Picture: Coach Molefi Ntseki
By OBAKENG MAJE
25 July 2025- Coach Molefi Ntseki will lead the South African men’s national team that will represent the country in the African Nations Championship (CHAN) next month. The CHAN tournament will be held in East Africa in three countries – Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda – between 2-30 August, 2025 and the South African Football Association (SAFA) has confirmed that Ntseki will be at the helm.
Ntseki also announced the squad that will represent the country next month and he said he was looking forward to leading the team in the continental event.
“We just want to take this opportunity to thank the SAFA Technical Committee for giving us the opportunity to lead this team in the Chan tournament. We have assembled a team that will represent South Africa in the CHAN tournament.
“We are in Group C and the team that we have selected is mostly composed of the players we started this journey with. So we are looking forward to the tournament and to do our best. We just want to say thanks to the clubs and to the coaches who managed to release players for our CHAN team to have a good squad going into the tournament,” he said.
SAFA Technical Committee Chairman Jack Maluleke said Ntseki has been afforded the opportunity to finish what he started after qualifying the team earlier this year. Maluleke said he got them to this stage of the journey and it is only right that he completes the job in the CHAN tournament itself.
“The South Africans beat Egypt and Malawi in the previous rounds to qualify for the event. The team will assemble in Johannesburg on 25 July 2025 where they will be based in camp until departure to Uganda on 3 August 2025. The tournament kick-off on 2 August 2025 in Dar es Salaam is a match between co-host Tanzania and Burkina Faso at the Benjamin Mkapa Stadium,” he said.
Meanwhile, the South Africans have been drawn in Group C against Uganda, Niger, Guinea and Algeria. Ntseki’s charges played their opening match of the tournament against Algeria on Friday, 8 August 2025.
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