# 2020 Futsal Africa Cup of Nations qualification

The 2020 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations qualification was the qualification process organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to determine the participating teams for the 2020 Africa Futsal Cup of Nations, the 6th edition of the international men's futsal championship of Africa.

## Teams

A total of 10 teams entered the qualifying rounds.
| Round | Teams entering round | No. of teams |
| Preliminary round | Algeria  Angola  Cameroon  Cape Verde  Equatorial Guinea  Guinea  Libya  Mauritius  South Africa  Zambia | 10 |
| Final tournament | Morocco (hosts)  Egypt (African team in 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup)  Mozambique (African team in 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup) | 3 |
* Did not enter
* Benin
* Botswana
* Burkina Faso
* Burundi
* Central African Republic
* Chad
* Comoros
* Congo
* Djibouti
* DR Congo
* Eritrea
* Ethiopia
* Gabon
* Gambia
* Ghana
* Guinea-Bissau
* Ivory Coast
* Kenya
* Lesotho
* Liberia
* Madagascar
* Malawi
* Mali
* Mauritania
* Namibia
* Niger
* Nigeria
* Rwanda
* São Tomé and Príncipe
* Senegal
* Seychelles
* Sierra Leone
* Somalia
* South Sudan
* Sudan
* Eswatini
* Tanzania
* Togo
* Tunisia
* Uganda
* Zimbabwe

## 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 level, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (no extra time would be played).
The five winners of the preliminary round qualified for the final tournament.

## Schedule

The schedule of the qualifying rounds was as follows.
| Round | Leg | Date |
| Preliminary round | First leg | 23–26 October 2019 |
| Preliminary round | Second leg | 29–30 October 2019 |

## Preliminary round

Morocco qualified automatically as hosts, and Egypt and Mozambique also qualified automatically as the other African teams in the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup, while the remaining five spots were determined by the qualifying rounds, which took take place in October 2019.
| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| Cape Verde | w/o | Guinea | — | — |
| Algeria | 6–12 | Libya | 2–5 | 4–7 |
| Equatorial Guinea | w/o | Cameroon | — | — |
| Zambia | 1–13 | Angola | 0–4 | 1–9 |
| Mauritius | 1–11 | South Africa | 0–6 | 1–5 |
Libya won 12–6 on aggregate.
Angola won 13–1 on aggregate.
South Africa won 11–1 on aggregate. South Africa withdrew from the tournament on 15 January 2020 as they refused to play in Laayoune of Western Sahara due to the Western Sahara conflict and were replaced by Mauritius.

## Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament. South Africa, which originally qualified, withdrew and were replaced by Mauritius.
| Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in tournament |
| Morocco (hosts) | 29 September 2018 | 4 (2000, 2004, 2008, 2016) |
| Egypt | 29 September 2018 | 5 (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2016) |
| Mozambique | 29 September 2018 | 3 (2004, 2008, 2016) |
| Guinea | 26 September 2019 | 0 (debut) |
| Libya | 30 October 2019 | 3 (2000, 2008, 2016) |
| Equatorial Guinea | 22 October 2019 | 0 (debut) |
| Angola | 29 October 2019 | 2 (2008, 2016) |
| Mauritius | 16 January 2020 | 0 (debut) |
    $^1$ Bold indicates champion for that year. Italic indicates host for that year.

## Goalscorers

There were 27 goals scored in 4 matches, for an average of 6.75 goals per match.
5 goals
* Prado
3 goals
* Manocele
2 goals
* Bryan Melki
* Caluanda
* Jó
1 goal
* Bebucho
* Ibrahim Al-Mahmal
* Adham Al-Toumi
* Mohamed Rahoma
* Abdelhalim Seghir
* Mohamed Suleiman
* Aurélien Perle
* Wiseman Cele
* Renaldo Donnelly
* Yazeed Joharie
* Quincy Ngcobo
* Jean-Marc Ryan
* Carlos Kaoma