South Africa national soccer B team

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.

South Africa Development team
Nickname(s)Amabinneplaas
AssociationSouth African
Football Association
ConfederationCAF (Africa)
Sub-confederationCOSAFA
Head coachSimon Ngomane
CaptainJacob Mokhasi
FIFA codeRSA
First colours
Second colours
FIFA ranking
CurrentN/A
African Nations Championship
Appearances1 (first in 2011)
Best resultQuarter-finals (2011)

Player eligibility

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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

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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

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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

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African Nations Championship record

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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

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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

Honours

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  • ^1 Prior to 2008, SAFA sent the senior national team to the COSAFA Cup.

References

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