2016 African Handball Champions League
# 2016 African Handball Champions League

The 2016 African Handball Champions League was the 38th 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, 2016 at the Palais de Sports de Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, contested by 10 teams and won by Al Ahly of Egypt.

Al Ahly qualified to the 2017 IHF Super Globe.

## Draw

| Group A | Group B |
| - | - |
| Al Ahly AS Caïman Espérance de Tunis Minuh Yaoundé Police HBC | AS Douane FAP Yaoundé JS Kinshasa Red Star Widad Smara Zamalek |

## Preliminary rounds

    Times given below are in GMT UTC+0.

### Group A

| Fri, 21 Oct 2016 |||
| - | - | - |
| Al Ahly | 43 (20:10) 20 | Police HBC |
| Espérance | 37 (17:11) 21 | AS Caïman |
| Sat, 22 Oct 2016 |||
| Police HBC | 33 (18:18) 36 | AS Caïman |
| Minuh Yaoundé | 32 (13:23) 47 | Espérance |
| Sun, 23 Oct 2016 |||
| AS Caïman | 23 (11:20) 34 | Al Ahly |
| Minuh Yaoundé | 44 (24:09) 24 | Police HBC |
| Mon, 24 Oct 2016 |||
| Police HBC | 20 (07:18) 43 | Espérance |
| Al Ahly | 34 (15:12) 23 | Minuh Yaoundé |
| Tue, 25 Oct 2016 |||
| AS Caïman | 27 (14:10) 21 | Minuh Yaoundé |
| Espérance | 24 (08:14) 29 | Al Ahly |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GDIF | Pts |
| Al Ahly | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 140 | 90 | +50 | 8 |
| Espérance | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 151 | 102 | +49 | 6 |
| AS Caïman | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 107 | 125 | -18 | 4 |
| Minuh Yaoundé | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 120 | 132 | -12 | 2 |
| Police HBC | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 97 | 166 | -69 | 0 |

### Group B

| Fri, 21 Oct 2016 |||
| - | - | - |
| Widad Smara | 20 (-:-) 0 | Red Star |
| Zamalek | 30 (16:09) 23 | FAP Yaoundé |
| AS Douane | 21 (10:13) 35 | JS Kinshasa |
| Sat, 22 Oct 2016 |||
| Widad Smara | 26 (-:-) 25 | JS Kinshasa |
| FAP Yaoundé | 30 (13:13) 21 | AS Douane |
| Zamalek | 38 (18:12) 24 | Red Star |
| Sun, 23 Oct 2016 |||
| Red Star | 21 (11:10) 24 | FAP Yaoundé |
| Widad Smara | 33 (-:-) 24 | AS Douane |
| JS Kinshasa | 24 (-:-) 35 | Zamalek |
| Mon, 24 Oct 2016 |||
| JS Kinshasa | 25 (10:19) 20 | Red Star |
| FAP Yaoundé | 23 (10:15) 24 | Widad Smara |
| AS Douane | 21 (08:19) 34 | Zamalek |
| Tue, 25 Oct 2016 |||
| Zamalek | 35 (18:14) 26 | Widad Smara |
| Red Star | 37 (18:09) 18 | AS Douane |
| FAP Yaoundé | 22 (14:08) 19 | JS Kinshasa |
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GDIF | Pts |
| Zamalek | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 172 | 118 | +54 | 10 |
| Widad Smara | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 129 | 107 | +22 | 8 |
| FAP Yaoundé | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 122 | 115 | +7 | 6 |
| JS Kinshasa | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 128 | 124 | +4 | 4 |
| Red Star | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 102 | 125 | -23 | 2 |
| AS Douane | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 105 | 169 | -64 | 2 |

