CHAMPIONS CAPS United will bring the curtain down on a successful season when they honour outstanding performers at the club’s end of year awards ceremony in Harare this Thursday.  

The club’s chief executive officer Cuthbert Chitima told the Herald that Makepekepe, who recently ended 11 years of waiting by lifting the 2016 league title, have decided they will not end the year quietly like what has been happening in the previous campaigns. 

The Green Machine have been making the headlines following a stellar season which also saw defender Hardlife Zvirekwi and veteran forward Leonard Tsipa winning the top two individual prizes at the Premiership Soccer Star of the Year awards. 

Leftback Ronald Pfumbidzai was also named among the eleven best players plying their trade in Zimbabwe. And it appears the trio will have a big say for the club’s biggest individual accolade, the Player of the Year award, to be selected by a special panel.

Chitima yesterday said arrangements are already advanced with the management set to finalize the logistics and agree on the prize monies by tomorrow.

“We will have the Player of the Year awards ceremony on December 15 and thereafter we will start talking about the Champions League preparations. 

“So we are going to sit down either tomorrow (today) or Tuesday and we hope everything will be finalized then, including the prize moneys,” said Chitima.

In a season in which Chitima also felt they should have contributed about half dozen players on the Soccer Star of the Year calendar, it looks Soccer Star of the Year winner Zvirekwi, Tsipa and Pfumbidzai are not going to be the only players to vie for the podium at the club’s banquet.

CAPS United had strong performers this year with the likes of Stephen Makatuka, Phineas Bhamusi, Denis Dauda, Devon Chafa, Tafadzwa Rusike and Simba Nhivi all crying for attention.

The players will also select who they feel was their best performer to be crowned the Players Player of the Year while the supporters vote for the Supporters’ Player of the Year.

Veteran Tsipa is guaranteed of the Golden Boot award after netting the most goals in the whole league this season with 11 in the bag.