BNSC marketing and communications manager, Anderson Nlisana said since Zimbabwe does not have a CAF approved stadium, Dynamos has requested to utilise the National Stadium. "We have a request from Dynamos to use the National Stadium for their CAF game. You will remember that is one of the countries that has stadiums that are CAF compliant besides South Africa. A lot of countries around us have challenges of CAF compliant stadiums. Their teams have come to us to request to use the stadiums," Nlisana said. "We have acceded in terms of Dynamos, we have agreed to allow them use the stadium for their CAF game. We did that based on the availability of the field," he added. However, he was quick to point out that they will always give Botswana teams priorities. "We give priority to Botswana based teams.
If Galaxy was to play on the same date as Dynamos we would obviously not make Galaxy compete for the stadium," he said. Dynamos will pay a fee for the use of the venue, although figures were not revealed. "Of course there is a cost, however we have a standard fee that depends caliber of the game and also the period you would be using the stadium for, among other reasons. There is market rate that we use for both local and international requests but you will remember that for a long time we not charged local teams for usage of the stadiums, based on the fact that we are aware of the financial challenges they face as individual teams but obviously for those coming from outside we do not have that waive," he said. "It is not only Dynamos, we have a number of requests from the teams in the region, but like I said we will prioritise local teams first and also look at the fixtures to see if the dates do not clash with our local competitions before we can allow teams from outside to use our stadiums," Nlisana said.
