{"id":60883,"date":"2024-11-18T09:14:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T07:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=60883"},"modified":"2024-11-18T09:14:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T07:14:07","slug":"uj-soweto-campus-stadium-to-host-the-u20-womens-cosafa-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=60883","title":{"rendered":"UJ Soweto Campus Stadium to host the u20 Women&#8217;s Cosafa Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-60887\" src=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Cosafa-Logo-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/>Five nations will be on the hunt for the <strong>u20 Women&#8217;s Cosafa Championship <\/strong>title when the competition kicks off at the<strong> University of Johannesburg<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>(UJ) Soweto Campus Stadium <\/strong>on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>South Africa <\/strong>will be up against <strong>Lesotho<\/strong>, <strong>Zambia<\/strong>, <strong>Mozambique<\/strong>, and <strong>Botswana <\/strong>to determine which is the best u20 team in southern Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament follows a round-robin format and runs from 19-24 November.<\/p>\n<p>Lesotho and Zambia will get the ball rolling with a midday kickoff on Tuesday, with the hosts making their bow at 15:00 against Mozambique.\u00a0Botswana joins the action on Wednesday, taking on Mozambique at 12:00.<\/p>\n<p>The 15:00 match on Wednesday, between South Africa and Zambia, is expected to be one of the highlights of the tournament. Those two teams have a longstanding rivalry and the outcome of that contest could prove crucial in determining which country secures the title.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday will be a rest day, to be followed by three days of matches, culminating in South Africa facing Botswana at 15:00 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FIXTURES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>19 November<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>12:00 &#8211; Lesotho vs Zambia<br \/>\n15:00 &#8211; South Africa vs Mozambique<\/p>\n<p><strong>20 November<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>12:00 &#8211; Botswana vs Mozambique<br \/>\n15:00 &#8211; South Africa vs Zambia<\/p>\n<p><strong>22 November<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>12:00 &#8211; Botswana vs Zambia<br \/>\n15:00 &#8211; South Africa vs Lesotho<\/p>\n<p><strong>23 November\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>12:00 &#8211; Zambia vs Mozambique<br \/>\n15:00 &#8211; Lesotho vs Botswana<\/p>\n<p><strong>24 November\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>12:00 &#8211; Mozambique vs Lesotho<br \/>\n15:00 &#8211; South Africa vs Botswana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five nations will be on the hunt for the u20 Women&#8217;s Cosafa Championship title when the competition kicks off at the University of Johannesburg&#8216;s (UJ) Soweto Campus Stadium on Tuesday. South Africa will be up against Lesotho, Zambia, Mozambique, and Botswana to determine which is the best u20 team in southern Africa. The tournament follows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":60887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}