2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations

The 2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations was the 5th edition of the Africa Futsal 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 held in South Africa between 15–24 April 2016. A total of eight teams played in the tournament.[1]

2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations
Tournament details
Host countrySouth Africa
CityJohannesburg
Dates15–24 April 2016
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Morocco (1st title)
Runners-up Egypt
Third place Mozambique
Fourth place Zambia
Tournament statistics
Matches played16
Goals scored99 (6.19 per match)
Top scorer(s) Ricardo Lenio Mendes Muendane (10 goals)
Fair play award Mozambique

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 qualified for the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup in Colombia as the CAF representatives.[2]

On 6 August 2015, the CAF Executive Committee decided to change the name of the tournament from the African Futsal Championship to the Africa Futsal Cup of Nations, similar to the football version, Africa Cup of Nations.[3]

Champions Morocco, runners-up Egypt and third-placed Mozambique qualified for the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup as the CAF representatives.[4]

Qualification
Main article: 2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations qualification

South Africa qualified automatically as hosts, and Egypt also qualified automatically as the highest-placed African team in the 2012 FIFA Futsal World Cup, while the remaining six spots were determined by the qualifying rounds, which took take place in December 2015.

Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

Team Appearance Previous best performance
 Angola2ndGroup stage (2008)
 Egypt5thChampions (1996, 2000, 2004)
 Libya3rdChampions (2008)
 Morocco4thRunners-up (2000)
 Mozambique3rdRunners-up (2004)
 South Africa (hosts)4thFourth place (2000)
 Tunisia2ndGroup stage (2008)
 Zambia2ndGroup stage (2008)

Venues

The matches were played at the Ellis Park Arena and the Wembley Indoor Stadium in Johannesburg.[5]

Johannesburg
Ellis Park ArenaWembley Indoor Stadium
Capacity: 6,300Capacity: 2,000

Squads

Each squad could contain a maximum of 14 players.[6]

Group stage

The draw for the final tournament of the competition took place on 17 February 2016, 11:00 UTC+2, at the Southern Sun Hotel OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four.[7] For the draw, the hosts South Africa were seeded in position A1 and Egypt were seeded in position B1. The remaining six teams were drawn from one pot to fill the other positions in the two groups.[8]

The top two teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals.

Tiebreakers

The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers would be applied in the following order:[6]

  1. Number of points obtained in games between the teams concerned;
  2. Goal difference in games between the teams concerned;
  3. Goals scored in games between the teams concerned;
  4. If, after applying criteria 1 to 3 to several teams, two teams still have an equal ranking, criteria 1 to 3 are reapplied exclusively to the matches between the two teams in question to determine their final rankings. If this procedure does not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 7 apply;
  5. Goal difference in all games;
  6. Goals scored in all games;
  7. Drawing of lots.

All times were local, SAST (UTC+2).[9]

Group A
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Mozambique 3 2 1 0 15 9 +6 7 Knockout stage
2  Zambia 3 1 1 1 8 9 −1 4
3  Tunisia 3 1 0 2 10 9 +1 3
4  South Africa (H) 3 1 0 2 8 14 −6 3
Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Host.
South Africa 4–7 Mozambique
Renaldo Donnelly  11', 35'
Nwashokwe Gift Mashaba  18'
Radlin Dwayne Sanssoucie  19'		 Report Ricardo Lenio Mendes Muendane  3', 15', 28'
José Da Silva Uetimane  8'
Amin Claudio Basilio Dale  9'
Flavio Boavida Chauque  38'
Ziraldo Joca Antonio Daniel  39'
Referee: Ahmed Ali (Libya)
Zambia 4–2 Tunisia
Adrian Chama  8', 12', 31'
Kelvin Kangwa  32'		 Report Zoubeir Amimi  9'
Bilel Ajmi  11'
Referee: Mohamed Hassan Hassan Ahmed Youssef (Egypt)
South Africa 3–0 Zambia
Renaldo Donnelly  26'
Wiseman Cele  28'
Nwashokwe Gift Mashaba  34'		 Report
Referee: Paul Akpome Umuago (Nigeria)
Tunisia 1–4 Mozambique
Riadh Feker  17' Report Ricardo Lenio Mendes Muendane  18', 33'
Amin Claudio Basilio Dale  28', 39'
Referee: José Francisco Katemo Katchingavisa (Angola)
Tunisia 7–1 South Africa
Bilel Ajmi  21', 29', 37'
Zoubeir Amimi  36', 39', 39'
Moez Bacouche  37'		 Report Renaldo Donnelly  2' (pen.)
Referee: Khalid Hnich (Morocco)
Mozambique 4–4 Zambia
Mario Jona Junior  9'
Flavio Boavida Chauque  15', 24'
Ricardo Lenio Mendes Muendane  27'		 Report Adrian Chama  7', 36'
Chanda Brian Chungu  14'
Boniface Ndhlovu  37'
Wembley Indoor Stadium, Johannesburg
Referee: Mohamed Hassan Hassan Ahmed Youssef (Egypt)

