Two weeks before the Korea Africa Cup of Nations kicks off in Pyeongtaek, the Zimbabwe Community in Korea Football Team has unveiled a new playing kit — and it is a statement.
The kit, made up of a gold outfield strip and a purple long-sleeve goalkeeper strip with matching shorts and socks, is the result of a partnership between Statotech Systems, Ebenworks, and the Zimbabwean Community in South Korea (ZCSK), with Zim-Korea Hub on board as broadcast and digital partner. It is the most prominently sponsored Warriors kit the community has taken into KAFCON — and the timing is no accident. After last year's penalty-shootout heartbreak in the final, the squad wanted to walk onto the pitch on 24 May looking like a side that had moved on, levelled up, and come back for what it missed.
Designed to be read
Look closely and the kit tells a story. The design team has named four core elements, and each one carries weight.
The Heritage Pattern — a subtle geometric weave running across the body of both kits — draws on Zimbabwean heritage and culture, the kind of pattern you would recognise anywhere from home. The Heritage Collar is finished in the colours of the Zimbabwean flag, a symbol of identity and togetherness worn close to the heart. The Zimbabwe Bird — the soapstone carving from Great Zimbabwe that sits on the national flag and coat of arms — appears proudly on the chest, representing the team's history, resilience, and vision. And the Tribal Stripe, the diagonal sweep of bold brush strokes in red, yellow, green, and black that cuts across the front, the shorts, and the goalkeeper top, stands for pride, unity, and strength.
Gold for the outfield strip speaks to the country's mineral wealth and the Warriors' identity. Purple for the keeper is unusual, regal, and impossible to miss between the sticks.
But this kit is not only about Zimbabwe. The ZCSK badge on the chest features the Taegeuk — the red-and-blue swirl from the Korean flag — woven into the community logo. The Zim-Korea Hub mark sits on the sleeve. The message is quiet but clear: this team is Zimbabwean to the core, and Korea is where it lives, trains, and competes.
The sponsors stepping up
Statotech Systems and Ebenworks have both put their names on the kit, alongside ZCSK as the home of the team. Zim-Korea Hub joins them as broadcast and digital partner — the platform that will carry the story of this campaign to the community. The two sponsoring companies have backed Zimbabwean community work in Korea before — Statotech Systems donated the Zim-Korea Hub platform itself — but a kit deal is a different kind of commitment.
It also sets a precedent. Community football in Korea has long run on volunteer effort and personal contributions. A sponsored kit signals something has shifted: the Zimbabwean community here is now organised enough, visible enough, and worth backing.
The chip on the shoulder
The squad does not need reminding what is at stake. KAFCON 2026 places Zimbabwe in a tough Group A alongside DR Congo, Senegal, and Guinea, with three matches to play in a single day on 24 May before the knockouts begin. Last year's near-miss is not a wound that has fully closed.
What the kit cannot do is win matches. What it can do is make sure that when the Warriors walk out at Poseung Sports Complex on the 24th, they look unmistakably like a side that has come to take the trophy home. Same crest. Same flag. New armour.
Save the date
KAFCON 2026 — Sunday 24 May, Poseung Sports Complex, Pyeongtaek. Zimbabwean nationals in Korea with playing experience can still register through Zim-Korea Hub or by contacting any ZCSK executive. Everyone else: bring your voice, bring your flag, bring a friend. The Warriors want company.
One nation. One community. One dream.
Meet the partners
Ebenworks is an AI and tech company building products for overlooked communities across the developing world. Its portfolio so far includes a fintech platform, a voice AI companion for the elderly, and several open-source projects in the public interest. The company was founded in mid-2026 by Ebstar, a trailblazing public figure, producer, entrepreneur, and AI engineer based in Korea, and is on a mission to uplift lives through AI, driven by the motto: Better Products. Better People. Better Tomorrow. The kit deal is Ebenworks' second sponsorship, following its work with strategic partner Statotech Systems on the Zim-Korea Hub platform.
Visit: ebenworks.ebstar.co or the founder's website ebstar.co
Statotech Systems is a software company building digital infrastructure for businesses, institutions, and communities — the kind of tooling that quietly runs daily life when it works, and is sorely missed when it doesn't. Its work spans retail, education, healthcare, hospitality, finance, and entertainment, with custom engineering for everything that falls outside a ready-made product. The company is led by Blessing J. Siwonde, a software and AI engineer working between Zimbabwe and South Korea, and operates on a single conviction: well-built software is infrastructure, and the communities who need it most should not be the last to receive it. The kit deal is Statotech Systems' continued commitment to the Zimbabwean community in Korea, following its donation of the Zim-Korea Hub platform, which it built and runs as a non-profit contribution to the community.
Visit: statotec.com
Zim-Korea Hub is the community platform serving Zimbabweans across South Korea — a single home for news, events, member connections, and consular updates, donated by Statotech Systems and run as a non-profit contribution to the community. The Hub serves as broadcast and digital partner for the KAFCON 2026 campaign, carrying match coverage, kit content, and community updates throughout the tournament.
Your Community. Your Hub. Your Home.
Visit: zimkorea.statotec.com
