Thursday 22/January/2026 – 04:00 AM
Meet the team Egypt With his counterpart, the Angola national team, today, Thursday, in the second preliminary round match of the African Cup of Nations hand In its 27th edition, scheduled to take place from January 21 to 31 in Kigali, Rwanda.
Date of the match between Egypt and Angola in the African Nations Handball Championship
The Egyptian handball team will play its Angolan counterpart, at exactly three o’clock in the evening, as part of the second round matches of the second group, which includes Egypt, Angola, Gabon and Uganda.
In the first confrontation, the handball team was able to overcome its Gabonese counterpart with a score of 36-25, with a difference of 11 goals in the match that was held yesterday evening, Wednesday.
The Egyptian national team is competing in the tournament under the technical leadership of Spanish coach Javier Pascual, who was contracted by the Egyptian Handball Federation last summer to lead the national team in a new era until the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
List of the Egyptian national handball team
Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Essam Al-Tayyar, Abdel-Rahman Hamid, Akram Yousry, Muhammad Oka, Ahmed Hisham Sissa, Muhammad Moamen Safa, Yahya Khaled, Mohab Saeed, Ali Zain, Ahmed Hisham Dodo, Nabil Sharif, Hisham Salah, Ibrahim Al-Masry, Ahmed Adel, Yasser Saif, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz “Jedo”.
Groups for the African Nations Handball Championship
- The first group: Algeria – Nigeria – Rwanda – Zambia
- Group Two: Egypt – Angola – Gabon – Uganda
- Group Three: Tunisia – Guinea – Cameroon – Kenya
- Group Four: Cape Verde – Morocco – Congo – Benin
The African Nations Handball Championship system
The group stage is held in a single round system, with the first and second place finishers from each group qualifying for the main round, where the eight qualifying teams are distributed into two groups.
The first group in the main round includes the champion and runner-up of the first group, and the champion and runner-up of the second group.
While the second group in the main round includes the champion and runner-up of the third group, and the champion and runner-up of the fourth group.
The first and second place finishers from each group qualify for the semi-finals.
The Egyptian national team is searching for the tenth star in its history, and the fourth in a row, and the Egyptian national handball team is the champion of the championship in the last three editions, in 2020, 2022, and 2024.
