{"id":37791,"date":"2026-06-23T09:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=37791"},"modified":"2026-06-23T09:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:32:10","slug":"sa-football-team-bafana-set-for-final-group-match","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-football-team-bafana-set-for-final-group-match\/","title":{"rendered":"SA football team Bafana set for final group match"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The South African (SA) football team Bafana Bafana has finally reached its final destination of the group stage of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) World Cup 2026.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bafana Bafana arrived in Monterrey, Mexico, for their final Group A match against South Korea.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The match will be played at the 53 000-seater, Estadio Monterrey.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The must win match for SA will be played on Wednesday evening in Mexico, which will be at 03:00 AM Central African Time on Thursday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bafana are hoping to advance to the second round of the FIFA World Cup for the very first time, in their fourth tournament.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The team is currently at the bottom of Group A with just a single point, and they need a win in their third and final group match to increase their chances of finishing the opening round with four points.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>South Korea are second in the group with three points after beating Czechia in their opening match of the tournament.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16444,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-37791","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Bafana has finally reached its final destination of the group stage","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37792,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37791\/revisions\/37792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=37791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}