Brazil men's national handball team

Brazil national handball team is the national handball team of Brazil and is governed by the Confederação Brasileira de Handebol.

Brazil
Information
Association	Confederação Brasileira de Handebol
Coach	Marcus Oliveira
Assistant coach	André Mendes
Captain	Thiagus dos Santos
Colours
1st 2nd
Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances	5 (First in 1992)
Best result	7th (2016)
World Championship
Appearances	17 (First in 1958)
Best result	7th (2025)
Pan American Championship
Appearances	18 (First in 1980)
Best result	1st (2006, 2008, 2016)
Last updated on Unknown.

Competitions record

Olympic Games

Games	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1936 Berlin	did not enter
Not held from 1948 to 1968
1972 Munich	did not qualify
1976 Montreal
1980 Moscow
1984 Los Angeles
1988 Seoul
1992 Barcelona	match for 11th place	12th of 12	6	0	0	6	120	152	−32
1996 Atlanta	match for 11th place	11th of 12	6	1	1	4	141	170	−29
2000 Sydney	did not qualify
2004 Athens	Match for 9th place	10th of 12	6	1	0	5	130	162	−32
2008 Beijing	preliminary round	11th of 12	5	1	0	4	129	153	−24
2012 London	did not qualify
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Quarter-finals	7th of 12	6	2	1	3	168	184	−16
2020 Tokyo	preliminary round	10th of 12	5	1	0	4	128	145	−17
2024 Paris	did not qualify
Total	6/15		34	6	2	26	816	966	-150

World Championship

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D*	L	GF	GA
1938	did not enter
1954
1958	Preliminary round	15th	3	0	0	3	33	78
1961	did not enter
1964
1967
1970
1974
1978
1982
1986
1990
1993
1995	Preliminary round	24th	5	0	0	5	96	140
1997	Preliminary round	24th	5	0	0	5	65	132
1999	Round of 16	16th	6	2	0	4	125	160
2001	Preliminary round	19th	5	1	0	4	108	124
2003	Preliminary round	22nd	5	0	1	4	118	140
2005	Preliminary round	19th	5	1	0	4	104	146
2007	Presidents cup	19th	6	3	0	3	164	162
2009	Presidents cup	21st	9	3	0	6	238	270
2011	Presidents cup	21st	7	2	0	5	196	211
2013	Round of 16	13th	6	3	0	3	148	154
2015	Round of 16	16th	6	2	0	4	171	169
2017	Round of 16	16th	6	2	0	4	148	174
/ 2019	Main round	9th	8	5	0	3	212	220
2021	Main round	18th	6	1	2	3	168	171
2023	Main round	17th	6	2	1	3	173	175
2025	Quarter-finals	7th	7	5	0	2	188	186
2027	TBD
2029
2031
Total	17/32		101	32	4	65	2455	2812

Pan American Games

Games	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1987 Indianapolis	bronze medal match	3rd	5	3	0	2	122	114	8
1991 Havana	gold medal match	2nd	5	2	0	3	114	104	10
1995 Mar del Plata	gold medal match	2nd	6	4	0	2	171	116	55
1999 Winnipeg	gold medal match	2nd	4	2	1	1	104	83	21
2003 Santo Domingo	gold medal match	1st	5	5	0	0	170	97	73
2007 Rio de Janeiro	gold medal match	1st	5	5	0	0	157	96	61
2011 Guadalajara	gold medal match	2nd	5	4	0	1	183	97	86
2015 Toronto	gold medal match	1st	5	5	0	0	183	104	79
2019 Lima	bronze medal match	3rd	5	4	0	1	169	117	52
2023 Santiago	gold medal match	2nd	5	4	0	1	182	126	56
Total	10/10	3 Titles	49	38	1	11	1545	1054	491

Pan American Championship

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D*	L	GF	GA
1980	round robin	4	5	2	1	2	90	92
1981	final	2	4	2	0	2	106	113
1983	round robin	4	4	2	0	2
1985	round robin	3	4	2	0	2	89	66
1989	round robin	2	5	4	0	1	128	85
1994	round robin	2	6	5	0	1	145	67
1996	3rd place match	4	5	2	0	3	132	95
1998	3rd place match	3	7	5	0	2	215	148
2000	3rd place match	3	5	4	0	1	183	85
2002	final	2	5	3	0	2	143	86
2004	final	2	5	4	0	1	147	72
2006	final	1	5	5	0	0	183	104
2008	final	1	4	4	0	0	124	80
2010	final	2	5	4	0	1	160	115
2012	final	2	5	4	0	1	174	94
2014	final	2	5	4	0	1	169	102
2016	final	1	7	7	0	0	265	122
2018	final	2	7	6	0	1	251	149
Total	18/18	3 titles	93	69	1	23	3031	1795

South and Central American Championship

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D*	L	GF	GA
2020	final	2	5	4	0	1	210	87
2022	final	1	5	5	0	0	194	91
2024	final	1	5	5	0	0	207	103
Total	3/3	2 titles	15	14	0	1	611	281

Other competitions

South American Games
Games	Round	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
2002 São Bernardo do Campo	Gold medal match	2nd	5	3	0	2	138	76	62
2006 Mar del Plata	did not enter
2010 Medellin	round robin	1st	4	4	0	0	146	90	56
2014 Santiago	gold medal match	1st	5	5	0	0	172	97	75
2018 Cochabamba	gold medal match	1st	5	5	0	0	210	96	114
Total	4/5	3 Titles	19	17	0	2	666	359	307

