Zesco United will not be taking part in this year’s Barclays Cup tournament.
The 2010 champions and record 3-time winners failed to make the top 6 cutoff point by Week 15 matches of this seasons Faz Super Division.
The Top 6 teams in this year’s Barclays Cup tournament are Nakambala Leopards, Nkana, Red Arrows, Konkola Blades, 2010 runner-up Zanaco and 2009 champions Power Dynamos.
Division 1 North promotion chasers Indeni and Division 1 South club Luena Buffaloes from Kaoma complete the quarterfinal set-up for this year’s Barclays Cup.
The quarterfinals will see two doubleheaders taking place this Saturday, October 22 at Nkoloma stadium in Lusaka and Arthur Davies in Kitwe.
The big one will be at Nkoloma where 2010 runner-up Zanaco will face Nkana in a 15:00 kickoff in what is expected to be the big draw game in the preliminary stage of the tournament.
Nkana have never qualified to the Barclays Cup semifinals and the furthest they have been is the 2007 quarterfinals where they lost 1-0 to Konkola Blades in the inaugural tournament.
And in the lunchtime kickoff at the same venue, Arrows will host Indeni at 13:00.
At Arthur Davies, Power face Division 1 South promotion contenders Luena in a 15:00 kickoff while Blades take on Nakambala at 13:00.
The semifinals will be held on October 29 at Nkoloma while the final will be played on November 19 at Arthur Davies.
This year’s winners will like last year take home K150 million but the runners up not go empty handed unlike last year.
The loser will get K75 million while the coach and the player of the tournament will pocket K10 million and K5 million respectively.
“This year’s winners will like last year take home K150 million but the runners up not go empty handed unlike last year”…………….This statement lost me for a while,good Barclays,we cant have a sichu where winner takes all.
Who cares, I hate football really. It should be banned, It is really overated! Why not volleyball?
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So why did you read this article? Did you click the on the headline thinkig it it was volleyball?
you just hate yourself, and such statements should be kept to yourself coz they dont make sense to us, they have no impact to whoever has read this article.
Grow Up, its not late.
This Mushota must really have the time to just comment on literally anything!
Iz this format for the Barclays Cup new, or am I confuzing it withe BP Top Eight?
Aba yelloooooooooooooooooow!!!! ts our cup go Dinamo
Its nice that Barclays is pumping money into football, but the organisation and planning could be better. I mean, how does the defending champion get left out?
who ever was making these draws should be fair, why didnt they swap the venues for power and Arrows? Power’s game is suppose to be played in Lusaka while Arrows in the Copperbelt. power will be using home ground advantage so is Arrows,so they were suppose to swap.
zesco Utd FC should have been given an opportunity to defend the trophy.