The return of domestic football will send yet another painful reminder about the wait that Kaizer Chiefs are having to endure in the bid to end their trophy drought.
So long has been the wait that the eight-year wait translates to an agonising 3050 days since Chiefs lifted the league title at the end of the 2014/15 season.
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Broken down to detail that it is now 100 months since AmaKhosi delivered silverware at Naturena.
Since that famous Saturday afternoon in May 2015, Itumeleng Khune is now the only surviving member of that squad still at the club with time having wiped out all other players.
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The wheels of changes have also meant seven changes on the bench since then with Stuart Baxter making way for Steve Komphela, Giovanni Solinas, Ernst Middendorp, Gavin Hunt, Baxter again, Arthur Zwane, and now Molefi Ntseki.
In between Patrick Mabedi and Zwane have served on a caretaker basis.
As Royal AM arrive at FNB Stadium on Saturday (17h30), it will be league game number 246 since Chiefs last won a trophy.
Eight years of firing blanks in the league has meant 240 matches plus the five that they have played this term.
AmaKhosi have also played another 80 games in cup games through that period during which Mamelodi Sundowns have won 15 trophies.
What adds salt to the wound for Chiefs is that their PSL era trophy count remains stuck on 20 while Sundowns have since moved to 25.
Pirates are on 15.
This long wait for silverware at Chiefs has meant that kids that already in either their second or third year of primary schooling were not born when AmaKhosi last won a trophy.
Through that time, they have missed the trophy target on 32 occasions.
Chiefs have come short in the league eight times, then MTN8 (seven times), Telkom KnockOut (five times), and Nedbank Cup (eight times).
They have also been involved in the CAF Champions League twice without joy and came stuck in the CAF Confederation Cup during the 2018/19 season.
Of note is the fact that through this period of their drought they have come within minutes of winning the league and have been losing finalists in the Champions League, MTN8, Telkom KnockOut, and Nedbank Cup.
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