2022 COSAFA U-20 Cup

2022 COSAFA Under-20 Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Eswatini
Dates	7–16 October 2022
Teams	12 (from 1 sub-confederation)
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Zambia (12th title)
Runners-up	Mozambique
Third place	South Africa
Fourth place	Angola
Tournament statistics
Matches played	22
Goals scored	73 (3.32 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Danilson Makokisa (5 goals)
← 2020 2023 →

The 2022 COSAFA U-20 Cup was the 28th edition of the COSAFA U-20 Challenge Cup, an international youth football tournament open to national associations of the COSAFA region. It took place between 7 and 16 October 2022 in Eswatini.^[1][2]

Mozambique was the defending champion having defeated Namibia by 1–0 goal in the final on 13 December 2020 of previous season.^[3]

Participating teams

The following twelve teams are contesting in the tournament.

Team	Appearances	Previous best performance
Angola	28th	Runner-up (2000, 2001, 2002, 2011)
Botswana	21st	3rd Place (2009, 2011)
Comoros	4th	Group stage (2013, 2016, 2019, 2020)
Eswatini	28th	Champion (2020)
Lesotho	28th	Runner-up (1990, 2005, 2017)
Malawi	19th	4th Place (1986, 2000, 2006, 2011)
Mauritius
Mozambique	28th	Champion (2020)
Namibia	28th	Champion (2020)
Seychelles	8th	Group stages (2009, 2010, 2011, 2009, 2013, 2016, 2019)
South Africa	28th	Champion (2000, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2017, 2018)
Zambia	28th	Champion (1983, 1986, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2010, 2011, 2016, 2019)

Venues

Cities	Venues	Capacity
Lobamba	Somhlolo National Stadium	20,000
Manzini	Mavuso Sports Centre	5,000

Match officials

Draw

The draw was made in ....... on the.......... Last year's top nations were seeded into one group each and the rest of the teams were placed in 2 pots depending on last year's performance. From the first pot, teams were drawn and slotted consecutively into groups A, B, and C. The last team from pot 1 was then placed among the pot 2 teams to make them 5. Now the teams from the second pot were drawn and slotted consecutively into groups A, B, and C resulting that group C ended up with one less team.^[4]

Seeded	Pot 1	Pot 2
Zambia  Eswatini  Mauritius  Botswana	Seychelles  Angola  Lesotho  Mozambique	South Africa  Comoros  Namibia  Malawi

Note: Within brackets 2020 year's performance.

Group stage

The group stage will be played in 3 groups as a round-robin, where the group winners and the best runner up will advance to the semi-finals.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Zambia	3	3	0	0	6	0	+6	9	Advance to Semi-finals
2	Eswatini (H)	3	2	0	1	9	3	+6	6
3	Botswana	3	1	0	2	2	3	−1	3
4	Mauritius	3	0	0	3	0	11	−11	0

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Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Mozambique	3	3	0	0	8	2	+6	9	Advance to Semi-finals
2	Angola	3	2	0	1	13	2	+11	6
3	Lesotho	3	1	0	2	2	7	−5	3
4	Seychelles	3	0	0	3	2	14	−12	0

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Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	South Africa	3	2	0	1	9	4	+5	6[a]	Advance to Semi-finals
2	Malawi	3	2	0	1	7	4	+3	6[a]
3	Comoros	3	2	0	1	3	4	−1	6[a]
4	Namibia	3	0	0	3	4	11	−7	0

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Ranking of second-placed teams

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	B	Angola	3	2	0	1	13	2	+11	6	Semi-finals
2	A	Eswatini	3	2	0	1	9	3	+6	6
3	C	Malawi	3	2	0	1	7	4	+3	6

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	14 October – Somhlolo Stadium
	Mozambique	2
					16 October – Somhlolo Stadium
	South Africa	1
					Mozambique	0
	14 October – Somhlolo Stadium
					Zambia	1
	Zambia (p)	1 (3)
	Angola	1 (2)
					Third place
					16 October – Somhlolo Stadium
					South Africa (p)	1 (4)
					Angola	1 (2)

Semi-finals

Winners qualified for 2023 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations.

Third place match

Final

Goalscorers

There were 73 goals scored in 22 matches, for an average of 3.32 goals per match.

5 goals

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

1 own goal

References