{"id":241162,"date":"2026-08-15T20:03:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T18:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-stands-to-gain-from-caf-women-qualifiers\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T20:03:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T18:03:56","slug":"botswana-stands-to-gain-from-caf-women-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-stands-to-gain-from-caf-women-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana Stands to Gain From CAF Women Qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Gaborone \u2014 Hosting the CAF Women&#8217;s Champions League COSAFA qualifier will provide Botswana with an opportunity to showcase its ability to host major regional football competitions while giving local supporters the chance to watch some of Southern Africa&#8217;s leading women clubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Speaking at a press briefing on Wednesday, Botswana Football Association President, Tariq Babitseng said the tournament would be the sixth staging of the COSAFA qualifier, which was introduced in 2021 to determine the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608140160.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Gaborone \u2014 Hosting the CAF Women&#8217;s Champions League COSAFA qualifier will provide Botswana with an opportunity to showcase its ability to host major regional football competitions while giving local supporters the chance to watch some of Southern Africa&#8217;s leading women clubs. Speaking at a press briefing on Wednesday, Botswana Football Association President, Tariq Babitseng said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,3742,13802,257,7318,254,6443,6524],"class_list":["post-241162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-caf","tag-gain","tag-news","tag-qualifiers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stands","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241162","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=241162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}