Historic Cosafa Senior Men’s Championship draw done

The 18^th edition of the COSAFA Cup will make history as for the first time all 14 members of the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations will take part in the regional showpiece competition to be staged in South Africa’s Limpopo province from May 27 to June 9.

Zimbabwe return as defending champions having claimed a record fifth COSAFA Cup title in South Africa last year and they will face the winner of Group B in the quarterfinals, which contains powerhouse Angola, Botswana, Mauritius and Malawi.

Hosts South Africa will take on the winner of Group A, which contains Mozambique, Madagascar, Comoros Islands and Seychelles. The other two quarterfinals will see four-time winners Zambia clash with Namibia and Lesotho take on Swaziland.

South Africa and Zambia have each claimed four titles in the COSAFA Cup competition before, while Angola have three and Namibia celebrated their single success in 2015.