The Algeria national handball team is the national handball team of Algeria and is controlled by the Algerian Handball Federation.

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Algeria
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Association	Algerian Handball Federation
Coach	Farouk Dehili
Captain	Messaoud Berkous
Colours
1st 2nd
Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances	4 (First in 1980)
Best result	10th (1980, 1984, 1988, 1996)
World Championship
Appearances	17 (First in 1974)
Best result	13th (2001)
African Championship
Appearances	25 (First in 1976)
Best result	1st (1981, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1996, 2014)
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Algeria men's national handball team

Medal record
African Championship
	1981 Tunisia
	1983 Egypt
	1985 Angola
	1987 Morocco
	1989 Algeria
	1996 Benin
	2014 Algeria
	1976 Algeria
	1991 Egypt
	1994 Tunisia
	1998 South Africa
	2000 Algeria
	2002 Morocco
	2012 Morocco
	2024 Egypt
	1979 Congo
	1992 Côte d'Ivoire
	2008 Angola
	2010 Egypt
	2020 Tunisia
African Games
	1973 Lagos
	1978 Algiers
	1987 Nairobi
	1999 Johannesburg
	1991 Cairo
	2003 Abuja
	2007 Algiers	Team
	2011 Maputo	Team
Mediterranean Games
	1987 Latakia
	1983 Casablanca
	1975 Algiers
Arab Games
	1985 Rabat
	2007 Cairo	Team
	2023 Algeria	Team
Islamic Solidarity Games
	2005 Saudi Arabia	Team

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Algeria became a great handball country from the 1970s when they were gold medalists twice in the African Games in 1973 and in 1978. In the beginning of the 1980s, the domination of Algeria in the African handball started when it won five consecutive African titles from 1981 to 1989. Algeria had participated in the World Handball Championship for 14 times, in the Olympic Gamess for 4 times.

Aziz Derouaz, the coach of Algeria team in the 1980s is the man who invented the Offensive-Defense style and practiced it for the first time in the 1982 World Handball Championship.^[1]

Many great players have made history of the Algerian handball such as Abdelkrim Bendjemil, Omar Azeb, Brahim Boudrali, Abdelkrim Hammiche, Mustapha Doballah, Abdeslam Benmaghsoula, Sofiane Elimam, Rédouane Aouachria, Djaffar Belhoucine, Mahmoud Bouanik, Abdeldjalil Bouanani, Salim Nedjel and many others.

The squad for the 2023 World Men's Handball Championship.^[2][3]

Head coach: Rabah Gherbi

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No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 2 LB Zoheïr Naïm (1996-05-03) 3 May 1996 (age 27) 1.88 m 30 78 Sharjah Sports Club 4 LB Noureddine Hellal (1996-05-23) 23 May 1996 (age 27) 1.86 m 13 22 Mudhar 5 CB Bounab Hani Abderrafik (2000-12-20) 20 December 2000 (age 23) 1.88 m 0 0 JSE Skikda 7 LB Hichem Daoud (1992-01-09) 9 January 1992 (age 32) 1.89 m 105 155 Limoges Handball 9 LB Wail Melazem (2000-09-14) 14 September 2000 (age 23) 1.90 m 0 0 MM Batna 14 CB Benhalima Nori Selim (1998-05-15) 15 May 1998 (age 25) 1.90 m 0 0 Nancy Handball 16 GK Yahia Zemouchi (1994-09-17) 17 September 1994 (age 29) 1.93 m 16 0 Al-Salmiya 17 LW Djedid Yacine (1997-04-06) 6 April 1997 (age 27) 1.84 m 8 25 MC Alger 18 P Hichem Kaabeche (1990-03-12) 12 March 1990 (age 34) 1.92 m 80 133 Beşiktaş 22 GK Khalifa Ghedbane (1996-11-26) 26 November 1996 (age 27) 1.98 m 52 5 Dinamo București 25 P Sofiane Bendjilali (1995-03-28) 28 March 1995 (age 29) 1.89 m 13 13 AC Diomidis Argous 26 LB Mokhtar Kouri (1996-02-29) 29 February 1996 (age 28) 1.94 m 18 39 HBC El Biar 27 LW Abrous Rayane (2001-08-16) 16 August 2001 (age 22) 1.91 m 0 0 HBC El Biar 36 CB Rahim Abdelkader (1990-07-12) 12 July 1990 (age 33) 1.85 m 102 211 Shabab Al Ahli Club 77 LW Réda Arib (1991-10-22) 22 October 1991 (age 32) 1.86 m 40 65 MC Alger 87 LB Ayoub Abdi (1997-02-16) 16 February 1997 (age 27) 1.89 m 47 139 Fenix Toulouse HB 94 P Bastien Khermouche (1993-11-10) 10 November 1993 (age 30) 1.92 m 11 18 Dijon Métropole Handball 97 RW Sami Douchet (1997-04-21) 21 April 1997 (age 26) 1.79 m 0 0 Sarrebourg Moselle Sud Handball

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