Egypt men's national handball team

Egypt men's national handball team
Medal record
Representing Egypt
Handball
African Championship
Mediterranean Games

Egypt
Egypt
Information
Nickname	The Pharaohs
Association	Egyptian Handball Federation
Coach	Juan Carlos Pastor
Assistant coach	Hany El-Fakharany; José Manuel Sierra Méndez
Captain	Ibrahim El-Masry
Colours
1st	2nd
Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances	8 (First in 1992)
Best result	4th (2020)
World Championship
Appearances	18 (First in 1964)
Best result	4th (2001)
African Championship
Appearances	24 (First in 1979)
Best result	(1991, 1992, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2016, 2020, 2022, 2024)
	Last updated on Unknown.

The Egyptian national handball team is the national handball team of Egypt, which represents Egypt in international matches. It is supervised by the Egyptian Handball Federation. Egypt was the first non-European team to reach the semifinals of the World Championships, and the first African team to reach the semifinals in the Olympic tournament.

Egypt men handball team is widely regarded as the finest handball team in Africa.

History

Egyptian Handball Federation old logo

Egypt's first appearance at the IHF World Championship was in 1964, where they failed to win a single game.

After Egypt started developing their handball infrastructure, Egypt qualified for the 1993 tournament at Sweden. They were able to win a game this time, against Czechoslovakia and they were able to qualify to the second round.

Egypt's performance at the 1995 Championship rose Egypt to a respectable team. Egypt won all three matches in the first round, beating Brazil, Kuwait and Belarus. The team was widely expected not to survive the knockout stage, but beat four-time World Champions Romania in the round of 16. While they were later beaten at the quarterfinals against Croatia, the team was praised back home.

Egypt advanced to the quarterfinals every time between 1995 and 2001. They also reached 6th place at the 1996 Olympics and 7th at 2000. Egypt hosted the World Championship in 1999 for the first time, failing to reach the semi-finals after a loss against Russia.

In the 2001 IHF World Championship, Egypt beat Morocco, Portugal and Iceland, drew with the Czech Republic and lost to Sweden. At the knockout stage, Egypt beat fellow Africans, Algeria. At the quarterfinals, where Egypt has been knocked out three times prior, Egypt faced Russia again, winning the close game 21–19. After losses against France and Yugoslavia, Egypt placed fourth. This was the best performance by a non-European team until it was equaled by Tunisia in 2005 and beaten by Qatar in 2015.

Between 2003 and 2017, Egypt qualified to every tournament save for the 2012 Olympics, but failed to impress, never advancing to the quarterfinal. Egypt broke this streak at the 2019 World Championship, where they placed eighth. Egypt then went on to host the first 32-team Championship in 2021, finishing seventh after losing to reigning World Champions, Denmark on penalties, who later won the tournament.

Egypt beat their rivals Tunisia in their own court, qualifying to the 2020 Olympics. In the group stage, Egypt finished 2nd, after beating Portugal, Sweden, Bahrain and Japan, and losing to World Champions Denmark once again. They then won against Germany in the quarterfinals, progressing to the semifinals. They lost to France by a 4-goal margin, despite having had a 4-goal lead early on. In the Bronze Medal match, Egypt lost to Spain, placing 4th overall.

Egyptian Handball Federation current logo

Competitive record

Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place

Olympic Games

Games	Round	Position	PLD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1936 Berlin	Did not enter
Handball Tournament not held from 1948 to 1968
1972 Munich	Did not enter
1976 Montreal
1980 Moscow
1984 Los Angeles
1988 Seoul
1992 Barcelona	Match for 11th place	11th of 12	6	1	0	5	119	137	−18
1996 Atlanta	Match for 5th place	6th of 12	6	3	0	3	139	132	+7
2000 Sydney	Match for 7th place	7th of 12	8	4	0	4	197	194	+3
2004 Athens	Match for 11th place	12th of 12	6	0	0	6	134	163	−29
2008 Beijing	Group Stage	10th of 12	5	0	2	3	127	132	−5
2012 London	Disqualified
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Group Stage	9th of 12	5	1	1	3	129	143	−14
2020 Tokyo	Bronze Medal Match	4th of 12	8	5	0	3	239	220	+19
2024 Paris	Quarter finals	5th of 12	6	3	1	2	176	169	+7
2028 Los Angeles	TBD
2032 Brisbane	TBD
Total	8/14	0 Titles	50	17	4	29	1260	1290	−30

