Bafana Bafana are set to face Andorra and Algeria next month in two friendly matches, with both games taking place away.
Both matches will be played in Algeria even though that of Andorra is scheduled as a home game for Bafana Bafana.
That game against the European side is scheduled for 21 March in Annaba (23:00) and five days later Bafana will face Algeria at Nelson Mandela Stadium in Baraki (23:00) in the North African country. SAFA is set to officially confirmed these matches in due course but FIFA has made the schedules.
It will be the first-ever meeting between Bafana and Andorra, who in the last 13 matches played, have lost 10.
The last time Andorra won a match was two years ago when they beat Liechtenstein in the UEFA Nations League at home.
Against Algeria, it will be the fourth meeting between the two countries, with the North African country having won once and drawn the others.
These two nations last met in the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations group stages, where Shakes Mashaba’s boys lost 3-1 in the competition that was held in Equatorial Guinea.
Algeria, who won the 2019 AFCON trophy, bombed out in the AFCON that is reaching the final stretch in Ivory Coast, finishing at the bottom of Group D. They drew two matches and vitally lost the last which was against Mauritania to crash out of the tournament.
Coach Djamel Belmadi, who led them to the AFCON title in Egypt, has since vacated his post.
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Unlike Algeria, Bafana reached the semi-final and painfully lost on penalties to Nigeria on Wednesday.
Hugo Broos’ side will now face DR Congo, who lost to host nation Ivory Coast in the semi-final on Wednesday, in the bronze medal at Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan on Saturday (22:00).
This is Bafana’s best showing at the AFCON finals since 2000 that was co-hosted by Ghana and Nigeria where they lost to the Super Eagles in the semis. But they went on to claim the bronze medal in that Nations Cup when they beat Tunisia on penalties.
