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Egypt men's national handball team
Medal record
African Championship

Egypt
Egypt
Information
Nickname	The Pharaohs; (الفراعنة)
Association	Egyptian Handball Federation; (الإتحاد المصري لكرة اليد)
Coach	Roberto García Parrondo
Assistant coach	Magdy Abou El-Magd; Venio Losert
Captain	Ahmed El-Ahmar
Colours
1st	2nd
Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances	6 (First in 1992)
Best result	4th (2020)
World Championship
Appearances	16 (First in 1964)
Best result	4th (2001)
African Championship
Appearances	22 (First in 1979)
Best result	Winners (1991, 1992, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2016, 2020)
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The Egyptian national handball team is the national handball team of Egypt and is controlled by the Egyptian Handball Federation.

Egypt is one of the finest handball teams from Africa along with Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Angola.

Egypt has had two golden generations, one from 1991-2001 and a present one starting from 2019. The first generation was the first non-European team to reach the semifinals in the World Championships. While the current generation became the first African team to reach the semifinals in the Olympic tournament.

History

Egypt's first appearance at the IHF World Championship was in 1964, where they failed to win a game. But since they were the first African team to participate at the tournament, and the fact that non-European teams were heavily underdeveloped back then, it was considered a major achievement.

After Egypt started developing their handball infrastructure, Egypt were able to qualify for the 1993 tournament at Sweden. They were able to win a game this time, against Czechoslovakia and were able to progress to the next round with this one win. In the second round, however, despite close matches against all three opponents – Romania, France and Switzerland (going as far as 26–27 with Romania) – Egypt failed to progress to the next stage.

Egypt's performance at the 1995 Championship is what raised Egypt to a respectable team. This time, Egypt won three matches at the first round, beating Brazil, Kuwait and Belarus.

The team was widely expected not to survive the knockout stage, but surprised the world by beating former World Champions Romania in the round of 16. While they were later beaten at the quarterfinals against Croatia, the team was highly praised back home. Handball continued to grow at Egypt and a rivalry formed between Egypt and Tunisia.

Egypt advanced to the quarterfinals every time between 1995 and 2001, arguably the golden age of Egyptian Handball. They also reached 6th place at the 1996 Olympics and 7th at 2000, their best Olympic placements. 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 Czechia 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, having their revenge after winning the close game 21–19. Egypt then became the first non-European team to reach the semi-finals. 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 at 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 quarterfinals any time. Egypt broke this streak at the 2019 World Championship, where they placed eighth. Egypt then went on to host the first 32-team Handball Championship in 2021, finishing seventh after losing to reigning Olympic and World Champions, Denmark on penalties, who later won the tournament.

Egypt beat their rivals Tunisia in their own court, qualifying to the 2020 Olympics. They ended up fourth, being the first African team to ever play in the semifinals. They placed second in the group stage, after beating Portugal, Sweden, Bahrain and Japan, only losing to World Champions Denmark once again. They then made a surprisingly comfortable win against Germany in the quarterfinals, qualifying to the top 4. They then lost to France by a 4-goal margin, despite having had a 4-goal lead early on. They then lost a close game against Spain in the Bronze Medal match, placing 4th, their best performance at the Olympics.

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- 1976 Montreal	Did not enter
1980 Moscow-1988 Seoul	Did not qualify
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	Did not qualify
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Group stage	9th of 12	5	1	1	3	129	143	-14
2020 Tokyo	Bronze Metal Match	4th of 12	8	5	0	3	239	218	+21
2024 Paris	To be determined
Total	7/14	0 Titles	44	14	3	27	1084	1119	-35

