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13 December 2025 – After qualifying for the 2026 FIFA World Cup almost two months ago, Bafana Bafana are back in camp preparing for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament to be held in Morocco later this month. The South African Football Association (SAFA) has moved to address growing misconceptions in the media
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13 December 2025 – The South African Under-20 women’s national team has concluded a training camp that was held at the SAFA Technical Centre in the south of Johannesburg. The training camp marked a highly productive and encouraging phase in the squad’s preparation for their upcoming international matches. Basetsana assembled in Johannesburg this week as
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13 December 2025 – The South African Football Association (SAFA) Girls Academy is pleased to invite players born in 2012, 2013 and 2014 to attend player assessment trials this weekend as part of our ongoing talent identification program. The link is below.
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10 December 2025 – Bafana Bafana will host Ghana at the Dobsonville Stadium in their final match before departure to the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Morocco later this month. The South African men’s senior national team will welcome the West Africans to Soweto on Tuesday, 16 December 2025 and then depart for Morocco
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8 December 2025 – Bafana Bafana will face Ghana next week in their final match in South Africa ahead of their departure to this month’s Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Morocco. Coach Hugo Broos’ charges will host the West Africans in Gauteng on Tuesday, 16 December 2025 at a venue that will be announced
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On the evening of 21 December 2025, a football match will kick off between Morocco and Comoros in Rabat. It will be the opening game of the 35th edition of the TotalEnergies CAF African Cup of Nations (TotalEnergies CAF AFCON) tournament. The game will have an audience of millions.
There will likely be a full house of 68,000-odd fans at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium, but the overwhelming majority of fans will watch the game via streaming and television, from across the African continent – and the world.
At the previous TotalEnergies CAF AFCON tournament in 2024, the semi-final match between South Africa and Nigeria had a record-breaking audience (https://apo-opa.co/4rJl26Z) of 10.3 million. The tournament itself had an estimated cumulative total viewership of 1.4 billion TV viewers.
The sale of broadcast rights to reach this enormous audience provides the income that makes the tournament possible. Media businesses invest billions in securing the feed for their home markets. In sub-Saharan Africa, those rights (https://apo-opa.co/4iGjuXm) have been secured by MultiChoice, a CANAL+ company, through SuperSport, its sports broadcasting affiliate.
Beyond rights payments, media investment sustains an entire economy that runs for the duration of the month-long tournament. Film crews, accommodation, logistics, and catering are hired by broadcast teams.
Media funds football
Broadcast licence fees also finance the Confederation of African Football (CAF) itself, the body that administers football on the continent. In many ways, media coverage funds football. Revenue from broadcast rights underpin the development programmes that find talent at youth level, and help to nurture it.
Media income funds infrastructure that makes football possible – the fields, the kits, the match officials, the transport, the administrators. At the top level, media income funds national teams, the coaching teams, and the elite training camps, so they can attend the continental showpiece, where they carry hopes and dreams of their nations.
However, the entire football edifice is a precarious one, heavily dependent on the ability of official media partners to recoup the multi-million-dollar costs of broadcast rights. If broadcaster income from subscriptions, contracts and pay-per-view sales does not cover rights fees, then ultimately, football dies.
Only large media businesses, with the advantage of regional scale, are able to fund the costs of media sports coverage. Perversely, their business model is threatened because the same sports events they bring to their viewers are prime targets of content piracy.
Viewers might not see the harm of accessing a pirate stream, but the impact runs deep. Where a subscription paid to a legitimate rightsholder would help to fund African football, any income earned by a pirate stream goes directly to criminal syndicates in other parts of the world.
Content piracy undermines football. It robs football associations of the funding they desperately need to survive, to develop youth structures and to compete at the highest level. It's therefore critical that sports fans understand the damage they do to the sport they supposedly love when they use pirate streams.
The impact is global. In Spain, LaLiga (https://apo-opa.co/4oC1TRL) reported that audiovisual fraud was costing Spanish football €600 and €700-million. In the UK, the Premier League blocked more than 600,000 illegal live streams (https://apo-opa.co/4pt6VRU) in a single season in its fight against piracy.
Pirate websites also place users at risk, exposing them to malware, hacking and identity theft, as well as unwanted pop-ups, viruses, fraud and adult content. When football content is spread across hundreds of thousands of sites, it also becomes harder to measure audiences, and makes the sport less attractive to sponsors.
Fight to save the game
Helping to fight sports piracy and keep football alive are initiatives such as Partners Against Piracy, which work to strengthen legal frameworks to prosecute pirate sites and pirate users, and to educate fans about the consequences of piracy.
Cybersecurity organisations like Irdeto harness tech and digital solutions (https://apo-opa.co/4aB6nog) to protect streams and track the source and the users of pirate feeds. For instance, a new innovation enables continuous renewal of authentication keys, which degrades the pirate experience and shifts users back to legal platforms.
The best partner in the fight to save football from piracy is the African public. Knowing how piracy destroys the football ecosystem empowers fans to make ethical choices in how they support their sport and makes them more likely to access games through legitimate channels.
