The 2022 COSAFA Women's Championship is the 10th edition of the COSAFA Women's Championship, a women's international football tournament for national teams organised by COSAFA, teams from Southern Africa. It takes place from 31 August to 11 September 2022 in South Africa.
Tanzania are the defending champion by having defeated Malawi 1–0 goals on 9 October 2021 in the final.
Participating nations
National teamFIFA Ranking Best Performance 141 Group stage (2006, 2019, 2020, 2021)151Runners-up (2020)179Group stage (2019, 2020) 171Group stage (2002, 2006, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)167Group stage (2002, 2006, 2011, 2017, 2018, 2020)155Champions (2021)158Runners-up (2021) 185Group stage (2017, 2019)170Fourth place (2002)146Runners-up (2006)54Champions (2002, 2006, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)80Runners-up (2019)
Note: South Africa entered their B team, as their A team was involved in friendly matches against Brazil at the same time as the tournament. Their matches thus do not count towards the FIFA ranking.
Did not enter
Squads
Venue Matches will be held at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium, NMU Stadium and Wolfson Stadium in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Port Elizabeth Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium Wolfson Stadium NMU Stadium Capacity: 46,000 Capacity: 10,000 Capacity: 15,000
Officials
Referees Itumeleng Methikga Mathabo Kolokotoane Assistant Referees Pélagie Rakotozafinoro Maneo Tau Mercy Zulu Roda Mondlane
Group stage
All matches were played at South Africa. Times listed are UTC+02:00. Key to colours in group tablesThe top finisher in each group and best runner-up qualified for the Knocokout-stage
Group A
Group B
Group C
Ranking of runner-up teams
Knockout stage In the knockout stage, extra-time and a penalty shoot-out will be used to decide the winner if necessary.
Bracket
Semi-finals
Third place match
Final
Goalscorers
References