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Cosafa announces new date for 2020 Women's Cup

The 2020 Cosafa Women's Cup has been postponed to November in South Africa, the Council of Southern African Football Associations (Cosafa) has announced.

The annual regional showpiece, earlier set for October 19-31 in Nelson Mandela Bay, is now set to take place from November 3-14.

The event had earlier been postponed twice due to the coronavirus outbreak but the latest news comes in the wake of approval from the South Africa government.

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The development means the women's event becomes the first to be staged in Africa since the coronavirus outbreak after the cancellation of the 2020 Africa Women's Cup of Nations in August.