World Championship


Edition	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1938 Germany	Did not enter
1954 Sweden
1958 East Germany
1961 West Germany
1964 Czechoslovaki	Preliminary round	15th of 16	3	0	0	3	28	58	−30
1967 Sweden	Did not enter
1970 France
1974 East Germany
1978 Denmark
1982 West Germany
1986 Switzerland
1990 Czechoslovaki
1993 Sweden	Match for 11th place	12th of 16	7	1	0	6	148	164	−16
1995 Iceland	Match for 5th place	6th of 24	9	5	0	4	211	214	−3
1997 Japan	Match for 5th place	6th of 24	9	6	1	2	220	186	+34
1999 Egypt	Match for 7th place	7th of 24	9	6	0	3	230	214	+16
2001 France	Bronze Medal Match	4th of 24	9	5	1	3	207	206	+1
2003 Portugal	Second round	15th of 24	7	2	1	4	177	197	−20
2005 Tunisia	Preliminary round	14th of 24	5	3	0	2	123	123	0
2007 Germany	Match for 17th place	17th of 24	6	2	0	4	142	151	−9
2009 Croatia	Match for 13th place	14th of 24	9	4	0	5	218	239	−21
2011 Sweden	Match for 13th place	14th of 24	7	2	0	5	172	193	−21
2013 Spain	Round of 16	16th of 24	6	1	1	4	156	154	+2
2015 Qatar	Round of 16	14th of 24	6	2	1	3	151	148	+3
2017 France	Round of 16	13th of 24	6	3	0	3	157	164	−7
/ 2019 Denmark/Germany	Match for 7th place	8th of 24	9	3	1	5	241	250	−9
2021 Egypt	Quarter finals	7th of 32	7	4	2	1	219	181	+38
/ 2023 Poland/Sweden	Match for 7th place	7th of 32	9	6	0	3	272	233	+39
/ / 2025 Croatia/Denmark/Norway	Qualified
2027 Germany	TBD
/ 2029 France/Germany
/ / 2031 Denmark/Iceland/Norway
Total	18/32	0 Titles	123	55	8	60	3072	3075	−3

African Championship


Edition	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1974 Tunisia	Did not enter
1976 Algeria	Disqualified
1979 People's Republic of the Congo	Final	Runners-up
1981 Tunisia	Bronze Medal Match	4th of 8	5	3	0	2
1983 Egypt	Bronze Medal Match	4th of 10	6	3	0	3
1985 Angola	Bronze Medal Match	4th of 9	6	3	0	3	118	123	−5
1987 Morocco	Final	Runners-up	5	2	1	2	82	90	−8
1989 Algeria	Final	Runners-up	4	3	0	1	89	81	+8
1991 Egypt	Final	Champions	6	6	0	0	123	61	+62
1992 Ivory Coast	Final	Champions	4	4	0	0
1994 Tunisia	Bronze Medal Match	3rd of 9	5	4	0	1
1996 Benin	Bronze Medal Match	3rd of 10	6	4	0	2	146	112	+34
1998 South Africa	Bronze Medal Match	3rd of 10	6	5	0	1	210	117	+93
2000 Algeria	Final	Champions	6	6	0	0	175	100	+75
2002 Morocco	Bronze Medal Match	3rd of 12	5	4	0	1	142	106	+36
2004 Egypt	Final	Champions	7	7	0	0	250	147	+103
2006 Tunisia	Final	Runners-up	6	5	0	1	184	129	+55
2008 Angola	Final	Champions	5	5	0	0	152	117	+35
2010 Egypt	Final	Runners-up	7	6	0	1	208	144	+64
2012 Morocco	Bronze Medal Match	3rd of 12	8	6	1	1	239	161	+78
2014 Algeria	Bronze Medal Match	3rd of 12	8	6	0	2	217	166	+51
2016 Egypt	Final	Champions	8	8	0	0	233	139	+94
2018 Gabon	Final	Runners-up	7	6	0	1	213	164	+49
2020 Tunisia	Final	Champions	7	7	0	0	237	152	+85
2022 Egypt	Final	Champions	5	5	0	0	176	109	+67
2024 Egypt	Final	Champions	6	6	0	0	198	121	+77
Total	24/26	9 Titles	138	114	2	22	3392	2339	+1053

