2026 Futsal Africa Cup of Nations qualification

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

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

Final tournament hosts
Team Pts. Rank
 Morocco 1481.26 6
Participating teams for the 2026 Futsal Africa Cup of Nations qualifying rounds
Teams entering second round
Team Pts. Rank
 Egypt 1098.56 39
 Libya 1053.77 50
 Angola 1021.19 59
 Ivory Coast 974.01 76
 Mozambique 952.11 85
 Zambia 939.53 92
 Algeria 916.56 100
 Guinea 855.87 117
 Mauritania 824.42 126
 Ghana[3] 746.68 134
Teams entering first round
Team Pts. Rank
 Tanzania 730.96 136
 Namibia 715.55 137
 Cameroon Unranked[a]
 Cape Verde N/a
 Kenya N/a
 Senegal N/a
 South Sudan N/a
 Zimbabwe N/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

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
  •  Cameroon
  •  Cape Verde
  •  Senegal
  •  South Sudan
Second round pots
Pot 3 Pot 4

First round

Team 1Agg. Tooltip Aggregate scoreTeam 21st leg2nd leg
Cape Verde 9–2 Senegal4–05–2
Namibia 18–11 Kenya8–410–7
Cameroon w/o South Sudan——
Zimbabwe w/o Tanzania——
Cape Verde 4–0 Senegal
  • Helder Semedo
  • Rui Fortes
  • Ezequiel Reis
Pavilhão Municipal, Tarrafal
Senegal 2–5 Cape Verde
  • Isaías Furtado
  • Rui Fortes
  • Joel Ribeiro
Namibia 8–4 Kenya
  • Matheus Humphries
  • Ichshaun von Francois
  • Wesley Otto
  • George Haikali
  • Ken Salote
  • Mike Ochieng Otieno
  • Anas Mahad Shiek
  • Mohamed Hassan Yusuf
MTC The Dome, Swakopmund
Kenya 7–10 Namibia
  • Ichshaun Von Francois
  • Luis Solunga
  • Celso Roberto
  • Wesley Otto
  • Nanguei Kamatuka
  • Ken Salote
  • Undefined  (o.g.)

Second round

Team 1Agg. Tooltip Aggregate scoreTeam 21st leg2nd leg
Cape Verde 6–8 Egypt5–51–3
Namibia 4–19 Libya3–111–8
Cameroon 1–19 Angola0–121–7
Tanzania 9–7 Ivory Coast7–32–4
Ghana 6–8 Zambia6–60–2
Mauritania 4–7 Mozambique3–41–3
Guinea 1–11 Algeria0–41–7
Cape Verde 5–5 Egypt
  • Isaías Furtado
  • Undefined  (o.g.)
  • Rui Fortes
  • Gerson Sanches
  • Ahmed Ali
  • Ebrahim El Sayed
  • Khaled Yousry
Pavilhão Municipal, Tarrafal
Egypt 3–1 Cape Verde
Namibia 3–11 Libya
  • Ichshaun von Francois
  • George Haikali
  • Luis Solunga
  • Ali Shoshan
  • Ibrahim Lemhammel
  • Fares Bukhshim
  • Ahmed Ezwai
  • Mohamed Said
  • Abdulhakim Rashid
Ahmed Al-Yumni
MTC The Dome, Swakopmund
Libya 8–1 Namibia
Misrata Sporting Hall, Misrata
Cameroon 0–12 Angola
Angola 7–1 Cameroon
Tanzania 7–3 Ivory Coast
  • Gidion Paul
  • Sharif Wilson
  • Bashiri Kibaila
  • Razack Juma
  • Adolfu Hamisi
  • Stéphane Toh 7'
  • Roméo Langui 28'
  • Unknown
Ivory Coast 4–2 Tanzania
  • Razack Juma
  • Sharif Wilson
Referee: Said El Haoud (Morocco), Khalid Hnich (Morocco)
Ghana 6–6 Zambia
Zambia 2–0 Ghana
Automotive Indoor Futsal Arena, Lusaka
Mauritania 3–4 Mozambique
Mozambique 3–1 Mauritania
Guinea 0–4 Algeria
  • Rayane Aït Hamadouche
  • Walid Betterki
  • Abdelhak Djebrani
Referee: Abel Kouamé Junior (Ivory Coast)
Algeria 7–1 Guinea
  • Amar Bessa  2', 34'
  • Rayane Aït Hamadouche  13'
  • Walid Riache  18' (pen.)
  • Samyr Teffaf  34'
  • Mathieu Hammad  36'
  • Bilal Bentout  40'
  • Mohamadou Tamanaté  7'
Referee: Ndubuisi Ukah Odigomna (Nigeria)

Qualified teams

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

Team Qualified as Qualified on Previous appearances in Futsal AFCON1
 Morocco host 4 January 2026 6 (2000, 2004, 2008, 2016, 2020, 2024)
 Tanzania Second round winners 7 February 2026 0 (debut)
 Zambia 8 February 2026 3 (2008, 2016, 2024)
 Mozambique 4 (2004, 2008, 2016, 2020)
 Algeria 0 (debut)
 Egypt 7 (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2016, 2020, 2024)
 Libya 5 (2000, 2008, 2016, 2020, 2024)
 Angola 9 February 2026 4 (2008, 2016, 2020, 2024)
1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

Notes

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

References

  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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