{"id":236603,"date":"2026-06-17T17:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T15:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chaminuka-confident-telone-fc-will-avoid-relegation-despite-being-bottom-placed\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T15:47:14","slug":"zimbabwe-chaminuka-confident-telone-fc-will-avoid-relegation-despite-being-bottom-placed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-chaminuka-confident-telone-fc-will-avoid-relegation-despite-being-bottom-placed\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Chaminuka Confident Telone FC Will Avoid Relegation Despite Being Bottom-Placed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">TELONE FC coach Saul Chaminuka remains confident his side will retain its Premier Soccer League status despite finishing the first half of the season at the bottom of the table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The WiFi Boys have endured a difficult campaign marked by inconsistency, leaving them anchored at the foot of the standings after the opening half of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Chaminuka&#8217;s men began the second round on a disappointing note on Saturday, suffering a 3-0 defeat to Dynamos at Rufaro Stadium. The result left TelOne stuck on&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606170281.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>TELONE FC coach Saul Chaminuka remains confident his side will retain its Premier Soccer League status despite finishing the first half of the season at the bottom of the table. The WiFi Boys have endured a difficult campaign marked by inconsistency, leaving them anchored at the foot of the standings after the opening half of [&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":[258,256,8728,54640,51751,4376,257,15628,254,14181,4686,421],"class_list":["post-236603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-avoid","tag-bottomplaced","tag-chaminuka","tag-confident","tag-news","tag-relegation","tag-south-africa-today","tag-telone","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236603","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=236603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236603\/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=236603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}