2025 CAF Women's Champions League COSAFA Qualifiers

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Women's Champions League 2025
Tournament details
Host countrySouth Africa
CityJohannesburg
Dates22 – 31 August 2025
Teams10 (from 1 sub-confederation)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
2024
2026

The 2025 COSAFA Women's Champions League, officially known as the 2025 Hollywoodbets COSAFA Women's Champions League for sponsorship reasons, will be the fifth edition of the annual international women's club football competition organized by COSAFA to decide the region's qualifier for the 2025 CAF Women's Champions League. The tournament is scheduled to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 22 to 31 August 2025.[1]

Entrants

10 of the fourteen COSAFA member associations entered teams for the competition, with Comoros and Lesotho returning after not participating in the previous edition.

Team App. Last Previous best performance
Botswana Gaborone United Ladies 2nd 2024 Runners-up (2024)
Comoros Olympic de Moroni 3rd 2023 Fourth place (2022
Eswatini Young Buffaloes 4th 2024 Semi-finals (2024)
Lesotho Kick4Life 1st Debut
Malawi Ntopwa FC 2nd 2023 Group stage (2023)
Mozambique CD Costa do Sol 3rd 2023 Third place (2023)
Namibia Beauties FC 1st Debut
South Africa Mamelodi Sundowns 4th 2023 Champions (2021, 2023)
Zambia ZESCO Ndola Girls 1st Debut
Zimbabwe Herentals Queens 2nd 2024 Semi-finals (2024)

Associations that did not enter a team:

Venue

City Stadium Capacity
Johannesburg AW Muller Stadium ~5,000

Match officials

Referees

Assistant Referees

Draw

The official draw was held on 5 August 2025 in Johannesburg. The seeded teams were:[2][3][4]

Seeded Unseeded

Group stage

Tiebreakers

Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings.

  1. Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  2. Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  3. Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
  4. If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
  5. Goal difference in all group matches;
  6. Goals scored in all group matches;
  7. Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they met in the last round of the group;
  8. Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points);
  9. Drawing of lots.

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 South Africa Mamelodi Sundowns (H) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Semi-finals
2 Malawi Ntopwa FC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Possible semi-finals
3 Namibia Beauties FC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Zambia ZESCO Ndola Girls 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: 22 August 2025. Source: COSAFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Botswana Gaborone United Ladies 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Semi-finals
2 Eswatini Young Buffaloes 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Possible semi-finals
3 Lesotho Kick4Life 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: 23 August 2025. Source: COSAFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Group C

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Zimbabwe Herentals Queens 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Semi-finals
2 Mozambique CD Costa do Sol 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Possible semi-finals
3 Comoros Olympic de Moroni 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
First match(es) will be played: 23 August 2025. Source: COSAFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Knockout stage

References

  1. ^ "CAF Women's Champions League – COSAFA Qualifiers: Draw Revealed". CAFOnline.com. 10 August 2025. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
  2. ^ "CAF Women's Champions League - COSAFA Qualifier and Under-17 Africa Cup of Nations _ COSAFA Qualifier draws on Tuesday". COSAFA. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
  3. ^ "Fixtures released for CAF Women's Champions League COSAFA Qualifier". COSAFA. Retrieved 10 August 2025.
  4. ^ "Draws concluded for CWCL and U17 AFCON COSAFA Qualifiers". COSAFA. Retrieved 10 August 2025.