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2026 Futsal Africa Cup of Nations qualifying
Tournament details
Dates23 January – 8 February 2026
Teams18 (from 1 confederation)
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The 2026 Futsal Africa Cup of Nations qualifying competition is the upcoming men's futsal competition that will determine the 7 teams joining the automatically qualified hosts Morocco in the 2026 Futsal Africa Cup of Nations final tournament.

A total of 19 CAF member national teams entered the competition. Apart from host Morocco, the remaining 18 teams entered the qualifying competition. The 10 highest-ranked teams based on the FIFA Futsal World Ranking of 11 December 2025 were given byes to the second round, while the remaining 8 teams entered in the first round.[1]

Entrants

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The teams were ranked according to their FIFA Futsal World Ranking of 11 December 2025.[2]

Final tournament hosts
TeamPts.Rank
Image Morocco1481.266
Participating teams for the 2026 Futsal Africa Cup of Nations qualifying rounds
Teams entering second round
TeamPts.Rank
Image Egypt1098.5639
Image Libya1053.7750
Image Angola1021.1959
Image Ivory Coast974.0176
Image Mozambique952.1185
Image Zambia939.5392
Image Algeria916.56100
Image Guinea855.87117
Image Mauritania824.42126
Image Ghana[3]746.68134
Teams entering first round
TeamPts.Rank
Image Tanzania730.96136
Image Namibia715.55137
Image CameroonUnranked[a]
Image Cape VerdeN/a
Image KenyaN/a
Image SenegalN/a
Image South SudanN/a
Image ZimbabweN/a
Did not enter

The following 12 associations have futsal teams but chose not to enter the competition, while the remaining 23 associations do not have futsal national teams and therefore did not enter.

Draw

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The draw for the qualifying competition took place in Rabat, Morocco at 18:00 GMT, 7 January 2026.[4]

The eight lowest-ranked teams were divided into two pots and drawn in pairs to form four fixtures, with each pot producing two pairings.

Based on the FIFA rankings, the four highest-ranked teams (Egypt, Libya, Angola and Côte d'Ivoire) were drawn to face the winners of the First Round. In each tie, the higher-ranked team will host the second leg. The remaining teams were allocated into two pots, with the higher-ranked teams placed in Pot 3 and the remaining teams in Pot 4. One team from Pot 4 was drawn against one team from Pot 3 until all teams were paired, with the higher-ranked team hosting the second leg.[5]

First round pots
Pot 1 Pot 2
Second round pots
Pot 3 Pot 4

First round

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Team 1Agg. Tooltip Aggregate scoreTeam 21st leg2nd leg
Cape Verde Image9–2Image Senegal4–05–2
Namibia Image18–11Image Kenya8–410–7
Cameroon Imagew/oImage South Sudan——
Zimbabwe Imagew/oImage Tanzania——
Cape Verde Image4–0Image Senegal
  • Helder Semedo Image
  • Rui Fortes ImageImage
  • Ezequiel Reis Image
Senegal Image2–5Image Cape Verde
  • Isaías Furtado GoalGoalGoal
  • Rui Fortes Goal
  • Joel Ribeiro Goal
Namibia Image8–4Image Kenya
  • Matheus Humphries Image
  • Ichshaun von Francois Image
  • Wesley Otto Image
  • George Haikali Image
  • Ken Salote ImageImageImageImage
  • Mike Ochieng Otieno Image
  • Anas Mahad Shiek ImageImage
  • Mohamed Hassan Yusuf Image
Kenya Image7–10Image Namibia
  • Ichshaun Von Francois Goal
  • Luis Solunga Goal
  • Celso Roberto Goal
  • Wesley Otto Goal
  • Nanguei Kamatuka Goal
  • Ken Salote GoalGoalGoalGoal
  • Undefined red-colored football (o.g.)

