2018 African Youth Olympic Futsal Qualifying Tournament
2018 African Youth Olympic Futsal Qualifying Tournament
Tournament details
Dates
14 January – 28 April 2018
Teams
8 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions
Egypt (1st title)
Runners-up
Angola
Tournament statistics
Matches played
8
Goals scored
50 (6.25 per match)
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International football competition
The 2018 African Youth Olympic Futsal Qualifying Tournament was an international youth futsal competition organised by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) as qualifying for the futsal tournament at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, to determine which under-18 national team from Africa qualify for the boys' tournament.[1]
Players born on or after 1 January 2000 were eligible to compete in the tournament.
Teams
A total of eight (out of 54) CAF member national teams entered the qualifying rounds.[2]
Angola
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Ethiopia
Morocco
Mozambique
Sudan
Zambia
Notes
Teams in bold qualified for the Olympics.
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 tied, the penalty shoot-out (no extra time) would be used to determine the winner.
Schedule
The schedule of the qualifying rounds was as follows.
Since teams from the same association cannot play in both the Youth Olympics boys' and girls' tournaments, if teams from the same association qualify for both tournaments, they must nominate their preferred qualification team, and the runners-up will qualify instead if the winners are not nominated.
As participation in team sports (Futsal, Beach handball, Field hockey, and Rugby sevens) are limited to one team per gender for each National Olympic Committee (NOC), the participating teams of the 2018 Youth Olympics futsal tournament will be confirmed by mid-2018 after each qualified NOC confirms their participation and any unused qualification places are reallocated.[1]
References
^ ab"QUALIFICATION SYSTEM – YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES BUENOS AIRES 2018" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 August 2020. Retrieved 23 March 2017.
^"YOG Buenos Aires 2018 - CAF Qualifiers". Futsal Planet. Archived from the original on 2018-04-18. Retrieved 2018-04-30.
^"Egypt claim sole ticket to Buenos Aires". CAF. 29 April 2018.