{"id":229407,"date":"2026-04-03T14:19:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zimbabwe-zambia-zimbabwe-zambia-learn-their-pool-opponents-at-caf-african-schools-football-championship\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:19:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:19:54","slug":"zimbabwe-zambia-zimbabwe-zambia-learn-their-pool-opponents-at-caf-african-schools-football-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zimbabwe-zambia-zimbabwe-zambia-learn-their-pool-opponents-at-caf-african-schools-football-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe\/Zambia: Zimbabwe, Zambia Learn Their Pool Opponents At CAF African Schools Football Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Exciting group stage encounters have been confirmed for the CAF African Schools Football Championship Zimbabwe 2026 following the official draw held in Harare on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Hosts Zimbabwe headline a competitive Group A in both the boys&#8217; and girls&#8217; competitions, setting up highly anticipated clashes against some of the continent&#8217;s strongest emerging football nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">In the girls&#8217; tournament, Zimbabwe will face Morocco, Zambia and DR Congo, while defending champions Ghana are set for a challenging&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604030124.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting group stage encounters have been confirmed for the CAF African Schools Football Championship Zimbabwe 2026 following the official draw held in Harare on Thursday. Hosts Zimbabwe headline a competitive Group A in both the boys&#8217; and girls&#8217; competitions, setting up highly anticipated clashes against some of the continent&#8217;s strongest emerging football nations. In the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":229408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,4380,3742,6843,3299,8334,257,12554,17028,6756,254,4709,881,4686,11856],"class_list":["post-229407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-caf","tag-championship","tag-football","tag-learn","tag-news","tag-opponents","tag-pool","tag-schools","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwezambia"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}