| Tourney Name: | COSAFA Women's Championship |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Dates: | 3–14 November 2020 |
| Num Teams: | 10 |
| Confederations: | 1 |
| Venues: | 2 |
| Cities: | 1 |
| Count: | 7 |
| Matches: | 15 |
| Goals: | 64 |
| Top Scorer: | Sibulele Holweni (8 goals) |
| Prevseason: | 2019 |
| Nextseason: | 2021 |
The 2020 COSAFA Women's Championship is the eighth edition of the COSAFA Women's Championship, a women's international football tournament for national teams organised by COSAFA, teams from Southern Africa. It takes place from 3 to 14 November in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa.
Nine of the fourteen COSAFA member took take part in the competition. Tanzania from the CECAFA region entered as guests.[1] Eswatini and Lesotho entered late because of uncertainety due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2] Namibia withdrew on 21 October 2020.[3] The draw then was held on 22 October 2020.[4]
See main article: 2020 COSAFA Women's Championship squads.
| width=33% | Groups A, B, C, Semifinals and Final | width=33% | Groups A, B, and C | width=34% rowspan=4 | |
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| KwaZakele | Port Elizabeth | ||||
| Wolfson Stadium | Gelvandale Stadium | ||||
| Capacity: 10,000 | Capacity: 3,000 |
The group stage is composed of three groups of four teams each. Group winners and the best runner-up amongst all groups advance to the semi-finals. As Group A has 4 teams, the results against the bottom-placed team in this group are not counted towards the best runner-up calculation.[5]
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1.Group B winner was originally scheduled to play the best runner-up of the group stage. But the regulations of the tournament didn't allow two teams from the same group to play against each other in the Semi-finals, and therefore the games had to be changed.[6]