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SA qualifies for the 2025 African Nations Championship after beating Malawi – SAFA.net

11 May 2025 – South Africa has qualified for the 2025 African Nations Championship (CHAN) after beating Malawi 2-0 at Loftus Stadium on Sunday afternoon. Malawi arrived in Tshwane with a confident swagger after winning the first leg 1-0 at home in Lilongwe a week ago, but the South Africans quickly found their rhythm and […]

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11 May 2025 – South Africa has qualified for the 2025 African Nations Championship (CHAN) after beating Malawi 2-0 at Loftus Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

Malawi arrived in Tshwane with a confident swagger after winning the first leg 1-0 at home in Lilongwe a week ago, but the South Africans quickly found their rhythm and opened the scoring through Victor Letsoalo in the 12th minute.

Captain Neo Maema put the issue beyond doubt when he scored the second in the 87th minute to win 2-1 on aggregate over the two legs. Coach Molefi Ntseki was elated after securing qualification to the continental tournament to be co-hosted for the first time by three East African countries – Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda – in August 2025.

“My voice might not be what I want it to be, but I think it is out of the celebration that we have been doing after we qualified for the CHAN tournament after a period of 12 years,” he said.

“This is for the country, this is for SAFA, this is for all the players that were part of the first and second leg against Egypt, the first leg against Malawi, and now the second leg where we came out victorious and qualified the country to go and play in the CHAN tournament.

“The most important thing was for us to call all the players that we have today in the camp, even though the first group of players that we sent callups to could not make it in the first leg against Malawi. Those who reported for camp did their best, and then we managed to play the game until the 87th minute, of which our game management in terms of our concentration levels dropped a bit, and then we conceded from a set-play.

“But today I think we were very resolute in terms of our technical plan, the application of each individual player who was on the pitch. So we really say thanks to the players and the whole technical team and SAFA as a whole.”

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