The match schedule for the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games has been confirmed, with the beach volleyball event set to run from 31 October to 4 November at the Saly Beach West in Dakar.
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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
This will be the first time an Olympic Games event (junior or senior) is being staged in Africa.
Action will begin with the boys’ competition on 31 October at xxxx local time (xxxx GMT) when the German top seeds Lasse Hüper & Filo Wüst will take on Morocco’s Yasser Errazi & Othmane Taghdouini in a Pool A encounter.
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 xxxx local time (xxxx GMT).
A total of 20 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 xxxx local time (xxxx GMT).
Chinese top seeds Ming Zhuang & Siyu Qi will kick off the girls’ competition on 31 October at xxxx local time (xxxx 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 xxxx local time (xxxx GMT). in a Pool B match.
Also in action on opening day where a total of 20 girls’ preliminary round matches will be played is Senegal’s Nafi Segnane & Fatou Thiam who will start their Pool F campaign at xxxx local time (xxxx 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.
