2020 Botswana FA Cup

The 2020 FA Challenge Cup was the 47th edition of the FA Challenge Cup, Botswana's premier football knockout tournament. It was sponsored by Orange and was known as the Orange FA Cup or Orange FA Cup Season 2 for sponsorship reasons. It started with the preliminary round on the weekend of 14 December 2019 and concluded with the final on 11 December 2021.

2020 FA Challenge Cup (Botswana)

Tournament details
Country	Botswana
Dates	14 December 2019 – 11 December 2021
Defending champions	Orapa United
Final positions
Champions	Gaborone United (7th title)
Runners-up	Masitaoka
Tournament statistics
Matches played	47
Goals scored	102 (2.17 per match)
Top goal scorer(s)	Kekaetswe Moloi (3 goals)
Awards
Best player	Thatayaone Kgamanyane
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Orapa United were the defending champions but were eliminated by Gaborone United in the round of 16.^[1]

Qualifying rounds

All 16 Premier League teams automatically qualified to the round of 32. The top 8 teams from First Division South and top 8 from First Division North had to go through the preliminary round and were joined by the 16 regional champions.^[2] Winners of this round qualified for the round of 32.

Preliminary round

The preliminary round draw took place on 23 January 2019. The draw was seeded into two, namely the northern and southern blocks. Southern block games were played on 16 and 17 February while northern block games were played on 23 and 24 February.

Southern block

Date	Home	Score	Away	Ground
16 February	Jwaneng Fighters	0-0 (3-1 pen.)	Digodi	Mankgodi Show Grounds
16 February	Holy Ghost	0-1	Tlokweng Red Sparks	Tlokweng VDC Grounds
16 February	Blue Stars	1-5	Notwane	Tshane Prisons Grounds
16 February	Black Peril	5-1	Mogoditshane Fighters	Tlokweng VDC Grounds
16 February	Sand Diamonds	0-0 (4-3 pen.)	Motaung Young Fighters	Tshane Prisons Grounds
17 February	Broadhurst United	0-1	Atlanta Chiefs	Mochudi Rovers Grounds
17 February	Mochudi Rovers	0-0 (10-11 pen.)	Prisons XI	Mochudi Rovers Grounds
17 February	Black Rangers	3-1	King Rodgers	Tsabong VDC Grounds

^[3] Northern block

Date	Home	Score	Away	Ground
23 February	Great North Tigers	4-3	Eleven Angels	Francistown City Council Stadium
23 February	Motlakase Power Dynamos	1-1 (7-8)	Peacemakers	Bobonong Show Grounds
23 February	Calendar Stars	1-1 (4-3)	Maun Terrors	Francistown City Council Stadium
23 February	Kazungula Young Fighters	0-0 (7-6)	White Diamonds	Kasane Prisons Grounds
23 February	Palapye All Stars	2-2 (1-3)	Sua Flamingos	Phikwe United Grounds
23 February	Santa Green	3-2	Morupule Wanderers	Phikwe United Grounds
24 February	BR Highlanders	4-0	Green Lovers	Serowe Sports Council Stadium
24 February	Nico United	3-1	Tsabotlhe	Serowe Sports Council Stadium

Round of 32

The round of 32 draw was conducted on 18 January 2020.^[4] It was not seeded. King Rodgers, Tsabotlhe, and Tonota from Division One were the lowest ranked teams still in the competition.

Date	Home	Score	Away	Ground
22 February	King Rodgers	0-2	Jwaneng Fighters
	Mogoditshane Fighters	1-5	Orapa United
	Masitaoka	2-1	Sankoyo Bush Bucks
	Uniao Flamengo Santos	0-1	Mochudi Rovers
	Mochudi Centre Chiefs	3-4	MR Highlanders
	Prisons XI Gaborone	1-1 (6-5)	Tsabotlhe
	Miscellaneous	0-2	Jwaneng Galaxy
	Tonota FC	0-6	Township Rollers
	Diamond Chiefs	0-0 (5-4)	Extension Gunners
	Motlakase Power Dynamos	0-0 (4-5)	Broadhurst United
	Morupule Wanderers	1-1 (4-5)	Notwane
	Security Systems	0-0 (5-6)	BDF XI
	Gaborone United	2-0	Black Forest
	Matebejana	0-2	Calendar Stars
	Sua Flamingos	1-0	Molepolole City Stars
	Police XI	2-1	Eleven Angels

^[5]

Round of 16

The round of 16 draw was conducted on 4 April 2019. It was not seeded. Jwaneng Fighters, Sand Diamonds and Kazungula Young Fighters from Division One are the lowest ranked teams still in the competition.

Date	Home	Score	Away	Ground
13 March	Notwane	2-0	BDF XI
13 March	Orapa United	3-4	Gaborone United	Itekeng Stadium[6]
13 March	Mochudi Rovers	0-2	Jwaneng Galaxy
14 March	Sua Flamingos	0-1	Township Rollers
14 March	Police XI	1-3	Prisons XI
14 March	Diamond Chiefs	0-1	Masitaoka
15 March	Broadhurst United	0-0 (2-3)	MR Highlanders
15 March	Calendar Stars	2-1	Jwaneng Fighters