The 2022 African Men's Handball Championship was the 25th edition of the

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, held from 11 to 18 July 2022 in Egypt. It acted as the African qualifying tournament for the

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and

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. Originally it was scheduled to be held in

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from 13 to 23 January 2022. Further to the protests received by the day after the draw, the

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took the decision to postpone the competition beyond January 2022. Later the CAHB announced the resumption of the draw and the postponement of the competition first to June 2022 and finally to 11 July. On 29 March 2022, the CAHB decided to replace Morocco as the host due to a potential Algerian boycott after Morocco had proposed holding games in disputed Sahrawi territory.

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won their eighth title by defeating

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37–25 in the final. The final match marked the first since

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to have a sub-Saharan team, and the first where neither

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featured.

Venues

Participating teams

¹ Bold indicates champion for that year.

² ''Italic'' indicates host country for that year.

³ Algeria originally decided to boycott the competition since it is partly held in the Moroccan occupied parts of

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. However, after the tournament was moved from Morocco, they reversed their decision.

Draw

The draw was scheduled to take place 8 December 2021 in

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, Ivory Coast. It was cancelled and a new draw was held on 26 May 2022 in

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Seeding

According to ranking of previous African Championship : 2020 African Men's Handball Championship

Result

Preliminary round

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Venues

Participating teams

Draw

Seeding

Result

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Placement round

Group 1

Group 2

Eleventh place game

Ninth place game

Knockout stage

Bracket

Quarterfinals

5–8th place semifinals

Semifinals

Seventh place game

Fifth place game

Third place game

Final

Final ranking

Awards

References