World Championship


Edition	Position	Pld	W	D	L
Germany 1938	Did not enter
Sweden 1954
Germany 1958
Germany 1961
Czechoslovakia 1964	14th	3	0	0	3
Sweden 1967	Did not enter
France 1970
East Germany 1974
Denmark 1978
Germany 1982
East Germany 1986
Czechoslovakia 1990
Sweden 1993	12th	7	1	0	6
Iceland 1995	6th	9	5	0	4
Japan 1997	6th	9	6	1	2
Egypt 1999	7th	9	6	0	3
France 2001	4th	9	5	1	3
Portugal 2003	15th	7	2	1	4
Tunisia 2005	14th	5	3	0	2
Germany 2007	17th	6	2	0	4
Croatia 2009	14th	9	4	0	5
Sweden 2011	14th	7	2	0	5
Spain 2013	16th	6	1	1	4
Qatar 2015	14th	6	2	1	3
France 2017	13th	6	3	0	3
/ Denmark/Germany 2019	8th	9	3	1	5
Egypt 2021	7th	7	4	2	1
/ Poland/Sweden 2023	To be determined
// Croatia/Denmark/Norway 2025
Germany 2027
Total	16/30	114	49	7	58

African Championship

Year	Position
Tunisia 1974	Did not enter
Algeria 1976	Disqualified
Republic of the Congo 1979	Runners-up
Tunisia 1981	Fourth place
Egypt 1983	Fourth place
Angola 1985	Fourth place
Morocco 1987	Runners-up
Algeria 1989	Runners-up
Egypt 1991	Champions
Côte d'Ivoire 1992	Champions
Tunisia 1994	Third place
Benin 1996	Third place

Year	Position
South Africa 1998	Third place
Algeria 2000	Champions
Morocco 2002	Third place
Egypt 2004	Champions
Tunisia 2006	Runners-up
Angola 2008	Champions
Egypt 2010	Runners-up
Morocco 2012	Third place
Algeria 2014	Third place
Egypt 2016	Champions
Gabon 2018	Runners-up
Tunisia 2020	Champions
Total	22/24

All-Africa Games

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

Mediterranean Games

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

Unofficial tournaments

MENA Games

1992 –
1997 –
1999 –
2004 –
2007 –
2011 –

Islamic Solidarity Games

Year	Round	GP	W	D	L	Final Position
Saudi Arabia 2005	Third place	7	5	-	2	3rd
Indonesia 2013	No Handball tournament Held
Total	1/1	7	5	-	2	-

Results and Fixtures

2021

27 January 2021 18:30	Denmark	39–38 (ET)	Egypt	Cairo Stadium Indoor Halls Complex, Cairo Attendance: 0 Referees: Gubica, Milošević (CRO)
	M. Hansen 10	(16–13)	Omar 11
	1× 3× 1×	Report	5× 1×
	FT: 28–28 ET: 6–6, 1–1 Pen: 4–3

24 July 2021 19:30	Portugal	31–37	Egypt	Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Nikolov, Nachevski (MKD)
	Ferraz 6	(15–15)	Hesham 7
	2× 5×	Report	1× 2×

26 July 2021 14:15	Egypt	27–32	Denmark	Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Raluy, Sabroso (ESP)
	Hesham 6	(15–14)	M. Hansen 9
	5×	Report	2× 5×

28 July 2021 14:15	Japan	29–33	Egypt	Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Schulze, Tönnies (GER)
	Tokuda 8	(11–18)	El-Ahmar 8
	1× 7×	Report	2×

30 July 2021 16:15	Sweden	22–27	Egypt	Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Bonaventura, Bonaventura (FRA)
	Pellas 7	(9–13)	Sanad 6
	2× 2×	Report	2×

1 August 2021 11:00	Egypt	30–20	Bahrain	Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Raluy, Sabroso (ESP)
	El-Ahmar 5	(15–7)	Habib 4
	2× 2×	Report	1× 1×

3 August 2021 20:45	Germany	26–31	Egypt	Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Nikolov, Nachevski (MKD)
	Golla, Kühn 6	(12–16)	Omar, Zein 5
	1× 3×	Report	1× 1×

5 August 2021 17:00	France	27–23	Egypt	Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Raluy, Sabroso (ESP)
	Descat, Mem 5	(13–13)	El-Ahmar, Omar 5
	3× 3×	Report	1× 1×

