The 2022 COSAFA Cup was the 21st edition of the annual
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...
competition 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 ...
. It was held in
South Africa
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for the 5th consecutive season, this time in
Durban
Durban ( ; , from meaning "bay, lagoon") is the third-most populous city in South Africa, after Johannesburg and Cape Town, and the largest city in the Provinces of South Africa, province of KwaZulu-Natal.
Situated on the east coast of South ...
, from 5 to 17 July 2022.
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...
was the defending champion, having defeated
Senegal
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, 5–4 in a penalty shoot out in
the previous edition's final on 17 July 2021.
Participating nations
Venues
Draw
The draw for the group stage 2022 COSAFA Cup was held on 14 June 2022 in the host city
Durban
Durban ( ; , from meaning "bay, lagoon") is the third-most populous city in South Africa, after Johannesburg and Cape Town, and the largest city in the Provinces of South Africa, province of KwaZulu-Natal.
Situated on the east coast of South ...
.
Group stage
Group A
Group B
Knockout stage
Quarter-finals
Plate Semi-finals
Semi-finals
Plate Final
Third place play-off
Final
Statistics
Goalscorers
References
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2022 in African football
International association football competitions hosted by South Africa
July 2022 sports events in Africa
2021–22 in South African soccer
Sports competitions in Durban