Al Ahly (handball)


Al Ahly Handball Club is one of Al Ahly Sporting Club's sections that represent the club in Egypt as well as in international handball competitions. Al Ahly's Handball team was founded in 1959.
The Al Ahly handball team has participated in the Egyptian Handball League since the beginning in 1960s until the present. The Championship was played under the name of the Republic League. The first championship win for the Al Ahly team in the Egyptian Handball League was in 1968 and 1969. The Al Ahly Handball Club has won the most titles in the league, 23 of which were gold medals. It participated in 6 different championships every season: the Egyptian Handball League, the Egypt cup, the Egyptian Handball Federation, the African Handball Champions League, the African Handball Cup Winners' Cup, and the African Handball Super Cup.
Al Ahly had the best record in the IHF Super Globe when it achieved a silver medal in 2007. For many years, Al Ahly preferred to participate in Arab tournaments instead of African tournaments, causing Al Ahly to remain at the top of Arab handball clubs with 8 total trophies. Al Ahly was the first team to qualify to the African Super Cup in 1994, but it withdrew its participation in Arab Championships.
Al Ahly has had many successful generations of handball, but during the 90s they have had the most success. During this time, they won 6 Egyptian Leagues, 2 Egypt Cups, 2 African Handball Champion Leagues, and 6 Arab Championships, not including the great efforts with the Egypt national handball team.
Al Ahly player Gohar Nabil was nominated as the Best Handball Player in the World in 1998 and 2000. Further, Sameh Abdel Warth was chosen at the Handball World Team in 1997.
Kareem Al Saaeed is the most decorated player in Al Ahly team with 23 trophies.

Men's team honours

National titles

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Transfers for the 2018–19 season

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Transfers for the 2017–18 season

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  • Mahmoud Hassaballa from El-Sadd
  • Omar Haggag from ElShaab UAE
  • Mohamed Aktham
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Technical and managerial staff

NameRoleNationality
Ola LindgrenHead Coach Sweden
:sv:Robert Arrhenius|Robert ArrheniusCoach Sweden
Yehia YousefAssistant Coach Egyptian
M.Abdel WarthAssistant Coach Egyptian
Mohammed SelemanTechnical Analyst Egyptian
Omar ShawkeyTeam Manager Egyptian
Hany AbbasAssistant Team Manager Egyptian
Ashraf MostafaPhysiotherapist Egyptian
Karim EidPhysiotherapist Egyptian
Moahmed ElattarMasseur Egyptian
Abo Bakr SalahGoalkeepers' Trainer Egyptian

Recent titles

Egyptian league title

After the equal points of Al Ahly SC and Zamalek SC they played a tiebreak game when Al Ahly won 27-26, and were then announced as the Champion of Egyptian Handball league

The road to [2016 African Handball Champions League]

The road to [2018 African Handball Cup Winners' Cup]

#RoundTeamHome
1Group Stage
 AS Minuh28-15
2Group Stage
 Al-Ittihad28-20
3Quarter Final Red Star41-17
4Semifinal Widad Smara37-19
7Final Al-Ittihad25-12

Men's African Competition Records

The "Glory Season"

In the 2016/2017 season, Al Ahly HB had one of its best seasons when the team won five championships from six competitions competed.
This is a list of the senior team's head coaches in the recent years.
DatesName
→ 2019–present Nikolay Markovic
→ 2016- 2018 Assem Hammad
→ 2014-2016 Tarik Mahrous
→ 2012-2014 Assem Hammad
→ 2010-2012 Mamdouh Seleman
→ 2008-2010 Mohamed Abd moaty
→ 2007-2008 Zoran Kurteš
→ 2004-2007 Ashraf Shokry
→ 2000-2004 Assem El Saadaney
→ 1998-2000 Assem Hammad
→ 1993-1998 Gamal Shams
→ 1991-1993 Mohamed Abd moaty
→ 1990-1991 Khaled Khataab
→ 1989-1990 Gamal Shams
→ 1989 Mosaad Abbas
→ 1985-1987
→ 1984-1985 Gamal Shams
→ 1982-1984 Talaat Sheta
→ Fawzy fadaaly
→ Abdelaziz Tawfik
→ ِ Khalil Zaki
→ Hassan Moustafa
→ Kamal Abdel Hameed
→ Mohammed Wahdan

Al Ahly in Super Globe Championship

→ Al Ahly participate 2 times in IHF Super Globe. Al Ahly Hosted the IHF Super Globe 2007 In Al ahly hall in Gezira
This competition was held in league format, and 5 teams took part.
Al Ahly Fixtures was:
NOTeam 1ResultTeam 2
1 Ahly SC 35-13 Al-Qadsiya
2 Ahly SC 26-23 Metodista SBC
3 Ahly SC 28-20 Mouloudia MCA
4 Ahly SC 28-29 Ciudad Real

Final Ranking:
Ciudad Real
Al Ahly SC
Mouloudia MCA
4 Metodista SBC
5 Al-Qadsiya

This competition was held in Knock out format starting form Quarter Finals, and 8 teams participated in this competition. Al Ahly Fixtures was:
NOTeam 1ResultTeam 2
Quarter Final Ahly SC 16-20 FC Barcelona Handbol
5–8th place Ahly SC 20-17 Club Africain
5-6th Place Ahly SC 28-24 HC Taubaté

Füchse Berlin
MKB Veszprém
FC Barcelona
4 Sydney University
5 Al Ahly
6 HC Taubaté
7 Club Africain
8 Al Sadd

Al Ahly Qualified to super globe after beat Zamalek SC in the 2017 African Handball Super Cup but later withdraw due to Political problems with Host Country Qatar. and Espérance participate instead of Al Ahly sc

Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors

PeriodKit supplierShirt sponsors
2006-2009 Puma Vodafone / Juhayna / Chevrolet / Coca-Cola
2009-2011 Adidas Vodafone / Juhayna / Chevrolet / Coca-Cola
2011-2015 Adidas Etisalat / Juhayna / Chevrolet
2015-2017 Diadora Vodafone / Juhayna / Huawei / Shell Helix /
/ Domino's Pizza
2017-2018 Hummel Vodafone / Juhayna / Huawei / Shell Helix /
/ Domino's Pizza
2018-2019 Hummel Vodafone / LAVA / TORNADO
2019-2020 Kelme WE / TIGER / GLC Paints
/ Shell Helix

Notable players