The 2015 COSAFA Cup was the 15th edition of the

COSAFA Cup The COSAFA Cup (known fully as COSAFA Senior Challenge Cup) is an annual tournament for teams from Southern Africa organized by Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA), inaugurated after the ban against the Republic of Sout ...

, an international football competition consisting of national teams of member nations of the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA). It was hosted by South Africa in May 2015. All matches took place in the North West province.

Participating nations

;Did not enter * *

Venues

On 15 May 2015, COSAFA announced that fixtures would no longer be hosted at Olympia Park due to ongoing construction work and would instead be hosted by Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace in Phokeng.

Draw procedure

COSAFA described the procedure thus: * Draw commences for GROUP ROUND with 4 seeded teams (TZ; NAM; ZIM; LES) being placed in 1 bowl and the remaining 4 teams in the second bowl * First ball out of seeded bowl becomes the seed for Group A and second ball is seeded in Group B, similarly with the remaining 2 balls in the seeded bowl * We continue by drawing balls out to populate positions A3, A4 & B3, B4 * Fixtures are populated electronically as each ball is drawn * MC talks through the Group Round results whilst the Draw Master prepares the balls for the Quarter-Final Draw * We now have 6 new teams plus 2 teams which read "Winner Group A" and "Winner Group B" * The 4 seeded QF teams go into bowl 1 and the unseeded teams incl the Group round winners go into bowl 2 * The fixtures for QF are established by drawing from bowl 1 (GHANA; SA; ZAM; MOZ) followed by bowl 2 (unseeded teams) until all 4 fixtures are populated The draw took place on 26 February 2015 and was televised by South Africa's SuperSport 4.

Group stage

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

Ghana, South Africa, Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi and Botswana all received a bye to this stage.

Quarter-finals

---- * The winning quarter finalists proceed to the

semi-finals A single-elimination knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of a match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, ...

. * The losing quarter finalists proceed to the plate semi-finals.

Plate competition

Plate semi-final

Plate final

Semi-finals

Third place playoff

Final

Awards

; Top scorer * Sarivahy Vombola (5 goals) ;Player of the Tournament * Wangu Gome ;Goalkeeper of the Tournament *

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;Fair Player award *

References

External links

Official site
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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 ...

International association football competitions hosted by South Africa