Broos vows to finish top AFCON Group K

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Hugo Broos, head coach of South Africa talks to media during the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers press conference and training session for South Africa at Cape Town Stadium on 18 November 2024 © Ryan Wilkisky/BackpagePix

Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos has vowed to finish top of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations Group K standings despite securing their qualification.

South Africa have already qualified for next year’s AFCON prior to their clash against Uganda on Friday evening.

Bafana managed to come out of their penultimate clash with a 2-0 victory over Uganda thanks to goals from Thapelo Morena and Patrick Maswanganyi at the Mandela National Stadium in Kampala

Broos’ chargers now find themselves sitting at the top of the Group K standings with 11 points from five matches, a point behind their Uganda in second place.

The Belgian mentor has suggested that he is still not satisfied despiter already qualifying for next year’s AFCON.

“We are still not satisfied because we want to win the game tomorrow (today),” said Broos.

“This is not a friendly game; for us, it is an important game because we want to be first in the group.

“We want to show something to the crowd that is coming to the stadium tomorrow.

“We had two amazing evenings in Bloemfontein and PE. With the crowd in the stadium and with a nice win. So we will do it tomorrow here in Cape Town.”