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2008 COSAFA Senior Challenge Cup

Tournament details
Host country	South Africa
Dates	19 July - 3 August
Teams	14 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	3 (in 3 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	South Africa (3rd title)
Runners-up	Mozambique
Third place	Zambia
Fourth place	Madagascar
Tournament statistics
Matches played	20
Goals scored	39 (1.95 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Phillip Zialor (4)
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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 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.

South Africa won the tournament defeating Mozambique 2-1 in the final.

Qualifying

Took place between 19–24 July, group winners qualified for the final tournament.

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Madagascar	5	3	1	2	0	4	3	+1
Swaziland	5	3	1	2	0	3	2	+1
Seychelles	4	3	1	1	1	8	2	+6
Mauritius	1	3	0	1	2	2	10	-8

•  Madagascar through to quarter finals after a coin toss win.

Madagascar	1 - 1	Swaziland
Praxis Rabemananjara 66'		Phinda Dlamini 42'

Mauritius	0 - 7	Seychelles
		Phillip Zialor (4 goals) Don Anacoura Collin Laporte Trevor Poiret

Madagascar	1 - 1	Seychelles
Tovohery Rabenandrasana

Mauritius	1 - 1	Swaziland
Johan Marmitte 31'		Gcina Mazibuko 51'

Madagascar	2 - 1	Mauritius
Tovohery Rabenandrasana 19' Praxis Rabemananjara 68'		Wesley Marquette 12'

Seychelles	0 - 1	Swaziland
		Mfanzile Dlamini 90'

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Namibia	7	3	2	1	0	5	1	+4
Malawi	6	3	2	0	1	2	1	+1
Lesotho	4	3	1	1	1	2	2	0
Comoros	0	3	0	0	3	0	5	-5

Comoros	0 - 3	Namibia
	(Report)	Lazarus Kaimbi 25' Quinton Jacobs 53', 74'

Lesotho	0 - 1	Malawi
	(Report)	Chiukepo Msowoya 77'

Comoros	0 - 1	Malawi
	(Report)	Fisher Kondowe 62'

Lesotho	1 - 1	Namibia
Thabane Rankara 83'	(Report)	Jamu Ngatjizeko 25'

Comoros	0 - 1	Lesotho
		Moli Lesesa 74'

Malawi	0 - 1	Namibia
	(Report)	Lazarus Kaimbi 52'

Final tournament

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. The actual draw for the 2 qualifying groups and the quarter-finals according to these seeds was held on 10 June 2008.

Quarter finals

Angola U-20s	0 - 1	Madagascar
		Praxis Rabemananjara 22'

South Africa	1 - 0	Namibia
Rooi Mahamutsa 6'

Botswana	0 - 2	Mozambique
		Momed Hagi 18' Nito 90'+

Zambia	0 - 0 (5-4 pen.)	Zimbabwe

Semi finals

Madagascar	1 - 2	Mozambique
Praxis Rabemananjara 28'		Tico-Tico 18' Momed Hagi 62'

South Africa	1 - 0	Zambia
Lefa Tsutsulupa 14'

3rd Place Match

Madagascar	0 - 2	Zambia
		Emmanuel Mayuka 56' Francis Kombe 78'

Final

South Africa	2 - 1	Mozambique
Marchelino Fransch 18', 60'		Gerson Txuma 90+3'

Scorers

4 goals

• Phillip Zialor
• Praxis Rabemananjara

2 goals

• Tovohery Rabenandrasana
• Momed Hagi
• Lazarus Kaimbi
• Quinton Jacobs
• Marchelino Fransch

1 goal

• Moli Lesesa
• Thabane Rankara
• Fisher Kondowe
• Chiukepo Msowoya
• Johan Marmitte
• Wesley Marquette
• Tico-Tico
• Nito
• Gerson Txuma
• Jamuovandu Ngatjizeko
• Don Anacoura
• Collin Laporte
• Trevor Poiret
• Rooi Mahamutsa
• Lefa Tsutsulupa
• Phinda Dlamini
• Gcina Mazibuko
• Mfanzile Dlamini
• Emmanuel Mayuka
• Francis Kombe

References

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3. "The Roon Ba Forum: COSAFA cup 2008". Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 25 July 2008.
4. "When 'Fifa' beats 'Fair Play'…". Archived from the original on 10 April 2009. Retrieved 24 July 2008.
5. Seychelles NATION
6. Malawi breaking news - Malawi hit Lesotho in Cosafa opener
7. "MTNfootball.com - Malawi On Course To Meet Hosts". Archived from the original on 16 November 2008. Retrieved 24 July 2008.
8. African Press Agency - Item
9. allAfrica.com: Namibia/Lesotho: Warriors In A Draw (Page 1 of 1)
10. "Kick Off - South Africa". Archived from the original on 29 July 2008. Retrieved 24 July 2008.
11. ^ BBC Sport: Namibia reach Cosafa last eight
12. "Namibia beat Malawi". Namibia Sport Magazine. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
13. "Zambia Handed Bye in 2008 Cosafa Challenge Cup". LusakaTimes.com. Retrieved 21 May 2008.
14. "COSAFA clears the Zebras". MmegiOnline. Archived from the original on 11 July 2008. Retrieved 9 July 2008.
15. JORNAL DE ANGOLA online - Notícias de Angola para o Mundo

External links

• Information at RSSSF archives
• BBC Sport: Cosafa Cup draw
• People's Online Daily: African regional tournament COSAFA Cup makes draw
• Flames seeded in COSAFA Cup
• Zambia Handed Bye in 2008 Cosafa Challenge Cup

• 2008 in African football
• COSAFA Cup
• 2008–09 in South African soccer
• International association football competitions hosted by South Africa