Algeria national handball team

Algeria
Information
Association	Algerian Handball Federation
Captain	Messaoud Berkous
Colours
Home Away
Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances	4 (First in 1980)
Best result	10th (1980, 1984, 1988, 1996)
World Championship
Appearances	14 (First in 1974)
Best result	13th (2001)
African Championship
Appearances	21 (First in 1976)
Best result	1st (1981, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1996, 2014)
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Algeria national handball team

Medal record
African Championship
	1981 Tunisia
	1983 Egypt
	1985 Tunisia
	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
African Games
	1973 Lagos
	1978 Algiers
	1987 Nairobi
	1999 Johannesburg
	1991 Cairo
	2003 Abuja
	2007 Algiers	Team
	2011 Maputo	Team

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 bigining 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.

Crest

Competitive record

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
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	Not yet qualified
Total	4/12	0 Titles	24	2	1	21	435	556	−121

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	Not yet qualified
2019
Total	14/25	0 Titles	85	17	10	58	1869	2186	−317

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	Not yet qualified
Total	21/22	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	Fourth Place	4th of 8
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
Total	9/11	4 Titles

Mediterranean Games

Games	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1967 Tunis	Did not enter
1971 İzmir	Tournament canceled
1975 Algiers	Third Place	3rd of 5
1979 Split	Fifth Place	5th of 7
1983 Casablanca	Runners-up	2nd of 8
1987 Latakia	Champions	1st of 8
1991 Athens	Fifth Place	5th of 8
1993 Languedoc-Roussillon	Did not enter
1997 Bari	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
2017 Tarragona	Not yet qualified
2021 Oran
Total	10/12	1 Title

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

This is the squad for the 2015 World Men's Handball Championship.^[2]

Head coach: Reda Zeguili

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 5 CB Khaled Chentout (1984-03-29) 29 March 1984 1.94 m 12 19 Nøtterøy HB 6 LB Messaoud Berkous (c) (1989-07-20) 20 July 1989 1.89 m 58 89 GS Pétroliers 7 LW Hichem Daoud (1992-01-09) 9 January 1992 1.90 m 16 36 CRB Baraki 10 LB Sassi Boultif (1983-01-09) 9 January 1983 1.91 m 50 83 Al-Nasr 12 GK Abdellah Benmenni (1986-08-19) 19 August 1986 1.94 m 6 0 GS Pétroliers 13 LW Riadh Chahbour (1985-07-28) 28 July 1985 1.85 m 43 86 GS Pétroliers 14 RW Rabah Soudani (1985-04-08) 8 April 1985 1.92 m 31 36 Cherbourg 15 LB Tarek Boukhmis (1980-04-14) 14 April 1980 1.90 m 24 61 JSE Skikda 16 GK Adel Bousmal (1985-05-01) 1 May 1985 1.94 m 31 0 GS Boufarik 17 RB Abderrahim Berriah (1980-04-14) 14 April 1980 1.95 m 58 82 GS Pétroliers 18 P Hichem Kaabeche (1990-03-12) 12 March 1990 1.92 m 57 73 JSE Skikda 19 LW Ayat Hamoud (1990-08-10) 10 August 1990 1.78 m 41 63 ES Ain Touta 20 RB El Hadi Biloum (1981-05-26) 26 May 1981 1.92 m 60 102 Martigues 21 P Mohamed Mokrani (1981-01-31) 31 January 1981 1.88 m 33 40 Dunkerque 22 GK Abdelmalek Slahdji (1983-08-08) 8 August 1983 1.90 m 70 0 GS Pétroliers 24 RW Messaoud Layadi (1982-03-24) 24 March 1982 1.90 m 24 60 GS Pétroliers 25 LB Belgacem Filah (1988-01-19) 19 January 1988 1.98 m 73 109 GS Pétroliers

References

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External links

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