1981 African Women's Handball Championship

The 1981 African Women's Handball Championship was the fourth edition of the African Women's Handball Championship, held in Tunisia from 17 to 31 July 1981. It acted as the African qualifying tournament for the 1982 World Women's Handball Championship.

1981 African Women's Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Tunisia
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Dates	17–31 July
Teams	7 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions	Congo (2nd title)
Runners-up	Tunisia
Third place	Nigeria
Fourth place	Ivory Coast
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Draw

Group A	Group B
Congo  Egypt  Ivory Coast	Algeria  Angola  Nigeria  Tunisia

Preliminary round

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Congo	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	Semifinals
2	Ivory Coast	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
3	Egypt	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0

Source: Todor66
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.

19 July 1981	Ivory Coast	12–9	Egypt
		(7–6)

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25 July 1981	Congo	12–10	Egypt

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28 July 1981	Congo	–	Ivory Coast

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Tunisia (H)	3	2	1	0	45	31	+14	5	Semifinals
2	Nigeria	3	1	2	0	49	33	+16	4
3	Algeria	3	1	1	1	39	39	0	3
4	Angola	3	0	0	3	36	66	−30	0

Source: Todor66
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) Hosts

17 July 1981	Tunisia	17–10	Angola
		(9–6)

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18 July 1981	Algeria	9–9	Nigeria
		(–)

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21 July 1981	Algeria	20–13	Angola
		(–)

21 July 1981	Tunisia	11–11	Nigeria
		(4–4)

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24 July 1981	Tunisia	17–10	Algeria
		(–)

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25 July 1981	Nigeria	29–13	Angola
		(–)

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	Congo
	Nigeria
					Congo	11
					Tunisia	10
	Tunisia
	Ivory Coast
					Third place
					Nigeria	12
					Ivory Coast	9

Fifth place bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	Egypt
	Angola
					Egypt	16
					Algeria	17

Fifth place game

	Algeria	17–16	Egypt
		(–)

Third place game

25 July 1981	Nigeria	12–9	Ivory Coast
		(5–3)

Final

30 July 1981	Congo	11–10	Tunisia

Final ranking

Qualified for the 1982 World Championship

Rank	Team
	Congo
	Tunisia
	Nigeria
4	Ivory Coast
5	Algeria
6	Egypt
7	Angola