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COSAFA Under-20 Cup

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Founded	1983; 41 years ago (1983)
Region	Southern Africa
Number of teams	12
Current champions	South Africa (9th title)
Most successful team(s)	Zambia (12 titles)
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The COSAFA Under 20 Challenge is an annual tournament for under 20 teams from Southern Africa organized by COSAFA.

Participants

Teams that can technically enter are:

•  Angola
•  Botswana
•  Comoros
•  Eswatini
•  Lesotho
•  Madagascar
•  Malawi
•  Mauritius
•  Mayotte
•  Mozambique
•  Namibia
•  Réunion
•  Seychelles
•  South Africa
•  Zambia
•  Zimbabwe.

Past winners

Year	Host	Final
		Champion	Score	Second Place
1983 Details		Zambia
1985 Details	Swaziland	Zimbabwe
1986 Details	Malawi	Zambia	1–0	Zimbabwe
1988 Details	Botswana	Zimbabwe	2–1	Zambia
1990 Details	Lesotho	Zimbabwe	Group Stage	Lesotho
1993 Details	Swaziland	Zambia	1–0	Zimbabwe
1995 Details	Lesotho	Zambia	1–0	South Africa
1997 Details	Botswana	Zambia	2–0	Zimbabwe
1999 Details	South Africa	Zambia	2–0	South Africa
2000 Details	South Africa	South Africa	1–0	Angola
2001 Details	South Africa	Zimbabwe	0–0 (5–3 pens.)	Angola
2002 Details	South Africa	Zimbabwe	1–0	Angola
2003 Details	South Africa	Zambia	4–0	Malawi
2004 Details	South Africa	South Africa	5–4	Zambia
2005 Details	South Africa	Madagascar	1–0	Lesotho
2006 Details	South Africa	South Africa	2–1	Zambia
2007 Details	South Africa	Zimbabwe	3–0	South Africa
2008 Details	South Africa	South Africa	3–2	Mozambique
2009 Details	South Africa	South Africa	2-1	Zambia
2010 Details	Botswana	Zambia	4–1	Namibia
2011 Details	Botswana	Zambia	2–1	Angola
2013 Details	Lesotho	South Africa	2–0	Kenya
2016 Details	South Africa	Zambia	2–1	South Africa
2017 Details	Zambia	South Africa	2–1	Lesotho
2018 Details	Zambia	South Africa	1–1 (4–3 pens.)	Zimbabwe
2019 Details	Zambia	Zambia	3–0	South Africa
2020 Details	South Africa	Mozambique	1–0	Namibia
2022 Details	Eswatini	Zambia	1–0	Mozambique
2024 Details	Mozambique	South Africa	2–0	Zambia

The event scheduled for 2015 was cancelled.

Team	Wins
Zambia	12
South Africa	9
Zimbabwe	6
Madagascar	1
Mozambique	1

References

1. "Due to organisational constraints, the COSAFA Under-20 Youth Championship will not be staged this year despite every effort being made to do so". COSAFA. 30 October 2015.

External links

• rsssf.org
• History of the COSAFA regional Under-20 Championship

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