Group B
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Egypt 3 2 1 0 7 4 +3 7 Knockout stage
2  Morocco 3 2 0 1 10 7 +3 6
3  Libya 3 1 1 1 6 5 +1 4
4  Angola 3 0 0 3 6 13 −7 0
Source: CAF
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Egypt 0–0 Libya
Report
Referee: Moez Ben Salem (Tunisia)
Angola 2–5 Morocco
Paulo Alberto Ribeiro  20'
Quissanga Alberto De Almeida  24'		 Report Saad Knia  4'
Artur Saddam Samuel Dasilva  26' (o.g.)
Adil Habil  36'
Soufiane El Mesrar  37', 40'
Referee: Adalbert Diouf (Senegal)
Egypt 4–2 Angola
Mostafa Nader Rezk  3'
Mostafa Eid Mohamed  16', 21'
Ibrahim Magdy Ibrahim  39'		 Report Mario Jose Nogueira Antonio  39'
Osvaldo Saturnino Gama Inacio  39'
Referee: Almoiz Ahmed Mohamed (Sudan)
Morocco 3–2 Libya
Bilal Bakkali  18', 23'
Mohamed Jouad  28'		 Report Mohamed Ibrahim Shahout  32'
Rabia Abdelrahim  38'
Referee: Theodore Yves Eyebe Messoa (Cameroon)
Morocco 2–3 Egypt
Mostafa Eid Mohamed  14' (o.g.)
Adil Habil  35'		 Report Ahmed Mohamed Abdelkader  12', 30'
Mostafa Eid Mohamed  33'
Referee: Almoiz Ahmed Mohamed (Sudan)
Libya 4–2 Angola
Salem Mustafa Aghila  2', 10', 22'
Mohamed Suleiman Ghaeb  7'		 Report Artur Saddam Samuel Dasilva  25'
Mario Jose Nogueira Antonio  36'
Wembley Indoor Stadium, Johannesburg
Referee: Moez Ben Salem (Tunisia)

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, if a match was level at the end of normal playing time, extra time would be played (two periods of 5 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by kicks from the penalty mark to determine the winner, except for the third place match where no extra time would be played.[6]

Bracket
 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
22 April – Johannesburg
 
 
 Mozambique1
 
24 April – Johannesburg
 
 Morocco4
 
 Morocco3
 
22 April – Johannesburg
 
 Egypt2
 
 Egypt5
 
 
 Zambia4
 
Third place
 
 
24 April – Johannesburg
 
 
 Mozambique (p)5 (2)
 
 
 Zambia5 (1)

Semi-finals

Winners qualified for 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup.

Mozambique 1–4 Morocco
Ricardo Lenio Mendes Muendane  39' Report Soufiane El Mesrar  13'
Saad Knia  22'
Adil Habil  26' (pen.), 38'
Referee: Moez Ben Salem (Tunisia)
Egypt 5–4 Zambia
Mostafa Eid Mohamed  11', 11', 13'
Ahmed Mohamed Abdelkader  17'
Mohamed Mokhtar Mohamed  29'		 Report Boniface Ndhlovu  19'
Michelo Kaampwe  27', 35'
Donald Phiri  30' (pen.)
Referee: Adalbert Diouf (Senegal)

Third place play-off

Winner qualified for 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup.

Mozambique 5–5 Zambia
Flavio Boavida Chauque  3'
Ricardo Lenio Mendes Muendane  5', 8', 34'
Amin Claudio Basilio Dale  35'		 Report Enock Shanchebo  4'
Ricardo Jorge Da Conceicao Ferreira  7' (o.g.)
Michelo Kaampwe  25'
Nobet Mwinga  32'
Kenneth Chulu  40'
Penalties
Ricardo Lenio Mendes Muendane
Ziraldo Joca Antonio Daniel
Manuel Francisco
Amin Claudio Basilio Dale 		2–1 Michelo Kaampwe
Kenneth Chulu
Adrian Chama
Robby Phiri
Referee: Ahmed Ali (Libya)

Final
Morocco 3–2 Egypt
Mohamed Jouad  13'
Bilal Bakkali  19'
Adil Habil  38'		 Report Mostafa Eid Mohamed  12', 18'
Referee: José Francisco Katemo Katchingavisa (Angola)

Winners
 2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations 

Morocco
1st title

Tournament ranking

The three best ranked teams qualified for the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup.

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Final result
1  Morocco 5 4 0 1 17 10 +7 12 Champions
2  Egypt 5 3 1 1 14 11 +3 10 Runners-up
3  Mozambique 5 2 2 1 21 18 +3 8 Third place
4  Zambia 5 1 2 2 17 19 −2 5 Fourth place
5  Libya 3 1 1 1 6 5 +1 4 Eliminated in
group stage
6  Tunisia 3 1 0 2 10 9 +1 3
7  South Africa (H) 3 1 0 2 8 14 −6 3
8  Angola 3 0 0 3 6 13 −7 0
Source:
(H) Host.

Qualified teams for FIFA Futsal World Cup

The following three teams from CAF qualified for the FIFA Futsal World Cup.

Team Qualified on Previous appearances in tournament1
 Morocco22 April 20161 (2012)
 Egypt22 April 20165 (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012)
 Mozambique24 April 20160 (debut)
1 Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

References
  1. "Fixtures for Women AFCON 2016 & Africa Futsal Cup of Nations 2016". CAF. 3 November 2015.
  2. "La FIFA ratificó la distribución de plazas que corresponden a cada confederación" (in Spanish). CONMEBOL.com. 4 April 2014.
  3. "Decisions of CAF Executive Committee on 6 August 2015". CAF. 9 August 2015.
  4. "Egypt, Morocco, Mozambique qualify for Colombia 2016". FIFA.com. 24 April 2016.
  5. "Media Guide" (PDF). CAF.
  6. "Regulations of the Futsal Africa Cup of Nations" (PDF). CAF.
  7. "Futsal African Cup of Nations South Africa: Results of Draw for Final Tournament". CAF. 17 February 2016.
  8. "Procedure for the draw of the Futsal AFCON South Africa 2016". CAF. 16 February 2016.
  9. "Fixtures of the Final Tournament of Africa Futsal Cup of Nations, SOUTH AFRICA 2016" (PDF). CAF.
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