Green Buffaloes women’s team from Zambia will play the Double Action Ladies from Botswana in their opening match in the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Womens Champions league qualifiers/Cosafa competition at the Sugar Ray Xulu Stadium in Durban.

The Zambian Women’s League Champions begin their title defense on Wednesday this week, with eyes set to defend their crown.

Buffaloes aim to top their outstanding performance from the previous season, when they won the Cosafa Championship by defeating Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa on post-game penalties.

On the Cosafa radio show program, Green Buffaloes assistant coach Carol Kanyemba told the reporters that the squad had been well-prepared and was ready to defend its title.

“So far so good we are preparing well knowing that being defending Champions is not easy every team wants to beat the defending Champions, we know it’s not going to be an easy tournament for us, but we have tried our best to put everything in place,” she said.  

COSAFA winners to represent Southern Africa.

But before to the competition, the coach of the Green Buffaloes also fired warning shots at their rivals.

“We are going into this battle with the zeal and the morale and also progress to the CAF Championship and we will do our best,” warned Kanyemba. 

The continental tournament, which will take place in Ivory Coast from November 5–19, will only accept champions from the COSAFA competition.

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Buffaloes will play Malawian Champions Ntopwa fc before finishing their group assignment against Lesotho defence force on September 4.