Africa-Press – Eswatini. The National Football team, Sihlangu will know its opponents in the COSAFA Cup on Wednesday (May 21, 2025).
This draw will start at 11am. The COSAFA Cup 2025 will retain last year’s exciting format when it is staged from June 4-15 in Mangaung, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
According to cosafa.com, Morocco will make their debut in the competition in an exciting addition to the field, as they join Angola, Botswana, Comoros, Lesotho, Eswatini, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe in the 14-team regional competition.
Morocco who reached the 2022 FIFA World Cup semi-finals would be the guest in the tournament.
The draw will be streamed live on COSAFA’s Facebook and YouTube pages.
The format will see the teams split into four pools. Groups A and B will have four teams each, and Groups C and D will have three.
The games for this year tournament will be played at the Free State Stadium, a venue for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and the Dr Petrus Molemela Stadium.
Cosafa.com added that the 23 previous editions of the COSAFA Cup have seen some great performances and incredible games that have been written into the folklore of Southern African football, but only five nations can claim to have lifted the coveted trophy.
Angola defeated Namibia 5-0 in the 2024 decider to lift the trophy for the first time in 20 years. They will be defending their crown.
Zambia top of the list of most titles with seven. That is one more than Zimbabwe, with South Africa (five), Angola (four) and Namibia (one) the only other teams to claim regional glory.
Mozambique, Malawi, Botswana and Lesotho have all been finalists twice but ended up on the losing side on both occasions.
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