2020 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations qualification
Tournament details
Dates23–30 October 2019
Teams10 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played6
Goals scored44 (7.33 per match)
Top scorer(s)Angola Prado (5 goals)

The 2020 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations qualification was the qualification process organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to determine the participating teams for the 2020 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations, the 6th edition of the international men's futsal championship of Africa.

Teams

A total of 10 teams entered the qualifying rounds.

Round Teams entering round No. of teams
Preliminary round
10
Final tournament 3

Format

Qualification ties were played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the aggregate score was tied after the second leg, the away goals rule would be applied, and if still level, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (no extra time would be played).

The five winners of the preliminary round qualified for the final tournament.

Schedule

The schedule of the qualifying rounds was as follows.

Round Leg Date
Preliminary round First leg 23–26 October 2019
Second leg 29–30 October 2019

Preliminary round

Morocco qualified automatically as hosts, and Egypt and Mozambique also qualified automatically as the other African teams in the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup, while the remaining five spots were determined by the qualifying rounds, which took take place in October 2019.[1]

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Cape Verde  w/o[note 1]  Guinea — —
Algeria  6–12  Libya 2–5 4–7
Equatorial Guinea  w/o[note 2]  Cameroon — —
Zambia  1–13  Angola 0–4 1–9
Mauritius  1–11  South Africa 0–6 1–5
Algeria 2–5 Libya
  • Melki 37', 39'
 Report
Referee: Nabil Guéddich (Tunisia)
Libya 7–4 Algeria
  • Al-Toumi
  • Al-Mahmal
  • Al-Shoushan
  • Suleiman
  • Sharksih
  • Massaud
Maadi Olympic Center, Cairo (Egypt)[note 3]
Referee: Tarek El-Khataby (Egypt)

Libya won 12–6 on aggregate.

Zambia 0–4 Angola
  • Prado 2', 20'
  • Caluanda 27'
  • Jó 28'
Olympic Youth Development Centre, Lusaka
Angola 9–1 Zambia
  • Bebucho 4'
  • Manocele 7', 23', 25'
  • Caluanda 8' (pen.)
  • Prado 24', 36', 39'
  • Jó 36'
  • Kaoma 40'
Referee: Sipho Mahlangu (South Africa)

Angola won 13–1 on aggregate.

Mauritius 0–6 South Africa
Phoenix Gymnasium, Port Louis
South Africa 5–1 Mauritius
  • Ngcobo 15'
  • Cele 25'
  • Joharie 27'
  • Donnelly 30'
  • Ryan 35'
  • Perle 36'
Orlando Community Hall, Soweto

South Africa won 11–1 on aggregate. South Africa withdrew from the tournament on 15 January 2020 as they refused to play in Laayoune of Western Sahara due to the Western Sahara conflict and were replaced by Mauritius.[5][6]

Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament. South Africa, which originally qualified, withdrew and were replaced by Mauritius.[5][6]

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in tournament1
 Morocco (hosts)29 September 2018[7]4 (2000, 2004, 2008, 2016)
 Egypt29 September 20185 (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2016)
 Mozambique29 September 20183 (2004, 2008, 2016)
 Guinea26 September 2019[2]0 (debut)
 Libya30 October 20193 (2000, 2008, 2016)
 Equatorial Guinea22 October 2019[4]0 (debut)
 Angola29 October 20192 (2008, 2016)
 Mauritius16 January 2020[6]0 (debut)
1 Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

Goalscorers

There were 27 goals scored in 4 matches, for an average of 6.75 goals per match.

5 goals

  • Angola Prado

3 goals

  • Angola Manocele

2 goals

  • Algeria Bryan Melki
  • Angola Caluanda
  • Angola Jó

1 goal

  • Angola Bebucho
  • Libya Ibrahim Al-Mahmal
  • Libya Adham Al-Toumi
  • Libya Mohamed Rahoma
  • Libya Abdelhalim Seghir
  • Libya Mohamed Suleiman
  • Mauritius Aurélien Perle
  • South Africa Wiseman Cele
  • South Africa Renaldo Donnelly
  • South Africa Yazeed Joharie
  • South Africa Quincy Ngcobo
  • South Africa Jean-Marc Ryan
  • Zambia Carlos Kaoma

Notes

  1. ↑ Guinea won on a walkover after Cape Verde withdrew.[2]
  2. ↑ Equatorial Guinea won on a walkover after Cameroon withdrew.[3][4]
  3. ↑ Libya played their home leg in Egypt due to the Libyan Civil War.

References

  1. ↑ "Futsal Africa Cup of Nations". Futsal Planet. 22 April 2019.
  2. 1 2 Bangoura, Hamidou (27 September 2019). "Le Retrait Du Cap Vert Des Eliminatoires La Guinee En Phase Finale". Africa Sport (in French). CAF. Archived from the original on 28 October 2019. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  3. ↑ "Le Cameroun se retire, la Guinée Équatoriale qualifiée" (in French). Afrique Futsal. 25 October 2019. Archived from the original on October 31, 2019. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  4. 1 2 "La selección nacional masculina de fútbol sala ya ha viajado a Marruecos" (in Spanish). FEGUIFUT. 25 January 2020. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  5. 1 2 "SAFA withdraws from 2020 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations". Sport24. 15 January 2020. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
  6. 1 2 3 Gangaram, Loïc (16 January 2020). "Futsal – CAN 2020 : Maurice remplace l'Afrique du Sud" (in French). Le Défi Plus. Archived from the original on 13 September 2020. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
  7. ↑ "Decisions of CAF Executive Commitee [sic] - 27 & 28 September 2018". CAF. 29 September 2018. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
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