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 Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (; ), 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 ...

, teams from Southern Africa. It will take place from 28 September to 9 October 2021 in the

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are the defending champion by having defeated

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1–2 goals on 14 November 2020. They were beaten by

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in the semi-finals 3–2.

Participants

Nine of the fourteen COSAFA member took take part in the competition. South Sudan and Tanzania from the

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region entered as guests. Comoros withdrew and were replaced by guests Uganda from the CECAFA region. The draw was held on 12 August 2021. * * * * * * * * (guest) * (guest) * (guest) * *

Did not enter

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Squads

Venue

Matches will be held at the

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and Wolfson Stadium in

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Officials

Referees * Chipo Mayimbo Mercy * Mercy Kayria * Antsino Twanyanyukwa Assistant Referees * Hapinnes Mbandambanda * Claris Simango * Faith Mloyi * Maneo Tau * Olinda Couana * Mercy Zulu

Group stage

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

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(

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).''

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Ranking of runner-up teams

Knockout stage

Bracket

*In the knockout stage,

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and a

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will be used to decide the winner if necessary.

Semi-finals

Third place match

Final

Overall ranking

Statistics

Goalscorers

Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.

References

External links

Official website
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