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2023 Arab Beach Soccer Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Saudi Arabia
City	Jeddah
Dates	11–20 May 2023
Teams	12 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Egypt (2nd title)
Runners-up	Oman
Tournament statistics
Matches played	26
Goals scored	211 (8.12 per match)
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The 2023 Arab Beach Soccer Cup is the fourth edition of the Arab Beach Soccer Cup, the premier beach soccer championship in Arab world contested by men's national teams who are members of the Union of Arab Football Associations (UAFA). The tournament was due to take place in Saudi Arabia between 1 and 7 October 2022. But it was rescheduled to take place from 11 to 20 May 2023.

Egypt is the defending champions after defeating Lebanon 6–5 in the final to secure their first title.

Teams

Participating Nations

A total of 12 teams entered the tournament.

Team	App	Last	Best placement in the tournament
Comoros	1st	–	debut
Egypt	4th	2014	Champions (2014)
Kuwait	2nd	2008	Group stage (2008)
Lebanon	2nd	2014	Runners-up (2014)
Libya	3rd	2010	Champions (2008)
Mauritania	1st	–	debut
Morocco	3rd	2014	Group stage (2008, 2014)
Oman	4th	2014	Third place (2014)
Palestine	1st	–	debut
Saudi Arabia	3rd	2014	Champions (2010)
Sudan w/o	2nd	2014	Group stage (2014)
United Arab Emirates	4th	2014	Runners-up (2008, 2010)
Kyrgyzstan (invited)	1st

1. Sudan's beach soccer team withdrew from the Arab Cup tournament, scheduled for May 11-20, due to the situation in the country.

Did not enter

•  Algeria
•  Bahrain
•  Djibouti
•  Iraq
•  Jordan
•  Qatar
•  Somalia
•  Syria
•  Tunisia
•  Yemen

Draw

The draw of the tournament was held on 16 April 2023 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The 12 teams were drawn into three groups of four teams. The teams were seeded according to their BSWW World Ranking, with the hosts Saudi Arabia automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw.

Venues

Alhamra Beach Stadium, Jeddah

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	W+	WP	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Saudi Arabia (H)	3	2	0	0	1	15	13	+2	6	Knockout stage
2	Morocco	3	1	1	0	1	17	13	+4	5
3	Mauritania	3	1	0	0	2	12	14	−2	3
4	Lebanon	3	1	0	0	2	14	18	−4	3

Saudi Arabia	7–3	Mauritania
Mdhaii ?' Siraj ?' Elyami ?', ??', ??' Chahmani ?' Bouda ?'	Report	Elimam ?' Zwid ?' Bilkhir ?'

Morocco	9–5	Lebanon
Jabri ?' Bassak ?',  ?', ? ', ? ', ?' Fridi ?', ?' Lfrichi ?'	Report	Khatib ?' Miri ?', ?' Haidar ?', ?'

Mauritania	4–5 (a.e.t.)	Morocco
Bilkhir ?', ??', ??' Haded ?'	Report	Frichli ?' Frindi ?' Abghali ?' Bassak ?' Ghilani ?'

Saudi Arabia	4–7	Lebanon
Bouda ?', ?' Yamami ?' Siraj ?'	Report	Salama ?', ??', ?' Haider ?' Jrada ?' Salah ?' Mirii ?'

Morocco	3–4	Saudi Arabia
Zahrawi ?' Fraindi ?' Abghali ?'	Report	Yami ?', ??' Kadmain ?' Siraj ?'

Lebanon	2–5	Mauritania
Hamed ?' Abed Alah ?'	Report	Bilkhir ?', ??', ??', ??' Darwich ?'

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	W+	WP	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Egypt	3	3	0	0	0	14	8	+6	9	Knockout stage
2	Oman	3	2	0	0	1	24	6	+18	6
3	Palestine	3	1	0	0	2	8	11	−3	3
4	Kyrgyzstan	3	0	0	0	3	3	25	−22	0

Oman	7–1	Palestine
Liblouchi ?', ??' Arimi ?', ??', ??' Lauissi ?' Lhindassi ?'	Report	hassen ?'

