The exciting cup draw took place tonight in the presence of the 4 managers that joined us on Zoom.

Champions cup: (the “champions league” cup)

First round (21.09)

Q1: Drunken Pandas vs Joburg Atletico at Discovery
Q2: Global United vs Highlands Park B at Panorama
Q3: Florida Albion vs Happy Deals at Florida’s home grounds
Q4: Warriors 1 vs Old Parks at Discovery

Semifinals: (28.09)

Winner Q1 vs Winner Q2, Q2 to play at home (so winner Global vs Highlands)
Winner Q3 vs Winner Q4, Q3 to play at home (so winner Florida vs Happy Deals)

Final: 05.10 at Panorama

Challengers Cup: (the “europa league” cup)

Preliminary Round (19.09)

Sandton Warriors vs Randfontein at Discovery

First round: (21.09)

Q1: Old Parks 2 vs Panorama at Old Parks
Q2: GPMI Vets vs Highlands Park A at GPMI’s home grounds
Q3: Crusaders vs Randburg at Crusaders; home grounds
Q4: Lenasia vs winner of Sandton Warrios v Randontein at Lenasia’s home grounds

Semifinals: (28.09)

Winner Q1 vs Winner Q2 , Q1 to play at home (so winner Old Parks 2 vs Panorama)
Winner Q3 vs Winner Q4 , Q3 to play at home (so winner Crusaders vs Randburg)

Final: 05.10 at Panorama

Rules:

80 minutes game, no extra time, straight to penalties
League rules for yellow cards: 10 minutes sin-bin (please always discuss with the referee before hand that we are using sin-bins in case they forgot!). Red cards are only used in extreme cases and they need to be discussed by the committee (with a risk of the team getting penalized), honestly I hope sin bins are enough to cool players off.

NO UNDER 35. Bring your IDs or a copy of the IDs. If a team gets caught with under 35 players will be penalised and eventually expelled from the league (and you won’t be able to ask for your money back).
In the cup, before the game, any team can ask players of the opposite team to show proof of age. _If no ID is provided (or if the player is under 35), then the player cannot play that night and for the rest of the season. Guys, don’t cheat. If some of your guys are under 35, do not let them play, as simple as that.

Referees: currently it’s still up to the home team to provide and pay for fields and referees (apart from the final), hence the home/away draw that followed the main draw. If we can somehow manage to provide neutral referees for the 1st round and semifinals, we will let everyone know. But please understand that is quite difficult to convince referees to drive far away from their comfort areas (which means someone needs to pay for transportation).

If one of the 4 teams in the finals are also involved in the play-out for promotion / relegation (so currently would be Crusaders and Drunken Pandas , 3rd from the bottom Div 1 and 3rd from the top Div 2), then the playout gets played the 12th of October. If not it gets played at Panorama the same night of the other finals (05.10).

This means that the summer league will officially start the 19th of October, which will give us a week to prepare for the new season (calendars etc..).

All the finals are played at the same venue (Panorama has generator so load shedding won’t be a problem) with the cup lifting ceremony happening as soon as the finals are over.