2016 African Women's Handball Championship

2016 African Women's Championship
Tournament details
Host country	Angola
Dates	28 November – 7 December
Teams	9 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Angola (12th title)
Runner-up	Tunisia
Third place	Cameroon
Fourth place	Congo
Tournament statistics
Matches	27
Goals scored	1,366 (51 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Amal Hamrouni, 40
Best player	Natália Bernardo
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Last updated November 26, 2022

The 2016 African Women's Handball Championship was the 22nd edition of the African Women's Handball Championship, held in Luanda, Angola from 28 November to 7 December 2016.^[1] It acted as the African qualifying tournament for the 2017 World Women's Handball Championship.^[2]

This was the first time in the history of the African championships that the male and female editions were organized in two different countries at different times. While men and women competitions were traditionally gathered in the same installations every two years in January, The African Handball Confederation (CAHB) had decided to separate the two competitions after several votes at a meeting on 23 January 2015 at the Abbasside Palace hotel in Algiers.^[3]

Venue

Luanda		Luanda
Pavilhão Multiusos do Kilamba Capacity: 12,730

Qualification

Country	Previous appearances in tournament¹
Algeria	15(1976, 1979, 1981,1983, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014 )
Angola	18 (1981, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010 , 2012 , 2014)
Cameroon	14 (1979, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014)
Congo	20 (1976, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014)
DR Congo	8 (1992, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014)
Guinea	1 (2014)
Ivory Coast	19 (1976, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012)
Senegal	7 (1974, 1976, 1991, 1992, 2000, 2012, 2014)
Tunisia	17 (1974, 1976, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1992, 1994, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014 )

¹Bold indicates champion for that year. Italics indicates host.

Draw

Group A	Group B
Angola Cameroon DR Congo Ivory Coast Senegal	Algeria Congo Guinea Tunisia

Squads

Preliminary round

Times are local (UTC+1).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Angola (H)	4	4	0	136	69	+67	8	Quarterfinals
2	Senegal	4	3	1	94	85	+9	6
3	Cameroon	4	2	2	77	95	−18	4
4	Ivory Coast	4	1	3	85	110	−25	2
5	DR Congo	4	0	4	92	125	−33	0

Source: CAHB
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.
(H) Host

28 November 2016 13:00	DR Congo	22–28	Senegal	Arena do Kilamba, Luanda Referees: Gasmi, Gasmi (FRA)
	Mwasesa 9	(10–15)	Diop 8
	4× 6× 1×		2× 2×

28 November 2016 19:00	Angola	37–18	Ivory Coast	Arena do Kilamba, Luanda Referees: El-Saied, El-Saied (EGY)
	three players 5	(21–7)	Fofana 5
	3× 1× 1×		2× 4×

29 November 2016 17:00	Ivory Coast	17–22	Cameroon	Arena do Kilamba, Luanda Referees: Tshilanda, Amba (COD)
	Fofana 4	(6–11)	Nchouapougnigni, Touba 5
	1× 2× 1×		2× 6× 1×

29 November 2016 19:00	Senegal	18–31	Angola	Arena do Kilamba, Luanda Referees: El-Saied, El-Saied (EGY)
	Paye 4	(9–16)	Natália 8
	2× 4×		2× 4×

30 November 2016 15:00	Ivory Coast	33–27	DR Congo	Arena do Kilamba, Luanda Referees: Pinto, Gomes (ANG)
	Fofana 9	(14–14)	three players 4
	3× 2×		3× 4×

30 November 2016 19:00	Cameroon	14–30	Angola	Arena do Kilamba, Luanda Referees: El-Saied, El-Saied (EGY)
	Touba 4	(5–16)	Natália 10
	2× 7×		4× 2×

1 December 2016 17:00	DR Congo	24–26	Cameroon	Arena do Kilamba, Luanda Referees: Beloum, Zoehinga (BUR)
	Mwasesa 13	(9–14)	Touba 15
	1× 3×		3× 11×

