The action at Saly Beach West in Dakar will get underway on 31 October with the men’s competition, as top-seeded Germans Lasse Hüper & Filo Wüst face Morocco’s Yasser Errazi & Othmane Taghdouini in a Pool A clash at 8:30 am local time/GMT.
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Match schedule released for Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games
The official match schedule for the highly anticipated event has been released, setting the stage for an electrifying competition in Dakar from 31 October to 4 November
Published 04:05, 21 Oct 2026
The second match of the day will pit Austria’s second seeds Paul Hohenauer & Martin Poinstingl against Rares-Edward Pomian-Brad & Ronald Dylan Simpson of The Cayman Islands in Pool B at 9:20 GMT.
A total of 16 pool phase matches will be played in the boys’ competition on opening day with Souleymane Seck Ciss & Mouhamed Moustapha Sidibe getting the hosts’ campaign underway against Palau’s Linzy Moky Allen & Brendan Keane at 11:50 GMT.
Chinese top seeds Ming Zhuang & Siyu Qi will kick off the girls’ competition on 31 October at 08:30 GMT when they face off with The Gambia’s Fatima Sanneh & Kaddy Saidy in Pool A.
Up next will be second seeds Jara Both & Matilda de Groot of The Netherlands against Thailand’s Ainthira Ninsonthi & Phatthanan Wongnongwaeng at 9:20 GMT in a Pool B match.
Also in action on opening day where a total of 16 girls’ preliminary round matches will be played is Senegal’s Nafi Segnane & Fatou Thiam who will start their Pool F campaign at 10:10 GMT against Cape Verde’s Gabriela De Fátima Santos Dos Reis & Yenda Sofia Wahnon Neves Mendes in all-African affair.
The beach volleyball event will feature 24 teams in each gender, divided into six pools of four. The pool phase will take place on 31 October and 1 November, with teams competing in a round-robin format. The top two teams from each pool, together with the two best third-placed teams, will advance directly to the Round of 16.
The four remaining third-placed teams will compete in an additional qualification round on 2 November, with the two winners securing the final spots in the 16-team single-elimination phase.
The Round of 16 will also take place on 2 November, followed by the quarterfinals and semifinals on 3 November. The competition will conclude on 4 November with the bronze and gold medal matches in both genders.