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Premier Soccer League chairman Dr. Irvin Khoza has announced that the league will include a “star system” to honour their current and previous league title winners.
Khoza shared the news as part of his opening speech during the PSL Awards gala on Sunday evening.
Sundowns have won six successive DStv Premiership titles and will rewarded as “trailblazers”, but the new recognition system seems to be going back to as far as 1971 when the PSL was still known as National Professional Soccer League (NPSL).
In 1995, the NPSL and the National Soccer League, which was established in 1985 as a response to disagreements with the National Soccer League (NSL), merged to form the Premier Soccer League (PSL).
“We have to come up with a recognition, which is benchmarked along the likes of the Bundesliga,” he said.
“Any team winning three titles will be entitled to one star – a five-pointed star [on their kit].
“Six [titles] upward, two stars. It’s three stars from 10 trophies and from 20 trophies it’s four stars.
“Mamelodi Sundowns will be the first team in the new era we’re recognising with that award for having won six trophies in a row, well done Masandawana. You are a trail blazer.
“More importantly, we said as a league, ‘let us also recognise those teams since 1971 who’ve achieved the same feat, to do the necessary thing to recognise them.
“But more importantly, we have also decided as Executive Committee to have to give replica trophies since 1971 of all the competitions they’ve won, to have them in their trophy room, to show something as a motivation, as part of induction in their respective teams or tourism…
“So that is coming ladies and gentlemen.”
The PSL are yet to confirm how exactly the system will work, whether Sundowns will receive three stars on their kit for winning 16 league titles since 1971 (13 PSL and 3 NSL).
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Kaizer Chiefs, meanwhile have won 12 league titles overall (5 NPSL, 3 NSL and 4 PSL), while Orlando Pirates have lifted nine (4 NPSL, 1 NSL and 4 PSL). SuperSport United would also get a star based on their three PSL titles.