{"id":226000,"date":"2026-03-04T13:15:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-psl-kicks-off-harare-and-bulawayo-set-for-blockbuster-match-day-one\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T13:15:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:15:44","slug":"zimbabwe-psl-kicks-off-harare-and-bulawayo-set-for-blockbuster-match-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-psl-kicks-off-harare-and-bulawayo-set-for-blockbuster-match-day-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: PSL Kicks Off &#8211; Harare and Bulawayo Set for Blockbuster Match Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Local top-flight football returns this weekend as the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League launches its 2026 season with a full round of fixtures across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The curtain-raiser will see newly promoted FC Hunters facing last 2025 runners up MWOS FC at Rufaro Stadium in Harare, setting the tone for what promises to be an exciting new campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Saturday&#8217;s fixtures feature four matches including a headline clash between TelOne FC and former champions Dynamos FC at Ascot Stadium in Gweru.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size:...<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603040318.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local top-flight football returns this weekend as the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League launches its 2026 season with a full round of fixtures across the country. The curtain-raiser will see newly promoted FC Hunters facing last 2025 runners up MWOS FC at Rufaro Stadium in Harare, setting the tone for what promises to be an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,16477,3691,7165,500,7023,8778,257,12769,7106,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-226000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blockbuster","tag-bulawayo","tag-day","tag-harare","tag-kicks","tag-match","tag-news","tag-psl","tag-set","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}