2004 African Men's Handball Championship

The 2004 African Men's Handball Championship was the 16th edition of the African Men's Handball Championship, held in Cairo, Egypt, from 8 to 18 April 2004. It acted as the African qualifying tournament for the 2005 World Championship in Tunisia.^[1]

2004 African Men's Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Egypt
Venue(s)	3 (in 1 host city)
Dates	8–18 April
Teams	11 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions	Egypt (4th title)
Runner-up	Tunisia
Third place	Angola
Fourth place	Algeria
Tournament statistics
Matches played	50
Goals scored	2,842 (56.84 per match)
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Egypt win their fourth title beating Tunisia in the final game 31–28.

Qualified teams

•  Algeria
•  Angola
•  Cameroon
•  Congo
•  DR Congo
•  Egypt (hosts)
•  Ivory Coast (withdrew)
•  Kenya
•  Libya
•  Morocco
•  Senegal
•  Tunisia

Venues

Cairo
Cairo Stadium Indoor Halls Complex
Main Hall	Media Hall
Capacity: 16,900	Capacity: 1,620
Cairo	Cairo
Police Union Hall
Capacity: 2,000

First round

All times are local (UTC+2).

Team advance to the second round

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Algeria	2	2	0	0	74	33	+41	4
Cameroon	2	1	0	1	49	45	+4	2
Kenya	2	0	0	2	40	85	−45	0
Ivory Coast (W)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(W) Withdrew

8 April 2004 16:00	Algeria	51–18	Kenya	Media Hall, Cairo
		(24–9)

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9 April 2004 18:00	Cameroon	34–22	Kenya	Media Hall, Cairo
		(8–9)

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10 April 2004 16:00	Algeria	23–15	Cameroon	Media Hall, Cairo
		(9–6)

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Egypt (H)	3	3	0	0	117	50	+67	6
Morocco	3	2	0	1	84	78	+6	4
DR Congo	3	1	0	2	68	100	−32	2
Congo	3	0	0	3	74	115	−41	0

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

8 April 2004 16:00	Morocco	37–25	Congo	Main Hall, Cairo
		(15–13)

8 April 2004 20:00	Egypt	39–15	DR Congo	Main Hall, Cairo
		(19–7)

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9 April 2004 17:00	Morocco	29–19	DR Congo	Main Hall, Cairo
		(13–10)

9 April 2004 19:00	Egypt	44–17	Congo	Main Hall, Cairo
		(20–6)

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10 April 2004 17:00	DR Congo	34–32	Congo	Main Hall, Cairo
		(13–11)

10 April 2004 19:00	Egypt	34–18	Morocco	Main Hall, Cairo
		(17–7)

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Tunisia	3	3	0	0	107	64	+43	6
Angola	3	2	0	1	77	73	+4	4
Senegal	3	1	0	2	79	85	−6	2
Libya	3	0	0	3	57	98	−41	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

8 April 2004 14:00	Angola	24–22	Senegal	Police Union Hall, Cairo
		(12–13)

8 April 2004 16:00	Tunisia	35–17	Libya	Police Union Hall, Cairo
		(19–7)

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9 April 2004 17:00	Angola	32–17	Libya	Police Union Hall, Cairo
		(16–8)

9 April 2004 19:00	Tunisia	38–26	Senegal	Police Union Hall, Cairo
		(19–10)

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10 April 2004 17:00	Senegal	31–23	Libya	Police Union Hall, Cairo
		(16–10)

8 April 2004 19:00	Tunisia	34–21	Angola	Police Union Hall, Cairo
		(18–11)

Second round

Team advance to the knockout stage

Group E

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Egypt (H)	2	2	0	0	71	45	+26	4
Angola	2	1	0	1	53	61	−8	2
Cameroon	2	0	0	2	43	61	−18	0

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

12 April 2004 19:00	Egypt	38–25	Angola	Main Hall, Cairo
		(15–11)

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13 April 2004 19:00	Angola	28–23	Cameroon	Main Hall, Cairo
		(14–12)

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14 April 2004 19:00	Egypt	33–20	Cameroon	Main Hall, Cairo
		(13–8)

Group F

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Tunisia	2	2	0	0	71	54	+17	4
Algeria	2	1	0	1	60	50	+10	2
Morocco	2	0	0	2	44	71	−27	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

12 April 2004 19:00	Tunisia	39–26	Morocco	Media Hall, Cairo
		(23–14)

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13 April 2004 19:00	Algeria	32–18	Morocco	Media Hall, Cairo
		(16–9)

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14 April 2004 19:00	Tunisia	32–28	Algeria	Media Hall, Cairo
		(17–15)

Placement matches

Group 10–11th place

	Team took tenth place
	Team took eleventh place

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Congo	1	1	0	0	28	18	+10	2
Libya	1	0	0	1	18	28	−10	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

12 April 2004 15:00	Libya	18–28	Congo	Media Hall, Cairo
		(8–13)

Group 7–9th place

	Team took seventh place
	Team took the height place
	Team took ninth place

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Senegal	2	2	0	0	72	52	+20	4
DR Congo	2	1	0	1	67	67	0	2
Kenya	2	0	0	2	61	81	−20	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

12 April 2004 17:00	Senegal	32–26	DR Congo	Media Hall, Cairo
		(15–14)

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13 April 2004 14:00	DR Congo	41–35	Kenya	Police Union Hall, Cairo
		(17–20)

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14 April 2004 14:00	Senegal	40–26	Kenya	Police Union Hall, Cairo
		(18–12)

Knockout stage

	Semifinals				Final
	16 April – Cairo
	Tunisia	39
					18 April – Cairo
	Angola	35
					Tunisia	28
	16 April – Cairo
					Egypt	31
	Egypt	31
	Algeria	24
					Third place
					17 April – Cairo
					Angola	31
					Algeria	30

Semifinals

16 April 2004 15:30	Tunisia	39–35	Angola
		(17–18)

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16 April 2004 19:00	Egypt	31–24	Algeria
		(16–14)

Fifth place game

17 April 2004 13:00	Cameroon	36–30	Morocco
		(20–11)

Third place game

17 April 2004 17:30	Angola	31–30	Algeria
		(15–16)

Final

18 April 2004 18:00	Egypt	31–28	Tunisia
		(20–12)

Final ranking

	Qualified for the 2005 World Championship
	Qualified for the 2005 World Championship as hosts

Rank	Team
	Egypt
	Tunisia
	Angola
4	Algeria
5	Cameroon
6	Morocco
7	Senegal
8	DR Congo
9	Kenya
10	Congo
11	Libya

All Star Team

The All-star team and award winners were announced ^[2]

Position	Player
Goalkeeper	Hamada El-Ruby[3]
Right wing	Sherif Moemen
Right back	Ahmed El-Ahmar
Central back	Oualid Ben Amor
Left back	Angola
Left wing	Belgacem Filah
Pivot	Essam Kash[4]

Other awards

Award	Player
Topscorer[2]	Wissem Hmam
	Sherif Moemen

References

1. "Men Handball XVI Africa Championship 2004 – Egypt". todor66.com. Todor Krastev. 26 November 2016.
2. "Al-Ahram Weekly | Sports | Give and take". weekly.ahram.org.eg. Archived from the original on 26 March 2013. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
3. Could be Mohamed Bakir El-Nakib ?
4. Could be Issam Tej ?