## Knockout stage

### Championship bracket

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Thu 27 Oct 2016 – 13:00 | Thu 27 Oct 2016 – 13:00 | | | |
| Al Ahly | 31 | | | |
| Al Ahly | 31 | Fri 28 Oct 2016 – 16:45 | Fri 28 Oct 2016 – 16:45 | | |
| JS Kinshasa | 20 | Fri 28 Oct 2016 – 16:45 | Fri 28 Oct 2016 – 16:45 | |
| JS Kinshasa | 20 | Al Ahly | 31 | |
| Thu 27 Oct 2016 – 14:45 | Thu 27 Oct 2016 – 14:45 | | Al Ahly | 31 | |
| Thu 27 Oct 2016 – 14:45 | Thu 27 Oct 2016 – 14:45 | Widad Smara | 23 | |
| Widad Smara | 28 | Widad Smara | 23 | |
| Widad Smara | 28 | | | | Sun 30 Oct 2016 – : | Sun 30 Oct 2016 – : |
| AS Caïman | 26 | | | | Sun 30 Oct 2016 – : | Sun 30 Oct 2016 – : |
| AS Caïman | 26 | | | | Al Ahly | 26 |
| Thu 27 Oct 2016 – 20:00 | Thu 27 Oct 2016 – 20:00 | | | | | Al Ahly | 26 |
| Thu 27 Oct 2016 – 20:00 | Thu 27 Oct 2016 – 20:00 | | | | Espérance Tunis | 23 |
| Espérance Tunis | 33 | | | | Espérance Tunis | 23 |
| Espérance Tunis | 33 | Fri 28 Oct 2016 – 20:15 | Fri 28 Oct 2016 – 20:15 | | | |
| FAP Yaoundé | 20 | Fri 28 Oct 2016 – 20:15 | Fri 28 Oct 2016 – 20:15 | | | |
| FAP Yaoundé | 20 | Espérance Tunis | 23 | | | |
| Thu 27 Oct 2016 – 21:45 | Thu 27 Oct 2016 – 21:45 | | Espérance Tunis | 23 | | | |
| Thu 27 Oct 2016 – 21:45 | Thu 27 Oct 2016 – 21:45 | Zamalek | 19 | | Third place | Third place |
| Zamalek | 41 | Zamalek | 19 | | Third place | Third place |
| Zamalek | 41 | | | | Sat 29 Oct 2016 – : | Sat 29 Oct 2016 – : |
| Minuh Yaoundé | 25 | | | | Sat 29 Oct 2016 – : | Sat 29 Oct 2016 – : |
| Minuh Yaoundé | 25 | | | | Zamalek | 30 |
| | | | | | Widad Smara | 24 |

### 5-8th bracket

| 5–8th place | 5–8th place | Fifth place | Fifth place |
| - | - | - | - |
| Fri 28 Oct 2016 – 13:15 | Fri 28 Oct 2016 – 13:15 |
| FAP Yaoundé | 34 |
| FAP Yaoundé | 34 | Sat 29 Oct 2016 – 14:45 | Sat 29 Oct 2016 – 14:45 |
| Minuh Yaoundé | 30 | Sat 29 Oct 2016 – 14:45 | Sat 29 Oct 2016 – 14:45 |
| Minuh Yaoundé | 30 | FAP Yaoundé | 30 |
| Fri 28 Oct 2016 – 09:45 | Fri 28 Oct 2016 – 09:45 | | FAP Yaoundé | 30 |
| Fri 28 Oct 2016 – 09:45 | Fri 28 Oct 2016 – 09:45 | AS Caïman | 28 |
| AS Caïman | 28 | AS Caïman | 28 |
| JS Kinshasa | 25 | | |
| JS Kinshasa | 25 | Seventh place | Seventh place |
| | | Sat 29 Oct 2016 – 11:15 | Sat 29 Oct 2016 – 11:15 |
| | | JS Kinshasa | 39 |
| | | Minuh Yaoundé | 26 |

### 9th place

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Ninth place | Ninth place |
| - | - | - | - |
| Thu 27 Oct 2016 – 08:00 | Thu 27 Oct 2016 – 08:00 |
| AS Douane | 34 |
| AS Douane | 34 | Sat 29 Oct 2016 – 08:00 | Sat 29 Oct 2016 – 08:00 |
| Police HBC | 32 | Sat 29 Oct 2016 – 08:00 | Sat 29 Oct 2016 – 08:00 |
| Police HBC | 32 | Red Star | 33 |
| | | Police HBC | 17 |
| | | Third place | Third place |

## Final standings

| Rank | Team | Record |
| - | - | - |
| | Al Ahly | 7–0 |
| | Espérance Tunis | 5–2 |
| | Zamalek | 7–1 |
| 4 | Widad Smara | 5–3 |
| 5 | FAP Yaoundé | 5–3 |
| 6 | AS Caïman | 3–4 |
| 7 | JS Kinshasa | 3–5 |
| 8 | Minuh Yaoundé | 1–6 |
| 9 | Red Star | 2–4 |
| 10 | AS Douane | 1–5 |
| 11 | Police HBC | 0–6 |

* Qualified to the 2017 IHF Super Globe

## Awards

* 2016 African Handball Champions League Winner
* Al Ahly Sport Club 5th title
* Best Player
