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. A total of eight teams qualified to play in the final tournament, including South Africa who qualified automatically as hosts, and Egypt who qualified automatically as the highest-placed African team in the

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Teams

A total of 12 teams entered the qualifying rounds.

Format

Qualification ties were played on a home-and-away

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basis. If the aggregate score was tied after the second leg, the

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would be applied, and if still level, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (no

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would be played). The six winners of the preliminary round qualified for the final tournament.

Schedule

The schedule of the qualifying rounds was as follows.

Preliminary round

Winners qualified for

. ;Notes ''Angola won 12–4 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Tunisia won on walkover.'' ---- ''7–7 on aggregate. Zambia won on away goals.'' ---- ''Morocco won 12–2 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Mozambique won 17–4 on aggregate.'' ---- ''Libya won 14–4 on aggregate.''

Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament. :

¹ Bold indicates champion for that year. ''Italic'' indicates host for that year.

Goalscorers

References

External links

2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations Media Guide
(contains information about qualifiers) {{DEFAULTSORT:Africa Futsal Cup of Nations qualification 2016 2016 qualification Caf qualification 2015 in futsal Futsal qualification