2025 African Minifootball Cup
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| Tournament details | |
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| Host country | Libya |
| Dates | 14–25 July |
| Teams | 16 (from 1 confederation) |
| Venue | 1 (in 1 host city) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |  Libya |
| Runners-up |  Morocco |
| Third place |  Mauritania |
| Fourth place |  Guinea |
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The 2025 African Minifootball Cup will be the fourth edition of the African Minifootball Cup organised by the African Minifootball Confederation (AMC).[1] The tournament will be held in the city of Derna in Libya from 14 to 25 July 2025, With the expansion of the tournament to sixteen teams, this is the second time Libya will host the event. South Africa are the defending champions.[2]
Libya was awarded the right to host the event on 27 October 2024. All the matches will be played at the Derna International Stadium in Derna.[3] This is the second time that Libya hosts the event after the 2018 edition.
| Derna |
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| Derna International Stadium |
| Capacity: 2,100 |
Teams
Participating nations
Participating teams are revealed on 29 October 2024.
| Team | Finals appearance |
First appearance |
Last appearance |
Previous best performance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Burkina Faso |
2nd | 2021 | 2021 | Quarter-finals (2021) |
 Cameroon |
2nd | 2024 | 2024 | Group stage (2024) |
 Chad |
2nd | 2024 | 2024 | Fourth place (2024) |
 DR Congo |
1st | None | None | Debut |
 Ghana |
4th | 2018 | 2024 | Fourth place (2021) |
| Guinea |
1st | None | None | Debut |
 Ivory Coast |
3rd | 2018 | 2021 | Champions (2018) |
| Libya (Host) |
3rd | 2018 | 2021 | Runners-up (2021) |
| Mauritania |
2nd | 2024 | 2024 | Runners-up (2024) |
| Morocco |
1st | None | None | Debut |
 Nigeria |
3rd | 2018 | 2021 | Quarter-finals (2021) |
 Somalia |
3rd | 2018 | 2021 | Group stage (2018, 2021) |
 South Africa (Holders) |
3rd | 2018 | 2024 | Champions (2024) |
 Tunisia |
2nd | 2018 | 2018 | Third place (2018) |
 Uganda |
1st | None | None | Debut |
 Zambia |
3rd | 2021 | 2024 | Quarter-finals (2021) |
Draw
The teams participating in the 2025 African Minifootball Cup were divided into 4 levels according to the WMF ranking and the teams’ results in the previous three participations in the tournament. The draw took place in the city of Derna, Libya on 15 December 2024, in the presence of all the presidents of the participating federations. Algeria withraw the tournament, it was replaced by Guinea.
| Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
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Group stage
Group A
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Libya (H) |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | +17 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Chad |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 3 | |
| 3 |  Senegal |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 | −7 | 3 | |
| 4 | DR Congo |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 | −7 | 3 |
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
(H) Hosts
Group B
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Morocco |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 2 | +14 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Ghana |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | +2 | 6 | |
| 3 |  Benin |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | −2 | 3 | |
| 4 | Cameroon |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 15 | −14 | 0 |
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
Group C
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ivory Coast |
4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 1 | +21 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 |  Tanzania |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 5 | +7 | 6 | |
| 3 | South Africa |
2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 21 | −12 | 3 | |
| 4 | Uganda |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 23 | −16 | 0 |
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
| South Africa | 1–10 | Ivory Coast |
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| South Africa | 7–5 | Uganda |
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| Ivory Coast | 2–0 | Tanzania |
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| South Africa | 1–6 | Tanzania |
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| Ivory Coast | 10–0 | Uganda |
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Group D
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mauritania |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 3 | +11 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
| 2 | Guinea |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | +6 | 6 | |
| 3 | Burkina Faso |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 10 | −4 | 3 | |
| 4 | Nigeria |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 16 | −13 | 0 |
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers
| Mauritania | 9–0 | Nigeria |
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| Burkina Faso | 1–5 | Guinea |
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| Mauritania | 3–2 | Burkina Faso |
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| Nigeria | 2–3 | Burkina Faso |
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| Guinea | 1–2 | Mauritania |
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Knockout stage
Bracket
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| 2025 – Derna | ||||||||||
| Libya | 2 | |||||||||
| 2025 – Derna | ||||||||||
| Ghana | 1 | |||||||||
| Libya | 2 | |||||||||
| 2025 – Derna | ||||||||||
| Guinea | 0 | |||||||||
| Ivory Coast | 0 | |||||||||
| 2025 – Derna | ||||||||||
| Guinea | 1 | |||||||||
| Libya | ||||||||||
| 2025 – Derna | ||||||||||
| Morocco | ||||||||||
| Morocco | 3 | |||||||||
| 2025 – Derna | ||||||||||
| Chad | 0 | |||||||||
| Morocco | 4 | |||||||||
| 2025 – Derna | ||||||||||
| Mauritania | 3 | Third place | ||||||||
| Mauritania | 4 | |||||||||
| 2025 – Derna | ||||||||||
| Tanzania | 0 | |||||||||
| Guinea | 2 | |||||||||
| Mauritania | 3 | |||||||||
Quarter-finals
| Ivory Coast | 0–1 | Guinea |
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| Mauritania | 4–0 | Tanzania |
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Semi-finals
| Morocco | 4–3 | Mauritania |
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Third place match
| Guinea | 2–3 | Mauritania |
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