2025 COSAFA U-20 Women's Championship

COSAFA U-20
Women's Championship 2025
Tournament details
Host countryNamibia
Dates4 – 13 July
Teams8 (from 1 sub-confederation)
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Zambia (2nd title)
Runners-up South Africa
Third place Botswana
Fourth place Namibia
Tournament statistics
Matches played16
Goals scored61 (3.81 per match)
Top scorer(s)Zambia Bwalya Chileshe
Zambia Ruth Mukoma
(6 goals each)
Best player(s)Zambia Saliya Mwanza
Best goalkeeperZambia Margaret Phiri
Fair play award Namibia
← 2024
TBD →

The 2025 COSAFA U-20 Women's Championship was the third edition of the COSAFA U-20 Women's Championship, the international women's youth football championship contested by the under-20 women's national teams of the member associations of COSAFA. The tournament doubled as the women's football competition for the AUSC Region 5 Youth Games Namibia 2025 and was hosted in Windhoek from 4 to 13 July 2025.[1][2] This is Namibia's sixth time hosting a COSAFA tournament, and the fifth time it's in a different competition category.[3]

Zambia were the title-holders, having won their first title in last year's edition.[4] and they successfully defended their crown, completing the tournament unbeaten and without conceding a single goal.[5]

Participation

Participating teams

Eight of the 14 COSAFA Member Associations entered teams for the competition, with Angola and Malawi making their tournament debuts.

Team App Last Previous best performance Ref.
 Angola 1st Debut
 Botswana 3rd 2024 Group stage (2019) [6]
 Eswatini 2nd 2019 Group stage (2019) [7]
 Malawi 1st Debut [8]
 Namibia 2nd 2019 Group stage (2019) [9]
 South Africa 3rd 2024 Runners-up (2024) [10]
 Zambia 3rd 2024 Champions (2024) [11]
 Zimbabwe 2nd 2019 Fourth place (2019) [12]
Did not enter

Draw

The tournament draw took place on 27 April 2025.[13]

The draw resulted in the following groups:

Group A
Pos Team
A1  Namibia
A2  Mozambique[a]
A3  Botswana
A4  Zimbabwe
Group B
Pos Team
B1  Zambia
B2  South Africa
B3  Eswatini
B4  Angola
  1. ^ Mozambique, who were initially set to participate and were included in the original draw, later withdrew from the tournament. They were subsequently replaced by Malawi, who took their spot in the group.

Venues

The women's competition will mainly be held at the University of Namibia Sports Stadium, although the final and a few group stage matches will take place in the stadium designated for men's competition.[14]

Windhoek
UNAM Sports Stadium Hage Geingob Stadium
Capacity: 5,000 Capacity: 10,000

Group stage

All times are local, CAT (UTC+2). The match schedule was confirmed by COSAFA on 13 June 2025.[15]

Group A

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Namibia (H) 3 2 1 0 3 1 +2 7 Advance to knockout stage
2  Botswana 3 2 0 1 4 3 +1 6
3  Zimbabwe 3 1 0 2 7 6 +1 3
4  Malawi 3 0 1 2 3 7 −4 1
Source: COSAFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
Botswana 2–1 Zimbabwe
  • Lesotlo 38'
  • Sebotho 90+2'
 Report
  • Bandason 5'
Referee: Elizabeth Haufiku (Namibia)
Namibia 0–0 Malawi
Report
UNAM Sports Stadium, Windhoek
Referee: Jabulile Mgabhi (Eswatini)
Malawi 0–1 Botswana
Report Lesotlo 61'
UNAM Sports Stadium, Windhoek
Referee: Linnet Moyo (Zimbabwe)
Namibia 1–0 Zimbabwe
Tokwane 68' Report
UNAM Sports Stadium, Windhoek
Referee: Jabulile Mgabhi (Eswatini)
Namibia 2–1 Botswana
  • Tokwane 37'
  • Hangula 67'
 Report
  • Lesotlo 87'
Referee: Linnet Moyo (Zimbabwe)
Malawi 3–6 Zimbabwe
  • Umali 38'
  • Mkwala 61', 69'
 Report
  • Mpofu 10'
  • Chinyoka 28' (pen.), 41'
  • Mashanda 76'
  • Bandason 85'
  • Genti 90+1'
UNAM Sports Stadium, Windhoek
Referee: Hertha Angala (Namibia)

