The South African Federation denies incurring any expenses related to the South Sudan team

After South Sudan lost to Bafana Bafana, misleading reports surfaced saying that the South African Football Association had taken over the travel costs for the South Sudanese national team to Cape Town to play the match, which ended in a clean three-way win for Bafana Bafana.

With this victory, the South African national team strengthened its lead in the group, while the South Sudanese team remained at the bottom of its group and officially exited the playoffs at the end of the last match.

SAFA said in a statement: "the South African Football Association (Safa) has noticed misleading reports claiming that South Africa paid for the flights and / or accommodation of the South Sudan team that played against Bafana Bafana in the African Cup of Nations qualifier in Cape Town a few days ago, Safa would like to put on record that these reports are completely false and regrettable. The CAF requires that each national team participating in the African Cup of Nations qualifiers pay for their own flights and accommodation during the qualification campaign. The reports are devoid of any truth."