2026 CAF Women's Champions League COSAFA Qualifiers

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Women's Champions League 2026
Tournament details
Host country	Botswana
City	Gaborone
Dates	20–29 August
Teams	8 (from 8 associations)
Venue	1 (in 1 host city)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	12
Goals scored	44 (3.67 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Lúcia Moçambique (CDS); (4 goals)
	← 2025 2027 → All statistics correct as of 25 August 2026.

The 2026 COSAFA Women's Champions League, officially known as the 2026 Hollywoodbets COSAFA Women's Champions League for sponsorship reasons, is the sixth edition of the annual international women's club football competition organized by COSAFA to decide the region's qualifier for the 2026 CAF Women's Champions League. The tournament is being held in Gaborone, Botswana, from 20 to 29 August 2026.^[1] making it the country's first hosting of a major COSAFA tournament since the 2011 COSAFA Under-20 Championship.^[2]

Gaborone United Ladies are the defending champions, having won last year's final 4–3 on penalties.^[3]

Entrants

Eight of the fourteen COSAFA member associations entered teams in the competition, with each participating association nominating one club to represent it based on sporting merit.

Team	Qualifying method	App. (last)
Gaborone United Ladies	2026 BH National Women's First Division League champions	3rd (2025)
Nsingizini Hotspurs	2025–26 Eswatini Women's League champions	1st
LDF Ladies	2025–26 Lesotho Women's Super League champions	3rd (2023)
Silver Strikers Ladies	2025–26 NBM Women's Premiership champions	1st
Costa do Sol	2025 Mozambican Campeonato Nacional de Futebol Feminino champions	4th (2025)
Mamelodi Sundowns	2025 SAFA Women's League champions	5th (2025)
ZESCO Ndola Girls	2025–26 ZPL Women's Super League champions^[4]	2nd (2025)
Herentals Queens	2025 Zimbabwe Women Premier Soccer League champions^[5]	3rd (2025)

Associations that did not enter a team:

Venue

All matches will be played in Gaborone, Botswana.

City	Venue	Capacity
Gaborone	Gaborone United Stadium (GU)	5,000

Match officials

Referees

Kealeboga Koitsiwe
Seonyatseng Tshephe
Mathapelo Morake
Élodie Livaharivony
Rose Zimba
Cacilda Fernando
Nonjabulo Ndlela
Anna Banda
Mercy Mayimbo

Assistant Referees

Kakale Mbiko
Leungo Tsogang
Fumane Mokhethi
Mphatso Mamete
Eveline Augustinus
Nandipha Menze
Beauty Siatontola
Dominica Melusi

Video assistant referees (VAR)

Assistant video assistant referees (AVAR)

Brighton Chimene

Draw

The draw for the group stage was held in Gaborone, Botswana on 4 August 2026 at 11:00 CAT (UTC+2).^[6]^[7] As the host and defending champions, Gaborone United were automatically seeded in position A1, while Mamelodi Sundowns, the highest-ranked team across the previous three editions, were automatically seeded in position B1. The remaining six teams were divided into two pots based on their rankings: the next two highest-ranked teams were placed in Pot 1, while the remaining four teams were placed in Pot 2. Two additional pots, designated Pot A and Pot B, were used to determine the group positions of teams drawn from Pots 1 and 2.

The draw began by randomly selecting a team from Pot 1, placing them into Group A, followed by another Pot 1 team being assigned to Group B. The same procedure was then repeated with the teams in Pot 2, with one team drawn into Group A and another into Group B, until all teams had been allocated.

Pot 1	Pot 2
ZESCO Ndola Girls Costa do Sol	Herentals Queens Nsingizini Hotspurs LDF Ladies Silver Strikers Ladies

The draw resulted in the following groups:

Group A
Pos	Team
A1	Gaborone United^[8]
A2	LDF Ladies
A3	ZESCO Ndola Girls
A4	Herentals Queens

Group B
Pos	Team
B1	Mamelodi Sundowns
B2	Nsingizini Hotspurs
B3	Costa do Sol
B4	Silver Strikers Ladies

Group stage

Tie-breaking criteria for the group stage
Teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria were applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings:^[9] Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams; Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams; If more than two teams were tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams were still tied, all head-to-head criteria above were reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams; Goal difference in all group matches; Goals scored in all group matches; Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points); Drawing of lots.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	ZESCO Ndola Girls	3	3	0	8	2	+6	9	Semi-finals
2	Gaborone United (H)	3	2	1	3	3	0	6	Semi-finals
3	Herentals Queens	3	1	2	3	6	−3	3
4	LDF Ladies	3	0	3	1	4	−3	0

Source: COSAFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

20 August 2026