The South African Football Association (Safa) has revealed that it still owes several Bafana Bafana players money – in the region of R90,000 – for two games played nearly nine months ago.

The association confirmed the news on Monday afternoon as it struggles to get to grips with the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent shutdown of the country’s economy and football.

The players were set to receive around R90,000 each as an incentive following wins against Mali in the Nelson Mandela Challenge back in September and Sudan in their Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in November.

Molefi Ntseki’s team also faced Ghana away from home in an Afcon qualifier, which they lost, but were not set to be paid a bonus for that encounter.

However, nine months later and the players are still waiting to receive their payments with Safa chief financial officer Gronie Hluyo confirming that they are experiencing trouble completing payments, but the players will be paid by 15 July.

‘We owe them for two matches,’ Hluyo told SoccerLaduma.

‘We were behind with our payments because we experienced some financial challenges. What we have been doing is trying to pay all the outstanding monies, from clubs in the ABC Motsepe League, Banyana Banyana and the only one that is left now is Bafana, which is next on our list of payments – we would have paid by July 15.

‘It is more or less that amount [R90,000] yes, but in about three weeks it should be paid,’ Hluyo added when asked about the sum expected by the players.