South Africa national development soccer team

South Africa Development team

Nickname(s)	Amabinneplaas
Association	South African Football Association
Confederation	CAF (Africa)
Sub-confederation	COSAFA
Head coach	Simon Ngomane
Captain	Jacob Mokhasi
FIFA code	RSA
First colours Second colours
FIFA ranking
Current	N/A
African Nations Championship
Appearances	1 (first in 2011)
Best result	Quarter-finals (2011)

The South Africa national development football team, is a development football (soccer) team, which represents South Africa and is controlled by the South African Football Association, the governing body for football in South Africa. The team's main objective is to give international exposure to fringe home-based players, by allowing them to play 'B-level' internationals. Since the advent of the African Nations Championship, the team now attempts to qualify for and play at the event. Since 2008 SAFA have sent the team to the COSAFA Cup, instead of the senior team. The team has played at one African Nations Championship and two COSAFA Cups.

Player eligibility

African Championship of Nations regulations require teams to be made up only of players from the association's national leagues. As the team is not an official national team, and does not play in FIFA sanctioned tournaments, clubs are not required to release players for matches. Usually the only Premier Soccer League players released are non-squad members. Many players are selected from the National First Division (second tier) and Vodacom League (third tier).^{[citation needed]}

Match status

Matches played by the team are not classified as 'A-level' internationals. Thus caps awarded for matches do not count as senior national team caps. Matches played by the team also do not count towards FIFA ranking points, even when the team plays other countries' senior national teams.

Recent and future matches

Recent results

Date	Team	Result	Score	Type	Venue
18 February 2011	Algeria A	L	0–2	2011 CHAN quarter-final	Khartoum Stadium, Khartoum, Sudan
13 February 2011	Zimbabwe	W	2–1	2011 CHAN group match	AlHilal Stadium, Omdurman, Sudan
9 February 2011	Niger	W	2–0	2011 CHAN group match	Stade Wad Medani, Wad Medani, Sudan
5 February 2011	Ghana	W	2–1	2011 CHAN group match	Stade Wad Medani, Wad Medani, Sudan
22 January 2011	Sweden	D	1–1	Friendly	Mbombela Stadium, Nelspruit, South Africa

Tournament records

African Nations Championship record

Hosts/Year	Result	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA
2009	Did not qualify	–	–	–	–	–	–
2011	Quarter-finals	4	3	0	1	6	4
Total	1/2	4	3	0	1	6	4

COSAFA Cup record

Hosts/Year	Result	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA
2008	Champions	3	3	0	0	4	1
2009	Fourth Place	3	1	1	1	3	2
Total	2/2	6	4	1	1	7	3

• Before the 2008 tournament, SAFA sent the senior team.

Honours

• COSAFA Cup: 1

2008¹

References

External links

• South Africa FA official website

This page was last edited on 28 December 2023, at 09:32