Local football ends

THE domestic football season came to an end on Saturday, with Civics rounding it off in style as they grabbed the coveted FNB Cup title.

Civics beat African Stars 4-3 on penalties at the Independence Stadium in Windhoek. The league resumes on January 13, the same weekend when the Hansa Pilsener Cup elimination round kicks off.The Hansa Pilsener Cup is for first-division teams and is sponsored by Namibia Breweries Limited (NBL).Civics, the current league defending champions, walked away with N$170 000 after having stumbled to a 1-0 defeat against Black Africa in their opening match of the season.They drew 1-1 against Pirates in their next match and fired eight goals past Oshakati City and Golden Bees in their last two encounters to stay in third spot on the league.Ramblers currently sit at the summit of the premiership and have won two of their four matches, while they drew twice, giving them eight points in total.Black Africa are in second spot with the same number of points as Ramblers, but they have a lower record in terms of goals scored.Walvis Bay outfit Eleven Arrows find themselves at the base of the premiership table with only one point to their credit, while Oshakati City are a position above them, also with a single point from their four matches.The domestic league only started in November this year, which resulted to only four matches being played.The delay was as a result of squabbles within the structures of the Namibia Football Association (NFA), which prompted the intervention of Fifa which called for elections in all structures of the game in the country.After resuming on January 13, premiership matches will carry on until January 20, thereafter the NFA MTC Cup will be launched on January 24.The premiership matches and the Hansa Pilsener Cup will resume on the weekend of February 3 and 4.The Hansa Pilsener Cup will be launched today in Gobabis.Namibia’s Brave Warriors will play on February 7 in an international friendly in accordance with the Fifa calendar, after which the NFA MTC Cup will start with its first-round matches on February 10.The final of the Hansa Pilsener Cup will be determined on the weekend of April 21 and 21.The NFA MTC Cup final will be played on May 19.Before that, the Namibian under-17 side will play in the African Championships in Togo in March, while the Brave Warriors will meet Libya in a first-leg African Nations Cup qualifier in that country on March 23.Football in the country will officially end on the weekend of June 16 next year, when the Brave Warriors meet the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in a Nations Cup return leg in Windhoek.The league resumes on January 13, the same weekend when the Hansa Pilsener Cup elimination round kicks off.The Hansa Pilsener Cup is for first-division teams and is sponsored by Namibia Breweries Limited (NBL).Civics, the current league defending champions, walked away with N$170 000 after having stumbled to a 1-0 defeat against Black Africa in their opening match of the season.They drew 1-1 against Pirates in their next match and fired eight goals past Oshakati City and Golden Bees in their last two encounters to stay in third spot on the league.Ramblers currently sit at the summit of the premiership and have won two of their four matches, while they drew twice, giving them eight points in total.Black Africa are in second spot with the same number of points as Ramblers, but they have a lower record in terms of goals scored.Walvis Bay outfit Eleven Arrows find themselves at the base of the premiership table with only one point to their credit, while Oshakati City are a position above them, also with a single point from their four matches.The domestic league only started in November this year, which resulted to only four matches being played.The delay was as a result of squabbles within the structures of the Namibia Football Association (NFA), which prompted the intervention of Fifa which called for elections in all structures of the game in the country.After resuming on January 13, premiership matches will carry on until January 20, thereafter the NFA MTC Cup will be launched on January 24.The premiership matches and the Hansa Pilsener Cup will resume on the weekend of February 3 and 4.The Hansa Pilsener Cup will be launched today in Gobabis.Namibia’s Brave Warriors will play on February 7 in an international friendly in accordance with the Fifa calendar, after which the NFA MTC Cup will start with its first-round matches on February 10.The final of the Hansa Pilsener Cup will be determined on the weekend of April 21 and 21.The NFA MTC Cup final will be played on May 19.Before that, the Namibian under-17 side will play in the African Championships in Togo in March, while the Brave Warriors will meet Libya in a first-leg African Nations Cup qualifier in that country on March 23.Football in the country will officially end on the weekend of June 16 next year, when the Brave Warriors meet the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in a Nations Cup return leg in Windhoek.