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An exciting year lies ahead for Namibia’s sportsmen and women as they aim to make their mark at home and on the international stage.
The Namibian Sport takes a look at some of the major local and international events lined up for 2025.
Athletics
Namibia’s athletes have a busy season ahead as they prepare for some major events at home and abroad this year.
According to Athletics Namibia’s provisional calandar for 2025, a record nine events are scheduled for their annual Grand Prix series throughout the country, stretching from January through to August.
The first Grand Prix is scheduled to take place in Swakopmund on 25 January, while subsequent events will take place in Windhoek, Swakopmund, Oshakati, Gobabis, Mariental, Rundu and Outjo, before the series will conclude at Outapi in August.
The senior national championships are scheduled to take place in Windhoek from 27 to 29 June, while Namibia’s top juniors will be in action at the Region 5 Youth Games that Namibia will host in Windhoek and Swakopmund in July.
Namibia’s top athletes are expected to compete at several regional meets in South Africa and Botswana, while they will also try and qualify for top international events this year.
These include the African u18 and u20 Junior Championships in Angola in June; the Africa Senior Championships in Harare, Zimbabwe at the end of July; the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China from 21 to 23 March; and the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan from 13 to 21 September.
Cricket
In cricket, Namibia’s men and women’s national teams have a busy schedule ahead.
The senior men’s team travels to Oman in February to take on the hosts as well as the United States in the ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 series, after which they will travel to India to attend a training camp in Karnateka.
In March, Namibia will host the Netherlands and Canada in the World Cup League 2 series, while they are also scheduled to travel to Canada in August to take on the hosts and Scotland in the same series.
In September, Namibia will compete in the T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier in Zimbabwe, where the top two teams will book a ticket for the 2026 T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka.
Namibia’s u19 men’s cricket team travels to Nigeria in March to compete in the Africa qualifier for the 2026 u19 Cricket World Cup which Namibia will host along with Zimbabwe.
Namibia’s womens cricket team has been invited to participate in a trinations series in Nepal in March, while they will also host Uganda and Tanzania in a T20 International series in Windhoek in April.
Football
Namibia’s national senior team, the Brave Warriors, failed to qualify for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations finals in Morocco, but they will continue their qualifying campaign for the 2026 Fifa World Cup in the USA, Canada and Mexico.
Nine groups of six teams each are battling it out for a place at the World Cup, with the nine group winners qualifying directly, while the four best group runners-up also have an outside chance to go through via intercontinental playoffs.
Namibia is currently well placed, lying second in Group H on eight points, behind Tunisia on 10 points, and ahead of Liberia (7), Malawi (6), Equatorial Guinea (3) and Sao Tome and Principe (0).
Namibia’s next matches are away to Malawi and at home (in Johannesburg) to Equatorial Guinea in Johannesburg in March; at home to Malawi and Sao Tome and Principe in September; and away to Liberia and Tunisia in October.
Namibia’s u20 and u17 women’s teams are also participating in their respective World Cup qualifiers, while the senior women’s team, the Brave Gladiators will take on eSwatini in an Afcon qualifier (home and away) in February.
As usual the Confederation of Southern Africa Football Associations (Cosafa) will once again host numerous Southern African regional events for national senior men and women’s teams as well as junior u20, u17 and u15 schools teams.
Rugby
Namibia’s senior men’s team the Welwitschias face a crucual year when they will aim to qualify for the 2027 Rugby World Cup in Australia.
Namibia has qualified for the past seven consecutive world cups since 1999 but this year face a tough task, after relinquishing the Africa Cup for the first time in more than a decade to Zimbabwe last year.
The Africa Cup will once again be the final qualifier for the World Cup with the winners gaining direct entry, while the runners up still have an outside chance of qualifying via an intercontinental playoff competition.
Namibia’s preparations include a regional competition in February, while the club leagues will kick off in March. Several warm-up matches against South African teams, including the Blue Bulls and the Stormers are also in the pipeline before the Africa Cup which is scheduled to take place in Uganda in July.
Tennis
Namibia’s senior men’s tennis team will compete in the Davis Cup World Group II tournament for only the second time in their history, after they won the Africa Group III Davis Cup tournament in Abuja, Nigeria last year.
Namibia narrowly won the tournament after beating Zimbabwe and Nigeria on points to gain promotion to the World Group II series.
Namibia, which is currently ranked 72nd in the world will now host Hong Kong (ranked 59th) at the Central Tennis Club in Windhoek on 1 and 2 February, with the prospect of a World Group I play-off tie on the cards.
Tickets for the event go on sale from today and members of the public are urged to support the team as they aim to create more history.
Hockey
Both Namibia’s national men and women’s indoor hockey teams will compete at the 2025 Indoor Hockey World Cup in Porec, Croatia from 3 to 9 February.
The men’s team will compete in Pool C against Australia, Belgium and Trinidad and Tobago, while Pool A will consist of Austria, Croatia, Poland and South Africa, and Pool B of Argentina, Germany, Iran and Malaysia.
Namibia’s women will compete in Pool C against Australia, Germany and New Zealand, while Pool A will consist of Belgium, Croatia, the Czech Republic and the United States, and Pool B of Austria, Poland, South Africa and Thailand.
The eight highest ranked teams at the conclusion of the group stages will advance to the quarterfinals, while the remaining four teams will progress to the classification round for teams placed ninth to 12th.
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