2015 COSAFA Cup


The 2015 COSAFA Cup was the 15th edition of the COSAFA Cup, an international football competition consisting of national teams of member nations of the Council of [Southern Africa Football Associations]. It was hosted by South Africa in May 2015. All matches took place in the North West province.

Participating nations

National teamFIFA Ranking Entry round
185Group stage
187Group stage
165Group stage
148Group stage
119Group stage
111Group stage
125Group stage
107Group stage
105Quarter final
93Quarter final
90Quarter final
60Quarter final
56Quarter final
25Quarter final

;Did not enter

  • Venues

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.
Moruleng
Phokeng
Moruleng Stadium
Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace
Capacity: 20,000
Capacity: 45,000

Draw procedure

COSAFA described the procedure thus:
  • Draw commences for GROUP ROUND with 4 seeded teams 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 followed by bowl 2 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

SeededUnseeded

  • Group A

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    Group B

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    Knockout stage

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

    Quarter-finals

    SeededUnseeded

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    Plate semi-final

    Plate final

    Semi-finals

    Third place playoff

    Final

    Awards

    ; Top scorer
    ;Player of the Tournament
    ;Goalkeeper of the Tournament
    ;Fair Player award