The FNB stadium, our World Cup centrepiece, goes clubbing tomorrow night.

For the first time, the 90000-capacity World Cup final venue will be used for a club league match when Orlando Pirates take on Free State Stars.

Since Spain beat the Netherlands there on July 11, the Calabash has seen plenty of action. International friendlies and the annual Telkom Cup final have been staged there.

Bafana played, and beat, Ghana in a friendly international there, and Pirates and Chiefs met in the cauldron for the final of the Charity Cup.

It has even hosted a rugby Test match, between the Springboks and the All Blacks.

Now, by default, it will be the Buccaneers' home for the night.

Yesterday, Premier Soccer League chief executive Kjetil Siem said the decision to move tomorrow night's match had been taken because Orlando stadium, Pirates' home ground, had been booked for a religious event.

He said there was no significance in FNB stadium being used to host the Premier League match, and it would not be used as a dry run for Saturday's Soweto derby.

"It's a standard league match that will not have the same capacity crowd as the derby on Saturday," said Siem of Saturday's MTN Top Eight clash of Pirates and Chiefs. Except that, after tomorrow's game, Pirates will be more used to the venue, after three matches there, than the Amakhosi.

"The two matches [league and cup] are very different," said Siem. "The league does not run cup and league games in the same way. So we can't really say the league will use the Pirates-Free State Stars match as a test run for the weekend. But we might change a few things if we see fit."

Pirates and Chiefs have enlisted FNB stadium as an alternative home venue for the new PSL season.

Pirates will play their home matches at Orlando stadium, and Chiefs have signed a two-year deal with Rand stadium for their home games. In a rare situation in which neither stadium is available for use by the Soweto giants, the FNB stadium will be used.

It is the fourth World Cup stadium included on the PSL fixture list. When the league fixtures for the 2010/2011 season were released last month, only the Moses Mabhida, Royal Bafokeng and Cape Town stadiums were included.

Four of the 10 World Cup venues - the Free State stadium, in Bloemfontein, Peter Mokaba stadium, in Polokwane, Loftus in Pretoria, and Nelson Mandela Bay, in Port Elizabeth - have not been used for football since the Cup.

Ellis Park was used as a last-minute home venue for Wits's opening league match against Supersport United, and Mbombela stadium, in Nelspruit, was the venue for Bafana's Nations Cup qualifier against Niger at the weekend.