The 2008
COSAFA Cup is the 12th edition of the football tournament that involves teams from Southern
Africa.
Due to their internal competitions calendar,
Angola decided to send their under-20 national team to play in this tournament [1][2] and South Africa will play with a
"Development XI"; therefore matches involving Angola and South Africa will not count towards FIFA ranking according to FIFA.[3]
Angola, Zambia, South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Botswana were seeded directly for the quarter-finals according to
FIFA World Rankings of April 2008. This decision was made 21 May 2008 and confirmed on 7 July 2008.[13][14] The actual draw for the 2 qualifying groups and the quarter-finals according to these seeds was held on 10 June 2008.