Zimbabwe Football Association president Cuthbert Dube has announced that the country's national team has been disbanded in the wake of the match-fixing scandal.
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This, even after the conclusion of an investigation into widespread corruption and the life-bans for several officials and players.
Former ZIFA chief executive Henrietta Rushwaya, former national coach Sunday Chidzambwa, ex-captain Method Mwanjali and defender Thomas Sweswe were those confirmed to have been sanctioned.
Dube questioned the integrity of the Warriors in their last match two weeks ago - a 3-1 aggregate defeat against Angola which cost them qualification for the 2013 African Cup of Nations.
"The Warriors, if indeed they were Warriors, have been dissolved en masse," Dube revealed on Friday.
"We will rebuild from the under-20 and the under-23s. These are people who are clean. The team has been discarded in its entirety."
Dube also claimed only a few current international players would be kept after the long-running scandal.
He said ZIFA would put in place an appeals process in accordance with FIFA rules after the 15 players, officials and reporters were banned for life for helping fix Zimbabwe games on tours to Asia in 2009.
Those that were banned were able to appeal from Monday, Dube added.
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