{"id":41245,"date":"2026-07-31T15:12:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T13:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=41245"},"modified":"2026-07-31T15:12:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T13:12:54","slug":"hugo-broos-officially-no-longer-bafana-bafana-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/hugo-broos-officially-no-longer-bafana-bafana-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo Broos officially no longer Bafana Bafana coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">It\u2019s official, Hugo Broos will not continue as Bafana Bafana coach. The 74-year-old Belgian was at the helm of the South African (SA) football team for the last five years.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He made the announcement in Johannesburg on the day his contract with the SA Football Association (SAFA) comes to an end.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Broos says being away from his family for long periods of time was the only reason for him not agreeing to a contract extension.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThe lonely moments being away from my family made me reach this decision today and that is the only reason why I leave Bafana. I leave fantastic people I worked with for five years; I got extreme support and gratitude not only from the people I worked with but nearly for all South Africans,\u201d says Broos.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Broos transformed the national team into an African powerhouse. Under his guidance, Bafana Bafana finished third at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast and qualified for a FIFA World Cup.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Bafana also reached the knockout stage of a World Cup for the first time ever at the recent tournament in the Americas.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">SAFA President Danny Jordaan thanked Broos for his service and contribution to the national team. He says the coach played an important role in South Africa\u2019s World Cup journey and expressed the association\u2019s gratitude for his dedication and achievements during his time in charge.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cToday we bid farewell to coach. We are happy and we want to thank him for his contribution to the team that he has built. Many of the players that did not register as national team players are now established national team players. Many of them unknown when we started but you had the foresight, you had the vision, determination to select all of them, to change in the period, and ultimately, we have established a very, very good team,\u201d says Broos.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In a tenure spanning 60 internationals, Bafana won 29, drew 19 and lost 12 matches with Broos on the coach\u2019s bench.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">SAFA\u2019s National Executive meets next Saturday when the appointment of a new coach will be top of the agenda.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":37075,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-41245","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Bafana also reached the knockout stage of a World Cup for the first time ever at the recent tournament in the Americas.","published_date":"","news_description":"Bafana also reached the knockout stage of a World Cup for the first time ever at the recent tournament in the Americas.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41245","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\/41245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41246,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41245\/revisions\/41246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=41245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}