The Free State Stars Chronicle
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Bradley Jali out for 21 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Free State Stars will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Morgan Manyama beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 35. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match12 Sep 2026
Free State Stars out of the cup
Ajax Cape Town ended it 1‑2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
Free State Stars are taken apart by Ajax Cape Town — and the town wants answers
It finished 0-3. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.
Match12 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Free State Stars
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match12 Sep 2026
Free State Stars leaking at the back
6 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
No thanks: Benjamin Göschl rejects the move
Free State Stars had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Rapid Wien, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Andile Jali in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Free State Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Teplice tell Free State Stars: Nathaniel Nwosu is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Siyabonga Williams
- Boardroom Doors closed at Free State Stars
- Squad Free State Stars are still strangers to each other