2015 COSAFA Cup

2015 COSAFA Cup

Tournament details
Host country	South Africa
Dates	17–30 May 2015
Teams	14
Venue(s)	2 (in 2 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Namibia (1st title)
Runners-up	Mozambique
Third place	Madagascar
Fourth place	Botswana
Tournament statistics
Matches played	23
Goals scored	46 (2 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Sarivahy Vombola (5 goals)
Best player(s)	Wangu Gome
Best goalkeeper	Virgil Vries
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The 2015 COSAFA Cup was the 15th edition of the COSAFA Cup, 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.^[1] All matches took place in the North West province.

National team	FIFA Ranking (February 2015)[2]	Entry round
Mauritius	185	Group stage
Seychelles	187
Swaziland	165
Madagascar	148
Zimbabwe	119
Namibia	111
Lesotho	125
Tanzania (invitee)	107
Botswana	105	Quarter final
Malawi	93
Mozambique	90
Zambia	60
South Africa	56
Ghana (invitee)	25

Did not enter

•  Angola
•  Comoros

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.^[3]

Moruleng	Moruleng Stadium Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace	Phokeng
Moruleng Stadium		Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace
Capacity: 20,000		Capacity: 45,000
25°09′24″S 27°10′32″E / 25.156667°S 27.175556°E / -25.156667; 27.175556 (Moruleng Stadium)		25°34′44″S 27°09′40″E / 25.578913°S 27.161061°E / -25.578913; 27.161061 (Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace)

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.

Seeded	Unseeded
Lesotho  Namibia  Tanzania  Zimbabwe	Madagascar  Mauritius  Seychelles  Swaziland

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Namibia	3	2	1	0	6	1	+5	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Zimbabwe	3	2	0	1	4	4	0	6
3	Mauritius	3	1	0	2	1	4	−3	3
4	Seychelles	3	0	1	2	0	2	−2	1

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Madagascar	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Swaziland	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	7
3	Lesotho	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	3
4	Tanzania (G)	3	0	0	3	0	4	−4	0

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

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	24 May – Moruleng
	Zambia	0 (4)
					28 May – Moruleng
	Namibia (pen.)	0 (5)
					Namibia	3
	25 May – Phokeng
					Madagascar	2
	Ghana	1
									30 May – Moruleng
	Madagascar	2
									Namibia	2
	24 May – Moruleng
									Mozambique	0
	South Africa	0 (6)
					28 May – Moruleng
	Botswana (pen.)	0 (7)
					Botswana	1
	25 May – Phokeng
					Mozambique	2			Third place
	Mozambique (pen)	2 (5)
									30 May – Moruleng
	Malawi	2 (4)
									Madagascar	2
									Botswana	1

Seeded	Unseeded
South Africa  Mozambique  Zambia  Ghana	Botswana  Malawi  Namibia  Madagascar

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

	Semi-finals				Final
	27 May – Moruleng
	Zambia	3
					29 May – Phokeng
	Ghana	0
					Zambia	0
	27 May – Moruleng
					Malawi	1
	South Africa	0 (4)
	Malawi (pen.)	0 (5)

Top scorer

• Sarivahy Vombola (5 goals)^{[citation needed]}

Player of the Tournament

• Wangu Gome^{[citation needed]}

Goalkeeper of the Tournament

• Virgil Vries^{[citation needed]}

Fair Player award

•  Madagascar^[4]

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