The COSAFA Cup 2016 was officially launched in host city Windhoek, Namibia on Tuesday with the announcement of the return of Castle Lager as title sponsor for the regional showpiece event. The championship, organised by the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) in conjunction with the Namibia Football Association (NFA), will be staged from
Due to organisational constraints, the COSAFA Under-20 Youth Championship will not be staged this year despite every effort being made to do so.
Four more COSAFA nations have won their place in the second stage of qualifying for the 2018 FIFA World Cup with a fifth set to join them imminently. Namibia, Botswana and Madagascar all eased into the second stage, and are joined by island nation Comoros, who stunned fellow Southern Africans Lesotho. Swaziland still need to
It was a mostly good round of matches for the COSAFA sides in the first leg of their 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers over the last few days. Nine teams from the COSAFA region were in action and almost all will feel they got positive results to take into the second legs to be played
Ghana and Senegal scored away success in the African Nations Cup qualifiers on Saturday but for other of the continent’s footballing heavyweight it proved a tough weekend with Nigeria drawing, and South Africa and Tunisia beaten. There was a historic first-ever victory for South Sudan, who beat Equatorial Guinea 1-0 at home after failing to
COSAFA nations will resume their bid to qualify for the 2017 African Nations Cup this weekend when the second round of qualification matches is played. Angola will look to build on their solid start that saw them defeat Central African Republic 4-0 when they travel to Southern African rivals Madagascar on Sunday. The Malagasy were
COSAFA nations, bar Zimbabwe, will know their fate on Saturday when the draw for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification competition is made in St Petersburg, Russia. They are among a record 53 nations from the continent who have entered the preliminaries with only Zimbabwe left out after being banned for failing to pay a
