2016 African Women's Handball Championship

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]

2016 African Women's Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Angola
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Dates	28 November – 7 December
Teams	9 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions	Angola (12th title)
Runners-up	Tunisia
Third place	Cameroon
Fourth place	Congo
Tournament statistics
Matches played	27
Goals scored	1,366 (50.59 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Amal Hamrouni, 40
Awards
Best player	Natália Bernardo
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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)

¹ Bold 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

Main article: 2016 African Women's Handball Championship squads

Preliminary round

Times are local (UTC+1).

Group A

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

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×

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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×

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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×

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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×

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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	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Tunisia	3	3	0	0	87	68	+19	6	Quarterfinals
2	Congo	3	2	0	1	83	63	+20	4
3	Guinea	3	1	0	2	64	84	−20	2
4	Algeria	3	0	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×

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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×

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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×

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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×

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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)

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

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

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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)

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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)

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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