2024_Africa_Futsal_Cup_of_Nations
2024 Futsal Africa Cup of Nations
International football competition
The 2024 Futsal Africa Cup of Nations will be the eighth edition of the Futsal Africa Cup of Nations, the quadrennial international futsal championship organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for the men's national teams of Africa. The tournament was first planned to be held in Mozambique.[1] However Mozambique declined after, to host the competition.[2] Morocco announced the organization of the tournament for the second time in a row.[3]
| كأس أمم إفريقيا لكرة القدم داخل الصالات 2024 | |
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| Tournament details | |
| Host country | Morocco |
| City | Rabat |
| Dates | 11–21 April |
| Teams | 8 (from 1 confederation) |
| Venue(s) | 2 (in 1 host city) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Morocco (3rd title) |
| Runners-up |  Angola |
| Third place |  Libya |
| Fourth place |  Egypt |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 16 |
| Goals scored | 155 (9.69 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Chico Hélber Soufian Charraoui (7 goals each) |
| Best player(s) | Bilal Bakkali |
| Best goalkeeper | Abdelkrim Anbia |
| Fair play award |  Ghana |
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Same as previous editions, the tournament acted as the CAF qualifiers for the FIFA Futsal World Cup (except for 2012 when a separate qualifying tournament was organized as the 2011 African Futsal Championship was cancelled). The top three teams of the tournament will qualify for the 2024 FIFA Futsal World Cup in Uzbekistan as the CAF representatives.
Morocco are the defending champions.
Qualified teams
The following eight teams will qualify for the final tournament. The Draw took place on 23 December 2023 in the CAF Headquarters.[4] The qualifiers will take place from 29 January to 11 February 2024. Angola, Egypt and Morocco who are all the highest ranked nations in the competition gained automatic entry.[5]
| Team | Appearance | Previous best performance |
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| Angola | 4th | Third place (2020) |
| Egypt | 7th | Champions (1996, 2000, 2004) |
| Morocco (hosts) | 6th | Champions (2016, 2020) |
 Mauritania | 1st | Debut |
 Namibia | 1st | Debut |
| Ghana | 2nd | Runners-up (1996) |
 Zambia | 3rd | Fourth place (2016) |
| Libya | 5th | Champions (2008) |
The matches will be played at two venues in Rabat.
The top two teams of each group will advance to the semi finals.
Group A
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | Morocco (H) |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 5 | +21 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Angola |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 13 | +8 | 6 | |
| 3 | Zambia |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 23 | −13 | 3 | |
| 4 | Ghana |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 24 | −16 | 0 |
(H) Hosts
| Ghana | 2–5 | Zambia |
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| Morocco | 5–2 | Angola |
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| Zambia | 5–8 | Angola |
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| Morocco | 8–3 | Ghana |
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| Angola | 11–3 | Ghana |
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| Zambia | 0–13 | Morocco |
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Group B
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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| 1 | Egypt |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 9 | +12 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Libya |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 13 | +3 | 6 | |
| 3 | Mauritania |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 16 | −1 | 3 | |
| 4 | Namibia |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 26 | −14 | 0 |
| Egypt | 4–0 | Libya |
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| Namibia | 4–5 | Mauritania |
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| Egypt | 10–3 | Namibia |
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| Mauritania | 4–5 | Libya |
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| Mauritania | 6–7 | Egypt |
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| Libya | 11–5 | Namibia |
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In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary.
Bracket
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||
| 19 April | ||||||
| Morocco | 6 | |||||
| 21 April | ||||||
| Libya | 0 | |||||
| Morocco | 5 | |||||
| 19 April | ||||||
| Angola | 1 | |||||
| Egypt | 3 | |||||
| Angola | 7 | |||||
| Third place match | ||||||
| 21 April | ||||||
| Libya (p) | 2 (3) | |||||
| Egypt | 2 (1) | |||||
Semi-finals
Winners qualify for 2024 FIFA Futsal World Cup.
| Egypt | 3–7 | Angola |
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| Morocco | 6–0 | Libya |
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Third place match
Winner qualifies for 2024 FIFA Futsal World Cup.
| Libya | 2–2 | Egypt |
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Final
| Morocco | 5–1 | Angola |
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There were 155 goals scored in 16 matches, for an average of 9.69 goals per match.
7 goals
Chico- Hélber
Soufian Charraoui
6 goals
Koki- Soufiane El Mesrar
- Bilal Bakkali
5 goals
- Alaa Eissa
Ali Shoshan- Anas El Ayyane
4 goals
- Khaled Abdelhalim
- Mohamed Said
- Youssef Jouad
Wiseman Phiri
3 goals
- Braúlio
- Anderson
- Ahmed Aly
- Mohamed Said
- Essam Ramadan
Philip Nii Boye- Mohamed Zreeg
- Suhayb Alghoul
Yacoub N'Diel- Ely Chendhoura Ahmed Aidda
- Idriss Raiss El Fenni
Remario Mathys- Ken Salote
2 goals
- Arroz Doce
- Pesado
- Abdelrahman Moawad
- Emmanuel Nakotey
- Prince Arthur
- Ahmed Alajnaf
- Yakhouba Sylla
- Abderhemane Bouhoumadi
- M'Hamed M'Hamed
- Dioncounda Sow
- Patrick Banda
- Francis Chinyam
1 goal
- Jô
- Kaluanda
- Gomito
- Adérito
- Suliman Elderwish
- Khalid Bouzid
- Ismail Amazal
- Othmane Elidrissi
- Anas Dahani
- Soufiane Borite
- Moudery Drame
- George Haikalia
- Reginald Willemse
- Rowen Jager
- Usurua Ryiena Riya
- Nanguei Kamatuka
- Luis Solunga
- Mbalika Mwaliteta
- Jackson Simwami
1 own goal
- Adérito (against Ghana)
- Prince Lungu (against Angola)
- Jackson Simwami (against Morocco)
The following three teams from CAF qualified for the 2024 FIFA Futsal World Cup.
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- "TotalEnergies CAF Futsal Africa Cup of Nations 2024 Qualifiers Draw conducted". CAF. 2023-12-23. Retrieved 2023-12-23.
- Total Futsal Africa Cup of Nations, CAFonline.com