2015 COSAFA Cup

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.^[3]

Moruleng	Moruleng Stadium Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace	Phokeng
Moruleng Stadium		Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace
Capacity: 20,000		Capacity: 45,000
25°09′24″S 27°10′32″E / 25.156667°S 27.175556°E / -25.156667; 27.175556 (Moruleng Stadium)		25°34′44″S 27°09′40″E / 25.578913°S 27.161061°E / -25.578913; 27.161061 (Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace)

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.

Group stage

Seeded	Unseeded
Lesotho  Namibia  Tanzania  Zimbabwe	Madagascar  Mauritius  Seychelles  Swaziland

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Namibia	3	2	1	0	6	1	+5	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Zimbabwe	3	2	0	1	4	4	0	6
3	Mauritius	3	1	0	2	1	4	−3	3
4	Seychelles	3	0	1	2	0	2	−2	1

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Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Madagascar	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Swaziland	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	7
3	Lesotho	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	3
4	Tanzania (G)	3	0	0	3	0	4	−4	0

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Knockout stage

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

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	24 May – Moruleng
	Zambia	0 (4)
					28 May – Moruleng
	Namibia (pen.)	0 (5)
					Namibia	3
	25 May – Phokeng
					Madagascar	2
	Ghana	1
									30 May – Moruleng
	Madagascar	2
									Namibia	2
	24 May – Moruleng
									Mozambique	0
	South Africa	0 (6)
					28 May – Moruleng
	Botswana (pen.)	0 (7)
					Botswana	1
	25 May – Phokeng
					Mozambique	2			Third place
	Mozambique (pen)	2 (5)
									30 May – Moruleng
	Malawi	2 (4)
									Madagascar	2
									Botswana	1

Quarter-finals

Seeded	Unseeded
South Africa  Mozambique  Zambia  Ghana	Botswana  Malawi  Namibia  Madagascar

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

Plate competition

	Semi-finals				Final
	27 May – Moruleng
	Zambia	3
					29 May – Phokeng
	Ghana	0
					Zambia	0
	27 May – Moruleng
					Malawi	1
	South Africa	0 (4)
	Malawi (pen.)	0 (5)

Plate semi-final

Plate final

Semi-finals

Third place playoff

Final

Awards

Top scorer

• Sarivahy Vombola (5 goals)^{[citation needed]}

Player of the Tournament

• Wangu Gome^{[citation needed]}

Goalkeeper of the Tournament

• Virgil Vries^{[citation needed]}

Fair Player award

•  Madagascar^[4]

References

External links

• Official site