Group B

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Zambia 3 3 0 0 19 0 +19 9 Advance to knockout stage
2  South Africa 3 2 0 1 8 5 +3 6
3  Angola 3 1 0 2 6 15 −9 3
4  Eswatini 3 0 0 3 2 15 −13 0
Source: COSAFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
Eswatini 2–4 Angola
  • Se. Dlamini 41'
  • Gama 66' (pen.)
 Report
  • Correia 51' (pen.)
  • Viera 53', 64'
  • Araújo 83'
Referee: Hertha Angala (Namibia)
Zambia 3–0 South Africa
  • Chileshe 23'
  • Hanongo 33'
  • Mwewa 90+3'
 Report
UNAM Sports Stadium, Windhoek
Referee: Rose Zimba (Malawi)
South Africa 3–0 Eswatini
  • Mokoena 6'
  • Mabuza 16'
  • Mhlahlo 45'
 Report
UNAM Sports Stadium, Windhoek
Referee: Rose Zimba (Malawi)
Zambia 8–0 Angola
  • Zulu 8'
  • Mwanza 16', 23'
  • Chileshe 33', 46'
  • Mbali 35', 67'
  • Bwalya 38' (pen.)
 Report
UNAM Sports Stadium, Windhoek
Referee: Elizabeth Haufiku (Namibia)
Zambia 8–0 Eswatini
  • Hanongo 9'
  • Mukoma 13', 18', 27', 33', 42'
  • Chileshe 24'
  • G. Phiri 70'
 Report
Referee: Elizabeth Haufiku (Namibia)
South Africa 5–2 Angola
  • Mabuza 5', 59'
  • Malebana 45+2', 87'
  • Khoza 73'
 Report
  • Viera 24'
  • Araújo 52'
UNAM Sports Stadium, Windhoek
Referee: Rose Zimba (Malawi)

Knockout stage

Bracket

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
11 July
 
 
 Zambia5
 
13 July
 
 Botswana0
 
 Zambia2
 
11 July
 
 South Africa0
 
 Namibia0
 
 
 South Africa1
 
Third place
 
 
12 July
 
 
 Botswana1
 
 
 Namibia0

Semi-finals

Zambia 5–0 Botswana
  • Chileshe 4', 36' (pen.)
  • Mukoma 43'
  • Mwanza 48'
  • Muwowo 90+1'
 Report
Referee: Jabulile Mgabhi (Eswatini)
Namibia 0–1 South Africa
Report
  • Mabuza 6'
Hage Geingob Stadium, Windhoek
Referee: Linnet Moyo (Zimbabwe)

Third place

Botswana 1–0 Namibia
Tokonyane 88' Report
Referee: Linnet Moyo (Zimbabwe)

Final

Zambia 2–0 South Africa
  • Muwowo 73'
  • Malanda 90+3'
 Report
Referee: Rose Zimba (Malawi)

Goalscorers

There were 61 goals scored in 16 matches, for an average of 3.81 goals per match.

6 goals

  • Zambia Bwalya Chileshe
  • Zambia Ruth Mukoma

4 goals

  • South Africa Lindelwa Mabuza

3 goals

  • Angola Maria Viera
  • Botswana Hope Lesotlo
  • Zambia Saliya Mwanza

2 goals

  • Angola Glória Araújo
  • Malawi Victoria Mkwala
  • Namibia Ontheedite Tokwane
  • South Africa Katleho Malebana
  • Zambia Lweendo Hanongo
  • Zambia Victoria Mbali
  • Zambia Ruth Muwowo
  • Zimbabwe Plaxina Bandason
  • Zimbabwe Alicia Chinyoka

1 goal

  • Angola Sandra Correia
  • Botswana Amogelang Sebotho
  • Botswana Shirley Tokonyane
  • Eswatini Sethabile Dlamini
  • Eswatini Nozenzo Gama
  • Malawi Faluna Umali
  • Namibia Renalda Hangula
  • South Africa Khwezi Khoza
  • South Africa Zizipho Mhlahlo
  • South Africa Busisiwe Mokoena
  • Zambia Eunice Bwalya
  • Zambia Nana Malanda
  • Zambia Lombanya Mwewa
  • Zambia Grace Phiri
  • Zambia Zangose Zulu
  • Zimbabwe Merian Genti
  • Zimbabwe Priviledge Mashanda
  • Zimbabwe Ntokozo Mpofu

See also

References

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