Second round

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Team 1Agg. Tooltip Aggregate scoreTeam 21st leg2nd leg
Cape Verde Image6–8Image Egypt5–51–3
Namibia Image4–19Image Libya3–111–8
Cameroon Image1–19Image Angola0–121–7
Tanzania Image9–7Image Ivory Coast7–32–4
Ghana Image6–8Image Zambia6–60–2
Mauritania Image4–7Image Mozambique3–41–3
Guinea Image1–11Image Algeria0–41–7
Cape Verde Image5–5Image Egypt
  • Isaías Furtado GoalGoal
  • Undefined red-colored football (o.g.)
  • Rui Fortes Goal
  • Gerson Sanches Goal
  • Ahmed Ali GoalGoal
  • Ebrahim El Sayed GoalGoal
  • Khaled Yousry Goal
Egypt Image3–1Image Cape Verde
Namibia Image3–11Image Libya
  • Ichshaun von Francois Goal
  • George Haikali Goal
  • Luis Solunga Goal
  • Ali Shoshan Goal
  • Ibrahim Lemhammel GoalGoalGoalGoal
  • Fares Bukhshim Goal
  • Ahmed Ezwai Goal
  • Mohamed Said GoalGoal
  • Abdulhakim Rashid Goal
Ahmed Al-Yumni Goal
Libya Image8–1Image Namibia
Cameroon Image0–12Image Angola
Angola Image7–1Image Cameroon
Tanzania Image7–3Image Ivory Coast
  • Gidion Paul GoalGoal
  • Sharif Wilson GoalGoal
  • Bashiri Kibaila Goal
  • Razack Juma Goal
  • Adolfu Hamisi Goal
  • Stéphane Toh Image 7'
  • Roméo Langui Image 28'
  • Unknown Image
Ivory Coast Image4–2Image Tanzania
  • Razack Juma Goal
  • Sharif Wilson Goal
Referee: Said El Haoud (Morocco), Khalid Hnich (Morocco)
Ghana Image6–6Image Zambia
Zambia Image2–0Image Ghana
Mauritania Image3–4Image Mozambique
Mozambique Image3–1Image Mauritania
Guinea Image0–4Image Algeria
  • Rayane Aït Hamadouche GoalGoal
  • Walid Betterki Goal
  • Abdelhak Djebrani Goal
Referee: Abel Kouamé Junior (Ivory Coast)
Algeria Image7–1Image Guinea
  • Amar Bessa Goal 2', 34'
  • Rayane Aït Hamadouche Goal 13'
  • Walid Riache Goal 18' (pen.)
  • Samyr Teffaf Goal 34'
  • Mathieu Hammad Goal 36'
  • Bilal Bentout Goal 40'
  • Mohamadou Tamanaté Goal 7'
Referee: Ndubuisi Ukah Odigomna (Nigeria)

Qualified teams

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The following 8 teams qualified for 2026 Futsal Africa Cup of Nations.

Team Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearances in Futsal AFCON1
Image Moroccohost4 January 20266 (2000, 2004, 2008, 2016, 2020, 2024)
Image TanzaniaSecond round winners7 February 20260 (debut)
Image Zambia8 February 20263 (2008, 2016, 2024)
Image Mozambique4 (2004, 2008, 2016, 2020)
Image Algeria0 (debut)
Image Egypt7 (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2016, 2020, 2024)
Image Libya5 (2000, 2008, 2016, 2020, 2024)
Image Angola9 February 20264 (2008, 2016, 2020, 2024)
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Notes

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  1. ↑ The team is unranked after exceeding the inactivity period; its last match was played on 13 December 2015 against Angola.

References

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  1. ↑ "Revised procedures and time for TotalEnergies CAF Futsal AFCON Morocco 2026 Qualifiers Draw to be held in Rabat on 07 January". Confederation of African Football. 7 January 2026. Retrieved 8 January 2026.
  2. ↑ "FIFA Futsal Men's World Ranking". FIFA. 11 December 2025. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
  3. ↑ "Ghana ranked among Africa's top 10 Futsal Nations, earns AFCON qualifiers bye". Ghana Football Association. 7 January 2025. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
  4. ↑ Ben Gamra, Farah (7 January 2026). "CAF Futsal AFCON Morocco 2026 Qualifiers Draw to Be Held in Rabat". Rabat: Morocco World News. Retrieved 8 January 2026.
  5. ↑ "Road to Futsal AFCON 2026 begins with qualifiers draw in Rabat". Ground Sports. 7 January 2025. Retrieved 8 January 2025.
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