Highlanders FC coach Mark Harrison said Zimbabwe now has an opportunity to align its domestic football calendar with calendars of most countries in Africa and Europe.
The Premier Soccer League season is yet to kick-off due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown and Harrison could not see how it will be completed in 2020 even if the restrictions are lifted next month. He said:
We now have to ask the question: How are we going to play a full season? What will happen next? We don’t know when we will be allowed to regroup. We don’t know when football will be allowed to play again.
When we kick-off, are we going to have to play a full season? Do we now use the opportunity to re-align our season and go to an August kick-off like the rest of Africa and Europe? That is possible.
Do you squeeze a football season in five or six months or you play a half-season one rounder. There are so many questions to be asked and so many answers to be given I guess.
The major leagues in Europe, that is, EPL, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue 1 all start in August and end around May of the following year.