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2024 Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations

The 2024 Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations was the sixth edition of the Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations (BSAFCON), the premier beach soccer championship in Africa contested by Confederation of African Football (CAF) member association men's national teams. And the 12th edition of the beach soccer championships on the continent, including the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup CAF qualifiers championships organized by Beach Soccer Worldwide before its rebranding in 2015.

The tournament was held in Hurghada, Egypt, with all matches taking place from 19 to 26 October 2024. It also serves as the qualification pathway for African teams to the 2025 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Seychelles, with the winner and runner-up qualifying alongside the automatically qualified host team, Seychelles.

Senegal were the defending champions, and successfully defending the title.

Qualification

The 2024 Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations qualifying round determined the eight teams that competed in the final tournament in October. The draw for the qualifiers took place on June 13, 2024, at the CAF headquarters in Cairo. The matches were held during the weekends of July 19–21 and July 26–28.

Qualification ties were played on a home-and-away, two-legged basis. If the sides were level on aggregate after the second leg, the away goals rule was applied, and if still level, the tie proceeded directly to a penalty shoot-out (no extra time played).

Entrants

Host Egypt qualified automatically, while the other 14 teams competed against each other to determine the remaining 7 spots.

<small>The BSWW World Ranking was provided in parentheses for context only.</small>

Withdrawals

Angola and Uganda withdrew before the first legs were played.

Results

Qualified teams

The following eight teams have qualified for the final tournament:

Group Stage

The draw took place on 19 September 2024.

All times are local, EGY ().

Group A



Group B



7th place play-off

The teams finishing in fourth place in the groups are knocked out of title-winning contention, receding to play in a consolation match to determine 7th and 8th place in the final standings.

5th place play-off

The teams finishing in third place in the groups are knocked out of title-winning contention, receding to play in a consolation match to determine 5th and 6th place in the final standings.

Knockout stage

The group winners and runners-up progress to the knockout stage to continue to compete for the title.

Semi-finals

Winners qualify for the 2025 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.

Third place play-off

Final

Goalscorers

Final standings

Qualified teams for FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup

The following two teams from CAF qualify for the 2025 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup alongside Seychelles who automatically qualified as host.

<div id="1"><sup>1</sup> Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.</div>

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