KZN to host African schools’ football championship
There will be a boys' and a girls' competition that will each contain seven teams – six from each zone and an extra place for the hosts, the South African Football Association (SAFA).
The CAF African Schools Football Championship Continental final will take centre-stage in Durban from April 5 to 8 where the best teams from the six Confederation of African Football zones will battle it out to be crowned overall champions.
It will be a celebration of schools’ football on the continent and a chance for the young players, aged between 12 and 15, to create memories that will last a lifetime.
There will be a boys’ and a girls’ competition that will each contain seven teams – six from each zone and an extra place for the hosts, the South African Football Association (SAFA).
As SAFA sides, both won their regional COSAFA qualifiers, and so the extra places in fact go to the runners-up in those preliminaries.
Let’s take a closer look at how the continental finals will work:
Girls’ competition – the qualifiers:
Ecole Omar Ibn Khatab (Morocco)
Scan Aid (The Gambia)
CEG Colby (Benin)
CEG Mfilou (Congo-Brazzaville)
Fountain Gate Dodoma Secondary School (Tanzania)
Anse Boileau (Seychelles)
Edendale Technical High School (South Africa)
The groups:
The teams will be drawn into two pools, Group A and Group B. Edendale Technical will be the seeded team in Group A, which will contain three teams.
The teams will play each other in a round-robin format, with the top two sides in each pool advancing to the semi-finals.
The top team in Group A will play the runner-up in Group B in the semi-finals, and vice-versa.
The winners of those semis meet in the final, while the losers will play in a bronze-medal fixture to decide who finishes third.
The draw has yet to be made for the matches, which will all be played at the King Zwelithini Stadium in Umlazi, south of Durban.
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