CAF Beach Soccer Championship
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Logo for the 2015 edition | |
| Founded | 2006 |
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| Region | Africa (CAF) |
| Number of teams | 19 (2015) |
| Current champions |
 Madagascar(1st title) |
| Most successful team(s) |
 Senegal(3 titles) |
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The CAF Beach Soccer Championship is the main international championship for beach soccer in Africa, mirroring that of the African Cup of Nations in association football. Also known as the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualifiers for CAF, the championship was established in 2006 after FIFA made requirements for all confederations to begin holding a qualification tournament to determine the best national team(s) in the region and hence those who would proceed to represent their continent in the World Cup.
Africa was awarded two spots at the finals under FIFA's new changes to the organisation of the World Cup and hence the winners and runners-up of the championship qualify to the succeeding World Cup finals. Before 2006, there was no consistent method of qualification or number of spots at the World Cup for African nations, with countries often simply being invited to play in the finals, without competing for a regional crown beforehand.
The most successful nation is Senegal, who have won the tournament three of the seven times, and have qualified for the World Cup five times.
Now that the World Cup takes place every two years, so does the championship, which started with the qualifiers for the 2011 World Cup. In 2015, the tournament saw mass expansion in participation with separate qualifiers taking place to determine who would play in the Championship finals.
Tournaments
| Year | Location | Final | Third place match | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champion | Score | Runner-Up | Third Place | Score | Fourth Place | ||
| 2006 details |
Durban, South Africa |  Cameroon |
5 – 3 |  Nigeria |
 Egypt |
8 – 3 |  Côte d'Ivoire |
| 2007 details |
Durban, South Africa | Nigeria |
6 – 5 | Senegal |
Côte d'Ivoire |
2 – 0 |  South Africa |
| 2008 details |
Durban, South Africa | Senegal |
12 – 6 | Cameroon |
Côte d'Ivoire |
6 – 3 | Egypt |
| 2009 details |
Durban, South Africa | Nigeria |
7 – 4 | Côte d'Ivoire |
Senegal |
6 – 4 | Egypt |
| 2011 details |
Casablanca, Morocco | Senegal |
7 – 4 | Nigeria |
Egypt |
4 – 4 aet (1 – 0) pen |
Madagascar |
| 2013 details |
El Jadida, Morocco | Senegal |
4 – 1 | Côte d'Ivoire |
 Morocco |
7 – 2 | Nigeria |
| 2015 details |
Roche Caiman, Seychelles | Madagascar |
1 – 1 aet (2 – 1) pen |
Senegal |
Nigeria |
9 – 1 | Côte d'Ivoire |
| 2017 details |
Port Louis, Mauritius | ||||||
Successful nations
| Team | Titles | Runners-up | Third Place | Fourth Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senegal |
3 (2008, 2011, 2013) | 2 (2007, 2015) | 1 (2009) | - |
| Nigeria |
2 (2007, 2009) | 3 (2006, 2011) | 1 (2015) | 1 (2013) |
| Cameroon |
1 (2006) | 1 (2008) | - | - |
| Madagascar |
1 (2015) | - | - | 1 (2011) |
| Côte d'Ivoire |
- | 2 (2009, 2013) | 2 (2007, 2008) | 2 (2006, 2015) |
| Egypt |
- | - | 2 (2006, 2011) | 2 (2008, 2009) |
| Morocco |
- | - | 1 (2013) | - |
| South Africa |
- | - | - | 1 (2007) |
Appearances
These are the nations who have qualified to appear in the CAF Beach Soccer Championship since 2006.
- Legend
- 1st – Champions
- 2nd – Runners-up
- 3rd – Third place
- 4th – Fourth place
- R1 – Group Stage (2007–present)
- • – Did not quality
- •• – Qualified but withdrew
- q – Qualified for upcoming tournament
- – Hosts
| 2006 (6) |
2007 (8) |
2008 (8) |
2009 (9) |
2011 (9) |
2013 (8) |
2015 (8) |
2017 (8) |
Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Algeria |
• | • | • | • | R1 | • | • | 1 | |
| Cameroon |
1st | R1 | 2nd | • | • | • | • | 3 | |
 Cape Verde |
• | 6th | R1 | • | • | • | • | 1 | |
| Ivory Coast |
4th | 3rd | 3rd | 2nd | R1 | 2nd | 4th | 7 | |
 Democratic Republic of the Congo |
• | • | • | • | •• | • | • | 0 | |
| Egypt |
3rd | 5th | 4th | 4th | 3rd | R1 | 6th | 7 | |
 Ghana |
• | • | • | • | • | R1 | 7th | 2 | |
 Libya |
• | • | • | R1 | R1 | R1 | • | 3 | |
| Mauritius |
• | • | • | R1 | • | • | • | 1 | |
| Madagascar |
• | • | • | • | 4th | R1 | 1st | 3 | |
| Morocco |
6th | • | • | R1 | R1 | 3rd | 5th | 5 | |
 Mozambique |
• | R1 | R1 | R1 | • | • | • | 3 | |
| Nigeria |
2nd | 1st | R1 | 1st | 2nd | 4th | 3rd | 7 | |
| Senegal |
• | 2nd | 1st | 3rd | 1st | 1st | 2nd | 6 | |
| Seychelles |
• | • | • | • | • | • | 8th | 1 | |
| South Africa |
5th | 4th | R1 | R1 | R1 | • | • | 5 |
World Cup qualifiers
The following is a performance timeline of the African nations who have qualified to appear in the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup since 2006 when qualifying rounds were introduced for all confederations.
Note that South Africa qualified to the world cup in 1999 and 2005.
- Legend
- 1st – Champions
- 2nd – Runners-up
- 3rd – Third place
- 4th – Fourth place
- QF – Quarterfinals
- R1 – Round 1 (group stage)
- q – Qualified for upcoming tournament
- – Hosts
| Team |  2006 |
2007 |
 2008 |
 2009 |
 2011 |
 2013 |
 2015 |
 2017 |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | R1 | R1 | 2 | ||||||
| Ivory Coast | R1 | R1 | 2 | ||||||
| Madagascar | R1 | 1 | |||||||
| Nigeria | R1 | QF | R1 | QF | 4 | ||||
| Senegal | QF | R1 | QF | R1 | R1 | 5 |
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