2011 African Handball Champions League
# 2011 African Handball Champions League

The 2011 African Handball Champions League was the 33rd edition, organized by the African Handball Confederation, under the auspices of the International Handball Federation, the handball sport governing body. The tournament was held from October 21–30, 2011 in Kaduna, Nigeria, contested by 13 teams and won by Al Zamalek Cairo of Egypt.

## Draw

| Group A | Group B | Group C |
| - | - | - |
| FAP Yaoundé GS Pétroliers Safety Shooters Zamalek | Al Ahly Étoile du Sahel JS Kinshasa Red Star | Étoile du Congo Flowers JSE Skikda Niger United Primeiro de Agosto |

## Preliminary round

    Times given below are in WAT UTC+1.

### Group A

| Fri/Tue, 21/25 Oct 2011 ||||
| - | - | - | - |
| FAP Yaoundé | 21 : 31 | Safety Shooters |
| GS Pétroliers | 24 : 18 | Zamalek |
| Sat/Mon, 22/24 Oct 2011 ||||
| Zamalek | 27 : 27 | FAP Yaoundé |
| GS Pétroliers | 21 : 16 | Safety Shooters |
| Sun, 23 Oct 2011 ||||
| FAP Yaoundé | 20 : 20 | GS Pétroliers |
| Zamalek | 32 : 24 | Safety Shooters |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GDIF | Pts |
| GS Pétroliers | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 65 | 54 | +11 | 5 |
| Zamalek | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 77 | 75 | +2 | 3 |
| Safety Shooters | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 71 | 74 | -3 | 2 |
| FAP Yaoundé | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 68 | 78 | -10 | 2 |

### Group B

| Sat/Mon, 22/24 Oct 2011 ||||
| - | - | - | - |
| Al Ahly | 23 : 5 | JS Kinshasa |
| ES Sahel | 30 : 15 | Red Star |
| Sun, 23 Oct 2011 ||||
| JS Kinshasa | 17 : 46 | ES Sahel |
| Red Star | 27 : 39 | Al Ahly |
| Tue, 25 Oct 2011 ||||
| ES Sahel | 25 : 26 | Al Ahly |
| JS Kinshasa | : | Red Star |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GDIF | Pts |
| Al Ahly | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 88 | 57 | +31 | 6 |
| ES Sahel | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 101 | 58 | +43 | 4 |
| Red Star | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 42 | 69 | -27 | 0 |
| JS Kinshasa | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 69 | -47 | 0 |

### Group C

| Fri, 21 Oct 2011 ||||
| - | - | - | - |
| Flowers | 23 : 34 | JSE Skikda |
| Étoile du Congo | 35 : 31 | Niger United |
| Sat, 22 Oct 2011 ||||
| 1º de Agosto | 40 : 18 | Étoile du Congo |
| Niger United | 32 : 30 | Flowers |
| Sun, 23 Oct 2011 ||||
| JSE Skikda | 30 : 26 | Étoile du Congo |
| Niger United | 21 : 33 | 1º de Agosto |
| Mon, 24 Oct 2011 ||||
| 1º de Agosto | 41 : 25 | Flowers |
| JSE Skikda | 30 : 25 | Niger United |
| Tue, 25 Oct 2011 ||||
| Étoile du Congo | 24 : 24 | Flowers |
| JSE Skikda | 23 : 29 | 1º de Agosto |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GDIF | Pts |
| 1º de Agosto | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 143 | 87 | +56 | 8 |
| JSE Skikda | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 117 | 103 | +14 | 6 |
| Étoile du Congo | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 103 | 125 | -22 | 3 |
| Niger United | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 109 | 128 | -19 | 2 |
| Flowers | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 102 | 131 | -29 | 1 |

