2022 Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations

2022 Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations

2023 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup CAF qualifier
Tournament details
Host country	Mozambique
City	Vilankulo
Dates	21–28 October
Teams	8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Senegal (7th title)
Runners-up	Egypt
Third place	Morocco
Fourth place	Mozambique
Tournament statistics
Matches played	14
Goals scored	118 (8.43 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Mandione Diagne (10 goals)
Best player(s)	Mandione Diagne
Best goalkeeper	Al Seyni Ndiaye
← 2021 2024 →

The 2022 Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations was the fifth edition of the Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations (BSAFCON), the premier beach soccer championship in Africa contested by men's national teams who are members of the Confederation of African Football (CAF). The championship was originally organised by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW) under the title of FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup CAF qualifier (also informally known as the CAF Beach Soccer Championship). In 2015, CAF became its organisers and began using the BSAFCON title to which the competition was officially renamed the next year. Therefore, this was the 11th edition of the event overall. The tournament takes place in Mozambique, which was confirmed as the host nation on 16 May 2021; the city of Vilankulo stages all matches between 21 and 28 October 2022. It is happening in only the next calendar year after the previous edition because said edition was postponed due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa. The tournament also acted as the qualification route for African teams to the 2023 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in the United Arab Emirates; with the winners and runners-up qualifying. Senegal were the defending champions and successfully defended the title after defeating Egypt in the final to secure their 7th title.

Qualification

2022 Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations qualification

Tournament details
Dates	22 July – 7 August
Teams	14 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	11
Goals scored	101 (9.18 per match)
← 2021 2024 →

The 2022 Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations qualifying round determined the eight teams that will compete in the final tournament in October. The fixtures were announced by CAF on 24 June 2022. The matches were played on the weekends of 22–24 July and 5–7 August. Qualification ties were played on a home-and-away, two-legged basis. If the sides were level on aggregate after the second leg, the away goals rule was applied, and if still level, the tie proceeded directly to a penalty shoot-out (no extra time played).

Entrants

Fourteen teams entered qualifying. The seven winners of the ties qualified for the final tournament, joining one automatic qualifier – the hosts, Mozambique.

Round	Teams entering round	No. of teams
Qualification	Cameroon (n/a) Comoros (18th) Egypt (4th) Ghana (n/a) Ivory Coast (13th) Libya (9th) Madagascar (11th) Malawi (19th) Morocco (2nd) Nigeria (6th) Senegal (1st) Seychelles (8th) Tanzania (7th) Uganda (5th)	14
Final tournament	Mozambique (3rd)	1

Note: The numbers in parentheses show the African ranking of the teams at the time of the qualification round (out of 19 nations).

Matches

Libya withdrew before the first legs were played. Ivory Coast refused to continue their second leg match in protest of a penalty awarded to Morocco in the final moments of the game, and thus the match was abandoned with the score at 3–3. The outcome was referred to CAF. On 19 August, CAF announced their decision in applying Articles 54 and 56 of Chapter 30 (Withdrawals, Refusal to Play, Replacement) of the tournament regulations, thereby awarding Morocco with a 3–0 walkover victory in the second leg.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Seychelles	4–11	Madagascar	2–5	2–6
Comoros	5–9	Uganda	2–5	3–4
Malawi	8–8 (a)	Tanzania	3–2	5–6
Libya	w/o	Nigeria	—	—
Ivory Coast	7–9	Morocco	7–6	aba., 0–3 w/o
Cameroon	4–16	Senegal	1–9	3–7
Ghana	11–12	Egypt	6–5	5–7

Qualified teams

The following eight teams have qualified for the final tournament:

Team	Appearance	Previous best performance
Egypt	11th	3rd place (2006, 2011, 2016, 2018)
Madagascar	6th	Champions (2015)
Malawi	1st	Debut
Mozambique (hosts)	5th	Runners-up (2021)
Senegal (title holders)	10th	Champions (2008, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2021)
Uganda	2nd	4th place (2021)
Morocco	9th	3rd place (2013, 2021)

