2025 Women's Futsal Africa Cup of Nations

2025 Women's Futsal Africa Cup of Nations

Tournament details
Host country	Morocco
Dates	22 – 30 April
Teams	9
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The 2025 Women's Futsal Africa Cup of Nations is the first edition of the Women's Futsal Africa Cup of Nations the biennial international women's futsal competition that will determine the two CAF teams in the 2025 FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup in the Philippines. ^[1]

Host selection

The following two football associations submitted their interest to host the tournament by the deadline.

•   Egypt ^[2]
•   Morocco

On 26 January 2024, CAF selected Morocco to host the final tournament. ^[3]

Teams

A total of 9 (out of 54) CAF member national teams entered the competition. ^[4]

Angola   Cameroon   Egypt   Guinea   Morocco

Madagascar   Namibia   Senegal   Tanzania

Draw

The draw was held on 13 February 2025 at 13:00 EST (UTC+2) at the CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. ^[5] The 9 teams were drawn into three groups of three teams, with hosts Morocco seeded in Group A (position A1) . The remaining 8 teams were allocated to one pot and were drawn to the remaining positions. ^{[6] [7]}

Seeded	Unseeded
Morocco (position A1)	Angola   Cameroon   Egypt   Guinea   Madagascar   Namibia   Senegal   Tanzania

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Morocco (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualified for Semi-finals
2	Cameroon	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible Semi-finals
3	Namibia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 10 April 2025. Source: [ CAF]
(H) Hosts

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Angola	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualified for Semi-finals
2	Egypt	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible Semi-finals
3	Guinea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 11 April 2025. Source: [ CAF]

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Madagascar	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualified for Semi-finals
2	Tanzania	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible Semi-finals
3	Senegal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: 12 April 2025. Source: [ CAF]

Ranking of runners-up

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	A2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualified for Semi-finals
2	B2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualified for 5th place play-off
3	C2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: unknown. Source: [ CAF]

Ranking of third-placed teams

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	A3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible Seventh place play-off
2	B3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	C3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Placed ninth in final standings

First match(es) will be played: unknown. Source: [ CAF]

Knockout stage

In the knockout stage, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary.

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	April
					April
	April
					Third place match
					April

7th place play-off

The two highest ranked teams finishing in third 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.

	Seventh place play-off

	v

5th place play-off

The bottom two ranked second placed teams 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.

	Fifth place play-off

	v

Tournament rankings

Ranking criteria

For teams eliminated in the same knockout round, the following criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the final rankings: Goal difference in round eliminated; Goals scored in round eliminated; If teams eliminated in the semi-finals or quarter-finals are tied, the above criteria are reapplied for the previous knockout round, with this process repeated once more should two semi-finalists remain tied; Points in group stage; Goal difference in group stage; Goals scored in group stage; Disciplinary points. For teams eliminated in the group stage, the following criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the final rankings Position in group; Points; Goal difference; Goals scored; Disciplinary points.

Pos.	Team	Pld	W	D	L	Pts	GF	GA	GD
1
2
3
4
Eliminated in the group stage
5
6
7
8
9

Qualified teams for the 2025 FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup

The following two teams from CAF will qualify for the 2025 FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup. ^[8]

Team	Qualified on
	April 2025
	April 2025

References

1. @futsalplanet97 (December 5, 2024). "CAF Women's Futsal Qualifiers for the First Ever FIFA Women's Futsal World Cup: Time for African Girls to Shine!" (Tweet). Retrieved January 10, 2025– via Twitter.
2. Shaaban, Hatem (10 January 2025). "Egypt welcomes hosting the Africa Cup of Nations qualifying tournament for the 2026 Women's Futsal World Cup". koraplus.com (in Arabic). Retrieved 28 January 2025.
3. Morad, Mohamed (26 January 2025). "CAF informs the Football Federation of Morocco's hosting of the Women's Futsal Africa Cup of Nations". youm7.com (in Arabic). Retrieved 28 January 2025.
4. El Komri, Salah (12 February 2025). "CAF sets the venue and date for the Women's Futsal AFCON draw in Morocco". snrtnews.com (in Arabic). SNRT . Retrieved 12 February 2025.
5. "WATCH LIVE: CAF to conduct Live Draws for four competitions on Thursday, 13 February in Cairo". CAFOnline.com . 13 February 2025. Archived from the original on 13 February 2025. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
6. "CAF announces the format of the first African Women's Futsal Championship". kooora.com (in Arabic). 5 February 2025. Retrieved 12 February 2025.
7. "Final Draw for the CAF Women's Futsal Africa Cup of Nations, Morocco 2025 to take place on 13 February at CAF headquarters in Cairo". CAFOnline.com . Confederation of African Football. 12 February 2025. Archived from the original on 13 February 2025. Retrieved 12 February 2025.
8. "Everything you need to know about the FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup". fifa.com. FIFA. September 1, 2024. Retrieved January 10, 2025.