Orlando Pirates and Platinum Stars will both fancy their chances of adding more silverware to their respective trophy cabinets after Saturday night’s TKO final.

Dikwena and the Buccaneers will be locking horns at the Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit, with the prize at stake of course being the 2013 Telkom Knockout trophy, as well as a cheque for R4,250,000 for the winners.

Both clubs have become accustomed to winning trophies in recent times, although it was Stars who pipped Pirates to the MTN8 trophy just two months ago.

The majority of the Pirates players do however know what it feels like to pick up a winners’ medal, many of them having been part of the side than won back-to-back trebles in 2010/ 2011 and 2011/ 2012.

In the overall history of the two sides, each club has won the Telkom Knockout (which stretches back to 1982 in its different guises) only once, Pirates doing it 2011, while Stars lifted the cup in 2006.

Since losing to Stars in the MTN8 back at the end of September, Bucs have played 10 games in a period of 56 days, during which time they have won four and lost two, including Saturday’s 3-2 reverse to Bloemfontein Celtic.

The Soweto side have scored 15 goals and conceded 10 in their last ten outings, which included a 2-1 win over SuperSport United in the TKO semi-finals, Andile Jali netting an extra-time winner after Oupa Manyisa had scored the first.

Bucs had earlier begun their TKO campaign with a 3-1 win over MP Black Aces, Lennox Bacela smashing in a brace, with Manyisa also on the score-sheet in Nelspruit.

The team was equally ruthless in their last eight encounter with Golden Arrows, winning 4-0 as Bacela stole the show with a hat-trick, the other goal coming from Kermit Erasmus.

Dikwena meanwhile have also been busy since the MTN8 final, playing nine games. In their last 10 matches, the North West side have won seven times (including the MTN8 final victory via a penalty shoot-out), and lost just twice. Fifteen goals have been scored, and 10 conceded, an identical record to that of Pirates’.

Stars had to get past Kaizer Chiefs in the TKO last four, the only goal of the match being scored by Thabiso Semenya, his first for Allan Freese’s side.

The Rustenburg outfit also accounted for last season’s beaten finalists, Mamelodi Sundowns, in the quarter-finals, goals from Mogakolodi Ngele and Mduduzi Nyanda inspiring victory at the Moruleng Stadium.

Henrico Botes and Robert Ng'ambi have also been on the score-sheet for Stars in the 2013 TKO, their goals seeing Dikwena through to a 2-0 first round win over Maritzburg United.