2022 African Men's Handball Championship


The 2022 African Men's Handball Championship was the 25th edition of the African Men's Handball Championship, held from 11 to 18 July 2022 in Egypt. It acted as the African qualifying tournament for the 2023 World Men's Handball Championship in Poland and Sweden. Originally it was scheduled to be held in Morocco from 13 to 23 January 2022.
Further to the protests received by the day after the draw, the African Handball Confederation decided to postpone the competition beyond January 2022. Later the CAHB announced the resumption of the draw and the postponement of the competition first to June 2022 and finally to 11 July. On 29 March 2022, the CAHB decided to replace Morocco as the host due to a potential Algerian boycott after Morocco had proposed holding games in disputed Sahrawi territory.
Egypt won their eighth title by defeating Cape Verde 37–25 in the final. The final match marked the first since 1983 to have a sub-Saharan team, and the first where neither Tunisia or Algeria featured.

Venues


6th of October City6th of October City
Hassan Moustafa Sports HallInternational Hall
Capacity: 5,200Capacity: 2,000


Draw

The draw was scheduled to take place 8 December 2021 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. It was cancelled and a new draw was held on 26 May 2022 in Cairo.

Seeding

According to ranking of previous African Championship : 2020 African Men's Handball Championship
Pot 1Pot 2Pot 3Pot 4





Preliminary round

''All times are local.''

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Group D

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Placement round

Points gained against the team from the same group were taken over.

Group 2

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Knockout stage

Bracket

;Fifth place bracket

Quarterfinals

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5–8th place semifinals

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Semifinals

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Final ranking

Qualified for the 2023 World Men's Handball Championship

Awards

The all-star team was announced on 19 July 2022.
PositionPlayer
Goalkeeper Alae Laaroussi
Right wing Hicham El Hakimi
Right back Yahia Omar
Centre back Leandro Semedo
Left back Ali Zein
Left wing Omar El-Wakil
Pivot Jihed Jaballah
Top Scorer Aurélien Tchitombi
MVP Yahia Omar