Algeria men's national handball team

Algeria men's national handball team
Medal record
African Championship
African Games

Algeria
Algeria
Information
Association	Algerian Handball Federation
Coach	Alain Portes
Assistant coach	Hichem Boudrali; Tahar Labane
Captain	Messaoud Berkous
Colours
Home	Away
Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances	4 (First in 1980)
Best result	10th (1980, 1984, 1988, 1996)
World Championship
Appearances	15 (First in 1974)
Best result	13th (2001)
African Championship
Appearances	23 (First in 1976)
Best result	1st (1981, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1996, 2014)
	Last updated on Unknown.

The Algeria national handball team is the national handball team of Algeria and is controlled by the Algerian Handball Federation.

History[]

Algeria became a great handball country from the 1970s when they were gold medalists twice in the African Games in 1973 and in 1978. In the beginning of the 1980s, the domination of Algeria in the African handball started when it won five consecutive African titles from 1981 to 1989. Algeria had participated in the World Handball Championship for 14 times, in the Olympic Gamess for 4 times.

, the coach of Algeria team in the 1980s is the man who invented the Offensive-Defense style and practiced it for the first time in the 1982 World Handball Championship.^[1]

Many great players have made history of the Algerian handball such as Abdelkrim Bendjemil, Omar Azeb, Brahim Boudrali, Abdelkrim Hammiche, Mustapha Doballah, Abdeslam Benmaghsoula, Sofiane Elimam, Rédouane Aouachria, Djaffar Belhoucine, Mahmoud Bouanik, Abdeldjalil Bouanani, Salim Nedjel and many others.

Competitive record[]

World Championship[]

Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1938	Did not enter
1954
1958
1961
1964	Did not qualify
1967
1970
1974	Preliminary Round	15	3	0	0	3	38	88	−50
1978	Did not qualify
1982	Preliminary Round	16	6	0	1	5	112	145	−33
1986	Preliminary Round	16	6	0	0	6	119	151	−32
1990	Preliminary Round	16	6	0	1	5	113	128	−15
1993	Did not qualify
1995	Round of 16	16	7	2	0	5	146	174	−28
1997	Preliminary Round	17	5	1	2	2	103	112	−9
1999	Round of 16	15	6	1	1	4	123	148	−25
2001	Round of 16	13	6	2	1	3	128	126	+2
2003	Preliminary round	18	5	0	2	3	119	136	−17
2005	Preliminary round	17	5	1	1	3	138	153	−15
2007	Did not qualify
2009	Preliminary round	19	9	4	0	5	235	272	−37
2011	Preliminary round	15	7	3	0	4	153	162	−9
2013	Preliminary round	17	7	3	1	3	180	173	+7
2015	Preliminary round	24	7	0	0	7	162	218	−56
2017	Did not qualify
2019	Did not qualify
2021	Main Round	22	6	1	0	5	140	180	−40
2023	TBD
2025
2027
Total	15/27	0 Titles	85	17	10	58	1869	2186	−317

Olympic Games[]

Games	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1936 Berlin	Did not enter
Not held from 1948 to 1968
1972 Munich	Did not qualify
1976 Montreal	Did not qualify
1980 Moscow	Match for 9th place	10th of 12	6	1	0	5	114	152	−38
1984 Los Angeles	Match for 11th place	12th of 12	6	0	0	6	96	130	−34
1988 Seoul	Match for 9th place	10th of 12	6	1	0	5	104	130	−26
1992 Barcelona	Did not qualify
1996 Atlanta	Match for 9th place	10th of 12	6	0	1	5	121	144	−23
2000 Sydney	Did not qualify
2004 Athens
2008 Beijing
2012 London
2016 Rio de Janeiro
2020 Tokyo
Total	4/13	0 Titles	24	2	1	21	435	556	−121

African Championship[]

Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1974	Did not qualify
1976	Runners-up	2
1979	Third place	3
1981	Champions	1
1983	Champions	1
1985	Champions	1
1987	Champions	1
1989	Champions	1
1991	Runners-up	2
1992	Third place	3
1994	Runners-up	2
1996	Champions	1	6	6	0	0	140	96	+44
1998	Runners-up	2	6	4	0	2	173	113	+60
2000	Runners-up	2	6	5	0	1	140	72	+68
2002	Runners-up	2	5	4	0	1	124	103	+21
2004	Fourth place	4	6	3	0	3	188	145	+43
2006	Fifth place	5	6	3	0	3	156	136	+20
2008	Third place	3	5	3	0	2	123	126	−3
2010	Third place	3	7	5	1	1	101	88	+13
2012	Runners-up	2	8	6	1	1	228	182	+46
2014	Champions	1	8	8	0	0	240	166	+74
2016	Fourth place	4	8	5	0	3	216	194	+22
2018	Sixth place	6	7	3	1	3	193	182	+11
2020	Third place	3	7	5	0	2	204	170	+34
2022	To be determined
	Qualified as hosts
Total	23/24	7 Titles

African Games[]

Games	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1965 Brazzaville	Did not enter
1973 Lagos	Champions	1st of 8	7	6	0	1	107	93	+14
1978 Algiers	Champions	1st of 6	4	4	0	0	96	58	+38
1987 Nairobi	Champions	1st of 8	5	5	0	0
1991 Cairo	Runners-up	2nd of 8
1995 Harare	Did not enter
1999 Johannesburg	Champions	1st of 4	6	5	0	1	181	102	+79
2003 Abuja	Runners-up	2nd of 8	5	4	0	1	142	105	+37
2007 Algiers	Runners-up	2nd of 7	5	3	0	2	129	124	+5
2011 Maputo	Third place	3rd of 12	5	3	0	2	134	112	+22
2015 Brazzaville	Did not enter
2019 Rabat	Fourth place	4th of 9	7	3	2	2	179	177	+2
	To be determined
Total	8/11	4 Titles

