Council of Southern Africa Football Associations

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Council of Southern Africa Football Associations
Conseil des Associations de Football en Afrique Australe
Conselho das Associações de Futebol da África Austral
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Formation1983
TypeSports organization
HeadquartersJohannesburg, South Africa
Region served
Southern Africa
Membership
Official language
English, French and Portuguese
President
Zimbabwe Phillip Chiyangwa
AffiliationsCAF, FIFA
Websitewww.cosafa.com

Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (French: Conseil des Associations de Football en Afrique Australe; Portuguese: Conselho das Associações de Futebol da África Austral), officially abbreviated as COSAFA, is an association of the football playing nations in Southern Africa. It is affiliated to CAF.

COSAFA organise several tournaments in the Southern African region, and its most renowned tournament is the COSAFA Cup.

History[]

Executive committee[]

The 2008 annual general assembly saw the election of the new COSAFA Executive Committee. Previously the committee consisted of 14 members; the new committee now consists of seven members: the president, vice-president and five members, as well as the chief operations officer. The most recent committee was elected on 17 December 2016.[1]

Nation Name Occupation
President
Zimbabwe Phillip Chiyangwa
Vice-president:
Namibia Frans Mbidi
Members
Mozambique Alberto Simanga
  • President of the Mozambican Football Federation
Zambia Andrew Kamanga
Angola Pedro Neto
Mauritius Sameer Sobha
  • President of the Mauritius Football Association
Malawi Walter Nyamilandu-Manda

The term of office of the COSAFA President is five years and that of the Vice President is four years. The other office bearer is three years.

Member associations[]

All associations that joined in 1997 were founding members of COSAFA. Comoros is the only COSAFA member to also be a member of the Union of Arab Football Associations. Réunion's governing body, Réunionese Football League, is only an associate member of COSAFA.

Country Year Governing body
 Angola 1997 Angolan Football Federation
 Botswana 1997 Botswana Football Association
 Comoros 2007 Comoros Football Federation
 Eswatini 1997 Eswatini Football Association
 Lesotho 1997 Lesotho Football Association
 Madagascar 2000 Malagasy Football Federation
 Malawi 1997 Football Association of Malawi
 Mauritius 2000 Mauritius Football Association
 Mozambique 1997 Mozambican Football Federation
 Namibia 1997 Namibia Football Association
 Seychelles 2000 Seychelles Football Federation
 South Africa 1997 South African Football Association
 Zambia 1997 Football Association of Zambia
 Zimbabwe 1997 Zimbabwe Football Association
 Tanzania 2019[citation needed] Tanzania Football Federation

Competitions[]

See also: List of association football competitions and FIFA International Match Calendar

COSAFA runs several competitions which cover men's, women's, youth.

Current title holders[]

See also: 2022 in association football, 2022 in sports, and FIFA International Match Calendar
Competition Year Champions Title(s) Runners-up Next edition
Men's Championship 2021a  Zambia 5th  Botswana
U-20 Challenge Cup 2020  Mozambique 1st  Namibia
U-17 Challenge Cup 2021  Angola 1st  Zambia TBD
 Mozambique 1st   TBA
Women's Championship 2021  South Africa 7th  Botswana
U-20 Women's Championship 2019  Tanzaniag 1st  Zambia b
U-17 Women's Championship  Zambia 1st   TBD
COSAFA Women's Champions League 2021 South Africa Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies 1st Zimbabwe Black Rhinos Queens FC
  • ^a the 2020 COSAFA Cup was cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic.[2]
  • ^b the championship of 2020 was cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic.[3]
  • ^g invited guest-nation

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Mr Phillip Chiyangwa is new COSAFA president". COSAFA. 17 December 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  2. ^ "Official: 2020 COSAFA Cup cancelled". Soccer24. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
  3. ^ "South Africa win COSAFA Women's Championship, Tanzania take Under-17 title". Council of Southern Africa Football Associations. Retrieved 14 November 2020.

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