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Morocco secure a 5-2 victory in Rabat
Morocco won the 2026 Futsal Africa Cup of Nations by defeating Angola 5-2 on Wednesday, October 21, in the final at the Prince Moulay Abdellah sports complex hall in Rabat. The victory completed a match featuring seven goals, with Angola’s two strikes coming among the five Moroccan goals that ultimately secured the continental championship for the Atlas Lions in the tournament’s decisive fixture.
The result delivered Morocco’s fourth African men’s futsal championship following earlier titles in 2016, 2020 and 2024. Those four trophies were won in four successive editions of the continental competition. Morocco also became the first national team to win the African championship four times, giving it sole possession of the competition record, while Angola completed its 2026 campaign as the tournament runner-up after reaching the final.
Three rapid goals before halftime
The verified scoring sequence remained goalless until the 17th minute, when Othmane El Idrissi opened the scoring for Morocco. The advantage lasted only briefly because João Cambangula equalized for Angola in the 18th minute. The first two goals of the final therefore arrived in consecutive minutes, moving the score from 0-0 to 1-1 as both teams found the net during the closing stages of the first half.
Morocco regained the lead through Youssef Jouad in the 19th minute. His goal followed immediately after Cambangula’s equalizer in the match chronology and established a 2-1 halftime score. All three first-half goals were therefore concentrated between the 17th and 19th minutes, with El Idrissi and Jouad scoring for Morocco on either side of Angola’s goal from Cambangula before the teams entered the interval.
Morocco extend their lead after the break
After entering halftime with a one-goal advantage, Morocco moved 3-1 ahead in the 21st minute. Raiss El Fenni scored the third Moroccan goal, two minutes in match time after Jouad had restored the lead in the 19th minute. That change to the score gave the Atlas Lions a two-goal margin early in the second half, extending the advantage they had established immediately before the interval.
The score did not change again in the verified sequence until the 33rd minute, when Ismail Amazal registered Morocco’s fourth goal. Bilal Bakkali then made it 5-1 in the 35th minute. Those two goals, separated by two minutes, widened the lead created by El Idrissi, Jouad and El Fenni across the end of the opening period and the beginning of the second half in Rabat.
Angola score again before full time
Angola scored its second goal through Anderson Fortes in the 37th minute. His strike reduced the deficit from 5-1 to 5-2 after Amazal and Bakkali had scored in the 33rd and 35th minutes. No further goal appears in the verified scoring chronology, leaving Morocco with a 5-2 victory in the final played at the Prince Moulay Abdellah sports complex and confirming Angola’s runner-up finish.
The complete sequence contains five different Moroccan scorers: Othmane El Idrissi in the 17th minute, Youssef Jouad in the 19th, Raiss El Fenni in the 21st, Ismail Amazal in the 33rd and Bilal Bakkali in the 35th. João Cambangula, in the 18th minute, and Anderson Fortes, in the 37th, provided Angola’s two goals in a final that ended with a three-goal margin.
The finalists’ routes to the title match
Before the final, Morocco had finished first in Group A with nine points. The Atlas Lions beat Algeria 4-0 during the group stage before recording a 7-0 victory over Zambia and a 6-0 win against Libya. They then reached the final by defeating Egypt 6-0 in the semifinal, adding a fourth victory to their tournament route before meeting Angola for the continental championship in Rabat.
Angola had reached the final through a 3-2 comeback victory against Algeria in the other semifinal. That result secured its place in the decisive match against Morocco before the eventual 5-2 defeat and runner-up finish. The finalists therefore arrived in Rabat after Morocco’s 6-0 semifinal victory over Egypt and Angola’s narrower 3-2 success over Algeria, with the title then decided by their seven-goal final.
Four successive editions and a unique record
Morocco’s record in the competition now includes championships in 2016, 2020, 2024 and 2026. Listed in the order of the editions won, the four titles show that the Atlas Lions captured four successive tournaments. This defines the precise significance of the Rabat result: the 2026 trophy was not only Morocco’s fourth overall championship, but also the continuation of a sequence that began with the title secured in 2016.
The victory establishes a specific historical distinction in African men’s futsal: Morocco became the first national team to reach four continental championships. The 5-2 result against Angola consequently made Morocco the sole record holder for titles in the competition. In the final standings of the 2026 edition, the Atlas Lions finished as champions and Angola as runner-up after the decisive match at the Prince Moulay Abdellah sports complex in Rabat.