Kyrgyzstan	2–6	Egypt
bik ?' samat ?'	Report	Chafi ?', ??' Ali ?', ??' Hsin ?' Ali ?'

Palestine	5–1	Kyrgyzstan
Atiya ?' Abid ?' Hassan ?', ?', ?'	Report	Dizilobayf ?'

Egypt	5–3	Oman
Chafii ?' Hssin ?' Abed ELminim ?' Slimain ?' Mahsoub ?'	Report	Souti ?' Alalimi ?' Alawissi ?'

Kyrgyzstan	0–14	Oman
	Report	Arimi ?', ??' Liblouchi ?', ??', ??', ??' Al Batachi ? ' Al Handassi ?', ??' Alarimi ? ' AlSouti ?', ??', ??', ??'

Egypt	3–2	Palestine
Abed Kodos ? ' Slimain ? ' Hassin ? '	Report	Aboud Abida ?', ? '

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	W+	WP	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	United Arab Emirates	3	3	0	0	0	23	9	+14	9	Knockout stage
2	Libya	3	2	0	0	1	11	12	−1	6
3	Comoros	3	0	0	1	2	9	18	−9	1
4	Kuwait	3	0	0	0	3	7	11	−4	0

United Arab Emirates	5–2	Libya
Yakoub ?' Bachir ?' Bachir ?' lkabii ?' mohamadi ?'		Mohamed ?' Labidi ?'

Kuwait	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Comoros
Penalties
	2–4

Libya	3–2	Kuwait
Oujli ?' Mouhamed ?' Twil ?'		Hajiya ?' Chafii ?'

United Arab Emirates	11–3	Comoros
Liblouchi ?', ?', ?' mohamadi ?', ?' Diryani ?' Kabi ?' Malahi ?' Bachir ?', ?' H.Blouchi ? '		Mouva ?' Salah ?' Mouhamed ?'

Kuwait	4–7	United Arab Emirates
Ali ?'		K .Liblouchi ?', ?' A.Liblouchi ?' Dahgani ?', ?' Bachir ?' Yakoub ?'

Comoros	5–6	Libya
Ali ?' Salah ?' Ahmed ?', ?' Mouifa ?'		Moussa ?', ?' Cherif ?' Rifii ?', ?', ?'

Ranking of third-placed teams

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	W+	WP	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	A	Mauritania	3	1	0	0	2	12	14	−2	3	Knockout stage
2	B	Palestine	3	1	0	0	2	8	11	−3	3
3	C	Comoros	3	0	0	1	2	9	18	−9	1

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	18 May
	Saudi Arabia	3
					19 May
	Palestine	5
					Palestine	3
	18 May
					Egypt	4
	Egypt	8
									20 May
	Mauritania	3
									Egypt	4
	18 May
									Oman	2
	Oman	5
					19 May
	United Arab Emirates	4
					Oman	4
	18 May
					Morocco	2
	Libya	2
	Morocco	5

Quarter-finals

Saudi Arabia	3–5	Palestine
ALajimi ?' Hachmani ?' Tmihi ?'	Report	Dahmain o.g' Nahal ?', ?' Jaber Abou Abida

Egypt	8–3	Mauritania
Ali ?' Chaban ?' Chafii ?', ?' Hassan ?' Mahsoub ?', ?' Slimain ?'	Report	Bilkhir ?' Jalo ?' Si ?'

Oman	5–4	United Arab Emirates
Almriki ?' Lblouchi ?' Larimi ?' Souti ?' Larimi ?'	Report	Mouhamed ?' Bachir ?', ?' Dahfani ?'

Libya	2–5	Morocco
Mouhamed ?' Zahrawi ?'	Report	Frindi ?', ?' Zahrawi ?' Frichli ?', ?'

Semi-finals

Palestine	3–4	Egypt
Hassen Abu Abeida	Report	Ali Chaabane Hussein

Oman	4–2	Morocco
Al-Mriki Al-Beloushi Al-Suti		Bessak

Final

Egypt	4–2	Oman
Hassan ?', ?' Abed ELkodos ?' Mahsoub ?'		Mriki ?' Larimi ?'

Awards

Goalscorers

Notes

References

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