Mediterranean Games[]

Games	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1967 Tunis	Did not enter
1971 İzmir	Tournament canceled
	Third place	3rd of 5
	Fifth place	5th of 7
	Runners-up	2nd of 8
	Champions	1st of 8
	Fifth place	5th of 8
	Did not enter
	Seventh place	7th of 8
2001 Tunis	Seventh place	7th of 8
2005 Almería	Did not enter
2009 Pescara	Fifth place	5th of 9	4	2	1	1	135	87	+48
2013 Mersin	Ninth place	9th of 10	5	2	0	3	122	133	−10
2018 Tarragona	Seventh place	7th of 13	5	2	0	3	151	160	−9
	Qualified as hosts
Total	10/12	1 Title

African University Games[]

1975 – Winners

World Confederations Cup[]

1998 – Winners

Arab Championship[]

1988 – 2nd
2000 – Winners

Pan Arab Games[]

1985 – Silver
2007 – Silver

Islamic Solidarity Games[]

2005 – Gold

Current squad[]

The squad for the 2021 World Men's Handball Championship.^[2]^[3]

Head coach: Alain Portes

No.	Pos.	Name	Date of birth (age)	Height	App.	Goals	Club
2	LB		(1996-05-03) 3 May 1996 (age 25)	1.88 m	12	18
4	LB		(1996-05-23) 23 May 1996 (age 25)	1.86 m	10	15	Al Ahli
6	LB	Messaoud Berkous	(1989-07-20) 20 July 1989 (age 32)	1.92 m	166	721	GS Pétroliers
7	LB	Hichem Daoud	(1992-01-09) 9 January 1992 (age 29)	1.89 m	98	150	Istres PH
8	P		(1991-05-18) 18 May 1991 (age 30)	1.90 m	12	20	GS Pétroliers
12	GK	Abdellah Benmenni	(1986-08-19) 19 August 1986 (age 35)	1.89 m	30	0	GS Pétroliers
13	LW	Riadh Chahbour	(1985-07-28) 28 July 1985 (age 36)	1.84 m	155	360	GS Pétroliers
15	RW		(1991-10-01) 1 October 1991 (age 29)	1.78 m	25	32
16	GK		(1994-09-17) 17 September 1994 (age 27)	1.93 m	2	0
18	P	Hichem Kaabeche	(1990-03-12) 12 March 1990 (age 31)	1.92 m	85	150	Al Ahli
19	P		(1993-03-12) 12 March 1993 (age 28)	1.88 m	6	3
21	LW		(1991-06-25) 25 June 1991 (age 30)	1.85 m	6	9
22	GK	Khalifa Ghedbane	(1996-11-26) 26 November 1996 (age 24)	1.98 m	34	2	Ademar León
23	RB	Abderrahim Berriah	(1988-01-19) 19 January 1988 (age 33)	1.90 m	120	280	GS Pétroliers
25	P		(1995-03-28) 28 March 1995 (age 26)	1.90 m	0	0	Club Africain
26	LB		(1996-02-29) 29 February 1996 (age 25)	1.94 m	8	20	MC Saïda
36	CB		(1990-07-12) 12 July 1990 (age 31)	1.85 m	95	206	Dunkerque HGL
44	CB		(1997-08-17) 17 August 1997 (age 24)	1.87 m	36	57	Al-Wakrah
77	LW		(1991-10-22) 22 October 1991 (age 29)	1.86 m	8	20	GS Pétroliers
87	RB	Ayoub Abdi	(1997-02-06) 6 February 1997 (age 24)	1.89 m	43	113	Fenix Toulouse HB

Crest[]

Former logo

References[]

^ "Mohamed-Aziz derouaz : Une notoriété mondialement reconnue". Horizons. B. Abdenour. 14 May 2010.
^ "Alain Portes dévoile la liste finale des 20 joueurs" (in French). 11 January 2021. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
^ "Team Roster Algeria" (PDF). ihf.info. 15 January 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2021.

External links[]

IHF profile

[1] "Mohamed-Aziz derouaz : Une notoriété mondialement reconnue". Horizons. B. Abdenour. 14 May 2010.

[2] "Alain Portes dévoile la liste finale des 20 joueurs" (in French). 11 January 2021. Retrieved 14 January 2021.

[3] "Team Roster Algeria" (PDF). ihf.info. 15 January 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2021.

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Medal record
African Championship
	1981 Tunisia
	1983 Egypt
	1985 Angola
	1987 Morocco
	1989 Algeria
	1996 Benin
	2014 Algeria
	1976 Algeria
	1991 Egypt
	1994 Tunisia
	1998 South Africa
	2000 Algeria
	2002 Morocco
	2012 Morocco
	1979 Congo
	1992 Côte d'Ivoire
	2008 Angola
	2010 Egypt
	2020 Tunisia
African Games
	1973 Lagos
	1978 Algiers
	1987 Nairobi
	1999 Johannesburg
	1991 Cairo
	2003 Abuja
	2007 Algiers	Team
	2011 Maputo	Team

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