Full name | Gunners Football Club |
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Founded | 2005 |
Ground | Lafarge Stadium |
Capacity | 10,000 |
Owner | Prophet Walter Magaya |
Gunners Football Club was a Zimbabwe-based professional football club, which played in the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League. They were well known for their saying "chicken masala", an oxymoron meaning, 'it's so cold, you feel hot' - an expression of how opponents would feel after playing against them. After the purchase of Gunners FC by Prophet Magaya Walter,[1] the club was renamed to Yadah Gunners FC, before merging with the newly-formed Yadah Stars F.C. shortly after.
Gunners FC preferred a more attacking play, which attracted big crowds of supporters to their games, this style of quick strides to the front and studied build-ups allowed them to inherit the name Gunners & took inspiration from the nickname of the English team in London, Arsenal F.C. In their traditional red and white home kit gunners were big contenders in the famous local premier soccer league during their stay in the Zimbabwe Premier League.