COSAFA BUMPER YEAR OF TOURNEYS

MBABANE – The Council of Southern Africa Football Association (COSAFA) has released a busy schedule for activities to be done this year.

The mother body of Southern Africa has planned seven tournaments, including an exciting new edition to the regional football calendar which showcases the development initiatives of the organisation. The 2022 COSAFA Cup which is the organisation’s flagship tournament will be staged a few weeks after the completion of the opening round of the 2023 TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers. The tournament returns to Durban for the first time since 2019, as it was staged in Nelson Mandela Bay in the previous editions. It will be staged from July 5-17, 2022.

Women

The men’s tournament will be followed by the second installment of the TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Champions League/COSAFA Qualifiers, which is also slated for the same venue, starting from August 4-14, 2022. Eswatini was represented by Manzini Wanderers ladies team in the inaugural event, which was won by South Africa’s Mamelodi Sundowns ladies team. The South African team went on to claim the continental crown as well. COSAFA went on to announce that this event would be followed by the COSAFA Women’s Championship, which will be staged from August 31 to September 11, 2022.

The COSAFA Men’s Under-20 Championship to be hosted by the country is scheduled to be staged from October 6-16, 2022. This tournament was supposed to be held in the country in December last year but had to be postponed on the eleventh hour due to travel restrictions in some countries, as COVID-19 cases surged after a new variant was discovered in South Africa.

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