1 – Namibia’s triumph at the 2015 COSAFA Castle Cup was their first in the competition and made them just the fifth country to lift the title in all. This year will also be the first time that Namibia are hosting the COSAFA Castle Cup. 1 – This year will see the Democratic Republic of
African Nations Championship winners the Democratic Republic of Congo have been added as a guest nation to the star-studded line-up for the 2016 COSAFA Castle Cup to be staged in Namibia from June 11-25. Congolese football has enjoyed a renaissance in recent years with top club TP Mazembe current holders of the African Champions League,
PPC, the leading supplier of cement in southern Africa, has joined forces with COSAFA to sponsor the region’s Under-20 championship in 2016 as they seek to develop Africa’s stars of tomorrow. PPC pride themselves on building ‘from the ground up’ and are therefore a perfect fit for the Southern African junior championship that has seen
The South African Womens’ team is 90 minutes away from qualifying for the 2016 Africa Women’s Cup of Nations (AWCN) in Cameroon later this year, where they would join regional rivals Zimbabwe. Banyana Banyana defeated COSAFA neighbours Botswana 2-0 on Saturday at the Lobatse Sports Complex and now return home for the return leg with
COSAFA clubs return to action in African club competitions this weekend as they seek to take a step closer to the group stages of the respective tournaments. South African side Mamelodi Sundowns travel to Kinshasa in the DR Congo for a tough African Champions League away day at AS Vita Club, who have never lost
The South African Senior Women’s National Team, Banyana Banyana, is fully focussed on the upcoming African Women’s Cup of Nations (AWCN) qualifiers against COSAFA rivals Botswana. The first leg will take place on Saturday at Lobatse Sports Complex Stadium in Lobatse, Botswana. Kick-off is at 16h00. Banyana coach Vera Pauw said it was important for
Four teams from the COSAFA region will be involved in 2016 African Women’s Championship qualifiers this week as they seek to book a place in the finals tournament in Cameroon. The quartet or in the final stage of the qualification process, but only two can emerge victorious after they were paired together in the second
Bloemfontein Celtic defender Tshepo Rikhotso believes the South African Under-23 side are on course in their preparations for the Olympic Games despite their 3-1 loss in Brazil last weekend. Rikhotso was part of the squad that travelled to South America and says Owen da Gama’s side held their own, but were undone by individual errors
New Mozambique coach Abel Xavier wants to reconstruct the national team and inject a battling spirit to the team as they contemplate an immediate barren future. Mozambique were eliminated from the running for the African Nations Cup finals after being beaten by Ghana 3-1 last Thursday in Accra and then drawing with the Black Stars
Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Morocco and Senegal all moved to the brink of African Nations Cup qualification on Tuesday but 2013 winners Nigeria were eliminated while South Africa are all but out of contention for next year’s finals. Egypt need only one more point after teenager Ramadhan Sobhi handed them a 1-0 win over Nigeria in