All-Africa Games

1965 –
1973 –
1987 –
1991 –
1995 –
1999 –
2003 –
2007 –
2011 –
2015 –
2019 –
2023 –

Mediterranean Games

1979 – 6th
1991 –
1993 – 4th
1997 – 6th
2005 – 5th
2013 –
2022 –

Unofficial tournaments

MENA Games

1961 –
1965 –
1992 –
1999 –
2007 –
2011 –

Islamic Solidarity Games

2005 –

Team

Current squad

Roster for the 2024 Summer Olympics. A 20-player roster was announced on 13 June 2024.^[1] The final squad was revealed on 15 July 2024.^[2]

Head coach: Juan Carlos Pastor^[3]

No.	Pos.	Name	Date of birth (age)	Height	App.	Goals	Club
5	RB	Yahia Omar	(1997-09-09)9 September 1997 (aged 26)	1.95 m	62	221	Paris Saint-Germain
10	LB	Abdelrahman Abdou	(1996-01-30)30 January 1996 (aged 28)	1.96 m	15	25	Al Ahly
15	LB	Ahmed Hesham	(2000-05-15)15 May 2000 (aged 24)	1.91 m	58	77	Montpellier Handball
21	P	Mohamed Tarek	(2002-01-15)15 January 2002 (aged 22)	2.02 m	0	0	Zamalek
24	P	Ibrahim El-Masry	(1989-03-11)11 March 1989 (aged 35)	1.96 m	62	81	Al Ahly
31	LW	Omar El-Wakil	(1988-05-14)14 May 1988 (aged 36)	1.74 m	224	302	Zamalek
39	CB	Yehia El-Deraa	(1995-07-17)17 July 1995 (aged 29)	1.92 m	162	319	Telekom Veszprém
45	CB	Seif El-Deraa	(1998-09-19)19 September 1998 (aged 25)	1.87 m	58	93	Limoges Handball
48	RW	Mohab Abdelhak	(2003-01-20)20 January 2003 (aged 21)	1.94 m	35	65	USAM Nîmes Gard
53	RW	Akram Yosri	(1994-11-22)22 November 1994 (aged 29)	1.80 m	53	147	Zamalek
80	P	Ahmed Adel	(1994-11-25)25 November 1994 (aged 29)	1.84 m	27	24	Al Ahly
88	GK	Karim Handawy	(1988-05-01)1 May 1988 (aged 36)	1.88 m	175	2	Al Safa
90	LB	Ali Zein	(1990-12-14)14 December 1990 (aged 33)	1.91 m	310	464	Sharjah Sports Club
91	RW	Mohamed Sanad	(1991-01-16)16 January 1991 (aged 33)	1.88 m	171	418	USAM Nîmes Gard
92	GK	Mohamed Aly	(1992-11-13)13 November 1992 (aged 31)	1.90 m	15	0	Benfica

Notable former coaches

References

^ "Juan Carlos Pastor beruft 20 Spieler in den erweiterten Olympia-Kader von Ägypten". handball-world.news (in German). 13 June 2024. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
^ "Guarda-redes do Sporting nos convocados do Egito para os Jogos de Paris". zerozero.pt (in Portuguese). 15 July 2024. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
^ "Team roster: Egypt" (PDF). ihf.info. Retrieved 26 July 2024.

External links

[1] "Juan Carlos Pastor beruft 20 Spieler in den erweiterten Olympia-Kader von Ägypten". handball-world.news (in German). 13 June 2024. Retrieved 13 June 2024.

[2] "Guarda-redes do Sporting nos convocados do Egito para os Jogos de Paris". zerozero.pt (in Portuguese). 15 July 2024. Retrieved 15 July 2024.

[3] "Team roster: Egypt" (PDF). ihf.info. Retrieved 26 July 2024.

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