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Today marks 33 years since the first-ever Bafana Bafana match – South African Football Association

07 July 2025 – Today marks 33 years since the first-ever Bafana Bafana match against Cameroon in Durban and the South African Football Association (SAFA) is launching a supporter travel package to the Africa Cup of Nations 2025 in Morocco at the end of the year. The package will afford fans with an opportunity to

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07 July 2025 – Today marks 33 years since the first-ever Bafana Bafana match against Cameroon in Durban and the South African Football Association (SAFA) is launching a supporter travel package to the Africa Cup of Nations 2025 in Morocco at the end of the year.

The package will afford fans with an opportunity to follow the South African senior men’s national team during the African football showpiece in Morocco in December 2025. These customised packages will include official and exclusive Bafana Bafana merchandise, match tickets, as well as for some fans to meet the players that will be travelling with us to Morocco. For years fans have been asking for packages to travel and follow the team at international tournaments, their pleas are about to be heard.

The first phase packages will be available in the group stages in Marrakesh and Agadir, with the second phase to be determined by how and where the team progresses. SAFA has roped in the services on Tourvest’s Pure-Travel to manage this curate travel experience based on their extensive knowledge and experience in managing many sporting codes. The packages are available on www.pure-travel.co.za or at the following link: https://bit.ly/4mUniGd for fans looking to be with Bafana Bafana over the festive season.

SAFA CEO Lydia Monyepao said; “ During the AFCON 2023 in Ivory Coast, our office was inundated by calls from fans and businesses looking to travel and support or entertain their clients with Bafana Bafana at the tournament. We saw it fit to take our time and create these packages and also expand on what we trialled locally with our partners SAA and Southern Sun last year when Bafana Bafana played in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape.

“South Africans have a thirst to travel locally and internationally, with a compelling proposition of them following Bafana Bafana. We believe we are beginning a journey of visibility at away matches and tournaments to give our teams a feeling of home with the travelling fans. We hope fans and business take up this opportunity and travel with us to enjoy a unique Bafana Bafana experience in Morocco.”

The sentiment was shared by the captain Ronwen Williams: “It was great to see our fans in Ivory Coast last year and we are looking forward to welcome more of our fans in the stands when we go for gold at the next AFCON 2025 in Morocco. We hope to make our nation proud. As we today commemorate our very first match and the first Bafana Bafana generation that eventually won the AFCON in 1996, we hope to do it again for South Africa and make our people proud.”

For more information about the package details contact: [email protected]

South African Football: South Africa was banned from international football from 1961 to 1992 due to apartheid.

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