The 2022 COSAFA Women's Championship is the 10th 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 takes place from 31 August to 11 September 2022 in

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are the defending champion by having defeated

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1–0 goals on 9 October 2021 in the final.

Participating nations

' * Note: South Africa entered their B team, as their A team was involved in friendly matches against Brazil at the same time as the tournament. Their matches thus do not count towards the FIFA ranking.

Did not enter

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Squads

Venue

Matches will be held at the

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, NMU Stadium and Wolfson Stadium in

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Officials

Referees * Itumeleng Methikga * Mathabo Kolokotoane Assistant Referees * Pélagie Rakotozafinoro * Maneo Tau * Mercy Zulu * Roda Mondlane

Group stage

*All matches were played at South Africa. *Times listed are UTC+02:00.

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

*In the knockout stage,

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and a

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will be used to decide the winner if necessary.

Bracket

Semi-finals

Third place match

Final

Goalscorers

References

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