Saturday's Super Bowl final between Mamelodi Sundowns and Cape Town club Santos has been relegated to the curtain raiser to the derby match between Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates in an attempt to satisfy sponsor demands for a bigger crowd, officials said.

The Premier Soccer League said it had been asked by the cup sponsors to move the final from its traditional venue at Johannesburg's Soccer City stadium because the small handful of supporters expected to cheer on both teams would look lost in the 75,000-seater venue.

But instead the league have decided to play the game before the match between Chiefs and Pirates, wich is a replay of the fixture abandoned when 43 people were killed in a stampede at Johannesburg's Ellis Park stadium in April.

Chiefs and Pirates are the country's two most popular clubs with Pirates already crowned champions.

The announcement has created a major furore with much criticism. Santos captain Edries Burton said on Tuesday: 'It's a joke final. How can the league devalue the season's biggest occasion in this manner?'

UGANDA - Uganda have fired their national coach, disbanded their team and ordered an inquiry into an alleged strike after a 3-0 loss at home to Togo in the African Nations Cup qualifiers on Saturday. Nigerian-born coach Harrison Okagbue was fired on Monday after the humiliating loss.

Five players walked out on the team on the eve of the match in Kampala in a strike over unpaid allowances, with only two returning to the squad before the game.

Included in the absentees was first-choice goalkeeper Hannington Kayesubula.

Another regular, Alimansi Kadogo, could not play because officials did not have his passport, which is required as proof of citizenship and identity before all qualifiers. The win ensured Togo qualified for next year's Nations Cup finals in Mali.

EGYPT - The Confederation of African Football (CAF) have said they have found no evidence of endemic corruption among African referees after investigations in all of the continent's regions.

A CAF statement said members of the Cairo-based organisation's executive committee had been conducting lengthy investigations following a spate of rumours in recent months. 'These investigations revealed that the refereeing body, in its great majority, is sound,' CAF said.

'If some isolated cases show up, they are loudly denounced but this cannot be a reason to generalise. No proof of corruption has been brought forward and the executive committee can only consider these as rumours until proof to the contrary,' the statement added.

Allegations of match officials being bribed to fix results occur almost weekly in Africa but in recent years only a handful of countries have taken some sort of action against those caught cheating.

MOZAMBIQUE - Costa do Sol clinched a second successive championship in Mozambique on Sunday after a goalless draw with Maxaquene in Maputo and the failure of their closest rivals to win at the weekend.

The result gave Costa do Sol an unassailable nine-point lead with just two matches left in the campaign. Second-placed Ferroviario Maputo were also held to a goalless draw by Estrela Vermelha but are guaranteed a place in next year's (CAF) Cup.

GHANA - Russian-based Ghanaian striker Baba Adamu has been fined US$150 for knocking down a pedestrian in his home town of Kumasi and then fleeing the scene of the accident.

The international player, who previously played club football in the United Arab Emirates, was found guilty of knocking the pedestrian down on June 22 but failing to report the accident.