The 2020 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations was the 6th edition of the

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, the quadrennial international

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championship organised by the

Confederation of African Football The Confederation of African Football, or CAF for short (french: link=yes, Confédération Africaine de Football, ar, link=yes, الاتحاد الأفريقي لكرة القدم, al-Ittiḥād al-Afrīqī li-Kurat al-Qadam), is the administ ...

(CAF) for the men's national teams of Africa. The tournament was held in

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between 28 January – 7 February 2020 (original dates were 17–26 April 2020). 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

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(originally 2020 but postponed due to

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) in

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as the CAF representatives.

were the defending champions and successfully managed to defend their title after beating

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5–0 in the final.

Qualification

Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

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withdrew from the tournament on 15 January 2020 as they refused to play in

Laayoune Laâyoune ( , also , ) or El Aaiún ( , ; Hassaniya Arabic: , romanized: ; ber, ⵍⵄⵢⵓⵏ, Leɛyun; ar, label= Literary Arabic, العيون, al-ʿUyūn/el-ʿUyūn, lit=The Springs) is the largest city of the disputed territory of W ...

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due to the

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. They were replaced by

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, which were eliminated by South Africa in the qualifying round. South Africa, together with Mauritius which withdrew after playing one match in the final tournament, were banned from the next two editions of the Africa Futsal Cup of Nations.

Venues

The matches were played at two venues in

. *Hizam Hall *El Massira Hall

Squads

Each squad can contained a maximum of 14 players.

Group stage

The draw for the final tournament took place on 7 December 2019, 19:00

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), at the Palais des Congrès in Laayoune. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four. For the draw, the hosts Morocco were seeded in position A1, and Egypt, which had the highest ranking among the other teams, 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 advance to the semi-finals. ;Tiebreakers The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order (Article 68): #Number of points obtained in games between the teams concerned; #

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in games between the teams concerned; #Goals scored in games between the teams concerned; #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; #Goal difference in all games; #Goals scored in all games; #Drawing of lots. All times are local,

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Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

In the knockout stage,

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(two periods of 5 minutes each) and

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are used to decide the winner if necessary, except for the third place match where

(no

) is used to decide the winner if necessary.

Bracket

Semi-finals

Winners qualify for

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Third place match

Winner qualifies for

Final

Goalscorers

Qualified teams for FIFA Futsal World Cup

The following three teams from CAF qualified for the

. :

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. ''Italic'' indicates hosts for that year.

References

External links

Total Futsal Africa Cup of Nations
CAFonline.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Africa Futsal Cup of Nations 2020

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