Kaizer Chiefs Explain Why They Are Yet to Launch Their Own Women’s Team

• Kaizer Chiefs have come out to give detailed explanation regarding not having a Women's football team
• The Soweto-based club only run the men's football team which includes the academy and development side
• Mamelodi Sundowns are also dominant in the Women's South African football league, but Amakhosi are not yet ready to join the league

Kaizer Chiefs have explained why they have yet to launch a women's team like some of their rivals in the Premier Soccer League.

The likes of TS Galaxy and Mamelodi Sundowns have female teams competing in the South African women's league.

Kaizer Chiefs recently launched a partnership program with Correctional Services and FIFA Foundation for the Empowerment of Female Inmates, and questions about the club owning a Women's team came up.

Chiefs explain why they're yet to have a Women's team

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According to iDiskiTimes, the club's marketing and commercial director, Jessica Motaung, opens up about the issue Kaizer Chiefs are facing regarding having a women's team.

"There are many challenges – infrastructure challenges, investment challenges," she said.

"A lot of people are willing to invest at a high level but have yet to be willing to invest in building the foundation of women's football.

"There are sponsors who have done a great job in making sure they invest. I see challenges around the broadness and the need across the board."

Motaung went on to clarify the major challenges associated with creating a women's football team compared to a men's football team.

"Also, there is not a clear insight into what women need vs. what men need; that's the challenge that female's football has been lunged in with the male's game, which has been put concurrently," she added.

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"It's building the women's game for women's game, for the African women. That's important."

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Briefly News earlier reported that Kaizer Chiefs have announced a major exit from the club before their opening fixture in the Betway Premiership this season.

Nabi will have his coaching crew cut by one after one of their assistant managers leaves to take up another role elsewhere.

Source: Briefly News