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	W+	WP	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Morocco	2	2	0	0	0	10	4	+6	6	Knockout stage
2	Mozambique (H)	2	1	0	0	1	5	5	0	3
3	Malawi	2	0	0	0	2	5	11	−6	0	Fifth place play-off
4	Nigeria	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Withdrew

Source: CAF
(H) Host

21 October 2022 (2022-10-21)

15:30

Mozambique	4–2	Malawi
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Vilankulo Arena, Vilankulo

Referee: Hamdi Bchir (Tunisia)

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23 October 2022 (2022-10-23)

15:30

Morocco	3–1	Mozambique
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Vilankulo Arena, Vilankulo

Referee: Hany Farouk (Egypt)

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24 October 2022 (2022-10-24)

12:30

Malawi	3–7	Morocco
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Vilankulo Arena, Vilankulo

Referee: Jelili Ogunmuyiwa (Nigeria)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	W+	WP	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Senegal	3	3	0	0	0	24	9	+15	9	Knockout stage
2	Egypt	3	1	0	1	1	14	12	+2	4
3	Uganda	3	1	0	0	2	9	19	−10	3	Fifth place play-off
4	Madagascar	3	0	0	0	3	11	18	−7	0

Source: CAF

22 October 2022 (2022-10-22)

14:00

Senegal	10–1	Uganda
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Vilankulo Arena, Vilankulo

Referee: Reetesh Loll (Mauritius)

22 October 2022 (2022-10-22)

15:30

Madagascar	4–4 (a.e.t.)	Egypt
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Penalties
Razafimamdimby soccer ball with red X Enidiel soccer ball with check mark Jinidy soccer ball with check mark Richard soccer ball with red X Randriamampandry soccer ball with check mark	3–4	soccer ball with check mark Samir soccer ball with check mark Paulo soccer ball with check mark Costa soccer ball with red X Hussein soccer ball with check mark M. Ahmed

Vilankulo Arena, Vilankulo

Referee: Steven Msilombo (Tanzania)

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23 October 2022 (2022-10-23)

12:30

Uganda	6–3	Madagascar
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Vilankulo Arena, Vilankulo

Referee: Dominique Toppe (Ivory Coast)

23 October 2022 (2022-10-23)

14:00

Egypt	4–6	Senegal
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Vilankulo Arena, Vilankulo

Referee: Hamdi Bchir (Tunisia)

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24 October 2022 (2022-10-24)

14:00

Uganda	2–6	Egypt
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Vilankulo Arena, Vilankulo

Referee: Louis Siave (Mauritius)

24 October 2022 (2022-10-24)

15:30

Senegal	8–4	Madagascar
Md. Diagne File:Soccerball shade.svg 7', 14' Mm. Diagne File:Soccerball shade.svg 19' (pen.), 20', 21' Coly File:Soccerball shade.svg 9' S. Ndoye File:Soccerball shade.svg 13' Sene File:Soccerball shade.svg 30'	Report	Razafimandimby File:Soccerball shade.svg 14' Richard File:Soccerball shade.svg 14' Rakotomalala File:Soccerball shade.svg 27' Jindy File:Soccerball shade.svg 29'

Vilankulo Arena, Vilankulo

Referee: Ramadhani Ndayisaba (Burundi)

5th place play-off

The teams finishing in third place in the groups are knocked out of title-winning contention, receding to play in a consolation match to determine 5th and 6th place in the final standings.

	Fifth place play-off
	26 October 2022
	Malawi	6 (1)
	Uganda (p)	6 (4)

26 October 2022 (2022-10-26)

12:30

Malawi	6–6 (a.e.t.)	Uganda
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Penalties
Kajamu soccer ball with check mark Biliati soccer ball with red X Nkhulumba soccer ball with red X	1–4	soccer ball with check mark Lule soccer ball with check mark Lubwama soccer ball with check mark Opuuli soccer ball with check mark Kigozi

Vilankulo Arena, Vilankulo

Referee: Aly Deme (Senegal)

Knockout stage

The group winners and runners-up progress to the knockout stage to continue to compete for the title.

