2020 COSAFA Under-17 Championship

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2020 COSAFA Under-17 Championship
Tournament details
Host country Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa
Dates19–29 November 2020
Teams4
Final positions
ChampionsFlag of South Africa.svg  South Africa (3rd title)
Runners-upFlag of Zambia.svg  Zambia
Third placeFlag of Angola.svg  Angola
Fourth placeFlag of Malawi.svg  Malawi
Tournament statistics
Matches played8
Goals scored32 (4 per match)
Top scorer(s) Flag of Zambia.svg Joseph Banda [1]
Best player(s) Flag of South Africa.svg Mduduzi Shabalala [1]
Best goalkeeper Flag of Zambia.svg Eric Makungu [1]
Fair play awardFlag of Zambia.svg  Zambia [1]
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The 2020 COSAFA Under-17 Championship is the 9th edition of the COSAFA U-17 Championship, a football tournament organized by the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) involving teams from Southern Africa for players aged 17 and below. The tournament is also the qualifier for the 2021 Africa U-17 Cup of Nations, [2] which in turn is the qualifier for the 2021 FIFA U-17 World Cup and will be played on November 19–29 [3] in Nelson Mandela Bay and the two finalists of the tournament will be representing COSAFA in the Africa U-17 Cup of Nations. [2] [3] Initially, it was planned to be played in Malawi in July [4] [5] but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After the first four games, (2 in each group), the tournament was re-started as four teams (Comoros, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Eswatini) were disqualified for using over-aged players. [6]

Contents

Participating teams

Last year's runners-up Mozambique were meant to be the 9th nation to participate, [7] but in the end 8 of the 14 COSAFA teams entered to compete for this year's trophy. After the first round of games four teams were expelled due to cheating, namely:

So the tournament restarted with the following genuine combatants:

Match Officials

Group stage

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1Flag of Zambia.svg  Zambia (H)330093+69 2021 Africa U-17 Cup of Nations
2Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 31114404
3Flag of Angola.svg  Angola 310295+43
4Flag of Malawi.svg  Malawi 3012515−101
Source: COSAFA
Rules for classification: Group tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
Angola  Flag of Angola.svg1–2Flag of Zambia.svg  Zambia
  • Lopes Soccerball shade.svg90+3'
 Report
Gelvandale Stadium, Nelson Mandela Bay
Referee: Tshepo Gobagoba (Botswana)
South Africa  Flag of South Africa.svg2–2Flag of Malawi.svg  Malawi
Report
Gelvandale Stadium, Nelson Mandela Bay
Referee: Thanks Nyahuye (Zimbabwe)
South Africa  Flag of South Africa.svg2–1Flag of Angola.svg  Angola
Report
Gelvandale Stadium, Nelson Mandela Bay
Referee: Lawrence Zimondi (Zimbabwe)
Zambia  Flag of Zambia.svg6–2Flag of Malawi.svg  Malawi
Report
Gelvandale Stadium, Nelson Mandela Bay
Referee: Artur Alfinar (Mozambique)
Malawi  Flag of Malawi.svg1–7Flag of Angola.svg  Angola
Report
Westbourne Oval Stadium, Nelson Mandela Bay
Referee: Luxolo Badi (South Africa)
Zambia  Flag of Zambia.svg1–0Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa
Report
Gelvandale Stadium, Nelson Mandela Bay
Referee: Thulani Sibandze (Eswatini)

Third place match

Angola  Flag of Angola.svg2–1Flag of Malawi.svg  Malawi
Report
Gelvandale Stadium, Nelson Mandela Bay
Referee: Vistoria Shangula (Namibia)

Final

Zambia  Flag of Zambia.svg1–1Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa
Report
Penalties
2–4
Gelvandale Stadium, Nelson Mandela Bay
Referee: Artur Alfinar (Mozambique)

Qualification for CAF Cup of Nations

The two finalists of the tournament will qualify for the 2021 Africa U-17 Cup of Nations. Qualified nations:

NationPrevious participationBest result
Flag of Zambia.svg  Zambia 2015 Group Stage
Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 2005, 2007, 2015 Silver medalists

