Algeria men's national handball team

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

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Information
AssociationAlgerian Handball Federation
CoachRabah Gherbi
Assistant coachTchakrabi Redouane
CaptainKhalifa Ghedbane
Colours
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1st
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2nd
Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances4 (First in 1980)
Best result10th (1980, 1984, 1988, 1996)
World Championship
Appearances16 (First in 1974)
Best result13th (2001)
African Championship
Appearances24 (First in 1976)
Best resultGold 1st (1981, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1996, 2014)
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Algeria men's national handball team
Medal record
African Championship
Gold medal – first place1981 Tunisia
Gold medal – first place1983 Egypt
Gold medal – first place1985 Angola
Gold medal – first place1987 Morocco
Gold medal – first place1989 Algeria
Gold medal – first place1996 Benin
Gold medal – first place2014 Algeria
Silver medal – second place1976 Algeria
Silver medal – second place1991 Egypt
Silver medal – second place1994 Tunisia
Silver medal – second place1998 South Africa
Silver medal – second place2000 Algeria
Silver medal – second place2002 Morocco
Silver medal – second place2012 Morocco
Bronze medal – third place1979 Congo
Bronze medal – third place1992 Côte d'Ivoire
Bronze medal – third place2008 Angola
Bronze medal – third place2010 Egypt
Bronze medal – third place2020 Tunisia
African Games
Gold medal – first place1973 Lagos
Gold medal – first place1978 Algiers
Gold medal – first place1987 Nairobi
Gold medal – first place1999 Johannesburg
Silver medal – second place1991 Cairo
Silver medal – second place2003 Abuja
Silver medal – second place2007 AlgiersTeam
Bronze medal – third place2011 MaputoTeam

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.

Aziz Derouaz, 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

Mediterranean Games
Games Round Position Pld W D L GF GA GD
Tunisia 1967 Tunis did not enter
Turkey 1971 İzmir Tournament canceled
Algeria 1975 Algiers Third place3rd of 5
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1979 Split Fifth place5th of 7
Morocco 1983 Casablanca Runners-up2nd of 8
Syria 1987 Latakia Champions1st of 8
Greece 1991 Athens Fifth place5th of 8
France 1993 Languedoc-Roussillon did not enter
Italy 1997 Bari Seventh place7th of 8
Tunisia 2001 Tunis Seventh place7th of 8
Spain 2005 Almería did not enter
Italy 2009 Pescara Fifth place5th of 9421113587+48
Turkey 2013 Mersin Ninth place9th of 105203122133−10
Spain 2018 Tarragona Seventh place7th of 135203151160−9
Algeria 2022 Oran Sixth place6th of 105212149142+7
Total10/121 Title

African University Games
  • 1975 – Winners

World Confederations Cup
  • 1998 – Winners

Arab Championship
  • 1988 – 2nd
  • 2000 – Winners

Pan Arab Games

Islamic Solidarity Games

Current squad

The squad for the 2023 World Men's Handball Championship.[2][3]

Head coach: Rabah Gherbi

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club
2 LB Zoheïr Naïm (1996-05-03) 3 May 1996 1.88 m 30 78 United Arab Emirates Sharjah FC
4 LB Noureddine Hellal (1996-05-23) 23 May 1996 1.86 m 13 22 United Arab Emirates Maliha Sports Club
5 CB Bounab Hani Abderrafik (2000-12-20) 20 December 2000 1.88 m 0 0 Algeria JSE Skikda
7 LB Hichem Daoud (1992-01-09) 9 January 1992 1.89 m 105 155 France Limoges Handball
9 LB Wail Melazem (2000-09-14) 14 September 2000 1.90 m 0 0 Algeria MM Batna
14 CB Benhalima Nori Selim (1998-05-15) 15 May 1998 1.90 m 0 0 France Nancy Handball
16 GK Yahia Zemouchi (1994-09-17) 17 September 1994 1.93 m 16 0 Kuwait Al-Salmiya
17 LW Djedid Yacine (1997-04-06) 6 April 1997 1.84 m 8 25 Algeria MC Alger
18 P Hichem Kaabeche (1990-03-12) 12 March 1990 1.92 m 80 133 Turkey Beşiktaş
22 GK Khalifa Ghedbane (1996-11-26) 26 November 1996 1.98 m 52 5 Romania Dinamo București
25 P Sofiane Bendjilali (1995-03-28) 28 March 1995 1.89 m 13 13 Greece AC Diomidis Argous
26 LB Mokhtar Kouri (1996-02-29) 29 February 1996 1.94 m 18 39 Algeria HBC El Biar
27 LW Abrous Rayane (2001-08-16) 16 August 2001 1.91 m 0 0 Algeria HBC El Biar
36 CB Rahim Abdelkader (1990-07-12) 12 July 1990 1.85 m 102 211 United Arab Emirates Shabab Al Ahli Club
77 LW Réda Arib (1991-10-22) 22 October 1991 1.86 m 40 65 Algeria MC Alger
87 LB Ayoub Abdi (1997-02-16) 16 February 1997 1.89 m 47 139 France Fenix Toulouse HB
94 P Bastien Khermouche (1993-11-10) 10 November 1993 1.92 m 11 18 France Dijon Métropole Handball
97 RW Sami Douchet (1997-04-21) 21 April 1997 1.79 m 0 0 France Sarrebourg Moselle Sud Handball

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References
  1. "Mohamed-Aziz derouaz : Une notoriété mondialement reconnue". Horizons. B. Abdenour. 14 May 2010.
  2. "Mondial 2023 – La liste des 19 joueurs dévoilée" (in French). capdz.dz. 2 January 2023. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  3. "Team Roster Algeria" (PDF). ihf.info. 13 January 2023. Retrieved 13 January 2023.
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