It looks an even contest between the sides, with both coming into the game in indifferent form and lacking wins. It is likely to be a tactical battle and it would be no surprise to see extra time and even penalties.
Here are some talking points ahead of the showpiece decider.
First final for the coaches
Bernard Parker has only been head coach of TS Galaxy for seven days and already has a major cup final to prepare for.
But he knows the squad, having worked as assistant to former coach Adnan Beganovic, so there is a level of continuity there. His first game as a head coach in professional football was on Sunday when Galaxy drew 0-0 at home to Magesi FC.
Durban City’s Pitso Dladla is also at the helm in a temporary capacity, with the club having had three coaches this season in Gavin Hunt, Sinethemba Badela and Dladla. They also had a technical director in Ernst Middendorp, who is no longer in place.
Dladla has a golden chance to win his first major trophy, having coached the likes of Uthongathi, Richards Bay and Marumo Gallants in the past.
Whoever does end up lifting the trophy, it will be a huge highlight in their career.
Lack of wins
Since Durban City reached the Nedbank Cup final, they have had three defeats and a draw in their four league games that followed. That includes a 5-2 loss at lowly Magesi FC.
It is difficult to understand that downturn in form, as it followed a sustained period of success that saw them lose only one of their nine matches before that.
Coach Dladla will hope the players are saving themselves for the final, but they have gone from a team that regularly kept clean sheets to one that has conceded in their last four games.
Galaxy’s form is worse, though. Their only victories in their last 15 games have come in the Nedbank Cup, most notably a 2-0 Last 16 win over Mamelodi Sundowns that was one of their best results for several seasons.
It shows what they are capable of, but all confidence seems to have drained from their performances.
First KwaZulu-Natal winner?
No team from KwaZulu-Natal has yet lifted the Nedbank Cup, either in its current guise since 2008 or in the entire history of the competition, which dates back to 1971. Durban City can change that.
AmaZulu have famously made the final six times and lost every one. That includes a 3-0 defeat to BidVest Wits in 2010.
African Wanderers were finalists in 1982 but lost to Kaizer Chiefs, and then again three years later, when Bloemfontein Celtic edged them in the decider.
Manning Rangers made the final in 2004 but lost to Moroka Swallows, while Maritzburg United, who now go under the name Durban City, were beaten by Free State Stars in 2018.
It has been 55 years of hurt for the province, but that could end on Saturday.
City hold the edge
The teams have clashed nine times before and Durban City have won six of those, to go with two wins for Galaxy and a single draw.
City have won the last three meetings, which includes a victory in the Nedbank Cup in 2025 while they were still campaigning in the second tier before their promotion.
The first six of those meetings were when City campaigned as Maritzburg United, with Galaxy winning the first 3-0 away from home. The only draw was a 1-1 stalemate in 2022.
City won both league meetings this season, 2-0 home and away, the last of which was in mid-February.
Penalties?
With the threat of penalties very real in this clash, it is perhaps surprising that only one Nedbank Cup final has gone to spot-kicks before.
Finals tend to be edgy, nervous affairs, but bar the 2015 decider between Mamelodi Sundowns and Ajax Cape Town, all others since 2008 have been settled before the need for spot-kicks.
Sundowns won that encounter when Ajax’s Abbubaker Mobara had a chance to win it in the shoot-out but missed.
The only other final that went to extra time in the last 18 years was Sundowns’ 2-1 win over Marumo Gallants in 2022.
In the history of the final since 1971, there was just one other final that needed spot-kicks. That was in 2006 when Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates played to a 0-0 draw in a Soweto Derby decider at King’s Park in Durban, and Amakhosi won the shoot-out 5-3.