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2021 African Minifootball Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Nigeria
Dates	8–17 July 2021
Teams	9 (originally 16) (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Egypt (1st title)
Runners-up	Libya
Third place	Ivory Coast
Fourth place	Ghana
Tournament statistics
Matches played	28
Goals scored	112 (4 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Bernard Sarfo (7 goals)
Best player(s)	Mohamed Khamies
← 2018 2024 → All statistics correct as of 18 July 2021.

The 2021 African Minifootball Cup (Arabic: 2021 كأس أمم إفريقيا لكرة القدم المصغرة, French: CAN mini-foot 2021) also called AFCON Minifoot for a short is the second edition of the African Minifootball Cup held by the African Minifootball Confederation (AMC). The tournament was held in Nigeria. Initially set to hold in 2020, it was postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19. It was huge success even with covid situation in Nigeria.

Teams and draw

Qualified Teams

Unlike in the 2018 African Minifootball Cup, 16 teams are qualified for the final

Team	Finals appearance	Previous best performance
Ghana	2nd	Groupe stage 2018
Ivory Coast	2nd	Winner 2018
Libya	2nd	Fourth place 2018
Nigeria	2nd	Groupe stage2018
Senegal	2nd	Runner-up 2018
Somalia	2nd	Groupe stage2018
South Africa	2nd	Groupe stage2018
Tunisia	2nd	Third place2018
Morocco	1st	debut
Djibouti	1st	debut
Benin	1st	debut
Burkina Faso	1st	debut
Egypt	1st	debut
Algeria	1st	debut
Zambia	1st	debut
Gabon	1st	debut

Draw

On 10 June 2021, in Ibadan, the pools were drawn for 4 groups of 16 teams

Participating Nations

Due to Covid-19 measurements in some participants' countries, the tournament kicked off with only 9 countries: host Nigeria, Libya, Ghana, Egypt, Burkina Faso, Zambia, Benin Republic, Somalia and Senegal. One of the most notably absent teams are the Tunisia MiniFootball, who finished third in the last tournament. For more information visit website of the tournament: https://amc.mygol.es/tournaments/1

Venues

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Libya	3	2	1	0	8	1	+7	7
2	Senegal	3	2	0	1	7	8	−1	6
3	Nigeria (H)	3	1	1	1	5	5	0	4
4	Zambia	3	0	0	3	4	10	−6	0

Notice : Djibouti did note enter even after that they confirmed their participation

Nigeria	0-0	Libya
	report (Mygol) report (Press)

• Bilal Sene

Zambia	2-3	Senegal
	Report

• Bilal Sene

Nigeria	2-3	Senegal
	report (Mygol) report (Press)

• Bilal Sene

Senegal	1-4	Libya
KARIFA 6'	Report	MOHAMMAD ABDULLAH 13' IBRAHIM SAID (21), 41' MUSTAFA NIQREESH 48'

• Bilal Sene

Zambia	2-3	Nigeria
	report (Mygol) report (Press)

• Bilal Sene

Zambia	0-4	Libya
	Report	MOHAMMAD ABDULLAH 13' ALEID ABU ZAYD 39' OMAR MOUSAY 50' IBRAHIM SAID 50+2'

• Bilal Sene

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Egypt	4	4	0	0	16	3	+13	12
2	Ghana	4	2	1	1	14	8	+6	7
3	Ivory Coast	4	2	0	2	9	7	+2	6
4	Burkina Faso	4	1	1	2	7	8	−1	4
5	Somalia	4	0	0	4	2	22	−20	0

Egypt	3-1	Ghana
MOHAMED HASSAN ALI 0' REYAD IBRAHIM 0' ABDELNABY ABDELFATTAH 0'	report (Mygol) report (Press)	SARFO 0'

• Bilal Sene

Ghana	3-3	Burkina Faso
SARFO (0), 0' APPIAH KUBI 0'	report (Mygol) report (Press)	0' 0' 0'

• Bilal Sene

Ivory Coast  Ivory Cost	1-3	Ghana Ghana
HABIB COME 13'	[https://amc.mygol.es/tournaments/1/matches/58 report (Mygol) report (Press)	BOAKYE 3' SARFO (48), 53'

• Bilal Sene

Egypt	4-0	Burkina Faso
REYAD IBRAHIM 8' KAMEL MOHAMED 35' ABDO YASSEN 40' MOHAMED HASHISH 50'	Report

• Bilal Sene

Ivory Coast	1-0	Burkina Faso
HABIB COME 50'	Report

• Bilal Sene

Egypt	6-0	Somalia
ABDELNABY ABDELFATTAH 22' ABDELRAOOF IBRAHEM 25' MOHAMED HASHISH 35' KAMEL MOHAMED, 39', 42' (47)	Report

• Bilal Sene

Ivory Coast	5-1	Somalia
JACOB TRA, 3', 5' (44) HABIB COME 5' MARC STEPHANE GOORE 18'	Report	25+2'

