Chiefs face evolution, not excuses, in crucial season

KAIZER Chiefs enter the 2025/26 Betway Premiership season with the pressure of evolution rather than just restoration.

- SMISO MSOMI

The club has spent the last few years chasing stability and dignity, but the expectation now is to chase silverware — with no excuses.

Nasreddine Nabi’s second campaign in charge must go beyond the promise of progress. Chiefs fans are done clinging to signs of improvement - they want results. And with no MTN8 participation after finishing 10th last season, the path to silverware is narrowed. But that may also provide an unintended advantage: time.

With fewer fixtures early on, the “next level” for Chiefs must be to build a consistent identity - a clear way of playing - and ruthlessly execute it.

That hasn’t been a hallmark of the club in recent seasons, where philosophies were either muddled or changed midstream. Nabi’s mandate now is to make his tactical approach unmistakable, and ensure the players buy in completely