# 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 (COSAFA). It was hosted by South Africa in May 2015. All matches took place in the North West province.

## Participating nations

| National team | FIFA Ranking (February 2015) | Entry round |
| Mauritius | 185 | Group stage |
| Seychelles | 187 | Group stage |
| Swaziland | 165 | Group stage |
| Madagascar | 148 | Group stage |
| Zimbabwe | 119 | Group stage |
| Namibia | 111 | Group stage |
| Lesotho | 125 | Group stage |
| Tanzania (invitee) | 107 | Group stage |
| Botswana | 105 | Quarter final |
| Malawi | 93 | Quarter final |
| Mozambique | 90 | Quarter final |
| Zambia | 60 | Quarter final |
| South Africa | 56 | Quarter final |
| Ghana (invitee) | 25 | Quarter final |

### Did not enter

* Angola
* Comoros

## Venues

Download coordinates as:
* KML
* GPX (all coordinates)
* GPX (primary coordinates)
* GPX (secondary coordinates)
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 | Moruleng StadiumRoyal Bafokeng Sports Palace | Phokeng |
| Moruleng Stadium | Moruleng StadiumRoyal Bafokeng Sports Palace | Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace |
| Capacity: 20,000 | Moruleng StadiumRoyal Bafokeng Sports Palace | Capacity: 45,000 |
| 25°09′24″S 27°10′32″E﻿ / ﻿25.156667°S 27.175556°E﻿ / -25.156667; 27.175556﻿ (Moruleng Stadium) | Moruleng StadiumRoyal Bafokeng Sports Palace | 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 | |

### 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 | |

## Knockout stage

Ghana, South Africa, Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi and Botswana all received a bye to this stage.
| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Final | Final |
| 24 May – Moruleng | 24 May – Moruleng | | | |
| Zambia | 0 (4) | | | |
| Zambia | 0 (4) | 28 May – Moruleng | 28 May – Moruleng | | |
| Namibia (pen.) | 0 (5) | 28 May – Moruleng | 28 May – Moruleng | |
| Namibia (pen.) | 0 (5) | Namibia | 3 | |
| 25 May – Phokeng | 25 May – Phokeng | | Namibia | 3 | |
| 25 May – Phokeng | 25 May – Phokeng | Madagascar | 2 | |
| Ghana | 1 | Madagascar | 2 | |
| Ghana | 1 | | | | 30 May – Moruleng | 30 May – Moruleng |
| Madagascar | 2 | | | | 30 May – Moruleng | 30 May – Moruleng |
| Madagascar | 2 | | | | Namibia | 2 |
| 24 May – Moruleng | 24 May – Moruleng | | | | | Namibia | 2 |
| 24 May – Moruleng | 24 May – Moruleng | | | | Mozambique | 0 |
| South Africa | 0 (6) | | | | Mozambique | 0 |
| South Africa | 0 (6) | 28 May – Moruleng | 28 May – Moruleng | | | |
| Botswana (pen.) | 0 (7) | 28 May – Moruleng | 28 May – Moruleng | | | |
| Botswana (pen.) | 0 (7) | Botswana | 1 | | | |
| 25 May – Phokeng | 25 May – Phokeng | | Botswana | 1 | | | |
| 25 May – Phokeng | 25 May – Phokeng | Mozambique | 2 | | Third place | Third place |
| Mozambique (pen) | 2 (5) | Mozambique | 2 | | Third place | Third place |
| Mozambique (pen) | 2 (5) | | | | 30 May – Moruleng | 30 May – Moruleng |
| Malawi | 2 (4) | | | | 30 May – Moruleng | 30 May – Moruleng |
| Malawi | 2 (4) | | | | Madagascar | 2 |
| | | | | | Botswana | 1 |

### Quarter-finals

| Seeded | Unseeded |
| South Africa  Mozambique  Zambia  Ghana | Botswana  Malawi  Namibia  Madagascar |
* The winning quarter finalists proceed to the semi-finals.
* The losing quarter finalists proceed to the plate semi-finals.

### Plate competition

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

#### Plate final
### Semi-finals
### Final
## Awards
### Top scorer

* Sarivahy Vombola (5 goals)

### Player of the Tournament

* Wangu Gome

### Goalkeeper of the Tournament

* Virgil Vries

### Fair Player award

* Madagascar