Online Reporter
THE 2025 Castle Lager Premiership season officially ended at Gibbo on Saturday when Dynamos made history as the first club to win the Chibuku Super Cup three times on the trot.
Given all the challenges which the Glamour Boys faced during the season, including battling relegation until the final game of the campaign, the success in the Chibuku Super Cup gives their fans a reason to celebrate.
They can call themselves Cup Kings now, a label which was once reserved for their bitter rivals CAPS United, and no one will question their move.
Newboys Scottland won the league championship, in their first season in the top-flight league, taking the crown after finishing the campaign seven points clear of the best of the chasing pack.
It’s something they deserved after their huge investment and recruiting the coach and the stars who had helped Simba Bhora win the championship the previous season.
Scottland are the first club, in the era of the modern Premiership, to win the league championship in their first season in the top-flight.
They have just shown us that if a club pour resources into the right personnel, they can flex their muscles and win the ultimate prize in the championship race.
The Mabvuku side are the first Harare team to be crowned champions in nine years with the last having been CAPS United in 2016.
They can brag that they have brought the excitement back into the PSL and it’s hard for anyone to argue against that because we saw life returning to the stands this season every time Scottland were in action.
They have set some high standards when it comes to investment into football in the domestic Premiership and hopefully they can now go on and make a mark on the continent. It’s an area where we have been coming short in recent years with our clubs struggling to make an impact and match the standards which were set by the likes of Dynamos in reaching the semi-final and final of the Champions League.
We have to salute the leadership at MWOS for the way they also helped boost interest in the domestic Premiership with their huge investment as PSL football came to Norton for the very first time.
They have also transformed Ngoni into a stadium which can host top-flight league matches.
This shows that the leadership at MWOS has a genuine passion for football development and it’s sad that for all their heroic efforts they didn’t get a piece of silverware this season.
For the better part of the first half of the season they appeared as the team to beat in the league title race but some poor results in Harare against the clubs from the capital damaged their season.
Hopefully, next year they will play even better and win a piece of silverware. For us, what matters is seeing the PSL in good health and we saw that in the just-ended season after years of decline.
Next year, we expect even more fireworks.
