerade Pique and Tana as Puyol. Na world cup we could have won it as Zambia nomba ba Kalu he destryed aba ice.
ALL the best to my team brave will suprise all people who are doubting us.most of you doubted us at the start of the season.i know you can say what you because you are entitled to your own opinion but brave ni brave.