Coaching Milestone Signals Progress for Women’s Football Across Southern Africa

Coaching Milestone Signals Progress for Women’s Football Across Southern Africa. Coach Salome Iiyambo has reached a major professional milestone, marking a significant moment for women’s football in Southern Africa. The Namibian football leader, who serves as both owner and head coach of Beauties Football Club, has successfully completed her CAF B Women’s Coaching License.

Her achievement places her among a group of coaches across the region who have finalised the qualification, a development that highlights growing investment in technical training within the women’s game. The license represents formal recognition of coaching competence and professional development, providing structured learning and assessment for participants.

Several other coaches from across Southern Africa completed the programme alongside Iiyambo. They include Nonhle Nene, coach of FNB Football First from Pietermaritzburg; Lindiwe Ndhlovu, coach of Platinum Royal Women’s Team in Zimbabwe; and Lesego Gloria Lekgau, a former coach at Puma FC.

For Iiyambo, the qualification adds to her leadership responsibilities at club level, where she oversees both team management and technical direction. Her role reflects a model of combined administrative and coaching oversight within the sport.

Observers say achievements like these demonstrate the expanding presence of qualified women leaders in football structures across the region. Professional certification pathways continue to shape how teams are trained, organised, and developed at different competitive levels.

In Namibia, the milestone is seen as part of ongoing progress within the women’s football environment, where coaching education and structured development remain important focus areas. With the course now complete, attention turns to how participants apply their new credentials in their respective clubs and communities across Southern Africa, signalling continued momentum for women’s football development in the years ahead.

Training programmes such as this create pathways for skills transfer, knowledge exchange, and stronger networks among coaches working within diverse football systems throughout the subregion, reinforcing shared standards of training, leadership, and long-term excellence.