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2023 Arab Beach Soccer Cup

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2023 Arab Beach Soccer Cup
Tournament details
Host country	Saudi Arabia
City	Jeddah
Dates	11–20 May 2023
Teams	12 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Egypt (2nd title)
Runners-up	Oman
Tournament statistics
Matches played	26
Goals scored	211 (8.12 per match)
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The 2023 Arab Beach Soccer Cup is the fourth edition of the Arab Beach Soccer Cup, the premier beach soccer championship in Arab world contested by men's national teams who are members of the Union of Arab Football Associations (UAFA). The tournament was due to take place in Saudi Arabia between 1 and 7 October 2022.^[1]^[2]^[3] But it was rescheduled to take place from 11 to 20 May 2023.^[4]^[5]^[6]

Egypt is the defending champions after defeating Lebanon 6–5 in the final to secure their first title.

Teams

Participating Nations

A total of 12 teams entered the tournament.

Team	App	Last	Best placement in the tournament
Comoros	1st	–	debut
Egypt	4th	2014	Champions (2014)
Kuwait	2nd	2008	Group stage (2008)
Lebanon	2nd	2014	Runners-up (2014)
Libya	3rd	2010	Champions (2008)
Mauritania	1st	–	debut
Morocco	3rd	2014	Group stage (2008, 2014)
Oman	4th	2014	Third place (2014)
Palestine	1st	–	debut
Saudi Arabia	3rd	2014	Champions (2010)
~~Sudan~~ w/o^[A]	2nd	2014	Group stage (2014)
United Arab Emirates	4th	2014	Runners-up (2008, 2010)
Kyrgyzstan (invited)	1st

^ Sudan's beach soccer team withdrew from the Arab Cup tournament, scheduled for May 11-20, due to the situation in the country.^[7]

Did not enter

Draw

The draw of the tournament was held on 16 April 2023 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.^[8] The 12 teams were drawn into three groups of four teams. The teams were seeded according to their BSWW World Ranking, with the hosts Saudi Arabia automatically seeded and assigned to Position A1 in the draw.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Saudi Arabia (hosts) United Arab Emirates Oman	Morocco Egypt Kuwait	Palestine Lebanon Libya	Comoros Mauritania Sudan

Venues

Alhamra Beach Stadium, Jeddah^[9]

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	W+	WP	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Saudi Arabia (H)	3	2	0	0	1	15	13	+2	6	Knockout stage
2	Morocco	3	1	1	0	1	17	13	+4	5
3	Mauritania	3	1	0	0	2	12	14	−2	3
4	Lebanon	3	1	0	0	2	14	18	−4	3

Source: UAFA
(H) Host

11 May 2023

19:00

Saudi Arabia	7–3	Mauritania
Mdhaii ?' Siraj ?' Elyami ?', ??', ??' Chahmani ?' Bouda ?'	Report	Elimam ?' Zwid ?' Bilkhir ?'

Alhamra Beach Stadium, Jeddah

11 May 2023

20:30

Morocco	9–5	Lebanon
Jabri ?' Bassak ?', ?', ? ', ? ', ?' Fridi ?', ?' Lfrichi ?'	Report	Khatib ?' Miri ?', ?' Haidar ?', ?'

Alhamra Beach Stadium, Jeddah

14 May 2023

19:00

Mauritania	4–5 (a.e.t.)	Morocco
Bilkhir ?', ??', ??' Haded ?'	Report	Frichli ?' Frindi ?' Abghali ?' Bassak ?' Ghilani ?'

Alhamra Beach Stadium, Jeddah

14 May 2023

20:30

Saudi Arabia	4–7	Lebanon
Bouda ?', ?' Yamami ?' Siraj ?'	Report	Salama ?', ??', ?' Haider ?' Jrada ?' Salah ?' Mirii ?'

Alhamra Beach Stadium, Jeddah

16 May 2023

19:00

Morocco	3–4	Saudi Arabia
Zahrawi ?' Fraindi ?' Abghali ?'	Report	Yami ?', ??' Kadmain ?' Siraj ?'

Alhamra Beach Stadium, Jeddah

16 May 2023

20:30

Lebanon	2–5	Mauritania
Hamed ?' Abed Alah ?'	Report	Bilkhir ?', ??', ??', ??' Darwich ?'

Alhamra Beach Stadium, Jeddah

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	W+	WP	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Egypt	3	3	0	0	0	14	8	+6	9	Knockout stage
2	Oman	3	2	0	0	1	24	6	+18	6
3	Palestine	3	1	0	0	2	8	11	−3	3
4	Kyrgyzstan	3	0	0	0	3	3	25	−22	0

Source: UAFA

13 May 2023

17:30

Oman	7–1	Palestine
Liblouchi ?', ??' Arimi ?', ??', ??' Lauissi ?' Lhindassi ?'	Report	hassen ?'

Alhamra Beach Stadium, Jeddah

13 May 2023

19:00

Kyrgyzstan	2–6	Egypt
bik ?' samat ?'	Report	Chafi ?', ??' Ali ?', ??' Hsin ?' Ali ?'

Alhamra Beach Stadium, Jeddah

15 May 2023

20:30

Palestine	5–1	Kyrgyzstan
Atiya ?' Abid ?' Hassan ?', ?', ?'	Report	Dizilobayf ?'