Champion

 2020 COSAFA Under-17 champion 
Flag of South Africa.svg
South Africa
Third title

Top Scorers

RepresentingPlayerGoals
Flag of Zambia.svg Joseph Banda 5
Flag of Angola.svg Custódio Hequele 4

COSAFA-La Liga partnership

South Africa's Mduduzi Shabalala and Zambia's Joseph Banda was selected by the Technical Study Group to be traveling to Spain for a LaLiga development experience, where they will get the opportunity to observe the football life in Spain and train with a local team. The duo become the first players along with their two counterparts from 2020 COSAFA Women's U17 Championship to get this opportunity on account of the new formalization of the partnership between COSAFA and La Liga to boost Southern African football [1] [8]

Disqualification

Prior the tournament, CAF scanned all players with MRI, to make sure that everyone was eligible for the age-category. In the tournament regulations there is stated that the scanning will take place and a team that have players that do not pass the eligibility test will be disqualified and sent home as soon as possible. The test that is used world wide to measure eligibility for U17 tournaments focus on bone fusions in the wrist that are unlikely (with 99% accuracy rate) to appear before the age of 17.

Comoros, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Eswatini, were all found to have one or more players too old to participate in the tournament whereby the teams were disqualified. Because of this, it was decided to re-start the tournament with the other four teams and regard the already played games as warm-up for the tournament without any result value. The tournament were decided to be played as a round-robin where the top two qualify for the final (as well as the 2021 Africa U-17 Cup of Nations) and the bottom two qualify for the bronze medal game. [9] [10]

Original draw

The teams were on 2 November drawn from 2 different pots, as the top-seeded teams were placed in one group each. After drawing the first two teams from pot 1 the last team were put together with the teams from pot 2 to draw the last two teams to each group. [11]

Top seededPot 1Pot 2
Flag of Zambia.svg  Zambia (2019 Champions)

Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa (Hosts)

Flag of Angola.svg  Angola

Flag of Botswana.svg  Botswana Flag of Malawi.svg  Malawi

Flag of Eswatini.svg  Eswatini

Flag of the Comoros.svg  Comoros Flag of Zimbabwe.svg  Zimbabwe

Abandoned Group stage

Group A

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa (H)110020+23 Semi-finals
2Flag of Angola.svg  Angola 10101101
3Flag of Zimbabwe.svg  Zimbabwe (D)10101101
4Flag of Eswatini.svg  Eswatini (D)100102−20
Updated to match(es) played on November 19. Source: COSAFA.com
(D) Disqualified; (H) Hosts
Flag of Zimbabwe.svg  Zimbabwe 1–1Flag of Angola.svg  Angola
Report
Gelvandale Stadium
Referee: Vistoria Nuusiku Shangula (Namibia)
Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa 2–0Flag of Eswatini.svg  Eswatini
Report
Gelvandale Stadium
Referee: Audrick Nkole (Zambia)

Group B

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPtsQualification
1Flag of Zambia.svg  Zambia 110020+23 Semi-finals
2Flag of Botswana.svg  Botswana (D)10102201
3Flag of Malawi.svg  Malawi 10102201 Semi-finals
4Flag of the Comoros.svg  Comoros (D)100102−20
Updated to match(es) played on November 20. Source: COSAFA.com
(D) Disqualified
Flag of Malawi.svg  Malawi 2–2Flag of Botswana.svg  Botswana
Report
Gelvandale Stadium
Referee: Luxolo Badi (South Africa)
Flag of Zambia.svg  Zambia 2–0Flag of the Comoros.svg  Comoros
Report
Gelvandale Stadium
Referee: Thulani Sibandze (Eswatini)

Abandoned Knockout stage

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
27 November – Gelvandale Stadium
 
 
Group B winner
 
29 November – Gelvandale Stadium
 
Group A runners-up
 
 
 
27 November – Gelvandale Stadium
 
 
 
Group A winner
 
 
Group B runners-up
 
Third place
 
 
29 November – Gelvandale Stadium
 
 
 
 
 
 

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