Football - Soccer - COSAFA Cup - Statistics

• Summary by team since 1997

  Team	Victories	First Victory	Last Victory
  Zimbabwe	6	2000	2018
  Zambia	6	1997	2022
  South Africa	5	2002	2021
  Angola	3	1999	2004
  Namibia	1	2015	2015

• Winners and finalists since 1997

  Team	Winners	Finalists
  Zambia	6	6
  Zimbabwe	6	3
  South Africa	5	0
  Angola	3	1
  Namibia	1	3
  Mozambique		2
  Botswana		2
  Malawi		2
  Senegal		1
  Lesotho		1
  Eswatini
  Madagascar
  Tanzania

• Various statistics since 2008
  
  

  Number of appearances

  1	Botswana	10
  2	Eswatini	10
  3	Lesotho	10
  4	Malawi	10
  5	Mozambique	10
  6	Namibia	10
  7	South Africa	10
  8	Zambia	10
  9	Mauritius	9
  10	Seychelles	9

  Number of matches

  1	Eswatini	35
  2	Lesotho	35
  3	Botswana	35
  4	Namibia	33
  5	South Africa	32
  6	Mozambique	32
  7	Zambia	32
  8	Malawi	31
  9	Zimbabwe	30
  10	Madagascar	26

  Games per appearance

  1	Senegal	4.5
  2	Tanzania	4.5
  3	Madagascar	4.3
  4	Botswana	3.5
  5	Eswatini	3.5
  6	Lesotho	3.5
  7	Namibia	3.3
  8	Zimbabwe	3.3
  9	Comoros	3.2
  10	Mozambique	3.2

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  Wins

  1	South Africa	18
  2	Namibia	17
  3	Zambia	14
  4	Zimbabwe	14
  5	Botswana	12
  6	Eswatini	12
  7	Lesotho	12
  8	Mozambique	12
  9	Madagascar	11
  10	Malawi	9

  Number of wins in games played

  1	South Africa	56 %
  2	Namibia	52 %
  3	Zimbabwe	47 %
  4	Zambia	44 %
  5	Madagascar	42 %
  6	Mozambique	38 %
  7	Botswana	34 %
  8	Eswatini	34 %
  9	Lesotho	34 %
  10	Dem. Rep. of the Congo	33 %

  Drawn matches

  1	Eswatini	13
  2	Malawi	13
  3	South Africa	12
  4	Zimbabwe	12
  5	Botswana	11
  6	Lesotho	11
  7	Zambia	10
  8	Madagascar	7
  9	Mozambique	7
  10	Namibia	7

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  Losses

  1	Seychelles	20
  2	Mauritius	16
  3	Mozambique	13
  4	Botswana	12
  5	Lesotho	12
  6	Comoros	10
  7	Eswatini	10
  8	Malawi	9
  9	Namibia	9
  10	Madagascar	8

  Number of losses in games played

  1	Angola U-20	100 %
  2	Ghana	100 %
  3	Seychelles	77 %
  4	Mauritius	67 %
  5	Comoros	63 %
  6	Angola	44 %
  7	Tanzania	44 %
  8	Mozambique	41 %
  9	Botswana	34 %
  10	Lesotho	34 %

  Number of ties in games played

  1	Uganda	100 %
  2	Senegal	44 %
  3	Malawi	42 %
  4	Zimbabwe	40 %
  5	South Africa	38 %
  6	Eswatini	37 %
  7	Dem. Rep. of the Congo	33 %
  8	Kenya	33 %
  9	Tanzania	33 %
  10	Botswana	31 %

• All time table since 2008

  (Based on W=3 pts, D=1 pts and L=0 pts)

  	Team	S	Firs	Best	Pts	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	diff
  1	South Africa	10	2008	1st	66	32	18	12	2	46	16	+30
  2	Namibia	10	2008	1st	58	33	17	7	9	44	25	+19
  3	Zimbabwe	9	2008	1st	54	30	14	12	4	54	29	+25
  4	Zambia	10	2008	1st	52	32	14	10	8	40	30	+10
  5	Eswatini	10	2008	3rd	49	35	12	13	10	41	36	+5
  6	Botswana	10	2008	2nd	47	35	12	11	12	43	36	+7
  7	Lesotho	10	2008	3rd	47	35	12	11	12	41	46	-5
  8	Mozambique	10	2008	2nd	43	32	12	7	13	30	39	-9
  9	Madagascar	6	2008	3rd	40	26	11	7	8	29	24	+5
  10	Malawi	10	2008	-	40	31	9	13	9	31	28	+3
  11	Angola	7	2009	-	19	16	5	4	7	13	17	-4
  12	Mauritius	9	2008	-	16	24	4	4	16	16	44	-28
  13	Senegal	2	2021	2nd	13	9	3	4	2	13	12	+1
  14	Comoros	5	2008	-	12	16	3	3	10	11	26	-15
  15	Tanzania	2	2015	3rd	9	9	2	3	4	6	9	-3
  16	Seychelles	9	2008	-	8	26	1	5	20	17	54	-37
  17	Kenya	1	2013	-	4	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1
  18	Dem. Rep. of the Congo	1	2016	4th	4	3	1	1	1	1	1	0
  19	Uganda	1	2019	-	2	2	0	2	0	1	1	0
  20	Angola U-20	1	2008	-	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	-1
  21	Ghana	1	2015	-	0	2	0	0	2	1	5	-4

General Informations

• First edition : 1997
• Editions : 21 (including 2022)
• Official name : COSAFA Senior Challenge
• Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COSAFA_Cup
• Organiser : Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA)
• Official website : http://www.cosafa.com/
• First winner : Zambia
• Most wins : Zimbabwe, Zambia (6)
• Most recent winner : Zambia