Alhamra Beach Stadium, Jeddah

15 May 2023

22:00

Egypt	5–3	Oman
Chafii ?' Hssin ?' Abed ELminim ?' Slimain ?' Mahsoub ?'	Report	Souti ?' Alalimi ?' Alawissi ?'

Alhamra Beach Stadium, Jeddah

17 May 2023

17:30

Kyrgyzstan	0–14	Oman
	Report	Arimi ?', ??' Liblouchi ?', ??', ??', ??' Al Batachi ? ' Al Handassi ?', ??' Alarimi ? ' AlSouti ?', ??', ??', ??'

Alhamra Beach Stadium, Jeddah

17 May 2023

19:00

Egypt	3–2	Palestine
Abed Kodos ? ' Slimain ? ' Hassin ? '	Report	Aboud Abida ?', ? '

Alhamra Beach Stadium, Jeddah

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	W+	WP	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	United Arab Emirates	3	3	0	0	0	23	9	+14	9	Knockout stage
2	Libya	3	2	0	0	1	11	12	−1	6	Knockout stage
3	Comoros	3	0	0	1	2	9	18	−9	1
4	Kuwait	3	0	0	0	3	7	11	−4	0

Source: UAFA

13 May 2023

20:30

United Arab Emirates	5–2	Libya
Yakoub ?' Bachir ?' Bachir ?' lkabii ?' mohamadi ?'		Mohamed ?' Labidi ?'

Alhamra Beach Stadium, Jeddah

13 May 2023

22:00

Kuwait	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Comoros

Penalties
	2–4

Alhamra Beach Stadium, Jeddah

15 May 2023

17:30

Libya	3–2	Kuwait
Oujli ?' Mouhamed ?' Twil ?'		Hajiya ?' Chafii ?'

Alhamra Beach Stadium, Jeddah

15 May 2023

19:00

United Arab Emirates	11–3	Comoros
Liblouchi ?', ?', ?' mohamadi ?', ?' Diryani ?' Kabi ?' Malahi ?' Bachir ?', ?' H.Blouchi ? '		Mouva ?' Salah ?' Mouhamed ?'

Alhamra Beach Stadium, Jeddah

17 May 2023

20:30

Kuwait	4–7	United Arab Emirates
Ali ?'		K .Liblouchi ?', ?' A.Liblouchi ?' Dahgani ?', ?' Bachir ?' Yakoub ?'

Alhamra Beach Stadium, Jeddah

17 May 2023

22:00

Comoros	5–6	Libya
Ali ?' Salah ?' Ahmed ?', ?' Mouifa ?'		Moussa ?', ?' Cherif ?' Rifii ?', ?', ?'

Alhamra Beach Stadium, Jeddah

Ranking of third-placed teams

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	W+	WP	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	A	Mauritania	3	1	0	0	2	12	14	−2	3	Knockout stage
2	B	Palestine	3	1	0	0	2	8	11	−3	3	Knockout stage
3	C	Comoros	3	0	0	1	2	9	18	−9	1

First match(es) will be played: 16 May 2023. Source: UAFA

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final

	18 May

	Saudi Arabia	3
					19 May
	Palestine	5
					Palestine	3
	18 May
					Egypt	4
	Egypt	8
									20 May
	Mauritania	3
									Egypt	4
	18 May
									Oman	2
	Oman	5
					19 May
	United Arab Emirates	4
					Oman	4
	18 May
					Morocco	2
	Libya	2

	Morocco	5

Quarter-finals

18 May 2023

17:30

Saudi Arabia	3–5	Palestine
ALajimi ?' Hachmani ?' Tmihi ?'	Report	Dahmain o.g' Nahal ?', ?' Jaber Abou Abida

Alhamra Beach Stadium, Jeddah

18 May 2023

19:00

Egypt	8–3	Mauritania
Ali ?' Chaban ?' Chafii ?', ?' Hassan ?' Mahsoub ?', ?' Slimain ?'	Report	Bilkhir ?' Jalo ?' Si ?'

Alhamra Beach Stadium, Jeddah

18 May 2023

20:30

Oman	5–4	United Arab Emirates
Almriki ?' Lblouchi ?' Larimi ?' Souti ?' Larimi ?'	Report	Mouhamed ?' Bachir ?', ?' Dahfani ?'

Alhamra Beach Stadium, Jeddah

18 May 2023

22:00

Libya	2–5	Morocco
Mouhamed ?' Zahrawi ?'	Report	Frindi ?', ?' Zahrawi ?' Frichli ?', ?'

Alhamra Beach Stadium, Jeddah

Semi-finals

19 May 2023

19:00

Palestine	3–4	Egypt
Hassen Abu Abeida	Report	Ali Chaabane Hussein

Alhamra Beach Stadium, Jeddah

19 May 2023

20:30

Oman	4–2	Morocco
Al-Mriki Al-Beloushi Al-Suti		Bessak

Alhamra Beach Stadium, Jeddah

Final

20 May 2023

21:00

Egypt	4–2	Oman
Hassan ?', ?' Abed ELkodos ?' Mahsoub ?'		Mriki ?' Larimi ?'

Alhamra Beach Stadium, Jeddah

Awards

Goalscorers

Notes

References

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