Lydia Monyepao

Chief Executive Officer, SAFA

Lydia Monyepao is Chief Executive Officer of SAFA, in the role since May 2023.

SAFA, the South African Football Association, is the governing body of football in South Africa. Monyepao is its first woman chief executive and the seventh since 2010.

In the job

  1. SAFA's emergency committee unanimously appointed Monyepao chief executive after Tebogo Motlanthe resigned. Source

  2. SAFA put the search for a successor to Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos on hold until after the 2026 World Cup. Source

  3. SAFA committed more than R100 million of its FIFA World Cup earnings to football development and handed election nominations for its 12 September 2026 congress to its governance committee. Source

Career before

  1. Player, Banyana Banyana (South Africa women's national team)
  2. 2021-2023Chief operating officer, SAFA

Education

BCom, University of the Witwatersrand; BCom Honours in Accounting, University of KwaZulu-Natal; Master's in Sport Management, Loughborough University

Sources

  1. newsnote.co.za
  2. news24.com
  3. iol.co.za
  4. soccerway.com
  5. ewn.co.za

Facts last checked 3 November 2026. Spotted something out of date? Tell us.

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