Banyana Banyana head coach Dr Desiree Ellis has named her final 23-woman squad for the 2027 FIFA World Cup playoff tournament to be hosted in Morocco this month.
Banyana are one of six teams who will take part in the preliminary round starting on 28 November to 5 December. The event will also feature Chinese Taipei, Ecuador, Ghana, Papua New Guinea and Uzbekistan in a nine-match mini tournament.
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Two teams from the preliminary phase will advance to the final qualification playoffs next February. Banyana open their campaign against Taipei on the opening day, then face Ecuador three days later and finish on 5 December.
In the last phase, the six sides will play in three single knockout matches, with the top two countries joining four others, one from UEFA, another from CONMEBOL and two from CONCACAF. The top three sides will then complete the line-up for the 2027 Brazil World Cup.
Banyana missed out of the automatic CAF qualification for the Brazil showpiece after failing to reach the semi-finals of the 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON).
They have qualified for the two global editions in France in 2019 and in Australia & New Zealand in 2023 where they reached the second round.
Here’s the 23 players called up:
