| Organiser: | CAF |
| Number Of Teams: | 8 (main tournament) |
| Region: | Africa |
| Qualifier For: | FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup |
| Most Successful Team: | (7 titles) |
| Current: | 2022 Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations |
The Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations (BSAFCON) is the beach soccer tournament of Africa,[1] organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF). Launched in 2006, the winners of each edition[2] qualifies for African nations to the upcoming FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.[3]
Coinciding with the annual staging of the World Cup, the competition took place yearly until 2009; the World Cup then became biennial, and as its supplementary qualification event, the championship followed suit.
Senegal is the most successful nation in this competition and in World Cup qualifications, having won 7 titles, including the latest one in 2022, and qualified from with nine out of eleven attempts; Nigeria follow close behind, with six qualifications.
In 2006, FIFA made it a requirement for all confederations to begin holding qualification tournaments to determine the best national team(s) in their region and hence those who would proceed to represent their continent in the upcoming World Cup (previously, nations were simply invited to play without having to earn their place).[4] FIFA currently allocate Africa two berths at the World Cup[5] and hence the top two teams (the winners and the runners-up) qualify to the World Cup finals.[6]
Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW) originally organized the competition[7] under the title FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup CAF qualifier[8] (also known informally as the CAF Beach Soccer Championship).[9] Despite historically having minimal input (often only sending delegates),[10] CAF became lead organizers in 2015,[11] establishing a qualification phase to determine the eight nations to compete in the main tournament. On 6 August 2015, CAF renamed the competition as the "Beach Soccer Africa Cup Of Nations".[12] [13] 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.[14]
For all editions of this tournament, the top two teams qualified for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.
| Year | Location | width = 1% rowspan=2 | Final | width = 1% rowspan=2 | Third place play-off | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champions | Score | Runners-up | Third place | Score | Fourth place | ||||||
| FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup CAF qualifier (CAF Beach Soccer Championship) | |||||||||||
| 2006 details | Durban, South Africa | width = 1% rowspan=6 | 5–3 | width = 1% rowspan=6 | 8–3 | ||||||
| 2007 details | Durban, South Africa | 6–5 | 2–0 | ||||||||
| 2008 details | Durban, South Africa | 12–6 | 6–3 | ||||||||
| 2009 details | Durban, South Africa | 7–4 | 6–4 | ||||||||
| 2011 details |  Casablanca, Morocco | 7–4 | 4–4 (1–0 p.) | ||||||||
| 2013 details | El Jadida, Morocco | 4–1 | 7–2 | ||||||||
| Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations | |||||||||||
| 2015 details | Roche Caiman, Seychelles | width = 1% rowspan=6 | 1–1 (2–1 p.) | width = 1% rowspan=6 | 9–1 | ||||||
| 2016 details |  Lagos, Nigeria | 8–4 | 4–1 | ||||||||
| 2018 details |  Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt | 6–1 | 3–2 | ||||||||
| 2021 details |  Saly, Senegal | 4–1 | 5–3 | ||||||||
| 2022 details |  Vilankulo, Mozambique[15] | 2–2 (6–5 p.) | 6–4 | ||||||||
| 2024 details | Hurghada, Egypt[16] | ||||||||||
| Team | Titles | Runners-up | Third place | width=160 | Fourth place | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bgcolor=gold | bgcolor=gold | 7 (2008, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2021*, 2022) | 2 (2007, 2015) | 1 (2009) | – | 10 | |
| bgcolor=gold | bgcolor=gold | 2 (2007, 2009) | 4 (2006, 2011, 2016*, 2018) | 1 (2015) | 1 (2013) | 8 | |
| bgcolor=gold | bgcolor=gold | 1 (2006) | 1 (2008) | – | – | 2 | |
| bgcolor=gold | bgcolor=gold | 1 (2015) | – | – | 1 (2011) | 2 | |
| – | 2 (2009, 2013) | 2 (2007, 2008) | 2 (2006, 2015) | 6 | |||
| – | 1 (2022) | 4 (2006, 2011, 2016, 2018*) | 2 (2008, 2009) | 7 | |||
| – | 1 (2021*) | – | 1 (2022) | 2 | |||
| – | – | 3 (2013*, 2021, 2022) | 2 (2016, 2018) | 5 | |||
| – | – | – | 1 (2021) | 1 | |||
| – | – | – | 1 (2007*) | 1 |