SEDIBENG.- SAFA SAB League teams are at loggerheads over the proposal to not relegate the teams that finished at the bottom of the log at the end of the past season.

This follows a proposal from the SAFA Sedibeng affiliates to add the number of the teams to 24 and not to relegate those teams that finished at the bottom of the log. However, this proposal has since divided the SAB League teams, with other clubs’ officials being against this proposal. According to SAFA rules, there must be promotion and relegation apart from last season when the league was forced to stop due to Covid-19 which resulted with no relegations.

To make it worse, Blue Lions have been relegated from the ABC Motsepe League even though their case is still at arbitration. Some SAFA Sedibeng SAB League teams have strongly challenged this as they feel that it is against SAFA constitution not to relegate teams. “We are going to oppose this proposal because last season we agreed in a meeting that four teams would be relegated at the end of the season and now some people want to add the number of the teams to save their teams at our expense. The league won’t start, and we will rather go to court because this was supposed to be proposed at the beginning of the season, not now.

“We have never heard something like this before in football. To make it worse, we don’t have enough facilities as things stand now and people talk about increasing the number of teams in the SAB League. “If they don’t relegate those teams, come next season, should some of our teams get relegated, we are not going to agree,” said the clubs’ officials who didn’t want their names to be mentioned.

Sedibeng Ster Sport is in possession of the letters that the majority of SAB League teams have written to Safa Sedibeng to challenge this proposal. When approached for comment, SAFA Sedibeng Regional Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Beauty Molise, said that she won’t comment on this matter because it is just a proposal, for now.