Battle lines have been drawn for this weekend’s 2025/26 season opener Carling Black Label Samuel ‘Zoom’ Ndhlovu Charity Shield with coaches of the eight teams involved in the competition declaring their sides ready for skirmishes.
The Charity Shield will be played over two days at Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Ndola with Kansanshi Dynamos facing Konkola Blades and the Women’s game will see promoted Super League sides National Assembly and Konkola Blades facing off on 9 August.
On 10 August, Zesco Ndola Girls will face Green Buffalos before the main match between league champions Power Dynamos and Zesco United.
During the pre-match media briefing at Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Ndola, Power deputy coach Songwe Chalwe predicted an exciting match against Copperbelt rivals Zesco United.
“We know how important this game is. It is always exciting to play against Zesco United,” Chalwe told journalists.
Zesco coach Emmanuel Siwale said the Charity Shield will help his team to get ready for their upcoming assignment in the CAF Confederation Cup.
“It’s going to be a very good and exciting game. It is important that we are preparing for CAF games. It will be a tough match but good for the team,” Siwale said.
Last month, the main sponsor Zambian Breweries unveiled over K2 million investments towards the expanded Charity Shield during the launch at Broadway Station in Ndola as the Zambian Premier League uncovered the expanded two-day format and inclusion of women’s matches.
Konkola Blades coach Beston Chambeshi said Sharp Razor was thrilled to play the Charity Shield against fellow promoted Super Division side Kansanshi.
“It is wonderful to be part of the Charity Shield. I want to thank sponsors of this Charity Shield. Kansanshi has a good team but we are ready for the match against them,” Chambeshi said.
Kansanshi coach Zeddy Saileti says the Solwezi side is not taking the Charity Shield match lightly.
“I expect a very entertaining game. I think this game is very important for Kansanshi, we are in preseason,” Saileti said.
The K2,000,000 investment towards the Charity Shield include a K750, 000 sponsorship package for the Zambia Premier League, and prize money for competing teams, sports kits, and a national campaign to encourage fan participation.
Zambian men’s football has been going down and the downward trend continues. I infact did not see any inspiring manifestos from all the FAZ aspiring candidates in the last elections including from the winner. Manifestos of how to improve the game were not there, what was there was ” i want to bring unity” However, we will give chance and still support, but we expect results
I listen to some of the so called football analysts on radio. I don’t hear them say, this week we are looking at refereeing for example, this is a full time career in other countries, all asking those who say they are in charge of chipolopolo fans to say what is your program of things like supporting the national team for the year, where is the documented strategy, things like subscriptions and fundraising so that supporting and travelling for international away supporting assignments becomes easier, strategic partnerships with airlines with win win conditions not just being given free money, soccer fans corporate sponsorship programmes, soccer fans talent identification programs, provincial chipolopolo/copper queens soccer fans associations with clear objectives to support our football growth, there are many more i am just saying we need much more than just lighter moments and chuckling on these radio and TV football programs. Standards are just going down
When are we ever going to hear such things in our football especially on football radio talk shows
– chipolopolo/copper queens soccer fans documented supporting strategy which will have things like fundraising and subscriptions for soccer fans, soccer fans strategic partnerships with corporates and airlines. Is there even a website where we can see what the soccer fans associations aspires to achieve in alignment with national team goals? Comprehensive topics on refereeing, stadia, football medicine branch etc, these are some of the topics I would like to hear on our football radio programmes. Football is not just about players, coaches and teams We need to arrest our downward trend by having independent analysis of all areas
Someone help me: is the Zambian men football team at CHAN this year? When are they playing? If they are not, why? I suspect it is the poor body conditioning (very little muscle). There was a time when Zambia was untouchable to teams like Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Tanzania. Now they are rolled over easily.
Maybe because we have Battlelines on many fronts ??
Patriot.. Yes
Tomorrow 18.00
Zambia vs Angola
Patriot, they lost their first game 2-0 to DRC. You didn’t hear the groans of Avram Netanyahu Grant that he wasn’t given time to prepare?
Team Zambia lost again today at CHAN against Angola .They’re flirting with elimination especially since their next match is against host Kenya on home ground.
What happened to the once mighty footballing nation Zambia? We now need to start afresh, even if it means firing Netanyahu Grant and paying out the rest of his contract. Let’s have a younger international coach (with energy the way Hevre Renard had), even new players, even a football academy where we groom educated boys to be footballers. Football these days is also about intelligence, not just the physical talent. I won’t even watch Zambia vs Kenya and Zambia vs Morocco, I know it will be massacres in both games.
Ba LT naimwe ulesi! You like giving us half cooked stuff! You tell us pre-match rantings but don’t come back to tell us what happened. It’s Monday and no soccer results. You want us to read plagiarists ZO?
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