Tourney Name: | COSAFA Senior Challenge Cup |
Year: | 2008 |
Size: | 164px |
Country: | South Africa |
Dates: | 19 July - 3 August |
Num Teams: | 14 |
Confederations: | 1 |
Venues: | 3 |
Cities: | 3 |
Champion: | South Africa |
Count: | 3 |
Second: | MOZ |
Third: | ZAM |
Fourth: | MAD |
Matches: | 20 |
Goals: | 39 |
Top Scorer: | Phillip Zialor (4) |
Prevseason: | 2007 |
Nextseason: | 2009 |
The 2008 COSAFA Cup is the 12th edition of the football tournament that involves teams from Southern Africa.
Due to their internal competitions calendar, Angola decided to send their under-20 national team to play in this tournament [1] [2] and South Africa will play with a "Development XI"; therefore matches involving Angola and South Africa will not count towards FIFA ranking according to FIFA.[3]
South Africa won the tournament defeating Mozambique 2-1 in the final.
Took place between 19–24 July, group winners qualified for the final tournament.
width=165 | Team | width=20 | Pts | width=20 | Pld | width=20 | W | width=20 | D | width=20 | L | width=20 | GF | width=20 | GA | width=20 | GD |
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5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | +1 | ||||||||||
5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | +1 | ||||||||||
4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | +6 | ||||||||||
1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | -8 |
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width=165 | Team | width=20 | Pts | width=20 | Pld | width=20 | W | width=20 | D | width=20 | L | width=20 | GF | width=20 | GA | width=20 | GD |
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7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 | ||||||||||
6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | +1 | ||||||||||
4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||||||||||
0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | -5 |
Angola, Zambia, South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Botswana were seeded directly for the quarter-finals according to FIFA World Rankings of April 2008. This decision was made 21 May 2008 and confirmed on 7 July 2008.[5] [6] The actual draw for the 2 qualifying groups and the quarter-finals according to these seeds was held on 10 June 2008.
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