The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has fined Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) $2,000.

ZIFA says it incurred the wrath of CAF “for lack of technical facilities at the National Sports Stadium.”

In their letter to ZIFA, CAF cited lack of fixed individual spectator seats in all sectors and the stadium’s general uncleanliness as among the reasons for the fine.

“CAF stadium requirements stipulate that seats for spectators must be individual, fixed (e.g. to the floor), separated from one another, shaped, numbered, made of an unbreakable and non-flammable material, and have a backrest of a minimum height of thirty (30) cm when measured from the seat.

“We have notified the Sports and Recreation Commission as the stadium authority, and encouraged them to expedite renovations at the stadium so that the we avoid future sanctions or the grim possibility of playing home matches abroad,” ZIFA website reports.

Zimbabwe have played two home matches under the provisional homologation window which CAF granted the association in 2020 when football resumed.

Now Zimbabwe faces a race against time to work of the stadium ahead of the Warriors’ Fifa World Cup qualifying game for Africa at home against South Africa between June 5 and 8 2021.