## Knockout stage

### Championship bracket

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Thu 27 Oct 2011 – 10:00 | Thu 27 Oct 2011 – 10:00 | | | |
| 1º de Agosto | 30 | | | |
| 1º de Agosto | 30 | Fri 28 Oct 2011 – 15:30 | Fri 28 Oct 2011 – 15:30 | | |
| Étoile du Congo | 21 | Fri 28 Oct 2011 – 15:30 | Fri 28 Oct 2011 – 15:30 | |
| Étoile du Congo | 21 | 1º de Agosto | 21 | |
| Thu 27 Oct 2011 – 13:00 | Thu 27 Oct 2011 – 13:00 | | 1º de Agosto | 21 | |
| Thu 27 Oct 2011 – 13:00 | Thu 27 Oct 2011 – 13:00 | ES Sahel | 22 | |
| JSE Skikda | 28 | ES Sahel | 22 | |
| JSE Skikda | 28 | | | | Sun 30 Oct 2011 – 12:00 | Sun 30 Oct 2011 – 12:00 |
| Safety Shooters | 25 | | | | Sun 30 Oct 2011 – 12:00 | Sun 30 Oct 2011 – 12:00 |
| Safety Shooters | 25 | | | | ES Sahel | 24 |
| Thu 27 Oct 2011 – 17:00 | Thu 27 Oct 2011 – 17:00 | | | | | ES Sahel | 24 |
| Thu 27 Oct 2011 – 17:00 | Thu 27 Oct 2011 – 17:00 | | | | Zamalek | 27 |
| GS Pétroliers | 17 | | | | Zamalek | 27 |
| GS Pétroliers | 17 | Fri 28 Oct 2011 – 19:00 | Fri 28 Oct 2011 – 19:00 | | | |
| ES Sahel | 23 | Fri 28 Oct 2011 – 19:00 | Fri 28 Oct 2011 – 19:00 | | | |
| ES Sahel | 23 | JSE Skikda | 25 | | | |
| Thu 27 Oct 2011 – 19:00 | Thu 27 Oct 2011 – 19:00 | | JSE Skikda | 25 | | | |
| Thu 27 Oct 2011 – 19:00 | Thu 27 Oct 2011 – 19:00 | Zamalek | 28 | | Third place | Third place |
| Al Ahly | 24 | Zamalek | 28 | | Third place | Third place |
| Al Ahly | 24 | | | | Sun 30 Oct 2011 – 11:00 | Sun 30 Oct 2011 – 11:00 |
| Zamalek | 30 | | | | Sun 30 Oct 2011 – 11:00 | Sun 30 Oct 2011 – 11:00 |
| Zamalek | 30 | | | | 1º de Agosto | 26 |
| | | | | | JSE Skikda | 20 |

### 5-8th bracket

| 5–8th place | 5–8th place | Fifth place | Fifth place |
| - | - | - | - |
| Fri 28 Oct 2011 - | Fri 28 Oct 2011 - |
| Al Ahly | 41 |
| Al Ahly | 41 | Sat 29 Oct 2011 – 12:00 | Sat 29 Oct 2011 – 12:00 |
| Safety Shooters | 22 | Sat 29 Oct 2011 – 12:00 | Sat 29 Oct 2011 – 12:00 |
| Safety Shooters | 22 | GS Pétroliers | 24 |
| Fri 28 Oct 2011 - | Fri 28 Oct 2011 - | | GS Pétroliers | 24 |
| Fri 28 Oct 2011 - | Fri 28 Oct 2011 - | Al Ahly | 27 |
| GS Pétroliers | 28 | Al Ahly | 27 |
| Étoile du Congo | 21 | | |
| Étoile du Congo | 21 | Seventh place | Seventh place |
| | | Sat 29 Oct 2011 – 10:30 | Sat 29 Oct 2011 – 10:30 |
| | | Étoile du Congo | 34 |
| | | Safety Shooters | 27 |

### 9–13th classification

| 26 October 2011 ||||
| - | - | - | - |
| Red Star | 35 : 18 | JS Kinshasa |
| FAP Yaoundé | 30 : 32 | Niger United |
| 27 October 2011 ||||
| Flowers | 35 : 32 | JS Kinshasa |
| Red Star | 30 : 21 | FAP Yaoundé |
| 28 October 2011 ||||
| FAP Yaoundé | 32 : 23 | Flowers |
| Niger United | 28 : 30 | Red Star |
| 29 October 2011 ||||
| Flowers | 32 : 42 | Red Star |
| JS Kinshasa | 23 : 19 | Niger United |
| 30 October 2011 ||||
| JS Kinshasa | 24 : 39 | FAP Yaoundé |
| Flowers | 33 : 29 | Niger United |
| P | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GDIF | Pts |
| 9 | Red Star | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 137 | 99 | +38 | 8 |
| 10 | FAP Yaoundé | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 122 | 109 | +13 | 2 |
| 11 | Flowers | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 123 | 135 | -12 | 2 |
| 12 | JS Kinshasa | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 97 | 128 | -31 | 1 |
| 13 | Niger United | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 108 | 116 | -8 | 1 |

## Final ranking

| Rank | Team | Record |
| - | - | - |
| | Zamalek | 4–1 |
| | Étoile du Sahel | 4–2 |
| | Primeiro de Agosto | 6–1 |
| 4 | JSE Skikda | 4–3 |
| 5 | Al Ahly | 5–1 |
| 6 | GS Pétroliers | 3–2 |
| 7 | Étoile du Congo | 2–4 |
| 8 | Safety Shooters | 1–5 |
| 9 | Red Star | 4–2 |
| 10 | FAP Yaoundé | 2–3 |
| 11 | Flowers | 2–5 |
| 12 | JS Kinshasa | 1–5 |
| 13 | Niger United | 2–6 |

## Awards

* 2011 African Handball Champions Cup Winner
* Al Zamalek Cairo 8th title
