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 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. South Africa won the tournament defeating Mozambique 2-1 in the final.

Qualifying

Took place between 19–24 July, group winners qualified for the final tournament.

Group A

Group B

Final tournament

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. The actual draw for the 2 qualifying groups and the quarter-finals according to these seeds was held on 10 June 2008.

Quarter finals

Semi finals

3rd Place Match

Final

Scorers