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JOHANNESBURG. — With a place in the Nedbank Cup semi-final and also still chasing the runners-up berth in the DStv Premiership, Kaizer Chiefs are on course for a place in African club competition next season.
While they are strategically well-placed, there is still work to do. Chiefs will need to win the cup or finish in the top three in the DStv Premiership to compete in either the 2023/24 African Champions League or African Confederation Cup.
The club were the country’s first representative in the African Champions Cup, as it was then known, and went on to win the African Cup Winners’ Cup in 2000.
But since then AmaKhosi have laboured their way through infrequent participation in continental club competition, twice banned for two years when they refused to compete and then later easily eliminated as they showed an indifferent approach.
But two season ago, when the club were in the middle of a Fifa transfer ban and unable to refresh their playing stock, they surprised all and sundry by reaching the Champions League final . . . while only finishing eighth in the DStv Premiership.
It has reignited a determination at the club to return to playing in the African competitions, something coach Arthur Zwane has spoken about several times this season.
But can the youthful coach in his first season, book his club a place in either the Champions League or Confederation Cup? He has a tough programme over the next weeks to try and get there and followed in the footsteps of the other seven Chiefs coaches, who have guaranteed the club an African adventure. — SuperSport
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