TIGERS SEE RED OVER PROPOSED FIXTURES

PROVINCIAL teams may be disadvantaged by the proposals to only play an equal number of teams for the lower league clubs so as to end the league after it was suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Lusaka Tigers chairman Teddy Njovu has said.

Njovu said the proposals by the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) to end the lower division leagues after just playing an equal number of games would disadvantage some teams in the provincial competition.

Njovu said his team was in a hurry to win promotion and with football being about competition, the decision would work to their disadvantage. He was however that his club would lose out a year on their five-year promotion plan if the decision was to stand as it was looking to earn promotion to Division One next season.

“The unfortunate thing is that the decision will advantage certain teams and disadvantage a few other teams because football is competitive. We play football to win promotion like for Tigers we are in a hurry to win promotion to the next division. So for them to come up with such a decision off course we can’t do anything as are bound by that but it will disadvantage us,” Njovu said. We had a five-year plan and we still have it meaning that one year is gone, we should have moved to Division One then the other year to National Division One then give two, three seasons and then back to the Premier league.

Lusaka Tigers are sixth in the Provincial Division One league with nine games to be played when league action resumes.