{"id":241158,"date":"2026-08-15T19:43:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-watanga-paynesville-set-for-bettomax-champions-cup-clash\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T19:43:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:43:56","slug":"liberia-watanga-paynesville-set-for-bettomax-champions-cup-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-watanga-paynesville-set-for-bettomax-champions-cup-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Watanga, Paynesville Set for Bettomax Champions Cup Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">MONROVIA \u2014 Defending Liberia Football Association First Division champion Watanga FC will face city rival Paynesville FC on Saturday in the men&#8217;s category of the 2026 Bettomax Champions Cup at TUSA Field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The match is scheduled for 2 p.m. and is expected to renew the fierce rivalry between the two Paynesville-based clubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Watanga enters the tournament seeking to bounce back after being ruled out of the CAF Champions League as Liberia&#8217;s representative because of an administrative setback. The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608140391.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONROVIA \u2014 Defending Liberia Football Association First Division champion Watanga FC will face city rival Paynesville FC on Saturday in the men&#8217;s category of the 2026 Bettomax Champions Cup at TUSA Field. The match is scheduled for 2 p.m. and is expected to renew the fierce rivalry between the two Paynesville-based clubs. Watanga enters the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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":[1086],"tags":[258,256,55167,14490,7647,6674,4712,1107,257,11526,7106,254,27526],"class_list":["post-241158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bettomax","tag-champions","tag-clash","tag-cup","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-paynesville","tag-set","tag-south-africa-today","tag-watanga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241158","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241158\/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=241158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}