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2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations

Tournament details
Host country	South Africa
City	Johannesburg
Dates	15–24 April
Teams	8 (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 played	16
Goals scored	99 (6.19 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Ricardo Lenio Mendes Muendane (10 goals)
Fair play award	Mozambique
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The 2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations was the sixth 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.

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.

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.

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

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
Angola	2nd	Group stage (2008)
Egypt	5th	Champions (1996, 2000, 2004)
Libya	3rd	Champions (2008)
Morocco	4th	Runners-up (2000)
Mozambique	3rd	Runners-up (2004)
South Africa (hosts)	4th	Fourth place (2000)
Tunisia	2nd	Group stage (2008)
Zambia	2nd	Group stage (2008)

Venues

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

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

Squads

Each squad could contain a maximum of 14 players.

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. 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.

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:

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).

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

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'

Zambia	4–2	Tunisia
Adrian Chama 8', 12', 31' Kelvin Kangwa 32'	Report	Zoubeir Amimi 9' Bilel Ajmi 11'

South Africa	3–0	Zambia
Renaldo Donnelly 26' Wiseman Cele 28' Nwashokwe Gift Mashaba 34'	Report

Tunisia	1–4	Mozambique
Riadh Feker 17'	Report	Ricardo Lenio Mendes Muendane 18', 33' Amin Claudio Basilio Dale 28', 39'

Tunisia	7–1	South Africa
Bilel Ajmi 21', 29', 37' Zoubeir Amimi 36', 39', 39' Moez Bacouche 37'	Report	Renaldo Donnelly 2' (pen.)

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'

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

Egypt	0–0	Libya
	Report

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'

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'

Morocco	3–2	Libya
Bilal Bakkali 18', 23' Mohamed Jouad 28'	Report	Mohamed Ibrahim Shahout 32' Rabia Abdelrahim 38'

Morocco	2–3	Egypt
Mostafa Eid Mohamed 14' (o.g.) Adil Habil 35'	Report	Ahmed Mohamed Abdelkader 12', 30' Mostafa Eid Mohamed 33'

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'

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.

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	22 April – Johannesburg
	Mozambique	1
					24 April – Johannesburg
	Morocco	4
					Morocco	3
	22 April – Johannesburg
					Egypt	2
	Egypt	5
	Zambia	4
					Third place
					24 April – Johannesburg
					Mozambique (p)	5 (2)
					Zambia	5 (1)

Semi-finals

Winners qualified for 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup.

Mozambique	1–4	Morocco
Ricardo Lenio Mendes Muendane 39'	Report	El Mesrar 13' (22) Adil Habil 26' (pen.), 38'

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.)

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

Final

Morocco	3–2	Egypt
Mohamed Jouad 13' Bilal Bakkali 19' Adil Habil 38'	Report	Mostafa Eid Mohamed 12', 18'

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

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 tournament
Morocco	22 April 2016	1 (2012)
Egypt	22 April 2016	5 (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012)
Mozambique	24 April 2016	0 (debut)

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. Archived from the original on 23 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.

External links

• Futsal Africa Cup Of Nations, South Africa 2016, CAFonline.com

• 2016 Futsal Africa Cup of Nations
• Futsal Africa Cup of Nations
• International futsal competitions hosted by South Africa
• Sports competitions in Johannesburg
• 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup qualification
• 2016 in futsal
• 2016 in African football
• 2016 in South African sport
• April 2016 sports events in Africa