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| Kick4Life Ladies will be looking to claim their first piece of Women's Super League silverware... |
The top two in Lesotho women’s football –
Kick4Life Ladies and LDF Ladies – will face off in the final of the Women’s
Super League Tournament on Saturday.
The rivals finished first and second in
last season’s league season and they are expected to battle it out for the
title once again in the new campaign later in the year.
Before that, however, the teams have to
decide the winners of the first Women’s Super League Tournament.
The final will be played at Setsoto
Stadium and both sides go into the finale on the back of dominant runs.
Kick4Life comfortably won all three of
their tournament group games before smashing Basetsana 5-2 in the semi-finals
two weeks ago at Makoanyane Barracks. However, as impressive as Kick4Life have
been, LDF have been even more dominant.
The 2017 league champions, who pipped
Kick4Life to the title, won their three group games by a combined 17-0 margin.
LDF then thumped Stoko 4-0 in the
semi-finals.
Given both teams’ dominance, it is clear
Saturday’s final could lay down a marker for the 2018 Women’s Super League
season which is tentatively scheduled to start in September.
The Women’s Super League Tournament was introduced
in May after the new league season was postponed because of a change in the CAF
calendar.
The change means the women’s top-fight
will now run from September until around March the following. Before this year
the first three editions of the Women’s Super League were played over the
calendar year with Basetsana winning the league in 2015, Stoko in 2016 and LDF
in 2017.
The postponement of the league was also
convenient because of Lesotho’s involvement in the 2018 Africa Women’s Cup of
Nations (AWCON 2018) qualifiers. Mehalalitoe
beat Swaziland in the first round of the qualifiers in April before falling to
South Africa at the last hurdle last month.
The Women’s Super League Tournament consisted
of eight sides split into two groups of four teams.
In the north stream it was Stoko, Berea
Ladies, Kick4Life Ladies and Basetsana. In the south it was Rovers Ladies,
Mafeteng Sisters, Sky Battalion and LDF Ladies.
The teams played each other once in a
round robin format before the top two sides from each group progressed to the
semi-finals.
By all accounts the Lesotho Football
Association backed tournament has been a success and everything now comes down
to finals day at Setsoto.
The action will start with a third-place
playoff between Stoko and Sky Battalion at 12:00.
At 14:30, LDF and Kick4Life will then
enter the field to decide the winners of the first piece of silverware in this
season’s Women Super League football campaign.
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