2024 COSAFA U-20 Cup

2024 COSAFA Under-20 Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Mozambique
Dates	26 September–5 October
Teams	12 (from 1 sub-confederation)

The 2024 COSAFA U-20 Cup was the 29th edition of the COSAFA U-20 Challenge Cup, an international youth football tournament open to national associations of the COSAFA region. It will take place between 26 September and 5 October 2024 in Mozambique.

Zambia are the defending champion having defeated Mozambique by 1–0 goal in the final on 16 October 2022 of the previous edition.

Participating teams

The following twelve teams are contesting in the tournament.

Team	Appearances	Previous best performance
Angola	29th	Runner-up (2000, 2001, 2002, 2011)
Botswana	22nd	3rd Place (2009, 2011)
Comoros	5th	Group stage (2013, 2016, 2019, 2020)
Eswatini	29th	Champion (2020)
Lesotho	29th	Runner-up (1990, 2005, 2017)
Malawi	20th	4th Place (1986, 2000, 2006, 2011)
Mozambique	29th	Champion (2020)
Namibia	29th	Champion (2020)
South Africa	29th	Champion (2000, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2017, 2018)
Zambia	29th	Champion (1983, 1986, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2010, 2011, 2016, 2019, 2022)

Draw

The draw was held on 5 September 2024 at 11:00 CET (UTC+2) at Maputo.The 12 teams were drawn into three groups of four teams, with hosts Mozambique seeded in Group A (position A1), the defending champions Zambia seeded in Group B (position B1) and South Africa seeded in Group C (position C1). The remaining 9 teams were allocated to two pots based on the results of the previous tournament edition and were drawn to the remaining positions.

Seeded	Pot 1	Pot 2
Mozambique (hosts) Zambia South Africa	Angola Malawi Eswatini	Botswana Comoros Lesotho Namibia Madagascar Zimbabwe

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	Mozambique (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Semi-finals
2	Eswatini	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible Semi-finals
3	Zimbabwe	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Botswana	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: TBD. Source:
(H) Hosts

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Zambia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Semi-finals
2	Angola	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible Semi-finals
3	Namibia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Madagascar	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: TBD. Source:

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	South Africa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Semi-finals
2	Malawi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible Semi-finals
3	Comoros	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Lesotho	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: TBD. Source:

Ranking of second-placed teams

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	B	GrB	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Semi-finals
2	A	GrA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	C	GrC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source:
Rules for classification: Group tiebreakers

Goalscorers

There were 0 goals scored in 0 matches, for an average of -nan goals per match.

See also

• 2024 COSAFA Under-17 Championship