2021 COSAFA Women’s Champions League

2021 COSAFA Women's Champions League
Tournament details
Host country	South Africa [1]
Dates	26 August–4 September
Teams	7 (from 7 associations)
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The 2021 COSAFA Women's Champions League is the 1st edition of the COSAFA women's club football championship organised by the COSAFA for the women's clubs of association nations. This edition will held from 26 August–4 September 2021.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] It will be hosted by South Africa [2].

The winner of the tournament will qualify for the first ever CAF Women's Champions League which will held later this year.

Participating teams

The following seven teams will contest in the league.

Team	Appearances	Previous best performance
Buffaloes FC	1st	n/a
Black Rhino Queens FC	1st	n/a
Double Actions Ladies	1st	n/a
Lesotho Lesotho Defense Force	1st	n/a
Mamelodi Sundowns Ladies FC	1st	n/a
Manzini Wonderers LFC	1st	n/a
Turu Magic	1st	n/a

Draw

The draw ceremony of the championship was held on 29 July 2021 11:00 local time at Johannesburg, South Africa.^[6]

Group summary

Group A	Group B
Mamelodi Sundowns Lesotho Defence Force LFC Double Action Ladies Manzi Wanderers LFC	Green Buffaloes LFC Tura Magic LFC Black Queens Rhino

Group stage

Key to colours in group tables
	Group winners and runners-up advance to the Knockout stage

Tiebreakers

Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tiebreaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings.

Points in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goal difference in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
Goals scored in head-to-head matches among tied teams;
If more than two teams are tied, and after applying all head-to-head criteria above, a subset of teams are still tied, all head-to-head criteria above are reapplied exclusively to this subset of teams;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Goals scored in all group matches;
Penalty shoot-out if only two teams are tied and they met in the last round of the group;
Disciplinary points (yellow card = 1 point, red card as a result of two yellow cards = 3 points, direct red card = 3 points, yellow card followed by direct red card = 4 points);
Drawing of lots.

Group A

Pos	Team	Status
1	Mamelodi Sundowns	Qualified for Knockout stage
2	Lesotho Defence Force LFC	Qualified for Knockout stage
3	Double Action Ladies
4	Manzini Wanderers