{"id":237726,"date":"2026-06-29T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-cosafa-and-bfa-confirm-botswana-as-host-of-caf-womens-champions-league-2026-cosafa-qualifier\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T06:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T04:10:00","slug":"botswana-cosafa-and-bfa-confirm-botswana-as-host-of-caf-womens-champions-league-2026-cosafa-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-cosafa-and-bfa-confirm-botswana-as-host-of-caf-womens-champions-league-2026-cosafa-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Cosafa and BFA Confirm Botswana As Host of CAF Women&#8217;s Champions League 2026 Cosafa Qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\"><strong>The Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) and the Botswana Football Association (BFA) are pleased to confirm that Botswana will host the 2026 COSAFA Qualifier for the CAF Women&#8217;s Champions League from 6-15 August.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The tournament will bring together the leading women&#8217;s clubs from across the Southern African region, with the winners earning the right to represent COSAFA at the continental finals of the CAF Women&#8217;s Champions League 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">It will be a special occasion for Botswana&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606230626.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) and the Botswana Football Association (BFA) are pleased to confirm that Botswana will host the 2026 COSAFA Qualifier for the CAF Women&#8217;s Champions League from 6-15 August. The tournament will bring together the leading women&#8217;s clubs from across the Southern African region, with the winners earning the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":237727,"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":[2461],"tags":[258,256,12806,4718,2462,3742,14490,7041,9360,6937,7027,257,8496,254,6460],"class_list":["post-237726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bfa","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-caf","tag-champions","tag-confirm","tag-cosafa","tag-host","tag-league","tag-news","tag-qualifier","tag-south-africa-today","tag-womens"],"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\/237726","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=237726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}