7 August 2021 17:00	Egypt	31–33	Spain	Yoyogi National Gymnasium, Tokyo Referees: Schulze, Tönnies (GER)
	El-Ahmar, Shebib 7	(16–19)	Gómez 8
	2×	Report	2× 4× 1×

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2021 World Men's Handball Championship.^[1]^[2]

Head coach: Roberto García Parrondo

No.	Pos.	Name	Date of birth (age)	Height	App.	Goals	Club
5	RB	Yahia Omar	(1997-09-09) 9 September 1997 (age 26)	1.94 m	24	52	Veszprém
9	CB	Islam Hassan	(1988-07-02) 2 July 1988 (age 35)	1.84 m	194	127	Al Ahly
10	LB	Abdelrahman Abdou	(1996-01-30) 30 January 1996 (age 28)	1.92 m	10	2	Al Ahly
11	LW	Ahmed Moamen	(1993-03-18) 18 March 1993 (age 31)	1.76 m	27	16	Zamalek
15	LB	Ahmed Hesham	(2000-10-27) 27 October 2000 (age 23)	1.91 m	9	15	USAM Nîmes Gard
24	P	Ibrahim El-Masry	(1989-03-11) 11 March 1989 (age 35)	1.92 m	218	25	Al Ahly
25	P	Wisam Nawar	(1990-02-14) 14 February 1990 (age 34)	1.84 m	78	37	Zamalek
31	LW	Omar El-Wakil	(1988-05-14) 14 May 1988 (age 36)	1.74 m	174	212	Zamalek
39	LB	Yehia El-Deraa	(1995-07-17) 17 July 1995 (age 28)	1.92 m	112	97	Zamalek
42	LB	Hassan Walid	(2000-05-01) 1 May 2000 (age 24)	2.05 m	8	6	Zamalek
45	CB	Seif El-Deraa	(1998-09-19) 19 September 1998 (age 25)	1.87 m	8	14	Zamalek
53	RW	Akram Saad	(1994-11-22) 22 November 1994 (age 29)	1.72 m	12	7	Zamalek
55	RB	Mohsen Ramadan	(1998-03-11) 11 March 1998 (age 26)	1.92 m	12	8	Al Ahly
66	RB	Ahmed El-Ahmar	(1984-01-27) 27 January 1984 (age 40)	1.86 m	315	1402	Zamalek
79	LW	Ahmed Nafea	(1997-09-01) 1 September 1997 (age 26)	1.82 m	0	0	Al Ahly
88	GK	Karim Handawy	(1988-05-01) 1 May 1988 (age 36)	1.88 m	132	0	RK Eurofarm Pelister
89	P	Mohamed Mamdouh Shebib	(1989-04-01) 1 April 1989 (age 35)	1.94 m	213	186	Dinamo București
90	LB	Ali Zein	(1990-12-14) 14 December 1990 (age 33)	1.93 m	268	320	Barcelona
91	RW	Mohamed Sanad	(1991-01-16) 16 January 1991 (age 33)	1.88 m	121	237	USAM Nîmes Gard
96	GK	Mohamed El-Tayar	(1996-04-07) 7 April 1996 (age 28)	1.91 m	18	0	Al Ahly

Notable former coaches

References

^ "HANDBALL: Egypt announce squad for 2021 IHF World Championship". kingfut.com. 27 December 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
^ "Team Roster Egypt" (PDF). ihf.info. 15 January 2021. Retrieved 19 January 2021.

External links

[1] "HANDBALL: Egypt announce squad for 2021 IHF World Championship". kingfut.com. 27 December 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2020.

[2] "Team Roster Egypt" (PDF). ihf.info. 15 January 2021. Retrieved 19 January 2021.

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Medal record
African Championship
	1991 Egypt
	1992 Côte d'Ivoire
	2000 Algeria
	2004 Egypt
	2008 Angola
	2016 Egypt
	2020 Tunisia
	1979 Republic of the Congo
	1987 Morocco
	1989 Algeria
	2006 Tunisia
	2010 Egypt
	2018 Gabon