2012 African Men's Handball Championship

2012 African Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Morocco
Venue(s)	3 (in 2 host cities)
Dates	11–20 January
Teams	12 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions	Tunisia (9th title)
Runner-up	Algeria
Third place	Egypt
Fourth place	Morocco
Tournament statistics
Matches played	44
Goals scored	2,173 (49.39 per match)
Top scorer(s)	William Fankoua
Best player	Soufyan Sayad
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The 2012 African Men's Handball Championship was the 20th edition of the African Men's Handball Championship, organized by the African Handball Confederation, which acted as the qualification process for the 2013 World Men's Handball Championship. It was the 20th edition of the tournament and was held in Rabat and Salé, Morocco between 11 and 20 January 2012. The winner qualified for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Teams edit

Group A	Group B
Tunisia DR Congo Morocco Gabon Congo Senegal	Egypt Algeria Angola Cameroon Ivory Coast Burkina Faso

Venues edit

Rabat
Salle Moulay Abdellah	Salle Ibn Yassine
Capacity: 10,000	Capacity: 5,000

Salé	Rabat Salé
Hall Fathallah El Bouazzaoui
Capacity: 2,000

Preliminary round edit

The draw was held on 24 September 2011 at Casablanca, Morocco.^[1]

All times are local (UTC±0).

Group A edit

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Tunisia	5	5	0	155	92	+63	10
Morocco (H)	5	4	1	128	117	+11	8
DR Congo	5	3	2	123	129	−6	6
Senegal	5	2	3	134	132	+2	4
Congo	5	1	4	110	148	−38	2
Gabon	5	0	5	108	140	−32	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(H) Hosts

11 January 2012 11:00	DR Congo	26–21	Senegal	Salle Moulay Abdellah, Rabat
		(9–13)

11 January 2012 17:00	Tunisia	35–18	Gabon	Salle Ibn Yassine, Rabat Referees: Colibaly, Nanga (CIV)
	Ayed 6	(18–9)	Ostinda 8
	3× 5×		2× 2×

11 January 2012 20:30	Morocco	28–24	Congo	Salle Ibn Yassine, Rabat
		(15–10)

12 January 2012 15:00	Gabon	20–25	DR Congo	Salle Moulay Abdellah, Rabat
		(14–11)

12 January 2012 17:00	Senegal	26–31	Morocco	Salle Ibn Yassine, Rabat
		(12–12)

12 January 2012 20:00	Congo	15–32	Tunisia	Salle Ibn Yassine, Rabat Referees: Abdelaziz, Mohammed Samy (EGY)
	five players 2	(5–17)	four players 4
	3× 3×		3× 3×

13 January 2012 15:00	Gabon	20–21	Congo	Salle Moulay Abdellah, Rabat
		(9–9)

13 January 2012 17:00	Tunisia	30–21	Senegal	Salle Ibn Yassine, Rabat Referees: Nasse, Bouchaid (MAR)
	Sanai 7	(16–9)	Ibrahima 5
	1× 4×		2× 5×

13 January 2012 20:00	DR Congo	17–25	Morocco	Salle Ibn Yassine, Rabat
		(5–9)

15 January 2012 11:00	DR Congo	35–31	Congo	Salle Moulay Abdellah, Rabat
		(19–11)

15 January 2012 13:00	Senegal	33–26	Gabon	Salle Moulay Abdellah, Rabat
		(16–14)

15 January 2012 20:00	Morocco	18–26	Tunisia	Salle Ibn Yassine, Rabat Referees: Akptasta, Yawo Mawusse (TOG)
	Sayad 5	(12–13)	Bannour 6
	3× 5×		3× 4×

16 January 2012 11:00	Congo	19–33	Senegal	Salle Moulay Abdellah, Rabat
		(9–19)

16 January 2012 15:00	Morocco	26–24	Gabon	Salle Ibn Yassine, Rabat
		(17–11)

16 January 2012 17:00	Tunisia	32–20	DR Congo	Salle Ibn Yassine, Rabat Referees: Badura, Michal (SVK)
	Sanai 7	(17–11)	Kiangebeni 7
	2× 2×		3× 5×

Group B edit

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Egypt	5	4	1	0	154	101	+53	9
Algeria	5	4	1	0	149	103	+46	9
Angola	5	3	0	2	118	93	+25	6
Cameroon	5	2	0	3	119	118	+1	4
Ivory Coast	5	1	0	4	112	146	−34	2
Burkina Faso	5	0	0	5	69	160	−91	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

All times are local (UTC±0).

