The 2025 Women's Varsity Football was the twelfth edition of the South African women's university soccer competition. It involved some of the top football playing universities in the country. The tournament is run by Varsity Sports SA, and is endorsed by the South African Football Association and University Sport South Africa. It was hosted at UJ Soweto Stadium by University of Johannesburg .
UWC were defending champions. The University of Venda made their debut.
Participating teams The eight teams that competed in the 2025 Women's Varsity Football challenge were:
+Team nameUniversity UJUniversity of JohannesburgUWCUniversity of the Western CapeUP-TuksUniversity of PretoriaCPUTCape Peninsula University of TechnologyUnivenUniversity of VendaTUTTshwane University of TechnologyWitsUniversity of the WitwatersrandNWU MafikengNorth-West University
The teams were split into two groups as follows:
Group AGroup B UP-Tuks TUT UWC Univen CPUT NWU UJ Wits
Round robin stage Group A
Group B
Knockout stages In the knockout stage, extra-time and a penalty shoot-out will be used to decide the winner if necessary.
Bracket
7th-place match
5th-place match
Semi-finals
Final
Awards The following players were rated best in the tournament: AwardPlayerTeamFNB player of the tournament Thabiso SenyatsiTUT Suzuki Golden BootThato MofoloUJCashbuild Golden GloveManana MyekiUJ
Sponsors The tournament was sponsored by:
First National Bank Suzuki Cashbuild SportPesa
References