Former TotalEnergies CAF Champions League winner Percy Tau has won a recall to the South Africa squad while centre back Thabo Moloisane is drafted into the selection as Bafana Bafana ready to take on Lesotho and Benin in FIFA World Cup qualification later this month. Tau had been left out of the squad for the
COSAFA have been guaranteed a fourth representative at the TotalEnergies CAF African Nations Championship (CHAN) finals that will be staged in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania in August after South Africa and Malawi both won through to the second round of the repechage qualification campaign. The pair will meet in the final stage for a place
Namibia have included several fresh faces in a 30-man squad for this month’s FIFA World Cup qualifiers in Malawi and Equatorial Guinea as they seek to keep up their bid to qualify for the 2026 finals. Coach Collin Benjamin picked 14 foreign-based players and 16 from the Namibian league for the home game, including the
Botswana’s coach Morena Ramoreboli has named his first squad since being appointed to the job on a full-time basis, putting together a preliminary list of 49 players for next month’s FIFA World Cup qualifiers. Botswana, who are three points off the lead in Group G, host Algeria and Somalia in their next qualifiers in March.
South Africa will participate in the TotalEnergies CAF Under-17 Africa Cup of Nations, Cote d’Ivoire 2025 having joined COSAFA finalists Zambia and Angola as representatives of the region. This comes after the Confederation of African Football (CAF) extended the number of participating nations in the continental showpiece to 16 countries from the initial 12. South
Madagascar have appointed Corentin Martins as their new head coach on a one-year contract with the express aim of qualifying the side for the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Madagascar sit third in their qualification Group I, two points behind leaders Comoros and Ghana. Mali have made a stumbling
A record seven COSAFA nations have qualified for the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations, Morocco 2025 and all now know their path to the trophy following the draw that was held in Rabat this week. The 24-team tournament will be staged from 21 December 2025 to 18 January 2026 and will be a
The record seven COSAFA teams that have qualified for the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations, Morocco 2025 have discovered their group stage opponents after the draw was concluded in Rabat on Monday. Zambia and Comoros are in Group A along with hosts Morocco and Mali in what will be astern test for them. The
The Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) has announced the appointment of Nora Häuptle, a former Swiss national team defender, as the new head coach of the Copper Queens on a three-year contract. Häuptle, who has also led the Ghanaian national side, brings a wealth of experience and has been tasked with taking Zambia to the
Botswana on Thursday named South African-born Morena Ramoreboli as the national team coach after having helped them secure a place in the Africa Cup of Nations finals later this year. Ramoreboli, who has taken Jwaneng Galaxy to the last two Botswana league titles, was caretaker coach last November when the Zebras drew away in Egypt
