Angola’s Petro Atletico, and the South African duo of Kaizer Chiefs and Mamelodi Sundowns were scheduled to begin their African Champions League group phase campaign this weekend but Chiefs’ game in Morocco has been put on hold. AmaKhosi were to make their inaugural group phase appearance away at 2017 winners Wydad Casablanca but have been
Former Banyana Banyana Performance Analyst Shilene Booysen (far right) has been appointed as the new head coach for the South Sudan Senior Women’s football team. Booysen penned down a two-year contract that will see her lead the ‘Bright Starlet’, as they are affectionately known, until 2023. She played a massive role in South Africa winning
The Mozambique team are on their way to Mauritania for the Africa Under-20 Cup of Nations having made a stop-over in Casablanca, Morocco. The COSAFA champions are competing at the continental finals in this age group for the first time and open their campaign against Uganda on Feb. 15. They will then face hosts Mauritania
The Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) wishes to inform its membership and stakeholders that the Copper Queens outing to Turkey for an Eight Nation Invitational Tournament has been cancelled following challenges posed by the COVID-19 situation. Members of the Zambia Senior Women National Team underwent some COVID-19 tests with the results putting the trip into
Football Association of Malawi (FAM) President Walter Nyamilandu was declared eligible to defend his FIFA Council member position on March 12 after he passed the integrity and eligibility test by the FIFA review committee. Nyamilandu, who was voted into the FIFA Council Member position in September 2018, is seeking re-election into the Council during the
Namibia will go as far as possible in the 2021 Africa Under-20 Cup of Nations tournament that kicks off on 14 February in Mauritania. Speaking during a press briefing on Thursday, Young Warriors Coach James Britz states that the team’s target is to go all the way at the championships and do the nation proud.
Said Ali Said Athouman has been elected the new president of the Comoros Football Federation, with a four year mandate until 2025. It follows two years of football in the island nation being run by a normalisation committee appointed by FIFA. The 56-year-old Athouman won an unanimous vote of the 62 delegates at a congress
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to create uncertainty across the African continent, but COSAFA remains hopeful of a full calendar in 2021 having learnt many lessons from the four championships staged in the Nelson Mandela Bay at the end of last year. The COSAFA Women’s senior and Under-17 Championships, as well as continental qualifiers in the
Plans to kick off Botswana’s league, after a hiatus of almost one year have been put on hold after the country’s government imposed tighter COVID-19 restrictions. Youth Empowerment, Sports and Culture Development minister Tumiso Rakgare suspended all contact sport amid a spike in novel coronavirus infections, ending hopes that a new Premier League season could
Defending champions Morocco outplayed Zambia 3-1 to reach the semi-finals of the African Nations Championship on Sunday and end Cosafa interest in the tournament in Cameroon. Zambia were on the back foot after conceding twice inside the opening eight minutes after conceding and played most of the game down to 10 men, following fellow Cosafa
