Posted in News, Team News, Youth Academy on Dec 02, 2020.
Kaizer Chiefs reserve team will begin their 2020-21 campaign with a trip to Giant Stadium in Soshanguve North of Pretoria to face Mamelodi Sundowns, in what is sure to be an entertaining and exciting opener to the season for Amakhosi against the former champions. The game will kick of at 13h00 on Sunday 6th December and will be broadcast live on DStv Channel 202.
The 2019-20 reserve league which was known as the Multichoice Disk Challenge will now be known as the DStv Diski Challenge with the league being rebranded with a new logo and a new name, for the upcoming campaign. The PSL reserve league which began around six years ago was suspended midway through the season during the 2019-20 season, Amakhosi will be looking to make a strong start to the new season and will be looking to make a mark with a strong performance against Sundowns.
On the bench for Chiefs in their DStv Diski Challenge opener will be first team assistant coaches Arthur Zwane and Dillon Sheppard. Zwane who has been in charge of Chiefs reserve team since 2016 will lead the line from the bench with support from Sheppard as well as another of Chiefs coaches from the youth ranks Tshidiso Letsholonyane. The Chiefs reserve team has provided a number of players to the Chiefs senior team with current first team squad members Njabulo Blom, Nkosingiphile Ngcobo and Keletso Sifama all previously campaigning for the Chiefs reserve team.