Bafana Bafana will host their highly anticipated 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Nigeria at the Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein next month.<\/p>\n
The South African Football Association (SAFA) can confirm that coach Hugo Broos\u2019 charges will welcome the Super Eagles to the Bloemfontein venue at 18h00 on Tuesday, 9 September 2025 just a few days after facing Lesotho in an away 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifier at the same stadium on Friday, 5 September 2025. The kickoff in the away match against Lesotho is also at 18h00 and the Lesotho Football Association told\u00a0www.safa.net<\/strong>\u00a0that they will communicate details around tickets at a later stage.<\/p>\n Tickets to the Bafana Bafana vs Nigeria showdown will open in three phases from R70.00 for adults and R40.00 for children under 12 years old.<\/p>\n Phase One is available ONLY at the Free State Stadium from Saturday, 2 August 2025 as follows: Phase Two will open nationally on Saturday, 9 August 2025 at all Ticketpro Outlets at R100.00<\/p>\n Phase Three will open on Saturday 16 August 2025 at R150.00 for the Grandstand area. This will include Spar, SuperSpar, Postnet and the Shell, BP and SASOL garages among others.<\/p>\n Bafana Bafana are top of Group C in the FIFA World Cup Qualifiers with 13 points after six matches and they are followed by second-placed Rwanda and Benin, who are both on eight points. The Nigerians are fourth with seven points followed by Lesotho (six points) and Zimbabwe (four points).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bafana Bafana will host their highly anticipated 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Nigeria at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecmessenger.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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