• Bilal Sene

Ghana	7-1	Somalia
SARFO 8' ANANE 10' BOAKYE (17), 20' APPIAH - KUBI , 32', 45' (48)	report (Mygol) report (Press)	42'

• Bilal Sene

Egypt	3-2	Ivory Coast
ABDELRAOOF IBRAHEM 18' ALI SEROR 42' MOHAMED HASHISH 45'	Report	JACOB TRA 50' STEPHANE GOORE 50+1'

• Bilal Sene

Burkina Faso	4-0	Somalia
8' 26' 27' 32'	Report

• Bilal Sene

Knockout stage

	Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Final
	15 July
	Nigeria	1 (1)
					16 July
	Ghana (p)	1 (2)
					Ghana	2 (0)
	15 July
					Libya (p)	2 (2)
	Libya	6
									17 July–
	Burkina Faso	1
									Egypt (a.e.t)	1
	15 July
									Libya	0
	Senegal (W)	0
					16 July
	Ivory Coast	3
					Egypt	3
	15 July
					Ivory Coast	1			Third place
	Egypt	2
									17 July
	Zambia	0
									Ivory Coast	2
									Ghana	0

Quarterfinals

Nigeria	1-1	Ghana
OCHEJE 29'	report (Mygol) report (Press)	AGYEMANG 11'
Penalties
IKANDEIKANDE JAMES EKONDO ORELOPE	1-2	BOAKYE APPIAH - KUBI AGYEMANG

• Bilal Sene

Libya	6-1	Burkina Faso
IBRAHIM AMER (17), 22' MOHAMMAD ABDULLAH 17' IBRAHIM SAID 25' ALEID ABU ZAYD 36' ALAJAMI ABUSHRMET 40'	Report	26'

• Bilal Sene

Egypt	2-0	Zambia
ABDO YASSEN 25' ABDELHAMID ELSAYED 28'	Report

• Bilal Sene

Senegal  (W)	0-3	Ivory Coast
	report (Mygol) report (Press)

• Bilal Sene

Semifinals

Libya	2-2	Ghana
SALM ALHMRWNE 34' IBRAHIM SAID 40'	report (mygol) report (Press)	SARFO 1' TETTEH OCANSEY 38'
Penalties
SALM ALHMRWNE MOHAMMAD ABDULLAH	2-0	BOAKYE NANA AGYEMANG

• Bilal Sene

Ivory Coast	1-3	Egypt
JUNIOR DIARRASSOUBA 45'	Report	ABDELHAMID ELSAYED 11' ABDO ABDO YASSEN (26), 41'

• Bilal Sene

3rd place

Ivory Coast	2-0	Ghana
JACOB TRA (30 ), 43'	report (Mygol) report (press)

• Bilal Sene

finals

Libya	(0-0) 0-1 (a.e.t.)	Egypt
	report (Mygol report (Press AR)	ABDELNABY ABDELFATTAH 58'

• Bilal Sene

World Cup Qualification

	5th–8th place semifinals				5th place
	16 July
	Senegal (W)	0
					17 July
	Zambia	3
					Nigeria	3
	16 July
					Zambia	2
	Nigeria	3
	Burkina Faso (W)	0

5th–8th place

Nigeria	3-0	Burkina Faso (W)
	Report

• Bilal Sene

Senegal  (W)	0-3	Zambia
	Report

• Bilal Sene

Nigeria	3-2	Zambia
KABIR ADEWOLE , 11 ', 31' (50)	Report	14' 39'

• Bilal Sene

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Top Scored

All statistics correct as of 17 July 2021.

POS	Player	Team	PLD
1	Bernard Sarfo		6	7
2	BI ZAMBLE COBO JACOB TRA		6	6
3	MOHAMED KHAMIES IBRAHIM SAID		5	5
4	DENNIS AMEYAW APPIAH - KUBI		7	4
5	MOHAMED YAKOT ABDO ABDO YASSEN		6	4

Final ranking

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Result
1	Egypt	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1st
2	Libya	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2nd
3	Ivory Coast	7	4	0	3	18	8	+10	12	3rd
4	Ghana	7	2	3	2	17	13	+4	9	4th
5	Nigeria	6	3	2	1	12	8	+4	11	Eliminated in the quarter-finals
6	Zambia	6	1	0	5	9	15	−6	3
7	Senegal	5	2	0	3	7	14	−7	6
8	Burkina Faso	6	1	1	4	8	17	−9	4
9	Somalia	4	0	0	4	1	21	−20	0	Eliminated in group stage

Qualified teams for the WMF World Cup

The following three teams from CAF qualified for the 2021 WMF World Cup.

Team	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament
Egypt	16 July 2021	0
Ivory Coast	16 July 2021	1 (2017)
Ghana	16 July 2021	1 (2019)
Libya	16 July 2021	1 (2017)
Nigeria	17 July 2021	1 (2019)

Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

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