1 December 2016 19:00	Senegal	24–17	Ivory Coast	Arena do Kilamba, Luanda Referees: El-Saied, El-Saied (EGY)
	Cissé, Paye 4	(12–9)	Issifou
	4× 4×		2× 7×

2 December 2016 15:00	Cameroon	15-24	Senegal	Arena do Kilamba, Luanda Referees: Gasmi, Gasmi (FRA)
	Manga 4	(6–12)	Cissé 5
	3× 6×		3× 5×

2 December 2016 19:00	Angola	38–19	DR Congo	Arena do Kilamba, Luanda Referees: Akpatsa, Assignon (TOG)
	Viegas 10	(18–11)	Oholanga 9
	3× 4×		2× 2×

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Tunisia	3	3	0	87	68	+19	6	Quarterfinals
2	Congo	3	2	1	83	63	+20	4
3	Guinea	3	1	2	64	84	−20	2
4	Algeria	3	0	3	57	76	−19	0

Source: CAHB
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) head-to-head points; 3) head-to-head goal difference; 4) head-to-head number of goals scored; 5) goal difference.

28 November 2016 11:00	Tunisia	34–22	Guinea	Arena do Kilamba, Luanda
	Hamrouni 11	(15–11)	Amadi 5
	2× 3×		2× 7×

29 November 2016 11:00	Algeria	19–25	Congo	Arena do Kilamba, Luanda Referees: Beloum, Zoehinga (BUR)
	Hadi 5	(10–13)	Okoumba, Mavoungou 5
	2× 5×		2× 5×

30 November 2016 17:00	Congo	25–26	Tunisia	Arena do Kilamba, Luanda
	four players 5	(13–16)	Hamrouni 5
	1× 4× 1×		3× 5×

1 December 2016 15:00	Guinea	24–17	Algeria	Arena do Kilamba, Luanda Referees: Tshilanda, Amba (COD)
	Gomis 6	(13–7)	Haïmer, Hemissi 3
	4× 7×		2× 6×

2 December 2016 13:00	Congo	33–18	Guinea	Arena do Kilamba, Luanda Referees: El-Saied, El-Saied (EGY)
	Mambou 8	(13–7)	Correa, Gomis 5
	3× 6× 1×		3× 9×

2 December 2016 17:00	Tunisia	27–21	Algeria	Arena do Kilamba, Luanda Referees: Faye, Diop (SEN)
		(14–9)

Knockout stage

Bracket

Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final

4 December

Angola	42
		5 December
Algeria	19
		Angola	31
4 December
		Cameroon	19
Cameroon	32
				7 December
Congo	27
				Angola	36
4 December
				Tunisia	17
~~Senegal~~ (DSQ)	27
		5 December
Guinea	15
		~~Senegal~~ (DSQ)	26
4 December
		Tunisia	20	Third place
Ivory Coast	26
				7 December
Tunisia	38
				Cameroon	w/o

				~~Senegal~~ (DSQ)

5–8th place bracket

5–8th place semifinals		Fifth place

5 December

Algeria	27
		6 December
Congo	31
		Congo	32
5 December
		Ivory Coast	24
Guinea	20

Ivory Coast	23
		Seventh place

		6 December

		Algeria	33

		Guinea	26

Quarterfinals

4 December 2016 13:00	Ivory Coast	26–38	Tunisia	Arena do Kilamba, Luanda
		(13–21)

4 December 2016 15:00	Cameroon	32–27	Congo	Arena do Kilamba, Luanda
		(15–15)

4 December 2016 17:00	~~Senegal~~	27–15	Guinea	Arena do Kilamba, Luanda
		(14–7)

4 December 2016 19:00	Angola	42–19	Algeria	Arena do Kilamba, Luanda
		(22–9)

5–8th place semifinals

5 December 2016 13:00	Algeria	27–31	Congo	Arena do Kilamba, Luanda
		(12–16)

5 December 2016 15:00	Guinea	20–23	Ivory Coast	Arena do Kilamba, Luanda
		(10–10)

Semifinals

After the semifinals, Senegal was disqualified from the tournament for using ineligible player Doungou Camara, since she has already played for the French national team. Tunisia faced Angola in the final and Cameroon automatically occupied the third place.^[4]^[5]