Olympic qualification tournament
Tournament	Outcome	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
2012	not qualified	3rd	3	1	0	2	75	81
2021	Qualified	2nd	3	2	0	1	76	80
2024	not qualified	3rd	3	1	0	2	77	79

• 2014 Four Nations Tournament –
• 2015 International Handball Tournament of Poland –
• 2015 Four Nations Tournament –
• 2015 Handball Super Cup – 3rd
• 2016 International Tournament of Spain – 3rd
• 2016 Qatar International Handball Tournament – 2nd
• 2016 Four Nations Tournament –
• 2017 Yellow Cup – 2nd
• 2017 Four Nations Tournament –
• 2019 Gjensidige Cup – 3rd
• 2022 4 Nations Cup (Poland) – 4th
• 2023 Gjensidige Cup – 3rd

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2025 World Men's Handball Championship.^[1][2]

Head coach: Marcus Oliveira

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 7 LW Joel Rodrigues (2001-02-24) 24 February 2001 (age 24) 1.83 m 0 0 Praia Clube/Colégio Nacional 14 LB Thiagus dos Santos (1989-01-25) 25 January 1989 (age 36) 1.98 m 169 234 Barça 15 LB Leandro Monte da Silva (1998-03-09) 9 March 1998 (age 27) 1.91 m 0 0 Mudhar 16 GK Rangel da Rosa (1996-05-11) 11 May 1996 (age 29) 1.89 m 51 3 Saint-Raphaël Var Handball 26 LB Bryan Monte (2003-04-06) 6 April 2003 (age 22) 2.02 m 9 26 Montpellier Handball 27 RW Marcos da Silva (2001-01-01) 1 January 2001 (age 24) 1.86 m 0 0 Pinheiros 37 LB Haniel Langaro (1995-03-07) 7 March 1995 (age 30) 1.97 m 93 398 Dinamo București 47 P Renan Pinheiro (2005-04-19) 19 April 2005 (age 20) 2.02 m 0 0 Pinheiros 57 RB Vinícios Carvalho (1997-03-06) 6 March 1997 (age 28) 1.88 m 3 7 C' Chartres Métropole Handball 75 CB Denys Barros (1994-01-02) 2 January 1994 (age 31) 1.86 m 0 0 AD Ciudad de Guadalajara 77 RW Rudolph Hackbarth (1994-03-10) 10 March 1994 (age 31) 1.89 m 65 159 BM Ciudad Encantada 80 P Edy Silva (1998-06-19) 19 June 1998 (age 27) 1.90 m 3 9 Sporting CP 82 CB Tarcísio Oliveira (2000-01-25) 25 January 2000 (age 25) 1.87 m 0 0 BM Atlético Valladolid 88 P Guilherme Borges (1999-02-05) 5 February 1999 (age 26) 1.93 m 0 0 Istres Provence Handball 94 CB Acácio Filho (1994-01-26) 26 January 1994 (age 31) 1.91 m 1 2 Al Arabi SC 95 RB Gustavo Rodrigues (1995-04-09) 9 April 1995 (age 30) 1.90 m 63 167 Chambéry Handball 97 GK Mateus Nascimento (1999-10-07) 7 October 1999 (age 25) 1.88 m 4 0 Pinheiros 99 LW Jean-Pierre Dupoux (1991-08-16) 16 August 1991 (age 34) 1.80 m 12 41 Tremblay-en-France Handball

Player statistics

Most capped players

Player	Games	Position
Felipe Borges	228	W
Bruno Souza	196	OB
Fábio Chiuffa	171	W
Fernando Pacheco Filho	148	OB
Vinícius Teixeira	143	P
Thiagus dos Santos	139	OB
Renato Tupan Ruy	133	OB, W
Henrique Teixeira	120	CB
Alexandro Pozzer	108	P
César Almeida	98	GK

Top scorers

Player	Goals	Average	Position
Felipe Borges	801	3.51	W
Bruno Souza	623	3.18	OB
Vinícius Teixeira	550	3.84	P
Fernando Pacheco Filho	455	3.07	OB
Fábio Chiuffa	449	2.63	W
Haniel Langaro	396	3.07	OB
Renato Tupan Ruy	231	1.74	OB, W

Notable players

• Bruno Souza
• Roberto Casuso

Youth Teams

World Juniors Championship

• 1991 – 15th
• 1995 – 17th
• 1997 – 16th
• 1999 – 13th
• 2001 – 11th
• 2003 – 8th
• 2005 – 16th
• 2007 – 16th

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA
2009	placement matches	9th	9	5	0	4	254	243
2011	placement matches	11th	9	4	0	5	239	252
2013	placement matches	6th	9	4	0	5	220	226
2015	placement matches	10th	7	3	1	3	221	201

Pan American Junior Championship

• 1993 –
• 1997 –
• 1999 –
• 2001 –
• 2002 –
• 2005 –
• 2007 –

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D*	L	GS	GA
2009	round robin	2nd	5	4	0	1	173	114
2011	round robin	2nd	5	4	0	1	130	83
2013	gold medal match	1st	6	6	0	0	226	119
2015	round robin	1st	5	5	0	0	191	94