The Sasol-sponsored Banyana Banyana have been drawn in Group G of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 to be played in Australia and New Zealand. The draw was held in Auckland/Tāmaki Makaurau earlier today (Saturday, 22 October 2022). The reigning African champions will battle it out with Sweden, Italy and Argentina for a chance to move […]
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The Draw takes place in Auckland on Saturday 22 October, Aotea Centre, Auckland/Tāmaki Makaurau. 32 teams will be allocated to eight groups and learn whether they will be based in Australia or New Zealand How to watch: The Draw will be streamed live on FIFA+. The teams: Qualified teams (29): Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China PR, […]
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The world football governing body, FIFA, has unveiled the Official Mascot of the FIFA Women’s World that will be held in Australia and New Zealand next year. For more on the story: https://www.fifa.com/fifaplus/en/articles/tazuni-2023-womens-world-cup-official-mascot Source: FIFA.com
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President of the South African Football Association (SAFA), Dr Danny Jordaan, is on a mission to sell this country’s bid to host the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Dr Jordaan, alongside Dr Irvin Khoza and Dr Molefi Oliphant, was instrumental in getting South Africa to be the first African nation to host a FIFA World […]
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The Tanzania U17 Women’s National Team made history by becoming the first Tanzanian team to feature in any FIFA competition. The Serengethi Girls continued to break new ground after they progressed to the knockout stages of the FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup currently underway in India. After a disappointing 4-0 loss to Japan in the […]
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KwaZulu-Natal Sasol League Champions, Lindelani Ladies, showed their intentions of winning the 2022 Play-offs when they emerged the biggest winners on Day 1 of the tournament held in Polokwane. Lindelani eased past Royal Wizards, Northern Cape’s representative, in a 6-0 demolition job. In this opening match of the week-long competition, Zethembiso Vilakazi grabbed a hat […]
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Despite suffering an ACL injury and sitting out the last few months of the season, Spain’s Alexia Putella had done enough to convince the judges to name her the world’s best female player – becoming the first woman to claim back to back Ballon d’Or titles. Before being felled by injury in July, the Barcelona […]
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The Sasol-sponsored Banyana Banyana retained their second position on the continent and 54th in the latest FIFA/Coca Cola Women’s World Rankings released today (Thursday, 13 October 2022). Despite lifting their maiden continental title in July, the South Africans were not able to unseat Africa’s number one team, Nigeria who moved just one step up to 45 […]
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The draw for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Play-off tournament is scheduled to take place on Friday, 14 October 2022. Ten teams will complete for the remaining three slots for next year’s women’s football showpiece. The play-offs will be played in Aotearoa in New Zealand from 17-23 February 2023. The ten teams will come […]
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The Sasol-sponsored Banyana Banyana will not be in action until the new year – when preparations for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup move up a gear. And by that time, they will know the identity of their opponents in Australia and New Zealand as the draw will be held in about two weeks’ time […]