FC Platinum are likely to play their Total Caf Champions League Group B matches at Barbourfields Stadium since their fortress Mandava Stadium has no floodlights.

The pool games get underway on January 11 with the Zimbabwean champions set to play host to Orlando Pirates before flying out to
Tunisia to take on defending champions Esperance a week later.

Despite Mandava Stadium being homologated to host preliminary games of the same competition, it emerged yesterday that the issue of floodlights was critical for the Group
games as some of the matches could actually be played at night and Caf, through the director of communications department
Nathalie Rabe confirmed that they will be sending an instructor to do the inspections.

“Yes we will be sending very soon an instructor to conduct an inspection visit of the facilities there in preparation for their match,” wrote Rabe in an e-mailed response to Chronicle Sport.