COSAFA U-20 Challenge Cup

COSAFA Under-20 Cup

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Region	Southern Africa
Number of teams	16
Current champions	Zambia (12th title)
Most successful team(s)	Zambia (12 titles)
2024 COSAFA U-20 Cup

The COSAFA Under 20 Challenge is an annual tournament for teams from Southern Africa organized by COSAFA.

Participants

Teams that can technically enter are:

• Angola
• Botswana
• Comoros
• Eswatini
• Lesotho
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Mauritius
• Mayotte
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• Réunion
• Seychelles
• South Africa
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe.

Past winners

Year	Host		Final
			Champion	Score	Second Place
1983 Details			Zambia
1985 Details	Swaziland		Zimbabwe
1986 Details	Malawi		Zambia	1–0	Zimbabwe
1988 Details	Botswana		Zimbabwe	2–1	Zambia
1990 Details	Lesotho		Zimbabwe	Group Stage	Lesotho
1993 Details	Swaziland		Zambia	1–0	Zimbabwe
1995 Details	Lesotho		Zambia	1–0	South Africa
1997 Details	Botswana		Zambia	2–0	Zimbabwe
1999 Details	South Africa		Zambia	2–0	South Africa
2000 Details	South Africa		South Africa	1–0	Angola
2001 Details	South Africa		Zimbabwe	0–0 (5–3 pens.)	Angola
2002 Details	South Africa		Zimbabwe	1–0	Angola
2003 Details	South Africa		Zambia	4–0	Malawi
2004 Details	South Africa		South Africa	5–4	Zambia
2005 Details	South Africa		Madagascar	1–0	Lesotho
2006 Details	South Africa		South Africa	2–1	Zambia
2007 Details	South Africa		Zimbabwe	3–0	South Africa
2008 Details	South Africa		South Africa	3–2	Mozambique
2009 Details	South Africa		South Africa	2-1	Zambia
2010 Details	Botswana		Zambia	4–1	Namibia
2011 Details	Botswana		Zambia	2–1	Angola
2013 Details	Lesotho		South Africa	2–0	Kenya
2016 Details	South Africa		Zambia	2–1	South Africa
2017 Details	Zambia		South Africa	2–1	Lesotho
2018 Details	Zambia		South Africa	1–1 (4–3 pens.)	Zimbabwe
2019 Details	Zambia		Zambia	3–0	South Africa
2020 Details	South Africa		Mozambique	1–0	Namibia
2022 Details	Eswatini		Zambia	1–0	Mozambique

The event scheduled for 2015 was cancelled.

Team	Wins
Zambia	12
South Africa	8
Zimbabwe	6
Madagascar	1
Mozambique	1

External links

• https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/cosafa-u20.html