Premier league football giants, Highlanders Football Club are on the verge of collapse if urgent measures are not taken to rescue the team.
Board member Finance, Davies Sibanda told ZimEye.com that the country’s oldest football club is in a severe financial crisis that may force it to close down any moment.
According to Sibanda, the club has called for an urgent life members meeting to be held this weekend at the club’s sports club in Bulawayo. The meeting will seek to get a solution and decision from the life members on the club’s future.
“The club is in a serious financial crisis so much that we cannot survive beyond the next few weeks if nothing stringent is done to save the club,” he said.
“We are serving on the benevolence of our creditors who have now run out of patience with us,” he continued.
According to sources, the club has not been able to pay its players’ winning bonuses for the last five games. Last week the team almost failed to fulfill its away fixture in Mutare as it did not have money for diesel.
The team only managed to leave Bulawayo late in the afternoon after a member donated diesel for the bus. The team only arrived in Mutare late at night leading to the players complaining of jet-leg.
The club’s major sponsor BANCABC has only been able to pay the players’ monthly salaries.