FOUR teams will be relegated and a similar number promoted at the end of the current Premier Soccer League season, clubs have agreed.
The 2010 season, whose start was delayed by two months, will no longer finish in May 2011 as originally planned but December 22 this year. The move means PSL clubs must all play midweek games to meet that deadline.
At the end of their mid-year review meeting in Harare on Tuesday, clubs said in a statement: “The PSL football season is expected to end on or before 22 December 2010.
“The League will have to resort to mid-week fixtures in order to finish the season this year. We have taken into account the participation of the Warriors in the COSAFA Senior Challenge Cup to be held in Angola.”
On relegation, the clubs said: “It was confirmed that four teams shall be relegated from the Premier Soccer League at the end of the 2010 football season.
“Four teams shall be promoted to the PSL at the beginning of the 2011 football season. There shall be no play-offs.”
Traditionally, three teams were relegated at the end of the season although in the last two years the PSL had introduced play-offs with the team finishing fourth bottom entering play-offs with Division One teams who finish second.
Meanwhile clubs say they will introduce a Code of Conduct which has been necessitated by “wayward behaviour of some officials, coaches and players”.
“It was agreed that indiscipline is affecting the image of the league,” the PSL said.