Cape Town Spurs have not enjoyed a smooth start after the relegation from the Motsepe Foundation Championship to the ABC Motsepe League. After five games, they have one victory, two defeats, and two draws.
CT Spurs are dealing with new realities that come with running an ABC Motsepe club. From merchandise delays to paid-for academies and the constant risk of losing first-team players for free, the club has a lot on its plate. The club’s chairman, Alexi Efstathiou, addressed these issues and shared his perspective on the road ahead.
“It was a difficult start, but it’s nothing you can’t recover from,” Alexi Efstathiou told FARPost. “We need a good restart now. Let’s get some momentum going. Our main focus is to get promoted.”
DELAYED KAPPA MERCHANDISE
The club signed an exciting deal with Kappa in November 2025, but two months on, Spurs are still playing in their Urban Warrior in-house brand.
“The stuff is manufactured overseas,” Efstathiou explained. “We are expecting some stuff to arrive this week and some stuff in February.”
“It is going well; a lot of people want to be here. They see the value and they want to go in. It is not something that is freely available everywhere.
“A lot of people are taking up the opportunity. We have had kids from Gauteng, Northern Cape, some of them did make the trials but moving down is difficult, finding schools etc. That is for their parents to work out. We can’t help with that stuff. So we do have interest from all over the country.”
THE NEW REALITY OF LOSING FIRST-TEAM PLAYERS FOR FREE
“You know what, I am finished with that fight. If the agents want to take them, they can. A lot players left and they are nowhere now. It is up to them.
“Players can leave whenever they want to, unless they have some special contract with us or something like that. There are no contracts, it is only a stipend. But some of them have something different,” Efstathiou concluded.
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