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2020 COSAFA Under-20 Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa
Dates	3–13 December 2020
Teams	11 (from 1 sub-confederation)
Venue(s)	3 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Mozambique (1st title)
Runners-up	Namibia
Third place	Angola
Fourth place	Zambia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	19
Goals scored	40 (2.11 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Sinenjongo Mkiva (South Africa) Ambrosini Salvador (Angola)
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The 2020 COSAFA U-20 Cup was the 27th 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 3 December and 13 December in Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa. Initially planned to be hosted by Mauritius, the competition was later shifted to South Africa after Mauritius withdrew as hosts due to the COVID-19 regulations. The matches were played at Port Elizabeth (Wolfson Stadium and Gelvandale Stadium).

The tournament was also the first qualifying round for the U-20 World Cup in Indonesia in 2021 as the finalists were qualified for the 2021 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations, played in Mauritania where the semi-finalists will see themselves qualify for the World Cup.

Participants

•  Angola
•  Botswana
•  Comoros
•  Eswatini
•  Lesotho
•  Malawi
•  Mozambique
•  Namibia
•  South Africa (Host)
•  Zambia (Defending champions)
•  Zimbabwe

Match officials

Draw

The draw was made in Nelson Mandela Bay on 2 November. 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.

Note: Within brackets 2019 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	Mozambique	3	2	1	0	3	0	+3	7	Advance to Semi-finals
2	South Africa (H)	3	1	2	0	9	2	+7	5
3	Zimbabwe	3	1	1	1	6	5	+1	4
4	Lesotho	3	0	0	3	1	12	−11	0

Mozambique	1–0	Lesotho
Cipriano 9'	Report

South Africa	2–2	Zimbabwe
Appollis 46' Makola 90'	Report	Mutimbanyoka 9' Mujokoro 75'

Mozambique	2–0	Zimbabwe
Cipriano 57' (pen.) Pinho 85'

South Africa	7–0	Lesotho
Mohale 6' (o.g.) Human 17' Mvika 43' 62' 86' Appollis 46' Myeni 90+2'

South Africa	0–0	Mozambique
	Report

Zimbabwe	4–1	Lesotho
Monyaka 19' (o.g.) Mandinyenya 22' Mangiza 32' Antonio 66'	Report	Lebina 45+2'

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Zambia	3	3	0	0	5	0	+5	9	Advance to Semi-finals
2	Namibia	3	2	0	1	3	2	+1	6
3	Malawi	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	3
4	Comoros	3	0	0	3	0	4	−4	0

Malawi	1–0	Comoros
Monogeni 90+4'

Zambia	1–0	Namibia
Mashata 62'

Zambia	2–0	Comoros
Chishimba 3' Bulaya 45+4'

Malawi	1–2	Namibia
Nkhoma 10'		Jantze 14' Canavaro 45+3'

Zambia	2–0	Malawi
Mukeya 21', 68'	Report

Namibia	1–0	Comoros
Damaseb 77'	Report

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Angola	2	1	0	1	4	1	+3	3	Advance to Semi-finals
2	Eswatini	2	1	0	1	1	1	0	3
3	Botswana	2	1	0	1	1	4	−3	3

Angola	0–1	Eswatini
		Ndlovu 77'

Botswana	0–4	Angola
		Salvador 43' (pen.) 90+2' Gastão 66' 90+4'

Botswana	1–0	Eswatini
Molefe 42'	Report

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	11 December – Wolfson Stadium
	Angola	0
					13 December – Wolfson Stadium
	Namibia	1
					Namibia	0
	11 December – Wolfson Stadium
					Mozambique	1
	Mozambique	0 (5)
	Zambia	0 (4)
					Third place
					13 December – Wolfson Stadium
					Angola	2
					Zambia	1

Semi-finals

Winners qualified for 2021 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations.

Angola	0–1	Namibia
	Report	Damaseb 63'

Mozambique	0–0 (5-4)	Zambia
	Report

Third-place match

Angola	2–1	Zambia
Afonso 21' Salvador 37'		Mumba 57' (pen.)

Final

Namibia	0–1	Mozambique
	Report	Augusto 31'

Champions

2020 COSAFA U-20 Championship champion
Mozambique First title

Qualification for CAF U20 Cup of Nations

The two finalists of the tournament qualified for the 2021 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations.

Qualified nations:

•  Mozambique
•  Namibia

References

1. "Southern Africa: South Africa Begin Preps for Cosafa Men's Under-20 Championship". allAfrica. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
2. "COSAFA Men's Under-20 Champs starts journey to World Cup". Council of Southern Africa Football Associations. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
3. "Draw looms for COSAFA Men's Under-17 and Under-20 zonal qualifiers". Council of Southern Africa Football Associations. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
4. "The 2020 COSAFA Men's Under-20 Championships in Numbers". Council of Southern Africa Football Associations. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
5. "Men's U17 and U20 teams to learn their COSAFA Championships fate on Monday". Council of Southern Africa Football Associations. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
6. "COSAFA Men's U17 and U20 fixtures provide eye-catching entertainment". Council of Southern Africa Football Associations. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
7. "Cosafa U20, U17 Draws Unveiled". Zambia Reports. Archived from the original on 18 November 2020. Retrieved 15 November 2020.

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