2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations qualification
# 2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations qualification

The 2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations qualification was a men's futsal competition which decided the participating teams of the 2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations.

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 2012 FIFA Futsal World Cup.

## Teams

A total of 12 teams entered the qualifying rounds.

| Round | Teams entering round | No. of teams |
| - | - | - |
| Preliminary round | Angola  Cameroon  Equatorial Guinea  Libya  Ivory Coast  Madagascar  Morocco  Mozambique  Nigeria  Sudan  Tunisia  Zambia | 12 |
| Final tournament | South Africa (hosts)  Egypt (highest-placed African team in 2012 FIFA Futsal World Cup) | 2 |

* Did not enter
* Algeria
* Benin
* Botswana
* Burkina Faso
* Burundi
* Cape Verde
* Central African Republic
* Chad
* Comoros
* Congo
* Djibouti
* DR Congo
* Eritrea
* Ethiopia
* Gabon
* Gambia
* Ghana
* Guinea
* Guinea-Bissau
* Kenya
* Lesotho
* Liberia
* Malawi
* Mali
* Mauritania
* Mauritius
* Namibia
* Niger
* Rwanda
* São Tomé and Príncipe
* Senegal
* Seychelles
* Sierra Leone
* Somalia
* South Sudan
* Eswatini
* Tanzania
* Togo
* Uganda
* Zimbabwe

## Format

Qualification ties were played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the aggregate score was tied after the second leg, the away goals rule would be applied, and if still level, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (no extra time 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.

| Round | Leg | Date |
| - | - | - |
| Preliminary round | First leg | 6 December 2015 |
| Preliminary round | Second leg | 13 December 2015 |

## Preliminary round

Winners qualified for 2016 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations.

| Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Cameroon | 4–12 | Angola | 3–5 | 1–7 |
| Tunisia | w/o | Nigeria | — | — |
| Zambia | 7–7 (a) | Equatorial Guinea | 3–2 | 4–5 |
| Ivory Coast | 2–12 | Morocco | 2–7 | 0–5 |
| Madagascar | 4–17 | Mozambique | 1–7 | 3–10 |
| Sudan | 4–14 | Libya | 4–9 | 0–5 |

### Notes

* ^ Nigeria withdrew from the tournament, therefore Tunisia qualified automatically.
* ^ In the second leg between Equatorial Guinea and Zambia, the referees incorrectly played extra time when the score at full time was 5–4 to Equatorial Guinea (7–7 on aggregate), which Equatorial Guinea went on to win 7–5 (8–7 on aggregate). CAF's rules state that the team with the most away goals wins in the event of a tie, and so CAF later declared the extra time played null and void, and Zambia the winners by virtue of the away goals rule.
* ^ Libya played their home match in Tunisia due to security concerns.

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.

| Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in tournament |
| - | - | - |
| South Africa (hosts) | 3 November 2015 | 3 (2000, 2004, 2008) |
| Egypt | 3 November 2015 | 4 (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008) |
| Angola | 13 December 2015 | 1 (2008) |
| Tunisia | 6 December 2015 | 1 (2008) |
| Zambia | 13 December 2015 | 1 (2008) |
| Morocco | 13 December 2015 | 3 (2000, 2004, 2008) |
| Mozambique | 13 December 2015 | 2 (2004, 2008) |
| Libya | 13 December 2015 | 2 (2000, 2008) |

    $^1$ Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

## Goalscorers

There were 48 goals scored in 6 matches, for an average of 8 goals per match.

5 goals

* Rabia Abdelrahim

4 goals

* Paulo Ribeiro
* Barnabé Atangana

2 goals

* Edvanio Neto
* Artur Silva
* Keny
* Muller
* Roberto Tobe
* Fathi Al-Khoga
* Mohamed Rahoma
* Ammar Ahmed
* Adrian Chama

1 goal

* Klisman Barata
* Nuno Dos Santos
* Celso Martins
* Gilson Texeira
* Domingo Manami
* Salem Aghila
* Bader Ahmed
* Abdulhalim Al-Serksia
* Hamdi Al-Shawain
* Adham Al-Toumi
* Mergani Abdelnoor
* Mohamed Ahmed
* Kenneth Chulu
* Michelo Kaampze
* Boniface Ndhlovu
* Bobby Phiri
* Enock Shanchebo