11 January 2012 13:00	Egypt	25–14	Cameroon	Salle Ibn Yassine, Rabat
		(13–8)

11 January 2012 15:00	Angola	27–17	Ivory Coast	Hall Fathallah El Bouazzaoui, Salé
		(11–6)

11 January 2012 15:00	Algeria	33–16	Burkina Faso	Salle Ibn Yassine, Rabat
		(18–10)

12 January 2012 13:00	Ivory Coast	21–40	Egypt	Salle Ibn Yassine, Rabat
		(12–19)

12 January 2012 13:00	Burkina Faso	7–30	Angola	Salle Moulay Abdellah, Rabat
		(2–15)

12 January 2012 15:00	Cameroon	18–27	Algeria	Salle Ibn Yassine, Rabat
		(8–14)

13 January 2012 11:00	Cameroon	32–19	Ivory Coast	Salle Moulay Abdellah, Rabat
		(17–9)

13 January 2012 13:00	Egypt	32–18	Burkina Faso	Salle Ibn Yassine, Rabat
		(12–8)

13 January 2012 15:00	Algeria	21–15	Angola	Salle Ibn Yassine, Rabat
		(11–6)

15 January 2012 11:00	Burkina Faso	15–30	Cameroon	Hall Fathallah El Bouazzaoui, Salé
		(7–19)

15 January 2012 15:00	Algeria	34–20	Ivory Coast	Salle Ibn Yassine, Rabat
		(19–9)

15 January 2012 17:00	Angola	14–23	Egypt	Salle Ibn Yassine, Rabat
		(8–10)

16 January 2012 15:00	Angola	32–25	Cameroon	Hall Fathallah El Bouazzaoui, Salé
		(21–16)

16 January 2012 19:00	Ivory Coast	35–13	Burkina Faso	Salle Moulay Abdellah, Rabat
		(16–6)

16 January 2012 20:00	Egypt	34–34	Algeria	Salle Ibn Yassine, Rabat
		(20–16)

Knockout stage edit

Bracket edit

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final

17 January

Tunisia	26
		19 January
Cameroon	17
		Tunisia	28
17 January
		Morocco	16
Morocco	24
				20 January
Angola	22
				Tunisia	23
17 January
				Algeria	20
Algeria	33
		19 January
DR Congo	31
		Algeria	26
17 January
		Egypt	25	Third place
Senegal	19
				20 January
Egypt	31
				Morocco	15

				Egypt	29

5–8th bracket

Semifinals		Fifth place

18 January

Cameroon	23
		19 January
Angola	24
		Angola	27
18 January
		Senegal (Pen.)	28
DR Congo	32

Senegal	33
		Seventh place

		19 January

		Cameroon	29

		DR Congo	25

All times are local (UTC±0).

Quarterfinals edit

17 January 2012 12:00	Egypt	31–19	Senegal	Salle Ibn Yassine, Rabat
		(15–8)

17 January 2012 14:30	DR Congo	31–33	Algeria	Salle Ibn Yassine, Rabat
		(15–14)

17 January 2012 17:00	Tunisia	26–17	Cameroon	Salle Ibn Yassine, Rabat Referees: Massimina, Alain Fortuné (CGO)
	Bannour 7	(11–7)	Fankoua 10
	3× 3×		3× 5× 1×