	Semi-finals				Final
	26 October
	Morocco	4
					28 October
	Egypt	5
					Egypt	2 (5)
	26 October
					Senegal	2 (6)
	Senegal	3
	Mozambique	2
					Third place play-off
					28 October
					Morocco	6
					Mozambique	4

Semi-finals

Winners qualify for the 2023 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.

26 October 2022 (2022-10-26)

14:30

Morocco	4–5	Egypt
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Vilankulo Arena, Vilankulo

Referee: Reetesh Loll (Mauritius)

26 October 2022 (2022-10-26)

15:30

Senegal	3–2	Mozambique
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Vilankulo Arena, Vilankulo

Referee: Jelili Ogunmuyiwa (Nigeria)

Third place play-off

28 October 2022 (2022-10-28)

14:00

Morocco	6–4	Mozambique
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Vilankulo Arena, Vilankulo

Referee: Ivan Kintu (Uganda)

Final

28 October 2022 (2022-10-28)

15:30

Egypt	2–2 (a.e.t.)	Senegal
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Penalties
Samir soccer ball with check mark Paulo soccer ball with check mark Costa soccer ball with check mark Sasa soccer ball with check mark E. Ahmed soccer ball with check mark Loha soccer ball with red X	5–6	soccer ball with check mark Sylla soccer ball with check mark Fall soccer ball with check mark Md. Diagne soccer ball with check mark Mm. Diagne soccer ball with check mark Mendy soccer ball with check mark Diatta

Vilankulo Arena, Vilankulo

Referee: Jelili Ogunmuyiwa (Nigeria)

Awards

Best player
Mandione Diagne
Top scorer
Mandione Diagne
10 goals
Best goalkeeper
Al Seyni Ndiaye

Goalscorers

There were 118 goals scored in 14 matches, for an average of 8.43 goals per match.

10 goals

• Mandione Diagne

8 goals

• Anouar Frindi
• Brian Nkuubi

6 goals

• Paulo

5 goals

• Nelson Manuel
• Sandram Ussi

4 goals

• Mamour Diagne
• Seydina Sene

3 goals

• Ismael Bahgat
• Hassan Hussein
• Simba Dala
• Raoul Mendy

2 goals

• Moustafa Ahmed
• Costa
• Ahmed El-Shahat
• Orlando Rakotomalala
• Tokindrainy Randriama
• Ymelda Razafimandimby
• Marcel Richard
• Ibrahim Abagli
• Zouhair Jabbary
• Arroz
• Mamadou Sylla
• Joshua Lubwama
• Baker Lukooya

1 goal

• Loha
• Abdelrahiman El-Shafei
• Fofo Alexandre
• Joel Jindy
• Jacques Raharison
• Rabi Aboutalbi
• Mohamed Ghailani
• Azzedine El Hamidy
• Mohamed Khabaz
• Ali El Khdym
• Ismail El Ouariry
• Kamal Yassine
• Big Ro
• Dez
• Monstro
• Watson Frazer
• Ganizani Mphande
• O'Brien Nkhulumba
• Souley Coly
• Ninou Diatta
• Babacar Fall
• Al Seyni Ndiaye
• Saliou Ndoye
• Amar Samb
• Isma Kawawulo
• Sharifu Opuuli

1 own goal

• Ibrahim Abagli (against Mozambique)
• Big Ro (against Morocco)
• Ninou Diatta (against Egypt)

Final standings

Qualified for the 2023 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup

Rank	Team
1st place, gold medalist(s)	Senegal
2nd place, silver medalist(s)	Egypt
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)	Morocco
4th	Mozambique
5th	Uganda
6th	Malawi
7th	Madagascar

Qualified teams for FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup

The following two teams from CAF qualify for the 2023 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup1 only FIFA era (since 2005)
Senegal	26 October 2022	8 (2007, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021)
Egypt	26 October 2022	0 (Debut)

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

External links

• Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations, at CAFonline.com