5 December 2016 17:00	~~Senegal~~	26–20	Tunisia	Arena do Kilamba, Luanda
		(17–11)

5 December 2016 19:00	Angola	31–19	Cameroon	Arena do Kilamba, Luanda

Seventh place game

6 December 2016 17:00	Algeria	33–26	Guinea	Arena do Kilamba, Luanda
		(13–11)

Fifth place game

6 December 2016 19:00	Congo	32–24	Ivory Coast	Arena do Kilamba, Luanda

Third place game

7 December 2016 17:00	Cameroon	Awarded	~~Senegal~~	Arena do Kilamba, Luanda

Final

7 December 2016 19:00	Angola	36–17	Tunisia	Arena do Kilamba, Luanda
		(16–7)

Final ranking

	Qualified for the 2017 World Championship

Rank	Team
	Angola
	Tunisia
	Cameroon
4	Congo
5	Ivory Coast
6	Algeria
7	Guinea
8	DR Congo
DSQ	Senegal

Awards

2016 African Women's Handball Championship
Angola 12th title

Angolese Natália Bernardo is the Best Player and Tunisian Amal Hamrouni is the top scorer with 40 goals^[6].

All-Tournament Team

All-star team is^[6]

GK		Teresa Almeida
RW		Azenaide Carlos
RB		Amal Hamrouni
CB		Natália Bernardo
LB		Magda Cazanga
LW		Joelma Viegas
P		Albertina Kassoma

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[1] "la CAN 2016 féminine aura lieu du 2 au 11 décembre". rfi.fr. 6 January 2016.

[2] "L'Angola et l'Egypte organisent la 22e Coupe d'Afrique des Nations seniors 2016". cahbonline.info. 23 January 2014. Archived from the original on 2017-08-23. Retrieved 2015-03-26.

[3] "la CAN 2016 féminine aura lieu du 2 au 11 décembre en Angola". handball.tn. 7 January 2016.

[4] "Handball/African Cup: Senegal disqualified over irregular use of athlete". ANGOP. Retrieved 2017-07-27.

[5] "Handball/AfroCup: Senegalese player Camarâ in irregular situation - organisers". ANGOP. Retrieved 2017-07-27.

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v t e African Handball Championship
Men	Tunisia 1974 Algeria 1976 Congo 1979 Tunisia 1981 Egypt 1983 Tunisia 1985 Morocco 1987 Algeria 1989 Egypt 1991 Côte d'Ivoire 1992 Tunisia 1994 Benin 1996 South Africa 1998 Algeria 2000 Morocco 2002 Egypt 2004 Tunisia 2006 Angola 2008 Egypt 2010 Morocco 2012 Algeria 2014 Egypt 2016 Gabon 2018 Tunisia 2020 Egypt 2022 TBD 2024
Women	Tunisia 1974 Algeria 1976 Congo 1979 Tunisia 1981 Egypt 1983 Angola 1985 Morocco 1987 Algeria 1989 Egypt 1991 Côte d'Ivoire 1992 Tunisia 1994 Benin 1996 South Africa 1998 Algeria 2000 Morocco 2002 Egypt 2004 Tunisia 2006 Angola 2008 Egypt 2010 Morocco 2012 Algeria 2014 Angola 2016 Congo 2018 Cameroon 2021 Senegal 2022 Cape Verde 2024

v t e 2017 World Women's Handball Championship qualification
Africa	2016 African Women's Handball Championship
Asia	2017 Asian Women's Handball Championship
America	2017 Pan American Women's Handball Championship
Europe	2016 European Women's Handball Championship European qualification