Green Buffaloes Women’s Football Club has been grouped with Double Action Ladies of Botswana, Defense Force of Lesotho, and Ntopwa F.C. of Malawi for the 2023 CAF Women’s Champions League/COSAFA Qualifier.
Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa are in Group B together with Young Buffaloes of Eswatini, Olympic de Moroni of Comoros, and Costa de Sol of Mozambique.
Green Buffaloes, the Zambian women’s league champions are the current COSAFA Championship defending champions and will be hoping to replicate last year’s performance when they defeated South African giants Mamelodi Sundowns on post-match penalties.
The top two teams from groups A and B will advance to the regional tournament’s semifinals, to be stage in Durban, South Africa from August 30 to September 8.
The regional champions will automatically qualify for the CAF Champions League, which will take place in Ivory Coast from November 5–19.
One team to represent Southern Africa.
The Southern Africa will only have one team participating this year. This is because the region did not produce the winner of the CAF champions League.
Last year, Sundowns qualified to the tournament as CAF champions league holders while GBWFC qualified on account of having won the COSAFA Championship.
Buffaloes is going to the regional tournament with a new coach Beauty Mwamba, after long serving coach Charles Haalubono joined Tanzanian giants Yanga princesses.
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Mwamba was the assistant coach to Haalubono during last year’s tournament when GBWFC emerged victorious.
