Chiefs have reached the semi-finals of the continent's premier club competition for the first time in their history and must now have a feel of what their rivals Mamelodi Sundowns and Orlando Pirates have had to deal with whenever they have sailed this far.
The first leg of the away trip to Wydad Casablanca is on June 18 with the second leg in Johannesburg a week later on June 25.
With the curtains to the domestic season closing on June 5, it means while other clubs take a break, they will have to remain training having two weeks to prepare for the two-legged tie that will decide whether they proceed to the final on July 17 in Casablanca.
This year the Champions League final is being played when PSL teams will be deep into their pre-season training with the domestic season starting in early August, as per tradition.
At the end of a compact season that started just after weeks after the completion of the previous campaign, which was torn to pieces by the pandemic, Chiefs will have little rest ahead of the 2021/22 season, which will start on August 14.
What makes it even more of a challenge for Chiefs is that between the end of this season and the start of the next, so much will be going on at Naturena in terms of players arriving and leaving.
The two-window transfer ban has ended, and Chiefs will race into the market to make reinforcements following what has been an awful domestic campaign that has left them as low as eleventh with three games to play.
In the years when Sundowns and Pirates went into the finals of continental competitions, they found themselves with breaks as short as two weeks.
The plus for Chiefs so far is that in reaching the semi-finals, they will pocket USD 875 000 (approximately R12.3-million) with the ultimate prize money of USD 2.5-million (R35,.2-million) still within their sights if they lift the trophy.