As a fan, when you watch football content, the choice is yours: Will you be part of destroying football, or building it up? Choose wisely, the future of your sport depends on it.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of MultiChoice Group.
4 December 2025 — Following a heartfelt and inspiring send-off ceremony hosted by the South African Football Association (SAFA) and the Department of Sport, the Department of Education, the SA U15 Boys and Girls national teams are now on their way to Stellenbosch to compete in the ASFC 2025 – COSAFA Qualifiers. The event will
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4 December 2025 – A South African Football Association (SAFA) delegation led by President Dr Danny Jordaan will attend the 2026 FIFA World Cup Draw in Washington DC in the United States of America this week. The global tournament will be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico from 11 June – 19 July
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04 December 2025 – Sasol Banyana Banyana rounded off the year 2025 in fine style after beating Morocco 2-0 at Stade D’Agadir this week. Goals from Nonhlanhla Mthandi and Noxolo Cesane in the second half ensured that the South African senior women’s national team turned the tables on their stubborn hosts on Tuesday night. The
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1 December 2025 – Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos will travel to Washington DC, in the United States of America, to attend the draw for the 2026 FIFA World Cup draw this week. Broos will join several coaches and officials from the 48 countries that have qualified for the tournament to be held in the
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1 December 2025 – As Sasol Banyana Banyana gather for their final camp of the year, defender Bambanani Mbane reflects on the atmosphere within the squad, the lessons of a challenging year, and the significance of facing an ever-improving Morocco. With several new players joining the team, the camp has taken on an added sense of
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26 November 2025 – Sasol Banyana Banyana coach Dr Desiree Ellis expects a physical battle when her charges face Morocco away from home in the North African country next week. Dr Ellis’ charges will face the Moroccans at a venue still to be confirmed on Tuesday 2 December 2025. The coach will use the match
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25 November 2025 – Sasol Banyana Banyana have officially reconvened for national team duty as they assemble for the final international window of 2025. The Senior Women’s National Team returned to camp this week with renewed energy and focus, fresh from securing qualification for the 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) last month. A
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21 November 2025 – Sasol Banyana Banyana will face Morocco in an away international friendly match to be played in the North African country next month. Coach Dr Desiree Ellis’ charges will face the Moroccans at a venue still to be confirmed on Tuesday 2 December 2025. Dr Ellis will announce her squad for the
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17 November 2025 – The South African Football Association’s (SAFA) Referees Department, in conjunctionwith the VAR Project Team, has noted the recent keen public interest and discussions regarding the implementation of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system in South African football. The Department wishes to provide the following clarity:
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16 November 2025 – The South African U17 Men’s National Team bowed out of the FIFA U17 World Cup 2025 following a 3-0 defeat to Japan at the Aspire Zone Complex in Doha, Qatar, on Saturday. Amajimbos showed great determination, bravery and character by going toe-to-toe with their East Asian counterparts and could have scored
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15 November 2025 – Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos paid tribute to Teboho Mokoena after the midfielder earned his 50th cap during a comfortable 3-1 win against Zambia in an international friendly match played at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, on Saturday. Goals from Oswin Appollis, Mohau Nkota and Sphephelo Sithole
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15 November 2025 – Midfield maestro Teboho Mokoena has come a long way in his eight years with the South African senior men’s national team, Bafana Bafana. Few would have noticed when he ran out on his debut against Southern Africa neighbours Botswana in the African Nations Championship (CHAN) qualifier played at the Francistown Stadium on
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15 November 2025 – Bafana Bafana return to action when they host Zambia in an international friendly match at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, on Saturday. Kick-off is at 15h00. This match is part of coach Hugo Broos’ preparations for the Africa Cup on Nations (AFCON) in Morocco at the end
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14 November 2025 – Bafana Bafana captain Ronwen Williams returns home to Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, on Saturday to lead the South African senior men’s national team against Zambia at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in an international friendly match that will be anything but cordial. Kickoff is at 15h00. Williams said the Bafana Bafana players
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11 November 2025 – South African Football Association (SAFA) President Dr Danny Jordaan has applauded Amajimbos for progressing to the Round of 32 at the FIFA U17 Men’s World Cup in Doha, Qatar. The South Africans managed a win, a draw and a defeat in their three group stage matches, and the four points were
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10 November 2025 – Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos says the team will be approaching Saturday’s international friendly match against Zambia with the same focus and mentality they usually have for FIFA World Cup and Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers. The 2026 FIFA World Cup-bound South African senior men’s national team will host regional
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7 November 2025 – The South African U17 Men’s National team remains on track for a spot in the Round of 32 at the FIFA U17 World Cup 2025 underway in Doha, Qatar. Amajimbos were held to a 1-1 draw by the hosts at a packed Aspire Zone Complex on Thursday. Among others, the match
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6 November 2025 – Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos has named his final squad for the international friendly match against Zambia this month. The 2026 FIFA World Cup-bound South African senior men’s national team will host regional neighbours Zambia at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in the Eastern Cape on Saturday, 15 November 2025 as
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