The AfricaBeach SoccerCup of Nations is the main championship for beach soccer in Africa, contested between senior men's national teams who are members of the Confederation of African Football. It is the sport's version of the better known Africa Cup of Nations in association football. The winners of the championship are crowned continental champions; the tournament also acts as the qualification route for African nations to the upcoming edition of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup. Coinciding with the annual staging of the World Cup, the competition took place yearly until 2009; the World Cup then became, and as its supplementary qualification event, the championship followed suit. The championship was established in 2006 when FIFA made it a requirement for all confederations to begin holding qualification tournaments to determine the bestnational team in their region and hence those who would proceed to represent their continent in the upcoming World Cup. FIFA currently allocate Africa two berths at the World Cup and hence the top two teams qualify to the World Cup finals. Beach Soccer Worldwide originally organised the competition under the title FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup CAF qualifier. Despite historically having minimal input, CAF became lead organisers in 2015, establishing a qualification phase to determine the elite eight nations to compete in the tournament finals. CAF also began using the BSAFCON title to which the competition was officially renamed for the next edition, scheduled for 2017. However, CAF later announced that since three of its competitions were already held in odd-numbered years, the tournament would now be held in even-numbered years henceforth to desaturate the calendar, starting with 2016. Senegal are the most successful nation having won the event five times and are also the current champions. In terms of success in qualifying to the World Cup, again Senegal are the most outstanding nation, having qualified in seven out of nine attempts. Nigeria follow closely behind, with six qualifications.
Results
For all tournaments, the top two teams qualified for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.
Performance
Successful nations
Overall standings
As of 2016
Pos
Team
App
Pld
W
W+
WP
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Avg. Pts
1
7
33
24
1
1
7
192
120
+72
75
2
8
35
21
2
1
11
215
148
+67
68
3
8
35
15
1
4
15
156
154
+2
51
4
8
34
14
1
2
17
152
137
+15
46
5
6
24
12
0
0
12
110
94
+16
36
6
4
17
7
1
2
7
85
70
+15
24
7
3
12
6
0
1
5
55
55
0
19
8
5
15
4
0
0
11
60
65
–5
12
9
3
12
2
0
0
10
48
76
–28
6
10
2
7
1
0
1
5
22
46
–24
4
11
3
9
1
0
1
7
25
59
–34
4
12
1
3
1
0
0
2
14
19
–5
3
13
1
2
0
0
0
2
3
23
–20
0
0
14
1
5
0
0
0
5
6
34
–28
0
0
15
4
11
0
0
0
11
46
79
–43
0
0
Key: Appearances App / Won in Normal Time W = 3 Points / Won in Extra TimeW+ = 2 Points / Won in Penalty shoot-outWP = 1 Point / Lost L = 0 Points
Appearances & performance timeline
The following is a performance timeline of the teams who have appeared in the Africa Beach Soccer Cup of Nations and how many appearances they each have made. ;Legend
