Fixtures out for HOLLYWOODBETS COSAFA Women’s Championship

Eswatini and debutants Seychelles will kick-off the 2024 HOLLYWOODBETS COSAFA Women’s Championship in Gqeberha on October 22, with hosts South Africa taking on Namibia in a crunch Group A game later in the day.

The opening fixture will be at 14h00 CAT (12h00 GMT), before South Africa take to the field in front of what is likely to be a fervent home crowd at 17h00.

Defending champions Malawi will start their bid to retain the title when they play Botswana in a crucial Group B game on October 23 at 17h00.

Before that Madagascar take on Mauritius in a battle of the Indian Ocean Islands at 14h00.

The three-team Groups C and D get under way on October 24. The 2022 champions Zambia take on Angola in Group C at 12h00, while Mozambique meet Zimbabwe at 15h00, two eye-catching fixtures.

The group stage continues until October 29, with the top teams in each pool advancing to the semifinals.

The last-4 action will be on October 31 when the winner of Group B takes on the top side in Group C (14h00), and the top team in Group A meets the winner of Group D (17h00).

The final will be played on November 2 at 15h00 where the champions for 2024 will be crowned queens of the region. There will be no bronze medal match.

You will be able to stream all the games live on FIFA+ no matter where you are in the world.

For the full list of fixtures, click here!

There is no doubt that this tournament, along with the regular staging of the COSAFA Women’s Under-17 Championship and the zonal qualifiers for the CAF Women’s Champions League have been a catalyst for this success of national teams from the region.

Players such as Temwa Chawinga, who is excelling in the National Women’s Soccer League in the United States with Kansas City, Barbra Banda and the world’s most expensive women’s footballer, Racheal Kundananji, to go with a host of South Africans, have cut their teeth at international level in this competition.

South Africa have won seven of the previous 11 COSAFA Women’s Championships played, with Zimbabwe (2011), Tanzania, Zambia and Malawi the other teams to lift the trophy.