2004 African Men's Handball Championship Explained

Tourney Name:African Men's Championship
Year:2004
Country:Egypt
Dates:8–18 April
Num Teams:11
Confederations:1
Venues:3
Cities:1
Champion:EGY
Count:4
Second:TUN
Third:ANG
Fourth:ALG
Matches:50
Goals:2842
Previous:2002 African Men's Handball Championship
Next:2006 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]

Egypt win their fourth title beating Tunisia in the final game 31–28.

Qualified teams

Venues

Cairo
Cairo Stadium Indoor Halls Complex
Main HallMedia Hall
Capacity: 16,900Capacity: 1,620
width=160 Cairo !
Police Union Hall
Capacity: 2,000

First round

All times are local (UTC+2).

    Team advance to the second round

Group A

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Group B

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Group C

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Second round

    Team advance to the knockout stage

Group E

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Group F

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Placement matches

Group 10–11th place

    Team took tenth place
    Team took eleventh place

Group 7–9th place

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

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Knockout stage

Semifinals

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Final

Final ranking

width=10px bgcolor=#ccffccQualified for the 2005 World Championship
width=10px bgcolor=#ffffccQualified for the 2005 World Championship as hosts
Rank width=170Team
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11

All Star Team

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

!Position!Player
GoalkeeperHamada El-Ruby[3]
Right wingSherif Moemen
Right backAhmed El-Ahmar
Central backOualid Ben Amor
Left backAngola
Left wingBelgacem Filah
PivotEssam Kash[4]

Other awards

!Award!Player
TopscorerWissem Hmam
Sherif Moemen

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Men Handball XVI Africa Championship 2004 – Egypt . todor66.com . Todor Krastev . 26 November 2016 .
  2. Web site: Al-Ahram Weekly | Sports | Give and take . weekly.ahram.org.eg . 15 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130326044001/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/687/sp1.htm . 26 March 2013 . dead.
  3. Could be Mohamed Bakir El-Nakib ?
  4. Could be Issam Tej ?