COSAFA set for busy second half of 2024

COSAFA is set for a busy second half of 2024 with several tournaments at all age-group levels from Under-15 to senior international football on the horizon, many of them continental qualifiers.

After the success of the COSAFA Cup and Beach Soccer Championships that were held earlier this year, there are six more tournament scheduled between now and December.

The CAF Women’s Champions League | COSAFA Qualifier will be staged in Blantyre, Malawi from August 15-24, a welcome return to a city that has proven a wonderful host to COSAFA in the last.

The regional qualifiers for the CAF African Schools Football Championship are to be staged on the coast of Namibia from September 5-8, where the best Under-15 boys and girls from around Southern Africa will vie for a place in the continental finals. South Africa are the current African champions in the girls’ competition.

There will be another continental preliminary competition when the CAF Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations | COSAFA Qualifier is played from September 25 to October 6.

The COSAFA Women’s Championship will return to Gqeberha, South Africa, which has become its traditional home over the last few years. That will be played from October 22 to November 2.

Mozambique will play host to the CAF Under-17 Africa Cup of Nations | COSAFA Qualifier which is to be staged from December 5-15.

The COSAFA Women’s Under-17 Championship – an AFCON qualifier, will also be played in Mozambique over the same dates.