The 2021 CAF Women's Champions League COSAFA Qualifiers, commonly known as the 2021 COSAFA Women's Champions League, was the inaugural edition of the annual qualification competition for the

CAF Women's Champions League The CAF Women's Champions League (; ), sometimes abbreviated as ''CAF WCL'', is an annual African women's association football club competition launched on 12 September 2020 and organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). It is ...

organized 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 ...

for its nations. This edition was held in two stadiums in

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from 26 August to 4 September 2021.

Teams

The following teams participated in this edition of the competition. CD Costa do Sol from

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had its license rejected by CAF for failing to meet the competition's criteria. * Double Action Ladies * Manzini Wanderers Ladies * Lesotho Defence Force Ladies * Tura Magic Ladies FC * Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies * Green Buffaloes Women * Black Rhinos Queens

Venue

This edition of the tournament was held at the

King Zwelithini Stadium King Zwelithini Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Umlazi, a township south-west of Durban, South Africa. It is used mostly for football matches and was initially set to be utilized as a training field for teams participating in the 2010 FIFA ...

and

Moses Mabhida Stadium The Moses Mabhida Stadium is a association football, soccer stadium in Durban in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa, named after Moses Mabhida, a former general secretary of the South African Communist Party. A multi-use stadium, it bec ...

Match officials

Referees * Letticia Viana * Antsino Twanyanyukwa * Itumeleng Methikga * Nteboheleng Setoko * Patience Mumba Assistant Referees * Botsalo Mosimanewatlala * Mercy Zulu * Nobuhle Tsokela * Polotso Maapara * Eliza Sichinga * Siphiwayikhosi Cosma Nxumalo

Draw

The draw ceremony of the edition of the competition was held on 29 July 2021 11:00

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/ SAST (09:00

UTC Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the primary time standard globally used to regulate clocks and time. It establishes a reference for the current time, forming the basis for civil time and time zones. UTC facilitates international communica ...

) in

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, South Africa.

Group summary

Group stage

;Tiebreakers Teams are ranked according to the

three points for a win Three points for a win is a standard used in many sports leagues and group tournaments, especially in association football, in which 3 points are awarded to the team winning a match, with no points awarded to the losing team. If the game is draw ...

system (3 for a win, 1 for a draw and none/0 for a loss) and if tied on points, the following tie-breaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings. #Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams; #

Goal difference Goal difference, goal differential or points difference is a form of tiebreaker used to rank sport teams which finish on equal points in a league competition. Either "goal difference" or "points difference" is used, depending on whether matches ar ...

in head-to-head matches among tied teams; #Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; #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; #Goal difference in all group matches; #Goals scored in all group matches; #

Penalty shoot-out The penalty shootout is a method of determining a winner in sports matches that would have otherwise been drawn or tied. The rules for penalty shootouts vary between sports and even different competitions; however, the usual form is similar to pe ...

if only two teams are tied and they met in the last round of the group; #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); #Drawing of lots. ''All times are in

South African Standard Time South African Standard Time (SAST) is the time zone used by all of South Africa as well as Eswatini and Lesotho. The zone is two hours ahead of UTC ( UTC+02:00) and is the same as Central Africa Time. Daylight saving time is not observed in ei ...

( UTC+02:00).''

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

At the knockout stage,

extra-time Overtime (OT) or extra time (ET) is an additional period of play to bring a game to a decision and avoid declaring the match a tie or draw where the scores are the same. In some sports, this extra period is played only if the game is required t ...

and

penalty shoot-out The penalty shootout is a method of determining a winner in sports matches that would have otherwise been drawn or tied. The rules for penalty shootouts vary between sports and even different competitions; however, the usual form is similar to pe ...

may be used if necessary for tie-breakers if scores level after normal regulation time.

Bracket

Semi-finals

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Final

Statistics

Goalscorers

References

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