The Malawi National Women’s Football team, will on Saturday morning leave for Port Elizabeth, South Africa ahead of the 2021 COSAFA Women Champions scheduled from September 28 to October 9.

The team’s caretaker coach, Andrew Chikhosi, has named a 20-member squad for the annual tournament.

Malawi is in Group A alongside defending champions South Africa, Angola and Mozambique.

The team will open its campaign on September 28 against hosts and defending champions South Africa before facing Mozambique on October 1.

Their last group stage match is against Angola on October 4.

The tournament has attracted 12 teams which have been divided into three groups of four teams each.

Group leaders and best runner-up will proceed to the knock-out stage.