Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos has announced that he will retire from football after the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Broos guided South Africa to a commanding 3-0 win over Rwanda at the Mbombela Stadium, which saw the country finish top of the Group C standings.

As a result, Bafana have secured their qualification to the World Cup for the first time since hosting the tournament back in 2010.

The Belgian mentor also guided Bafana to a Bronze medal at the Africa Cup of Nations after they finished in third place in 2023.

Broos has since confirmed that he will retire from coaching after leading Bafana at the 2026 World Cup.

“I really hope that in December, at Afcon, we will try to do as well as the last one… hopefully even better. But I hope that with all those high-level tournaments, and certainly next year in America, with the World Cup, that players will have the opportunity to go to higher competitions, because they deserve it first of all, and they need it also,” Broos told SuperSport TV after the match.

“And if we can make that step in the future, you will see that South Africa will be getting even better than they are already now. So again, don’t ask me what my emotions are for the moment. I don’t have words for that.

“I hope that the player who was in the squad should go to America. For me, it’s a sentimental reason. You all know that I was already in a World Cup at the end of my career as a player, and now I do it again.

“I think this is the right moment, next year after the World Cup, to stop my career and to go to my family and enjoy the next 20 years with my grandchildren and my children. But first of all, there is some work to do and we will try to do it well,” he concluded.