BOTSWANA

Year of formation: 1970 Affiliation FIFA: 1976 Affiliation CAF:6 National Stadium: National Stadium, Gaborone (30 000) National Colours: Blue - White / Blue - White - Black / Blue - White and Black stripes

 

Botswana have been showing a marked improvement in the Cosafa Castle Cup but have only in 2006 reached the semifinals of the competition. They achieved this as winners of Group B in May, beating South Africa on penalties. Last year they lost to Zimbabwe in their group final play-off in Windhoek and in the two years before that were beaten at the quarter-final stage on post-match penalties – to Malawi in 2003 and Angola the year after. It was in 2003 that Botswana finally ended their search for the ‘Holy Grail’ when their seven-year run without a win in the Cosafa Castle Cup was broken. They had long been the only country of the original entrants to the tournament never to win a game. An early goal from Tshepiso Molwantwa in their first round match away against Namibia in Windhoek finally broke the duck. Botswana is the seat of the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations but it has been handicapped over the years by the country’s sparse population. Botswana remains one of Africa’s richest and most political stable countries and is also the seat now of the regional offices for the FIFA GOAL project. They hosted the African under-17 championship in 1997 and have a member on the FIFA executive committee in Cosafa president Ismail Bhamjee.

 

DATE	VENUE	OPPONENT	RESULT	GOALSCORERS
1-3-97	Gaborone	MALAWI	1-4	Lesupi (pen)
25-1-98	Gaborone	MOZAMBIQUE	1-2	Molwantwa
20-2-99	Gaborone	SOUTH AFRICA	1-2	Selolwane
30-5-99	Gaborone	MOZAMBIQUE	0-2
25-3-00	Lusaka	ZAMBIA	0-3
17-3-01	Gaborone	MALAWI	0-1
30-3-02	Gaborone	SOUTH AFRICA	0-0
16-3-03	Windhoek	NAMIBIA	1-0	Molwantwa
25-5-03	Gaborone	MALAWI	1-1	Ntshingane
29-2-04	Maseru	LESOTHO	0-0
18-7-04	Luanda	ANGOLA	1-1	Motlhabankwe
16-4-05	Windhoek	NAMIBIA	1-1	Moatlhaping
17-4-05	Windhoek	ZIMBABWE	0-2
20-5-06	Gaborone	MADAGASCAR	2-0	Moatlhaping, Mothibane
21-5-06	Gaborone	SOUTH AFRICA	0-0
19-8-06	Lusaka	ZAMBIA	0-1

 

RECORD

	P	W	D	L	F	A
Home	9	1	3	5	6	12
Away	7	1	3	3	3	8
Total	16	2	6	8	9	20