2023 Women's Varsity Football

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2023 Women's Varsity Football
Tournament details
Country South Africa
City Pretoria
Venue(s)TUT Stadium
Dates11 August 2023 - 19 August 2023
Teams8
Defending champions University of Johannesburg
Final positions
Champions University of the Western Cape
Runner-up University of Johannesburg
Semifinalists
Tournament statistics
Matches played17
Goals scored53 (3.12 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)Lusanda Mavundla
(5 goals)
Best playerLusanda Mavundla
Best goalkeeper Matshidiso Masebe
Siphesihle Dlamini
  2022
2024  

All statistics correct as of 19 July 2024.

The 2023 Women's Varsity Football was the tenth edition of the South African women's university soccer competition. It involved some of the top football playing universities in the country. The tournament is run by Varsity Sports SA, and is endorsed by the South African Football Association and University Sport South Africa. [1] It was hosted at TUT Stadium by Tshwane University of Technology.

Contents

The University of Johannesburg were defending champions. [2] They lost the title 2-0 in the final against the University of the Western Cape. [3] The University of Fort Hare made their debut. [4]

Participating teams

The eight teams that competed in the 2023 Women's Varsity Football challenge are:

Team nameUniversity
UJ University of Johannesburg
UWC University of the Western Cape
UP-Tuks University of Pretoria
DUT Durban University of Technology
UFH University of Fort Hare
TUT Tshwane University of Technology
Wits University of the Witwatersrand
UKZN University of KwaZulu-Natal

The teams were split into two groups as follows:

Group AGroup B


Round robin stage

The 2023 season began with round robin stages on the 11th of August 2023. [5]

Group A

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
1 UP-Tuks 3300101+99Advance to Semi-Finals
2 Wits 31113634
3 UFH 30210222
4 UKZN 30122641
Source:

Group B

PosTeamPldWDLGFGAGDPts
1 UJ 330092+79Advance to Semi-Finals
2 UWC 3201104+66
3 TUT (H)31026933
4DUT3003212100

Knockout stages

 
Semi-finals Final
 
      
 
14 August – TUT Stadium
 
 
UJ 3
 
19 August – TUT Stadium
 
Wits 0
 
UJ 0
 
14 August – TUT Stadium
 
UWC 2
 
UWC 1
 
 
UP 0
 

7th-place match

DUT11 UKZN
TUT Stadium

5th-place match

TUT 30 UFH
TUT Stadium

Semi-finals

UJ 30 Wits
48' 71' Lusanda Mavundla
90+' Sbongakonke Mzobe
TUT Stadium

[6]

UWC 10 UP-Tuks
22' Chelsea Daniels
TUT Stadium

Final

UWC 20 UJ
4' Lonathemba Mhlongo
58' Katlego Mabuza
TUT Stadium

[7] [8]

Sponsors

The tournament was sponsored by:

Awards

The following players were rated best in the tournament: [9]

AwardPlayerTeam
FNB player of the tournamentLusanda Mavundla UJ
Suzuki Golden Boot
Cashbuild Golden GloveSiphesihle Dlamini UWC
Matshidiso Masebe UJ

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