COSAFA Women's Championship
| COSAFA Women's Championship | |
| Full name | COSAFA Women's Championship |
| Association | COSAFA |
| founding | 2002 |
| First edition | 2002 |
| Teams | 12 |
| Game mode |
Round-robin tournament (3 groups of 4 teams each) Knockout system (from semi-finals) |
| Title holder |
 South Africa (6th title)
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| Record winner |
South Africa (6th title)
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| Website | cosafa.com |
| Qualifying competition | Membership in the regional association or invitation |
| map |
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The COSAFA Women's Championship (more rarely also COSAFA Women's Cup ; German Women's Football Championship of Southern Africa ) is a football tournament organized by the Football Association of Southern Africa, COSAFA . It was launched in 2002 as a counterpart to the COSAFA Cup (men).
The U20 women’s competition was held for the first time in 2019.
First participations
Below are all national teams that have taken part in this tournament so far.
- Teams in bold became African champions when they first participated.
- Teams in italics were hosts when they first participated.
| year | First time participant | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 |
 Botswana
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 Lesotho
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 Malawi
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 Mozambique
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 Zambia
|
 Zimbabwe
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South Africa
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 Swaziland
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| 2006 |
 Angola
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 Namibia
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| 2008 | ||||
| 2011 |
 Tanzania (guest)
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| 2017 |
 Kenya (guest)
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 Mauritius
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| 2018 |
 Cameroon (guest)
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 Uganda (guest)
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| 2019 |
 Comoros
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The tournaments at a glance
Visiting teams that are not members of COSAFA are marked with *.
| year | host | final | Game for third place | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| winner | Result | 2nd place | 3rd place | Result | 4th Place | ||
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2002 details |
Zimbabwe |
 South Africa |
2: 1 |
Zimbabwe |
Zambia |
1-0 |
Mozambique |
|
2006 details |
Zambia |
South Africa |
3: 1 |
Namibia |
Zambia |
2: 1 |
Zimbabwe |
|
2008 details |
Angola |
South Africa |
3: 1 |
 Angola |
not carried out | ||
|
2011 details |
Zimbabwe |
Zimbabwe |
1-0 |
South Africa |
 Tanzania * |
3-0 |
Malawi |
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2017 details |
Zimbabwe |
South Africa |
2: 1 |
Zimbabwe |
Zambia |
4: 2 n.e. |
Kenya |
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2018 details |
South Africa |
South Africa |
2: 1 |
 Cameroon * |
 Uganda * |
1-0 |
Zambia |
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2019 details |
South Africa |
South Africa |
1-0 |
Zambia |
Zimbabwe |
3-0 |
Botswana |
Ranking list places 1–3
Note: In 2008 no third place was awarded.
| rank | country | title | Year (s) | 2nd places | 3rd places |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
South Africa
|
6th | 2002, 2006, 2008, 2017, 2018, 2019 | 1 | 0 |
| 2 |
Zimbabwe
|
1 | 2011 | 2 | 1 |
| 3 |
Zambia
|
0 | 1 | 3 | |
| 4th |
Angola
|
0 | 1 | 0 | |
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Namibia
|
0 | 1 | 0 | ||
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Cameroon *
|
0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 7th |
Tanzania *
|
0 | 0 | 1 | |
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Uganda *
|
0 | 0 | 1 |