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TS Galaxy will start the defence of their Nedbank Cup title when they take on Chippa United in this year’s edition of the Ke Yona tournament on Wednesday.
The GladAfrica Championship hopefuls upstaged Kaizer Chiefs in last season’s final to become the first lower-division side to claim the title and the R7 million prize.
Galaxy – known as The Rockets among their fans – are away to Chippa at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth.
The game will mark the first time Galaxy coach Dan “Dance” Malesela will face his former club since he was fired by the Port Elizabeth-based side three matches into the 2018/19 season.
Chiefs will face Royal Eagles, one of the NFD’s eight representatives in the competition, at FNB Stadium.
Amakhosi coach Ernst Middendorp will be eager to reach his third final with the club in this tournament. In addition to guiding Chiefs to last season’s final at Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban, the German tactician steered Amakhosi to Nedbank Cup glory in 2006, when the competition was still called the Absa Cup.
The lucrative tournament also features eight sides from the third-tier ABC Motsepe League. All 16 premier division sides are entered automatically.
The first round will be played until February 11, when Polokwane City host Baroka FC and up the first round with the Limpopo derby at Peter Mokaba Stadium that Tuesday night
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