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In 2015, the Zimbabwe national football team were banned from participating in 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying due to an unpaid debt to former coach, José Claudinei. [12] At the time, the team was experiencing its strongest period for many years, qualifying for both the 2017 and 2019 Africa Cup of Nations .
If women's football was organised in some form at the time is unknown. A men's national team was first formed to play the visiting England Amateur national football team in 1929. [6] In 1946 a men's national team played a first full international against Northern Rhodesia (Zambia).Liwena, Ridgeway (2006). The Zambian Soccer Scene (2nd edition).
The association football champions of Zimbabwe are the winners of the highest league in Zimbabwean football, which is the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League (ZPSL). The ZPSL was founded in 1980, after Zimbabwe's internationally recognised independence, as a successor to the Rhodesia National Football League, which started in 1962.
Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League is the top professional division of the Zimbabwe Football Association. It was founded in 1980, as a successor to the 1962 formed Rhodesia National Football League. It is currently sponsored by Delta Beverages under the Castle Lager brand and hence is known as Castle Lager Premier Soccer League .
Dynamos Football Club was founded in 1963. [1] The team's founder, Sam Dauya, was inspired to form a club for local black players in Salisbury (now Harare) by the establishment of an exclusively white club the previous year and the recent disbanding of two local black teams, Salisbury City and Salisbury United.
The following is an incomplete list of association football clubs based in Zambia. For a complete list see Category:Football clubs in Zimbabwe List of Zimbabwean football clubs
The Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) is the governing body of football in Zimbabwe. It is responsible for organising national football competitions in Zimbabwe and managing the Zimbabwe national football teams. The current ZIFA was founded in 1979. It has been affiliated with FIFA since 1965 and has been a member of the CAF since 1980.
Gunners Football Club was a Zimbabwe-based professional football club, which played in the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League. They were well known for their saying "chicken masala", an oxymoron meaning, 'it's so cold, you feel hot' - an expression of how opponents would feel after playing against them.