2021 COSAFA Women's Championship

2021 COSAFA Women's Championship

Tournament details
Host country	South Africa
Dates	28 September—9 October 2021
Teams	12 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Tanzania (1st title)
Runners-up	Malawi
Third place	Zambia
Fourth place	South Africa
Tournament statistics
Matches played	22
Goals scored	65 (2.95 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Sibulele Holweni (5 goals)
Fair play award	Zambia
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The 2021 COSAFA Women's Championship was 9th edition of the COSAFA Women's Championship, a women's international football tournament for national teams organised by COSAFA, teams from Southern Africa. It will take place from 28 September to 9 October 2021 in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa.^[1][2][3][4]

South Africa are the defending champion by having defeated Botswana 1–2 goals on 14 November 2020.^[5] They were beaten by Malawi in the semi-finals 3–2.^[6]

Nine of the fourteen COSAFA member took take part in the competition. South Sudan and Tanzania from the CECAFA region entered as guests. Comoros withdrew and were replaced by guests Uganda from the CECAFA region. The draw was held on 12 August 2021.^[7][8]

•  Comoros
•  Lesotho
•  Madagascar
•  Mauritius
•  Seychelles

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

Port Elizabeth	Port Elizabeth	Port Elizabeth
Gelvandale Stadium		Wolfson Stadium
Capacity: 3,000		Capacity: 10,000

The group stage is composed of three groups of four teams each. Group winners and the best runner-up amongst all groups advance to the semi-finals.

All times are South African Standard Time (UTC+2).

Key to colour in group tables
The top finisher in each group and best runner-up qualified for the Knocokout-stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	South Africa (H)	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	7	Advance to Knockout stage
2	Malawi	3	2	0	1	6	4	+2	6
3	Angola	3	0	2	1	2	4	−2	2
4	Mozambique	3	0	1	2	5	8	−3	1

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Tanzania	3	3	0	0	8	0	+8	9	Advance to Knockout stage
2	Zimbabwe	3	2	0	1	5	4	+1	6
3	Botswana	3	1	0	2	7	5	+2	3
4	South Sudan	3	0	0	3	1	12	−11	0

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Zambia	3	3	0	0	9	0	+9	9	Advance to Knockout stage
2	Uganda	3	1	1	1	5	2	+3	4
3	Namibia	3	1	1	1	1	3	−2	4
4	Eswatini	3	0	0	3	1	11	−10	0

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Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	A	Malawi	3	2	0	1	6	4	+2	6	Advance to Knockout stage
2	B	Zimbabwe	3	2	0	1	5	4	+1	6
3	C	Uganda	3	1	1	1	5	2	+3	4

• In the knockout stage, extra-time and a penalty shoot-out will be used to decide the winner if necessary.

	Semi-finals				Final
	7 October—Port Elizabeth
	Tanzania (p)	1 (3)
					9 October—Port Elizabeth
	Zambia	1 (2)
					Tanzania	1
	7 October—Port Elizabeth
					Malawi	0
	South Africa	2
	Malawi	3
					Third Place match
					9 October—Port Elizabeth
					Zambia (p)	1 (4)
					South Africa	1 (3)

Rnk	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	B	Tanzania	5	4	1	0	10	1	+9	13
2	A	Malawi	5	3	0	2	9	7	+2	9
3	C	Zambia	5	3	2	0	11	2	+9	11
4	A	South Africa	5	2	2	1	8	6	+2	8
5	B	Zimbabwe	3	2	0	1	5	4	+1	6
6	C	Uganda	3	1	1	1	5	2	+3	4
7	C	Namibia	3	1	1	1	1	3	−2	4
8	B	Botswana	3	1	0	2	7	5	+2	3
9	A	Angola	3	0	2	1	2	4	−2	2
10	A	Mozambique	3	0	1	2	5	8	−3	1
11	C	Eswatini	3	0	0	3	1	11	−10	0
12	B	South Sudan	3	0	0	3	1	12	−11	0

There were 65 goals scored in 22 matches, for an average of 2.95 goals per match.

5 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.^[9]

Player of the tournament	Best goalkeeper	Top scorer
Amina Bilali	Petronela Musole	Sibulele Holweni
FIFA Fair Play Award
Zambia

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