Ghana seeking first COSAFA Cup title as Local Black Stars enter as guests
Ghana will be looking to win the 2015 Cosafa Cup title even though they have been invited as guests when the tournament kicks off on Sunday.
The 13-day competition featuring 16 teams starts off with two groups of four in the pool stages in the North West Province, with all the games played between Olympia Park in Rustenburg and the Moruleng Stadium.
The top six teams according to the Fifa World Rankings enter at the quarter-final stage.
Host, South Africa, takes on Botswana, Mozambique clash with Malawi, Ghana play the winner of Group B and defending champions Zambia wait for the winners of Group A.
The losing quarter-final teams compete in the Plate competition, with the winners advancing in the Cup.
The teams competing include Angola, the Comoros Islands, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mauritius, Namibia, the Seychelles, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe, as well as guest nation Tanzania.
The Cosafa Cup was launched in 1997 and very quickly became one of the most exciting competitions on the African soccer calendar, described by Fifa President Sepp Blatter as the best regional tournament in the world.
The emergence of the Cosafa Cup has also had much to do with the rise to prominence and the growth in strength of the southern region in African soccer.
It has given the Cosafa member countries opportunities to increase their international profile and seek further success on other stages, like that of the African Nations Cup finals and the World Cup finals.
Zambia and Zimbabwe have each won four titles, with South Africa and Angola the only other winners with three each.
The competing nations will be hosted at Sun City – the official hospitality partner of Cosafa.
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paradox
9 years ago
aha. cosafa belongs to Zambia u will go back empty handed
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