17 January 2012 20:00	Angola	22–24	Morocco	Salle Ibn Yassine, Rabat
		(11–11)

5–8th semifinals edit

18 January 2012 09:00	Cameroon	23–24	Angola	Hall Fathallah El Bouazzaoui, Salé
		(8–13)

18 January 2012 11:00	DR Congo	32–33	Senegal	Hall Fathallah El Bouazzaoui, Salé
		(15–14)

Semifinals edit

19 January 2012 17:00	Egypt	25–26	Algeria	Salle Ibn Yassine, Rabat
		(14–12)

19 January 2012 20:00	Tunisia	28–16	Morocco	Salle Ibn Yassine, Rabat Referees: Charlotte et Julie Bonaventura (FRA)
	three players 4	(15–7)	Koasai 3
	3× 2×		3× 2×

Eleventh place game edit

17 January 2012 11:00	Gabon	26–20	Burkina Faso	Hall Fathallah El Bouazzaoui, Salé
		(13–5)

Ninth place game edit

17 January 2012 13:00	Congo	31–20	Ivory Coast	Hall Fathallah El Bouazzaoui, Salé
		(18–10)

Seventh place game edit

19 January 2012 13:00	Cameroon	29–25	DR Congo	Hall Fathallah El Bouazzaoui, Salé
		(13–15)

Fifth place game edit

19 January 2012 17:00	Angola	27–28	Senegal	Hall Fathallah El Bouazzaoui, Salé
		(1–10)

	FT: 24–24 Pen: 3–4

Bronze medal game edit

20 January 2012 17:00	Egypt	29–15	Morocco	Salle Ibn Yassine, Rabat Referees: Akptasta, Yawo Mawusse (TOG)
	Zaky 9	(16–5)	Hammadi 4
	3× 4×		3× 4×

Final edit

20 January 2012 20:00	Algeria	20–23	Tunisia	Salle Ibn Yassine, Rabat Referees: Badura, Michal (SVK)
	Chahbour, Rahim 4	(6–12)	Megannem 6
	2× 4×		3× 3×

Final standings edit

	Qualified for the 2013 World Championship

Rank	Team	Record
	Tunisia	8–0–0
	Algeria	6–1–1
	Egypt	6–1–1
4	Morocco	5–0–3
5	Senegal	4–0–4
6	Angola	4–0–4
7	Cameroon	3–0–5
8	DR Congo	3–0–5
9	Congo	2–0–4
10	Ivory Coast	1–0–5
11	Gabon	1–0–5
12	Burkina Faso	0–0–6

Awards edit

2012 African Handball Championship
Tunisia 9th title

Best Player
Soufyan Sayad

All-Tournament Team edit

All-star team was:^[2]

GK		Yassine Idrissi
RW		Abouelfetoh Abdelrazek
RB		Amine Bannour
CB		Heykel Megannem
LB		Saci Boultif
LW		Riad Chahbour
P		Issam Tej

References edit

^ "Results of the draw : 20th Africa Nations Cup for Seniors 2012". cahbonline.info. 24 September 2011. Archived from the original on 28 October 2011. Retrieved 24 September 2011.
^ Confédération Africaine de Handball (20 January 2012). "CAN 2012: les meilleurs recompensés". cahbonline.info (Archive). Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2022..

External links edit

[1] "Results of the draw : 20th Africa Nations Cup for Seniors 2012". cahbonline.info. 24 September 2011. Archived from the original on 28 October 2011. Retrieved 24 September 2011.

[best-2] Confédération Africaine de Handball (20 January 2012). "CAN 2012: les meilleurs recompensés". cahbonline.info (Archive). Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2022..

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2012 African Men's Handball Championship

Contents

Teams edit

Venues edit

Preliminary round edit

Group A edit

Group B edit

Knockout stage edit

Bracket edit

Quarterfinals edit

5–8th semifinals edit

Semifinals edit

Eleventh place game edit

Ninth place game edit

Seventh place game edit

Fifth place game edit

Bronze medal game edit

Final edit

Final standings edit

Awards edit

All-Tournament Team edit

See also edit

References edit

External links edit