While the 2025/26 Betway Premiership season has run its course, there is barely two months before the next campaign begins.

It’s a time of great activity for football clubs as transfer bartering gets under way, and Richards Bay FC surely has the scouts and spies coming through the gates in both directions.

Not to mention Milford FC, who are in the middle of their promotion play-off mini-league, waiting to join the PSL ranks, which, if successful, will also throw them into the hunt for new players.

But there is also plenty happening at the uMhlathuze Sport Stadium itself, with three projects set to make the spectator experience that much better.

The first will be the installation of the canvas roof above the main grandstand. We understand that the roof is being fabricated off-site, and the plan is to have it delivered and erected before the start of the new season.

There are also plans to increase the stadium’s seating capacity, after the past season showed the huge demand when the big clubs come to town; the present 10 900 seats proved hopelessly inadequate.

The intention is to provide additional grandstands on the slopes behind the goals at both ends of the field.

Preparation work has already begun on the new training fields behind the open grandstand, and this will be of major benefit to the club which until now has practised on a dangerous surface.

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