2025 CAF Women's Champions League COSAFA Qualifiers

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Women's Champions League 2025
Tournament details
Host country	South Africa
City	Johannesburg
Dates	22 – 31 August 2025
Teams	10 (from 1 sub-confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Gaborone United (1st title)
Runners-up	ZESCO Ndola Girls
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	63 (4.2 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Gaonyadiwe Ontlametse ; (7 goals)
Best player(s)	Eneless Phiri
Best goalkeeper	Tlamelo Pheresi
Fair play award	ZESCO Ndola Girls
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Last updated September 04, 2025

The 2025 COSAFA Women's Champions League, officially known as the 2025 Hollywoodbets COSAFA Women's Champions League for sponsorship reasons, was the fifth edition of the annual international women's club football competition organized by COSAFA to decide the region's qualifier for the 2025 CAF Women's Champions League. The tournament was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 22 to 31 August 2025.^[1]

Entrants

10 of the fourteen COSAFA member associations entered teams for the competition, with Comoros and Lesotho returning after not participating in the previous edition.

Team	App.	Last	Previous best performance
Gaborone United Ladies	2nd	2024	Runners-up (2024)
Olympic de Moroni [ fr ]	3rd	2023	Fourth place (2022
Young Buffaloes	4th	2024	Semi-finals (2024)
Kick4Life	1st	Debut
Ntopwa FC	2nd	2023	Group stage (2023)
CD Costa do Sol	3rd	2023	Third place (2023)
Beauties FC	1st	Debut
Mamelodi Sundowns	4th	2023	Champions (2021, 2023)
ZESCO Ndola Girls	1st	Debut
Herentals Queens	2nd	2024	Semi-finals (2024)

Associations that did not enter a team:

Venue

City	Stadium	Capacity
Johannesburg	AW Muller Stadium	~5,000

Match officials

Referees

Nonjabulo Nonhle Ndlela
Chipo MAYIMBO Mercy
Nteboheleng Theresia SETOKO
Gloria keke SAMBUMBA
Nuusiku Vistoria SHANGULA
Seonyatseng Joyce Tshephe
Eness M. GUMBO

Assistant Referees

Eveline Lungameni AUGUSTINUS
Tahinjanahary Martine Hasiniaina
Roda Artimisa MONDLANE
Leungo Tsogang
Maneo Evodia TAU
Lumbizai Musawa
Nandipha MENZE
Hasimbola Rasoloniaina

Video assistant referees

GIMO Grace
Claris Sekai SIMANGO
Nuusiku Vistoria SHANGULA
Eness M. GUMBO
Lumbizai Musawa
Nonjabulo Nonhle Ndlela
Nandipha MENZE

Draw

The official draw was held on 5 August 2025 in Johannesburg. The seeded teams were:^[2]^[3]^[4]

Seeded	Unseeded
Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies (hosts) Gaborone United Ladies Herentals Queens	Ntopwa FC Beauties FC ZESCO Ndola Girls Young Buffaloes Kick4Life WFC CD Costa do Sol Olympic de Moroni

Group stage

Tiebreakers

Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings.

Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they met in the last round of the group;
Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points);
Drawing of lots.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Mamelodi Sundowns (H)	3	3	0	11	0	+11	9	Semi-finals
2	ZESCO Ndola Girls	3	2	1	8	4	+4	6	Semi-finals
3	Beauties FC	3	1	2	3	10	−7	3
4	Ntopwa FC	3	0	3	3	11	−8	0

Source: COSAFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

22 August 2025