The 2024 CAF Women's Champions League COSAFA Qualifiers is the 4th edition of the annual
women's association football
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club
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Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''Club'' (magazine)
* Club, a ''Yie Ar Kung-Fu'' character
* Clubs (suit), a suit of playing cards
* Club music
* "Club", by Kelsea Ballerini from the album ''kelsea''
Brands and enterprises
* ...
championship 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 will be held from August 15 to 24 in Blantyre,
Malawi
Malawi, officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast, and Mozambique to the east, south, and southwest. Malawi spans over and ...
.
The winners of the tournament will qualify for the
2024 CAF Women's Champions League
The 2024 CAF Women's Champions League was the fourth edition of the annual African premier women's association football club tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football. The tournament was hosted by Morocco from 9 to 23 November ...
final tournament.
Participating clubs
The following four teams contested in the qualifying tournament.
Venues
One stadium was shosen for the tournament.
Match officials
Referees
Assistant Referees
Draw
The draw for this edition of the tournament was held on 24 July 2024 at 13:00
UTC+2
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As standard time (year-round)
Principal cities: Pretoria, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, Por ...
(13:00
CAT
The cat (''Felis catus''), also referred to as the domestic cat or house cat, is a small domesticated carnivorous mammal. It is the only domesticated species of the family Felidae. Advances in archaeology and genetics have shown that the ...
) in
Egypt
Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...
. The seven teams were drawn into 2 groups with teams finishing first and second in the groups qualifying for the knockout stages.
Group stage
;Tiebreakers
Teams are ranked according to
points
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(3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings.
#Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
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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
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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.
Group A
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Group B
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Knockout stage
*In the knockout stage,
extra-time
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and a
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 ...
will be used to decide the winner if necessary.
Bracket
Semi-finals
Final
Awards and statistics
Goal scorers
Group Stage Best XI
Group Stage Best XI Coach:
Thinasonke Mbuli
Overall Best XI
Overall Best XI Coach:
Thinasonke Mbuli
Awards
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament: the Golden Boot (top scorer), Player of the Tournament (best overall player) and Golden Glove (best goalkeeper).
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References
External links
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Women's Champions League