Women Super League champions Zesco Ndola Girls inspirational captain Avell Chitundu says the club has set its sights on clinching the COSAFA Women’s Champions League title after successfully defending the league title.
Chitundu scored twice as Zesco thumped Luyando Foundation 7-0 in a Week 33 league fixture at the Levy Mwanawasa Stadium on Wednesday to successfully defend their ZPL/WSL title with a match to spare.
Zesco also earned back-to-back qualification to represent Zambia at the COSAFA WCL with the Ndola-based side having finished as runners-up to Botswana’s Gaborone United last year in South Africa.
Speaking in an interview after steering her side to victory, Chitundu expressed delight at her side’s league triumph while also calling for ample preparations for the upcoming regional club competition.
“We feel good as a team because we really worked hard for this title,” Chitundu said,
“We should just prepare adequately so that we can start from where we’ll finish,” she added.
“We went there for the first and we came second so that way it has given us that [motivation] that we can do much better and win the trophy there.”
Chitundu has enjoyed a stellar season and is in pole position to bag the 2025/26 ZPL/WSL Golden Boot accolade after scoring an impressive 26 goals to inspire Zesco to the league triumph.
The Copper Queens forward has attributed her prolific goal scoring form this term to her teammates’ joint effort.
“I think it is the teamwork that has motivated me to score all those goals because without my teammates I couldn’t have scored those 26 goals,” she said.
Meanwhile, Chitundu further described the soon-to-be concluded campaign as challenging and applauded her side’s resilience to successfully deliver yet another league crown despite the hurdles faced.
“This has been the best season we have faced so far because we had a lot of draws which cost us a lot but we pushed as a team and finally we have achieved the goal that we had set as a team,” she concluded.
Zesco will for the second successive year compete at the COSAFA Women’s Champions League which also serves as a pathway for qualification to the premier CAF Women’s Champions League.
