The 2008 COSAFA Cup is the 12th edition of the football tournament that involves teams from Southern Africa.
Due to their internal competitions calendar, Angola decided to send their under-20 national team to play in this tournament allAfrica.com: Angola/South Africa: Under 20 Team Travel to South Africa for Cosafa Cup (Page 1 of 1) and South Africa will play with a "Development XI"; therefore matches involving Angola and South Africa will not count towards FIFA ranking according to FIFA.
South Africa won the tournament defeating Mozambique 2-1 in the final.
Qualifying Took place between 19–24 July, group winners qualified for the final tournament.
Group A
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Group B
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Final tournament Angola, Zambia, South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Botswana were seeded directly for the quarter-finals according to FIFA World Rankings of April 2008. This decision was made 21 May 2008 and confirmed on 7 July 2008. The actual draw for the 2 qualifying groups and the quarter-finals according to these seeds was held on 10 June 2008.
Quarter finals
Semi finals
3rd Place Match
Final
Scorers 4 goals Phillip Zialor Praxis Rabemananjara
2 goals Tovohery Rabenandrasana Momed Hagi Lazarus Kaimbi Quinton Jacobs Marchelino Fransch
1 goal Moli Lesesa Thabane Rankara Fisher Kondowe Chiukepo Msowoya Johan Marmitte Wesley Marquette Tico-Tico Nito Gerson Txuma Jamuovandu Ngatjizeko Don Anacoura Collin Laporte Trevor Poiret Rooi Mahamutsa Lefa Tsutsulupa Phinda Dlamini Gcina Mazibuko Mfanzile Dlamini Emmanuel Mayuka Francis Kombe
References
External links Information at RSSSF archives BBC Sport: Cosafa Cup draw People's Online Daily: African regional tournament COSAFA Cup makes draw Flames seeded in COSAFA Cup Zambia Handed Bye in 2008 Cosafa Challenge Cup