Ghana's Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifiers opponent, Zimbabwe is pushing to have at least one of three national stadiums completed to enable them to use the facility for their upcoming matches.
At the moment, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has barred the country from using any of the stadiums for international matches due to the bad state of the facilities.
Pitted in the same Group with Ghana, South Africa, and Ethiopia, Zimbabwe risks playing its qualifiers away from home if they do not get issues sorted out as far as renovation works are concerned.
Confirming the stance of CAF on Tuesday, the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) noted that all three of their main stadia - Barbourfields in Bulawayo, Mandava in Zvishavane and the National Sports Stadium in Harare - have been barred after failing to meet the requirement of CAF on the back of an inspection exercise.
"Stadium authorities were notified of CAF’s position and the urgent nature of the situation at hand.
"To date, neither of the three stadium authorities has requested us to invite CAF for another inspection, a position which CAF has said led to the decision to bar all three stadiums from hosting international matches.
"In this moment we urge all stakeholders to work for a common cause for us to quickly right this wrong which takes away our sovereignty.
"We have been using stadiums which do not meet CAF and FIFA standards for a while now, but we need to put our heads together as a country to ensure that our stadiums are renovated to meet required standards," it said.
"We are hopeful that everyone who has influence to expedite the process of bringing our teams back home will do their part", the ZIFA statement said.
With Zimbabwe set to host Algeria in March in the Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers, they are hoping they can at least get one of the stadia into the best shape before the encounter.