2023 COSAFA Beach Soccer Championship

The 2023 COSAFA Beach Soccer Championship was the fourth edition of the annual tournament organized by COSAFA. The tournament was held in Durban, South Africa.^[1]

2023 COSAFA Beach Soccer Championship

Tournament details
Host country	South Africa
City	Durban
Dates	17–23 March 2024
Teams	8
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Morocco
Runners-up	Mozambique
Third place	Malawi
Tournament statistics
Matches played	16
Goals scored	116 (7.25 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Isaac Kajam and Antonio Namape Jnr (8 goals)
Best player(s)	Antonio Namape Jnr
Best goalkeeper	Yassir Abada
Fair play award	Malawi
← 2022 2024 →

Senegal are defending champions.^[2] Morocco beat Mozambique 4-3 via penalties in the final after the final match ended in a 4-4 draw.^[3]

Venues

This edition of the tournament was held at South Beach, Durban in South Africa.

Draw

The draw for this edition of the tournament was held on 7 March 2024 at 11h00 CAT.^[4] The eight teams were drawn into 2 group of 4 teams with teams finishing first and second in the groups qualifying for the knockout stages.^[5]

Group A	Group B
South Africa Saudi Arabia Seychelles Malawi	Morocco Mozambique Tanzania Angola

Group stage

Key to colours in group tables
	Group winners and runners-up advance to the Knockout stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Saudi Arabia	3	2	0	1	9	5	+4	6	Advance to Semi-Finals
2	Malawi	3	2	0	1	12	9	+3	6
3	South Africa (H)	3	1	0	2	6	9	−3	3
4	Seychelles	3	1	0	2	7	11	−4	3

Source:
(H) Hosts

17 March 2024

12:00 CAT UTC+02:00

South Africa	2–4	Malawi

South Beach, Durban

17 March 2024

14:30 CAT UTC+02:00

Saudi Arabia	1–3	Seychelles

South Beach, Durban

18 March 2024

12:00 CAT UTC+02:00

South Africa	3–2	Seychelles

South Beach, Durban

18 March 2024

16:00 CAT UTC+02:00

Malawi	1–5	Saudi Arabia

South Beach, Durban

20 March 2024

10:30 CAT UTC+02:00

Seychelles	2–7	Malawi

South Beach, Durban

20 March 2024

14:30 CAT UTC+02:00

South Africa	1–3	Saudi Arabia

South Beach, Durban

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Morocco	3	2	0	1	12	9	+3	6	Advance to Semi-Finals
2	Mozambique	3	2	0	1	13	13	0	6
3	Angola	3	2	0	1	10	12	−2	6
4	Tanzania	3	0	0	3	7	10	−3	0

Source:

17 March 2024

10:30 CAT UTC+02:00

Tanzania	2–3 (aet)	Angola

South Beach, Durban

17 March 2024

16:00 CAT UTC+02:00

Morocco	5–2	Mozambique

South Beach, Durban

18 March 2024

10:30 CAT UTC+02:00

Mozambique	5–4	Tanzania

South Beach, Durban

18 March 2024

14:30 CAT UTC+02:00

Morocco	2–3	Angola

South Beach, Durban

20 March 2024

12:00 CAT UTC+02:00

Angola	4–8	Mozambique

South Beach, Durban

20 March 2024

16:00 CAT UTC+02:00

Morocco	2–1	Tanzania

South Beach, Durban

Knockout stage

• In the knockout stage, extra-time and a penalty shoot-out will be used to decide the winner if necessary.

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	21 March – South Beach, Durban
	Morocco	9
					23 March – South Beach, Durban
	Malawi	6
					Morocco (p)	4 (4)
	21 March – South Beach, Durban
					Mozambique	4 (3)
	Mozambique	8
	Saudi Arabia	1
					Third Place match
					23 March – South Beach, Durban
					Malawi	5
					Saudi Arabia	4

Semi-Final

21 March 2024

14:00 CAT UTC+02:00

Morocco	9–6	Malawi

South Beach, Durban

21 March 2024

15:30 CAT UTC+02:00

Mozambique	8–1	Saudi Arabia

South Beach, Durban

Third-place

23 March 2024

14:00 CAT UTC+02:00

Malawi	5–4	Saudi Arabia

South Beach, Durban

Final

23 March 2024

15:30 CAT UTC+02:00

Morocco	4–4	Mozambique
Penalties
	4-3

South Beach, Durban

Awards

The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament: the Golden Boot (top scorer), Golden Ball (best overall player) and Golden Glove (best goalkeeper).

Golden Boot	Silver Boot	Bronze Boot
Isaac Kajam and Antonio Namape Jnr	Ramzi Dakman	Driss Ghannam, Rachide Simithe, and Ayoub Zahraoui
8 goals	6 goals	5 goals
Golden Ball
Antonio Namape Jnr
Golden Glove
Yassir Abada
COSAFA Beach Soccer Fair Play Trophy
Malawi

Statistics

Goal scorers

There were 116 goals scored in 16 matches, for an average of 7.25 goals per match.

8 goals

• Isaac Kajam
• Antonio Namape Jnr

6 goals

• Ramzi Dakman

5 goals

• Driss Ghannam
• Ayoub Zahraoui
• Rachide Simithe

4 goals

• Dala Dala
• Adnan Oubahri
• Angelo Tomas
• Jaruph Juma

3 goals

• Paolo Nascimento
• Oblen Khumbula
• Sandram Ussi
• Badr El Kraichly
• Helio Mahota

2 goals

• Joao Tchitungo
• Omar de Fonseca
• Amine El Bidouri
• Yuran Malate
• Paolo Novela
• Khaled Al Mowallad
• Mubarak Alduoasri
• Eslam Sarraj
• Stephen Lajoie
• Ryan Servina
• Abdulrahim Bausi