Saturday’s Nedbank Cup will have the significance of being played just a day after Kaizer Chiefs reached 10 years since they last won a trophy.
Chiefs were league champions for the 2014/15 season and their crowing moment was on May 9, 2015.
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Friday May 9, 2025, is now exactly 10 years since they last celebrated winning a trophy.
None of the players in that squad, which had Tefu Mashamaite and Siboniso Gaxa playing all 30 league games that season, are still at the club with the most recent departure having been Itumeleng Khune.
Amakhosi have moved on to play 385 games across all competitions, firing blanks on the trophy front since Stuart Baxter guided them to that silverware success.
The club based in Naturena has come short in the domestic league 10 times and have had failures in the MTN8 (eight times), Carling Knockout (seven times), and Nedbank Cup (nine times).
They have also been involved in the CAF Champions League twice without lifting the trophy and came stuck in the CAF Confederation Cup during the 2018/19 season.
Their decade-long run of darkness equates to 522 weeks of waiting with Steve Komphela, Giovanni Solinas, Ernst Middendorp, Gavin Hunt, Baxter, Arthur Zwane, Molefi Ntseki, and Cavin Johnson having all failed the trophy test as coaches at Chiefs.
The latest is Nasreddine Nabi, who is one match away from becoming a hero after having gone through to the final of the Nedbank Cup to be played against Orlando Pirates at Moses Mabhida on Saturday (15:30).
That Chiefs have had a disappointing season will be forgotten if they can deliver this trophy.
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Ten years is the longest that any of the Big Three has ever had to wait for a trophy in the PSL years.
Pirates were on the hunt for seven years without nothing, while for Mamelodi Sundowns it was six years.
