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
through to quarter finals after a coin toss win.
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.