Kaizer Chiefs Marketing Director Jessica Motaung has provided an update on the club's plans to launch a women's team.
Currently, only Mamelodi Sundowns, Stellenbosch FC, and Royal AM in the Betway Premiership have women's teams.
The CAF now requires clubs to have functioning women's teams to participate in continental competitions.
Motaung says the club is working on initiatives to establish a women's team, assuring fans of their commitment to the project.
She mentioned their recent partnership with the Department of Correctional Services as evidence of their dedication to women's football, aiming to positively impact the lives of female prisoners through football-based programs.
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“Building a team is about growing from the ground up. We have other initiatives on the ground that we’ll be doing,” Motaung explained.
“And certainly that is a project we are working [on] and continue to work with.
“Today is a testament to the fact that we are putting a stake in the ground and saying woman’s football is important to us and we’re partnering with difference people to make sure that that happens.”
She acknowledged the challenges hindering the establishment of a women's team.
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“There are many challenges – infrastructure challenges, investment challenges,” she continued.
“A lot of people are willing to invest at a high level, but not willing to invest in the building the foundation of women’s football.
“There are sponsors who I must say have done a great job in making sure they invest. I see challenges around the broadness and the need across the board.
“Also not a clear understanding what the women need vs what men need, that’s the challenges that women’s football has been lunged in with the men’s game has been put together.
“It’s really building the women’s game for women’s game, for the African women. That’s important.”