COSAFA

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Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (Template:Langx; Template:Langx), 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.

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]

Name Occupation
President
Template:Flagicon Artur de Almeida e Silva
  • President of The Angolan Football Federation
Vice-president:
Template:Flagicon Frans Mbidi
Members
Template:Flagicon Alberto Simanga
Template:Flagicon Andrew Kamanga
Template:Flagicon Pedro Neto
Template:Flagicon Sameer Sobha
Template:Flagicon 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 <templatestyles src="Template:Tooltip/styles.css" />YearScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Governing body
Template:Fba 1997 Angolan Football Federation
Template:Fba 1997 Botswana Football Association
Template:Fba 2007 Comoros Football Federation
Template:Fba 1997 Eswatini Football Association
Template:Fba 1997 Lesotho Football Association
Template:Fba 2000 Malagasy Football Federation
Template:Fba 1997 Football Association of Malawi
Template:Fba 2000 Mauritius Football Association
Template:Fba 1997 Mozambican Football Federation
Template:Fba 1997 Namibia Football Association
Template:Fba 2000 Seychelles Football Federation
Template:Fba 1997 South African Football Association
Template:Fba 1997 Football Association of Zambia
Template:Fba 1997 Zimbabwe Football Association

Competitions

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Current title holders

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Competition Year Champions Title Runners-up Next edition[2][3] Dates
National teams
COSAFA Cup 2024 (final) {{ Template:Yesno alias = Angola flag alias = Flag of Angola.svg link alias-naval = Angolan Navy link alias-army = Angolan Army link alias-navy = Angolan Navy link alias-military = Angolan Armed Forces link alias-air force = National Air Force of Angola size = name = altlink = national football team

}}

4th {{ Template:Yesno alias = Namibia flag alias = Flag of Namibia.svg link alias-army = Namibian Army flag alias-army = Flag of the Namibian Army.svg link alias-naval = Namibian Navy flag alias-naval = Flag of the Namibian Navy.svg link alias-air force = Namibian Air Force flag alias-air force = Flag of the Namibian Air Force.svg link alias-navy = Namibian Navy flag alias-navy = Flag of the Namibian Navy.svg flag alias-military = Flag of the Namibian Defence Force.svg link alias-military = Namibian Defence Force flag alias-1990=Flag of Namibia (WFB 2000).svg flag alias-2004=Flag of Namibia (WFB 2004).svg size = name = variant = altlink = national football team altvar = football

}}

2025 TBD
COSAFA U-20 Championship 2024 File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa 9th File:Flag of Zambia.svg Zambia 2026 TBD
COSAFA U-17 Championship 2024 File:Flag of Zambia.svg Zambia 4th File:Flag of Angola.svg Angola 2025
COSAFA Boys Schools Cup 2023 File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa 2nd File:Flag of Malawi.svg Malawi 2024 September
COSAFA Beach Soccer Championship 2024 File:Flag of Morocco.svg Moroccog 1st File:Flag of Mozambique.svg Mozambique TBD TBD
National teams (women)
COSAFA Women's Championship 2024 (final) Script error: No such module "flagg". 2nd Script error: No such module "flagg". 2025 TBD
COSAFA U-20 Women's Championship 2024 Template:Fbwu 1st Template:Fbwu TBD TBD
COSAFA U-17 Women's Championship 2025 Template:Fbwu 3rd Template:Fbwu TBD TBD
COSAFA Girls Schools Cup 2023 Template:Fbwu 2nd Template:Fbwu 2024 27-29 Oct
Club teams (women)
COSAFA Women's Champions League 2024 (Final) Template:Fbaicon University of the Western Cape 1st Template:Fbaicon Gaborone United Ladies 2025 TBD
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Controversy

On 17 October 2023, it was confirmed by COSAFA organisers that the 2023 Women's Championship winners Malawi would receive zero prize money[4] after their 2–1 over Zambia in the final.[5]

See also

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References

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External links

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