2022 COSAFA Women's Championship

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2022 COSAFA Women's Championship
Tournament details
Host countrySouth Africa
Dates31 August—11 September 2022
Teams12 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
ChampionsFile:Flag of Zambia.svg Zambia (1st title)
Runners-upFile:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa
Third placeFile:Flag of Tanzania.svg Tanzania
Fourth placeFile:Flag of Namibia.svg Namibia
Tournament statistics
Matches played22
Goals scored70 (3.18 per match)
Top scorer(s)Zambia Barbra Banda
(10 goals)
Best player(s)Zambia Barbra Banda
Best goalkeeperZambia Catherine Musonda
Fair play awardFile:Flag of Tanzania.svg Tanzania
2021
2023
All statistics correct as of 7 September 2022.

The 2022 COSAFA Women's Championship is the 10th edition of the COSAFA Women's Championship, a women's international football tournament for national teams organised by COSAFA, teams from Southern Africa. It takes place from 31 August to 11 September 2022 in South Africa.[1][2] Tanzania are the defending champion by having defeated Malawi 1–0 goals on 9 October 2021 in the final.[3]

Participating nations

Note: All appearance statistics exclude the 2008 edition.

National team FIFA Ranking Best Performance
File:Flag of Angola.svg Angola 141 Group stage (2006, 2019, 2020, 2021)
File:Flag of Botswana.svg Botswana 151 Runners-up (2020)
File:Flag of the Comoros.svg Comoros 179 Group stage (2019, 2020)
File:Flag of Eswatini.svg Eswatini 171 Group stage (2002, 2006, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)
File:Flag of Lesotho.svg Lesotho 167 Group stage (2002, 2006, 2011, 2017, 2018, 2020)
File:Flag of Tanzania.svg Tanzania (guest) 155 Champions (2021)
File:Flag of Malawi.svg Malawi 158 Runners-up (2021)
File:Flag of Mauritius.svg Mauritius 185 Group stage (2017, 2019)
File:Flag of Mozambique.svg Mozambique 170 Fourth place (2002)
File:Flag of Namibia.svg Namibia 146 Runners-up (2006)
File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa B 54 Champions (2002, 2006, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)
File:Flag of Zambia.svg Zambia 80 Runners-up (2019)
  • Note: South Africa entered their B team, as their A team was involved in friendly matches against Brazil at the same time as the tournament. Their matches thus do not count towards the FIFA ranking.

Did not enter

Squads

Venue

Matches will be held at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, NMU Stadium and Wolfson Stadium in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.[4]

Port Elizabeth
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Wolfson Stadium NMU Stadium
Capacity: 46,000 Capacity: 10,000 Capacity: 15,000

Officials

Group stage

  • All matches were played at South Africa.
  • Times listed are UTC+02:00.
Key to colours in group tables
The top finisher in each group and best runner-up qualified for the Knocokout-stage

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa B (H) 3 2 1 0 8 1 +7 7 Qualified for Knockout stage
2 File:Flag of Mozambique.svg Mozambique 3 1 2 0 7 2 +5 5
3 File:Flag of Angola.svg Angola 3 1 1 1 4 4 0 4
4 File:Flag of Mauritius.svg Mauritius 3 0 0 3 0 12 −12 0
Source: COSAFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored; 6) drawing of lots
(H) Hosts
Mauritius File:Flag of Mauritius.svg0–5File:Flag of Mozambique.svg Mozambique
Report


Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 File:Flag of Zambia.svg Zambia 3 3 0 0 11 0 +11 9 Qualified for Knockout stage
2 File:Flag of Namibia.svg Namibia 3 2 0 1 7 3 +4 6
3 File:Flag of Lesotho.svg Lesotho 3 1 0 2 3 9 −6 3
4 File:Flag of Eswatini.svg Eswatini 3 0 0 3 1 10 −9 0
Source: COSAFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored; 6) drawing of lots


Group C

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 File:Flag of Tanzania.svg Tanzania 3 2 1 0 6 1 +5 7 Qualified for Knockout stage
2 File:Flag of Botswana.svg Botswana 3 1 2 0 7 1 +6 5
3 File:Flag of Malawi.svg Malawi 3 1 1 1 8 4 +4 4
4 File:Flag of the Comoros.svg Comoros 3 0 0 3 0 15 −15 0
Source: COSAFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) goal difference; 5) number of goals scored; 6) drawing of lots


Ranking of runner-up teams

Pos Grp Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 B File:Flag of Namibia.svg Namibia 3 2 0 1 7 3 +4 6 Advance to Knockout stage
2 C File:Flag of Botswana.svg Botswana 3 1 2 0 7 1 +6 5
3 A File:Flag of Mozambique.svg Mozambique 3 1 2 0 7 2 +5 5
Source: COSAFA

Knockout stage

Bracket

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
9 September—Gqeberha
 
 
File:Flag of Zambia.svg Zambia 2
 
11 September—Gqeberha
 
File:Flag of Tanzania.svg Tanzania 1
 
File:Flag of Zambia.svg Zambia1
 
9 September—Gqeberha
 
File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa B0
 
File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa B 1
 
 
File:Flag of Namibia.svg Namibia 0
 
Third Place match
 
 
11 September—Gqeberha
 
 
File:Flag of Tanzania.svg Tanzania2
 
 
File:Flag of Namibia.svg Namibia1

Semi-finals

Third place match

Final

Goalscorers

There were 70 goals scored in 22 matches, for an average of 3.18 goals per match (as of 11 September 2022).

10 goals

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

References

  1. "New tournament added to exciting COSAFA calendar". cafonline.com. 21 April 2022. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
  2. "COSAFA set for another bumper year of tournaments". www.cosofa.com. 12 April 2022. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
  3. "Tanzania crowned 2021 COSAFA Championship winners". www.Cosafa.com. 9 October 2022. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
  4. "2022 HOLLYWOODBETS COSAFA Women's Championship Tournament Guide". Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  5. "Zambia claim maiden Hollywoodbets COSAFA women's championship title". Fantastic Moments. Retrieved 13 November 2023.