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2015 COSAFA Cup

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Host country
  
South Africa

Teams
  
14

Champions
  
Namibia (1st title)

Dates
  
17–30 May 2015

Venue(s)
  
2 (in 2 host cities)

Runners-up
  
Mozambique

2015 COSAFA Cup

The 2015 COSAFA Cup was the 15th edition of the COSAFA Cup, an international football competition consisting of national teams of member nations of the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA). It was hosted by South Africa in May 2015. All matches took place in the North West province.

Contents

Participating nations

Did not enter
  •  Angola
  •  Comoros

    • Venues

    On 15 May 2015, COSAFA announced that fixtures would no longer be hosted at Olympia Park due to ongoing construction work and would instead be hosted by Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace in Phokeng.

    Draw procedure

    COSAFA described the procedure thus:

  • Draw commences for GROUP ROUND with 4 seeded teams (TZ; NAM; ZIM; LES) being placed in 1 bowl and the remaining 4 teams in the second bowl
  • First ball out of seeded bowl becomes the seed for Group A and second ball is seeded in Group B, similarly with the remaining 2 balls in the seeded bowl
  • We continue by drawing balls out to populate positions A3, A4 & B3, B4
  • Fixtures are populated electronically as each ball is drawn
  • MC talks through the Group Round results whilst the Draw Master prepares the balls for the Quarter-Final Draw
  • We now have 6 new teams plus 2 teams which read “Winner Group A” and “Winner Group B”
  • The 4 seeded QF teams go into bowl 1 and the unseeded teams incl the Group round winners go into bowl 2
  • The fixtures for QF are established by drawing from bowl 1 (GHANA; SA; ZAM; MOZ) followed by bowl 2 (unseeded teams) until all 4 fixtures are populated

    • The draw took place on 26 February 2015 and was televised by South Africa's SuperSport 4.

    Knockout stage

    Ghana, South Africa, Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi and Botswana all received a bye to this stage.

  • The winning quarter finalists proceed to the semi-finals.
  • The losing quarter finalists proceed to the plate semi-finals.

    • Awards

    Top scorer
  • Sarivahy Vombola (5 goals)
    • Player of the Tournament
  • Wangu Gome
    • Goalkeeper of the Tournament
  • Virgil Vries
    • Fair Player award
  •  Madagascar

    • References

    2015 COSAFA Cup Wikipedia
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